# Be Here Now  ## Metadata - Author: [[Ram Dass]] - Full Title: Be Here Now - Category: #books ## Highlights - Hanuman Foundation, Box 203, 524 San Anselmo Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960. JAI HANUMAN! ([Location 39](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=39)) - There are three stages in this journey that I have been on! The first, the social science stage; the second, the psychedelic stage; and the third, the yogi stage. ([Location 47](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=47)) - All the stuff I was teaching was just like little molecular bits of stuff but they didn’t add up to a feeling anything like wisdom. I was just getting more and more knowledgeable. And I was getting very good at bouncing three knowledge balls at once. I could sit in a doctoral exam, ask very sophisticated questions and look terribly wise. It was a hustle. ([Location 83](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=83)) - I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game in which the students were exquisite at playing the role of students and the faculty were exquisite at playing the role of faculty. ([Location 106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=106)) - With each new presentation, I again and again reassured myself that I didn’t need that anyway. ([Location 176](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=176)) - Note: Probablemente sean sus máscaras mas fuertes, arraigadas o identificadas. - “We don’t know what this is about yet and there are many models, but it would be best not to impose a model too soon, because a model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious and it’s better we keep wide open . . .” ([Location 234](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=234)) - There was a kind of probablistic hierarchy of experience, so that the most likely experience everybody had was a heightened sensitivity to all of their five senses and speeding up of the thought process. ([Location 245](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=245)) - one looked at somebody and he started to see the other person as cellular structure or patterns of energy rather than as a person. ([Location 260](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=260)) - the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which was a very close description of a number of these experiences. This book was 2500 years old, at least, and it had been used all those years for preparing Tibetan Lamas to die and be reincarnated. And when we opened it, we would find descriptions of the 49 days after death before rebirth, that were perfect descriptions of sessions we were having with psychedelics. ([Location 309](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=309)) - An old Buddhist Lama said, “It gave me a headache.” Somebody else said, “It’s good, but not as good as meditation.” ([Location 344](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=344)) - “Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.” ([Location 401](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=401)) - And money piles up, and so they build temples, or they build schools. ([Location 587](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=587)) - Note: I guess they do not get this as serious as Jesuits - religion—Once you realize God knows everything, you’re free. ([Location 623](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=623)) - And suddenly I realized that he knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are is behind all that. ([Location 625](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=625)) - These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception. ([Location 668](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=668)) - His teaching seemed to be no teaching because he always taught from within . . . that is, his lessons aroused in me just affirmation . . . as if I knew it all already. ([Location 669](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005R9HK8O&location=669))