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RAM DASS, FIERCE GRACE

Join host Fred Craden to watch and discuss a film which captures the spirit and wisdom of Ram Dass; a man who has been at the forefront of studying the nature of consciousness

In the 1960s, Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary were to spiritual awareness what the Beatles and the Stones were to rock 'n' roll. As Harvard faculty members, they began experimenting with LSD and in 1963 were, famously, expelled by the university. While Leary continued to tune in, turn on and drop out, Alpertwhose father was a wealthy Jewish attorney and President of the New York-New Haven Railroadmorphed into Ram Dass, a serious and much loved spiritual leader, author and lecturer. His 1971 best-seller Be Here Now has been followed up recently by Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying. Filmmaker Mickey Lemle, who had known his subject for 25 years, balances fascinating, often hilariously funny footage from the hippie era, with contemporary material on Ram Dass, as he remakes his life since suffering a stroke five years earlier. USA, 2001, 93 min.,