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CHAPTER VIII<br />

BEEN HERE,<br />

DONE THAT,<br />

WHAT NOW?<br />

(RAM DASS, ETC.)<br />

It is useful here to remember that your guru, even though<br />

you may not have met him in his manifest [i.e., physical]<br />

form ... KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU ... EVERY-<br />

THING (Dass, 1971).<br />

RAM DASS, AUTHOR of Be Here Now—one of <strong>the</strong> seminal books stirring<br />

widespread interest in Eastern philosophy and <strong>gurus</strong> in <strong>the</strong><br />

West—is one of <strong>the</strong> good-at-heart guys through all this. He has,<br />

indeed, endeared himself to many by his sincerity. His ability to<br />

admit when he is wrong has also come in handy, in terms of his<br />

experiences with <strong>the</strong> contemporary female spiritual leader Ma<br />

Jaya Sati Bhagavati.<br />

Born Richard Alpert in 1931, Dass graduated from Stanford<br />

University with a Ph.D. in Psychology. He went on to participate,<br />

with Timothy Leary, in a research program into altered states of<br />

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