Be Here Now

But I was there with Joseph and Sharon.

And one of the big surprises was that the kind of American spiritual teacher named Ram Dass, a friend of Joseph's and Sharon's, very important person, he wrote the book Be Here Now.

He was there practicing with Upandita as well.

So it was kind of very special.

Oh, great question.

I love this book, Be Here Now by Ram Dass.

And it's really cool because you can open it up to any page.

You don't have to read it through, you know, from beginning to end.

In fact, I was considering just dropping out of this whole mystical pursuit journey, because I'd rather just be a lost human being on planet Earth, stumbling around, and at least having my identity and personality.

And all these gurus, like Baba Ram Dass, like his book was practically my Bible, Be Here Now.

And Baba Ram Dass, his former name was...

I think it was Dr. Richard Alpert, and he was the associate professor at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary, and both of them were promoting the psychedelic drug LSD, except Dr. Richard Alpert picked up and left and felt called to go to India to study under a guru, okay, and Alpert claimed to have achieved enlightenment.

I was just too dumb spiritually to realize it.

So Dr. Richard Alpert

picked up his name, went to India to follow some guru, and then he claimed he achieved enlightenment and cosmic consciousness and all that stuff, and wrote this book, Be Here Now, which was essentially my Bible for many years.

Oh, and Dr. Richard Alpert then, as he experienced enlightenment, he changed his name to Baba Ram Dass.

There was a place on Sweetser that had a door that was unlocked a lot of the time.

And if I didn't have somebody's floor to sleep on or end up at someone's home where I could put my backpack and no more dogs, no more friends, me and my book, Be Here Now, by Baba Ram Dass, and I knew nothing about being here now.

And my attitude and my victim, my victim attitude, cloak on.

You want to know why I'm this way? I'll tell you.

And it's the first time, for me...

This is before Be Here Now, you know.

This is before, uh, uh, the, the, I, I got that kind of, uh, cosmic overview that Ram Das provided in Be Here Now.

Yeah.

Before that, still it was, it was...

But, but, but at, at some level.

So no...

And, and of course, Be Here Now did that.

Okay.

Uh, and he wrote a book called Be Here Now.

Uh, and it's about being present and, like, just really being in the moment.

And that's, uh, I was very inspired by his teachings, and also when we're DJing at our best, I feel like time disappears.