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Aging and Dying: Conversation with Ram Dass and Rachel Naomi Remen

by Michael Lerner, Feb 6, 2007


 

 

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Ram Dass is a widely admired American spiritual teacher who suffered a disabling stroke some years ago and wrote about the experience in "Fierce Grace." Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, is Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal and Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. Now living on Maui, Ram Dass talked with Rachel Naomi Remen and Michael Lerner about what his stroke taught him, and how he now works with others around issues of healing, aging and dying.

Some highlights from this talk:

"Compassion is when you're one with the person... then their suffering becomes our suffering and my suffering becomes our suffering... and then we are both souls dealing with the consciousness of the incarnation."

"The heart is where the oneness is."

Ram Dass' website

Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen's website

 

About the Author

Commonweal is a health and environmental research institute where for three decades we have worked at the interface of personal and planetary healing through focused initiatives in the environment, education, and health. The New School seeks to bring together old and new friends and colleagues from all these areas to explore shared interests in life-long learning and service to life.

 

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