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Ram Dass: Still Here Now

By Katherine Lemons, WireTap. Posted May 30, 2000.


For a new generation of student activists and spiritual searchers, '60s guru Baba Ram Dass is an icon of an era past, an elder who can teach them how to merge social activism with spirituality. In a forum at Stanford University, Baba Ram Dass proved that -- as the title of his new book proclaims -- he is "Still Here."

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