Ram Dass Here And Now

Ep. 288 – Opening to Death

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Oct 6, 2025
Explore the profound themes of aging and death as opportunities for awakening. Ram Dass delves into the cultural silence surrounding mortality and contrasts intensive care with the comforting embrace of hospice. He urges listeners to face their fears through visualization and shares moving stories about creating sacred spaces for dying. With reflections on consciousness beyond death and poetic insights, he invites us to make friends with mortality and live fully in the present.
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INSIGHT

Study Texts As Doors To Experience

  • Reading sacred sentences slowly and sitting with them opens direct experience beyond intellectual reading.
  • Ram Dass shows this as a practice to let texts become vehicles for inner states.
INSIGHT

Death Coming Out Of The Cultural Closet

  • Death is moving out of cultural taboo into open social conversation and institutions like hospice.
  • Ram Dass frames this shift as society acknowledging mortality and creating spaces to honor it.
ADVICE

Visualize Your Own Funeral To Reduce Fear

  • Use visualization exercises like creating your own funeral to de-cathect fear and examine chills.
  • Ram Dass recommends role-playing future scenarios to reduce anticipatory fear.
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