Be Here Now

By Ram Dass

The book that carried Eastern spirituality into Western counterculture — square-format, hand-lettered, printed on brown paper, and unlike anything else on a bookshelf. It opens with a straight autobiographical account of Harvard, psychedelics and meeting Neem Karoli Baba, then breaks into the famous illustrated core of aphorisms. Two million copies later, it is still the doorway most people walk through first.