Like clockwork, fans and followers of spiritual leader Ram Dass would show up at Kamaole Beach Park I to greet the counterculture icon during his Monday morning swims. “That was his most favorite ...

One of the country’s foremost self-help masters, Ram Dass is now 88 years old and in a wheelchair, still imparting wisdom while continuing to manage the dramatic after-effects of a massive stroke.

MAUI, Hawaii — Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and traveled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with Americans, has died. He was 88 ...

Ram Dass has been a harbinger for the Baby Boomers since the early '60s, when he was still known as Richard Alpert and burst onto the national consciousness as the mind-altering sidekick of Timothy ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the early 1960s, Richard Alpert was a Harvard professor of psychology conducting clinical research into the use of psychedelics. But then he and his colleague Timothy Leary were ...

(Reuters) - Ram Dass, who in the 1960s joined Timothy Leary in promoting psychedelic drugs as the path to inner enlightenment before undergoing a spiritual rebirth he spelled out in the influential ...

Dass, who died Dec. 22, was a practitioner of Eastern-inspired philosophy who became interested in the religious potential of LSD in the '60s and '70s. Originally broadcast in 1990. This is FRESH AIR.