Be Here Now

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Summary: Read This Now
Review: A friend lent me this book years ago. It sat on my shelf for years (I was intrigued enough not to give it back, but not enough to actually read it). Then one day, seeking answers, I picked it up. The first section is interesting, the third section useful, but the middle section changed my life. Midway through it I stepped into the void quite unexpectedly (so surprising it left me in tears) and my life has never been the same. It's terminology may be dated, yes, but it's message is timeless. Look past your prejudices. Read it with an open mind, and you, too, may be reborn

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Summary: The best book I've ever read!
Review: Simple, straightforward, easy to understand, this book will change your life if that is what you seek. The easiest introduction to eastern thought. Opened my eyes in the same way LSD does for many. A trip worth taking, this book is better than any pill you can take.

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Summary: Enough Said.
Review: THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I wish I could give it more than 5 stars!

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Summary: Inspiring
Review: Richard Alpert(Ram Dass) takes us on the journey from university professor with everything to surrendered soul ....via LSD trips with Timothy Leary. Fantastic visuals of the process of self searching and finally learning the ultimate lesson that the soul is there to be enjoyed once it is given away.

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Summary: A warped product of its times, saved only by its uniqueness
Review: It's well and fine if you first read this book as an adult but imagine if you were, as I was, a young child who first stumbled upon this book in his parents' (who were at the time psuedo-"hippies") collection. Yuck. Filled to the brim with early-70's psychobabble, illustrated with diagrams and clip art that are as tedious as they are quixotic, this book is a cultural relic of no lasting importance. It is saved from an even lower score because "Ram Dass" was at least clever enough to try to create his own overarching philosophy, as drug-blurred and nonesencial as that philosophy was.

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Summary: A very scary, funny, ENLIGHTENING surprise.
Review: As an 18-year old university student, who picked this book up quite by accident in a used book-store, I was horrified and amused by Alpert's story, and then was absolutely ELECTRIFIED by the Cookbook at the end. This is truly a wunderfull guidebook for Westerners who want to tap into the Eastern way. This book is good, because it's both amusing and educational.

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Summary: very good
Review: read this book 17 years ago carried much of it with me through the years, forgot some, frightened by a little. I have come back to it.Never forgot it, magnetizm

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Summary: Evenually changed my outlook on most, if not all things...
Review: As [e-mail], I had to pick up the book on many occasions only to put it back down, and the excuses I used varied from " I don't get it..." to " No-one can tell me how to ' Be Here Now.' " As I evolved, my spirit led. I now ,at the age of 53, am still a HIPPIE. and though I still grow and hopefully gain wisdom, I shall always be a 1960's HIPPIE. Thanks to Ram Das and others...Mare [e-mail]

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Summary: The Basic Book on Eastern Religion for Americans
Review: "Be Here Now" is unique-- it's *the* basic introduction to eastern religion, written for any American who wants to put sincere spiritual idealism into practice in their own life. My friends in high school in the 1970s used to call this book "The Hippie Bible." (What a happy development that our country has opened up to the point where most anyone can feel comfortable reading it.)

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Summary: The craziest guidebook to life and spirit ever.
Review: My spiritual father, who was then my father-in-law, introduced me to Be Here Now. I thought he was crazy and the book even crazier.The next time we visited I picked up the book and took a closer look, ahhh, maybe it wasn't so crazy after all, but not for me. Each time I visited I was drawn to read a bit more of this "far out" book. Over a year later I finished reading it. And then I read it all over again. How wise my father-in-law had been to set me on this path. I am eternally grateful to him and to Ram Dass for their love and guidance. Ram Dass' words ring true. Any one looking for answers would do well to start with Be Here Now