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Talk · Baba Ram Dass · 1975The Pull to God and Guru
48 min
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A lecture from 1975 on devotion and on what a teacher is for.

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American teacher and writer (1931–2019), born Richard Alpert, who taught psychology at Harvard before travelling to India and meeting Neem Karoli Baba. His 1971 book Be Here Now carried Eastern practice into Western counterculture, and he wrote twelve more over the four decades that followed.

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