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The noted spiritualist and author of Be Here Now provides wisdom for middle-aged baby boomers, offering humorous and insightful guidance to exploring the joy, pain, and opportunities of middle age. 85,000 first printing.

After being introduced for a lecture, Ram Dass eschewed the stairs and, from his front row seat, leapt up on to the stage--or tried to, anyway, until age and gravity brought him crashing down to earth. Like other Baby Boomers, Ram Dass has learned the hard way that ageing is unkind. But he has also learned that it can be an opportunity for growth. While others begin to devalue older people, they will find that they can reconnect with the spiritual, grow into wisdom, and create value for themselves. In Still Here, Ram Dass offers a philosophy for ageing that teaches how to diminish suffering despite the aches and pains and limitations of age. This is possible by stepping away from the ego-self into the soul-self, where thoughts and emotions can be witnessed and their effects evaluated. If ageing has brought challenges to Ram Dass, it has also brought him wisdom which, through his personal anecdotes and stories of others in the struggle against ageing, he shares with great generosity. --Brian Bruya