(Reuters) - Ram Dass, who in the 1960s joined Timothy Leary in promoting psychedelic drugs as the path to inner enlightenment before undergoing a spiritual rebirth he spelled out in the influential ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and traveled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with Americans, has died. He was ...

In the realms of spirituality and self-discovery, few figures stand out as vividly as Ram Dass. Born Richard Alpert, Ram Dass’s journey from a Harvard psychologist to a spiritual guru profoundly ...

When as an undergraduate student in psychology and a ‘fresh-of-the-boat’ immigrant from India in early 1970s I read Be Here Now, I was gripped by the simplicity and profundity of the author’s voice.[1 ...

Susannah Cahalan traces the life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, who made her husband’s coffee, tripped with him and helped break him out of jail. By Cree LeFavour An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder ...

Peggy Mellon Hitchcock, the energetic scion of a storied wealthy family who funded Timothy Leary's psychedelic adventures -- and famously helped him find the spot to do so, at her brothers' estate in ...