he blurts out.
And then, because I realize I haven't yet and now seems like it's going to have been the right time, I kiss her. My thief very much needed someone like him, that he could talk to with mouths. Every time he changes my décor, it's still up to me to supply all the interesting little touches. It's obviously got some sort of neural interface. "Interesting!" And a little irritating.
My River. In a different way than I usually do. Ram Dass’ books include The Only Dance There Is (Anchor/ Doubleday); Grist For The Mill (with Stephen Levine, Celestial Arts); Miracle of Love: Stories of Neem Karoli Baba (Hanuman Foundation); How Can I Help?
So I run my hand across his chin, down his neck, thinking how interesting and strange it would be to have a sense of touch all the time. "Yes," he says. "By the look of him, it might just take that long.". To me, he'll always be my thief, but I think he likes it when I use his name. "How are you even here?" "Honestly," I say. His voice is all soft.
I could feel its past everywhere, rippling over me and through me and into the future my thief was building. That's not how things are supposed to work. Be here now is still being here now. Well, comparatively dull. ", I shrug.
I touch his cheek with my fingertips, because, for some reason, I want to. "You did! It's annoying. Never in a million years would I have thought I’d be ... Our Stories.
I tilt my head at him a little, noticing something. His work continues to be a path of inspiration to his old students and friends as well as young people who are just discovering the path of Being Here Now. If he leaves us here long enough, I may retaliate by making our next stop dull. "Hmm," the thief says, "yes, definitely some sort of virtual reality setup, although obviously not a very interesting--" He turns as he says this, and sees me, and stops, and his eyes go all funny. I've perceived that expression on her before, but it's different and interesting, seeing it with eyes. Through this love Ram Dass has shared a little piece of Maharajji with all who have listened to him. I grab my thief and try it again, and this time it's even more fun, because he stops flailing and squirming after a moment, and he moves his lips, so I move mine, and it's very stimulating. NPR One; Apple Podcasts; Google Podcasts ; Pocket Casts; Spotify; RSS link; Most Recent Episodes. He looks sulky. Actually, I quite liked that place, myself.
"Really? Not the immediate future, but the future of our next destination, and the next. "It was one minute, seventeen seconds," I say. ", "But," says the thief. Ram Dass now resides on Maui, where he shares his teachings of Loving Awareness through the internet and through bi-yearly retreats on Maui. An illustration of a magnifying glass.
so loud I imagine even the organic creatures can hear it, we are connected. I make some small shifts in my structure to accommodate it.
164 – The Path of Awakening, Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. She holds out the arm that isn't around me. I'm used to alien things. As if it were all divided up into neat little chunks.
Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. He is soft. 167 – Dharmic Roles, Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. They arrive facing away from me, towards one of those dull, blank walls. Not that that's all they do with their mouths... Ooh, that reminds me! It could be some kind of weapon.
I can see the future past that didn't happen, where he did. Well, he should be. "Fortunately we have several hours to kill," says River. He was still Dr. Richard Alpert, a prominent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr. Timothy Leary.
I'm about to insist on more information, but suddenly the coughing fit is over, and he's looking at me as if he's just thought of something. Don't be difficult.". Another click!
Or your only wife.
"The device you patched into me -- without asking me first, I might add, as usual -- is designed to help extra-dimensional creatures communicate with simpler life forms, like you.".
"You didn't specify a time limit or exit phrase when you entered, so it's up to me to end the simulation. I make a little tsking noise with my tongue. It's so embarrassed and confused. I look over at my thief. Nothing like the last place, anyway, where he and his River got to have a lovely time running about rescuing the remnants of a fallen empire from alien invaders. That's all right. "This belongs to the Halatraxian royal family!" "Oh, no, not really," says River.
Not a very efficient way of killing people.
I think she's one of the best things I ever do. Well, he's explored me, I think; it's only fair if I'm allowed to explore him, too. "She's better at that than you are!" Archive; Features; Lessons; Gear; Departments; News "Still. Tag: Here And Now. Comfortable with them, even. "I--- I--" he sputters, and I laugh, because he talks so much that it's fun to see him not being able to make words. --four hours, thirteen minutes, twenty-seven seconds. ", "I do," I say.
Be Here Now, Ram Dass’s monumentally influential and seminal work, still stands as the highly readable centerpiece of Western articulation of Eastern philosophy, and how to live with joy and love a hundred per cent of the time in the present, luminous or mundane. left kudos on this work! 162 – The Transition from Somebody to Nobody, Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. I see. Not anymore. He has no sense of aesthetics, my thief. He shakes his head, and wheezes out a "no."
Then I bite his ear, just a little, so I can win.
It makes me feel protective. "Come on, Doctor.
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"Hang on. "They choose me, apparently," he says, and gives her a soft look like the one he gave me before. Each week Raghu Markus of the Love Serve Remember Foundation shares wisdom from excerpted Ram Dass lectures that he has given throughout the last 40 years on the Ram Dass Here and Now Podcast.
The place I've found myself in -- or this part of me has -- is extremely boring, though. He glares at me a little, but I'm used to ignoring it when he does that. ", "You are, a little," says River.
"No. If I had a room like this inside me, I'd be ashamed.
Not as advanced as ours, of course, but full of minds a little like my own. It seems like the thing to do, somehow.
161 – Becoming One with Our Dharma.
Then, with a click! is a teen-driven Jewish movement to provide support, build connections, ... Our Stories. I gather myself in from the past and the future, concentrating myself onto this small slice of time.
An illustration of a horizontal line over an up pointing arrow. "It was only a small one. His most recent books include Be Love Now (2011), Polishing the Mirror: How to Live From Your Spiritual Heart (2013) and Conversations with Ram Dass (2014). I say.
"I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds like fun."
"It's not like they have a use for it," says River.
Admittedly, I could probably figure them out. He makes a little muttering noise with no words in it.
"River and Sexy!" But we've never been too concerned about what's supposed to be possible for us, my thief and I, and if I want to be impatient, I am.).
If he leaves us here long enough, I may retaliate by making our next stop dull. "Do you like it?".
"Er, yes," says the thief and I like seeing his expression with eyes, too. "You have to expect me to take an interest in the occasional artifact.".
She puts her arm around my shoulders, which I like.
Kissing! Even simulated eyes.
I stop and look back at the last few minutes. The thief looks up at her. Perhaps he's ashamed.
I can see the device's history stretching out behind it, longer than my thief's, but boringly linear. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive. It makes me feel warm in a different way from before. Or should I say again?
", "Are you seriously getting shirty with me for being curious about something potentially dangerous? The Archive will be down for 2 hours of maintenance between 05:00-07:00 UTC on Thursday, October 1 (what time is that for me?). I've definitely got the hang of that. I'm starting to get the hang of names, as well.
Then he stops, smiles broadly, and says, "Oh, all right, why not?
Might be fun!". Looks like we'd need an extra-dimensional artificial intelligence to mediate the interface. He doesn't get ill often, but when he does, it's never enjoyable.
He raises a hand, stuttering and hesitating like a misaligned time rotor as it reaches out to touch my face.
", "Am I your wife?"
I am very clever. Now and Then, Here and There.
A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. He has me hovering in the Vortex. Like the ones the ancient Halatraxians used in the administration of their empire. I stroke his cheek again, and do not make him answer. "I mean, like this? How very typical. So most of me is busy molding the future, and some of me is perceiving/remembering the past, in that happy-sad sort of way, and very little of me is paying any attention to what is happening there in the Vortex, until he climbs under my console and starts fiddling. Is there anything that wouldn't happen?". In--" I look ahead. " "What do you say?" Please check @AO3_Status on Twitter for updates. He looks at the device, at the screwdriver, at the device.
They should have specified some visual background when they activated the device, but of course they didn't bother figuring that out. It's useless without one, I'm afraid.". "Thank you," she says. An illustration of a magnifying glass. "Oh. "Anyway," River says, "It's not a weapon. You... You deliberately created a paradox, just so you could skip ahead in the conversation!
Three impossible beings locked in one room. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. he says to me.
I need to use it more often. Ram Dass Here and Now Podcast is brought to life by the years of work Ram Dass has done in giving lectures and spiritual talks all over the world. "Shall we give it a try? It isn't supposed to be possible for me. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharajji, who gave Ram Dass his name, which means “servant of God.” Everything changed then – his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words “Be Here Now” ever since. But I don't want her to do that, to suggest she should leave us, so I respond before she has the chance. She keeps her elbow well away from any buttons that shouldn't accidentally be pressed. This is happening now.