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Baba Ram Dass

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Religious Figure

The Resume

    (April 6, 1931-December 22, 2019)
    Born in Boston, Massachusetts
    Birth name was Richard Alpert
    Converted to Hinduism
    Founded the charities the Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation
    Wrote 'The Psychedelic Experience' (with Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner, 1964), 'Remember, Be Here Now' (1971), 'Doing Your Own Being' (1973), 'The Only Dance There Is' (1974), 'Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook' (1978), 'Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying' (2000) and 'Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita' (2004)

Why he might be annoying:

    He said, 'I didn’t have one whiff of God until I took psychedelics.'
    He was fired from Harvard for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate.
    He is a vegetarian.
    He came out of the closet in his 60s: 'All my life has been telling the truth. My homosexuality is the one thing I have not been truthful about.'
    When he was 78, he discovered that he had fathered a son over 50 years earlier when he was a student at Stanford.

Why he might not be annoying:

    His name translates as 'servant of God.'
    'Stripping the Gurus,' a book skeptical of Eastern mysticism, called him 'one of the good-at-heart guys.'
    'Remember, Be Here Now' became a Bible of the counterculture.
    He suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on the right side of his body and limited his ability to speak (1997).
    He said, 'The spiritual journey is highly personal. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 18 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 87.50% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 26 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 20 Votes: 65.00% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 76.19% Annoying