{"id":9976,"date":"2023-12-26T19:50:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/hip-glossary-be-here-now\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T19:50:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:50:59","slug":"hip-glossary-be-here-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/hip-glossary\/hip-glossary-be-here-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Glossary: Be Here Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be Here Now:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Be Here Now<\/a> by Ram Dass is a classic work from 1971 that merges Eastern and Western religions into a cohesive approach to life. Ram Dass (formerly Richard Alpert) was a collegue of Timothy Leary’s back at Harvard and was involved in the LSD experimental sessions there before they both were thrown out for going way beyond the academic.<\/p>\n

Ram Dass took a trip to India where he discovered, with the help of a few gurus, his true nature. He came back to the US and wrote Be Here Now to share his enlightenment with everyone.<\/p>\n

Ram Dass discusses his state of mind on going to India, and how it was blown away by his gurus and his experiences there.<\/p>\n

The thrust of the book is that we should all "Be Here Now", live in the moment, and accept life as it comes, free from judgement and preconceptions. It’s a melding of Hindu, Buddhist, Christian beliefs into a guide. <\/p>\n

The book is a very unusual format (although others have copied it), with two kinds of paper, horizontal and vertical pages, lots of cool psychedelic drawings, and a message that transcends any page or image.<\/p>\n

Despite being 35 years old this year, this book is BACK on the charts, selling incredibly well on Amazon.com<\/p>\n

You can purchase the book thru this link & support the Hipforums too.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0517543052\/hippylandhippiem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Be Here Now: Be Here Now by Ram Dass is a classic work from 1971 that merges Eastern and Western religions into a cohesive approach to life. Ram Dass (formerly Richard Alpert) was a collegue of Timothy Leary’s back at Harvard and was involved in the LSD experimental sessions there before they both were thrown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hip-glossary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}