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  <title><![CDATA[The Only Dance There Is]]></title>
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  <default_description>This book is based on talks by Ram Dass at the Menninger Foundation in 1970 and at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland in 1972. The text grew out of the interaction between Ram Dass and the spiritual seekers in attendance at these talks. The result of this unique exchange is a useful guide for understanding the nature of consciousness--useful both to other spiritual seekers and to formally trained psychologists. It is also a celebration of the Dance of Life--which, in the words of Ram Dass, is the &quot;only dance there is.&quot;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[You have to love an upper-middleclass Jewish intellectual who attended Harvard, became a psychoanalyst, started hanging around with Timothy Leary, took LSD, forsook his previous life, packed up and went to India where he met 'his' guru, etc.  I love this guy's self-awareness (he was a psychoanalyst ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53059104">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ram Dass, also known as the Harvard professor Richard Alpert, may have had a few screws loose when he wrote this but it is nonetheless interesting both as a window into the psyche of a 60's counterculture icon as well as grab bag of inconceivable tales and moments of insight.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was decent.  I can't remember much but it was written well but had some ethical parts that weren't very pleasing.  An adult book for sure.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when I was 19. I think it sort of changed my life. Great &quot;figuring out who you are&quot; book.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ram Dass is a psychedelic scholar who has sought out the effects of changing your consciousness through religious endeavors.  If you are interested in Hinduism, Buddhism, or Taoism, I highly suggest reading this perspective of one man's path toward enlightenment.  It is astonishing to read the inter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7804842">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[read this. it was amazing]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[loved it, Ram Dass always has good things to say. I would recommend hunting down the audio discs for these talks though, you will understand better from his tone of voice etc what he means. He has a good sense of humor and I think I missed some of that by reading it. But after listening to him, the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16135486">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a transcription of some talks given by this ex-Harvard professor turned Timothy Leary cohort turned super-Buddhist.  The style is really fun to read but I was only really into it during the first half.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loads of wisdom in every direction as a transcript of a lecture. Conversational in tone but big ideas in this one that hold true for me to this day.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good for a non-spiritually advanced poplularizer.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[See review of Be Here Now]]></body>
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