Living/Dying Project

Living/Dying Project The Living/Dying Project offers spiritual support to those faced with a life-threatening illness and for their caregivers (free of charge with volunteers).

Classes, workshops, and professional training are also offered throughout the year. This FB account is not managed by Ramdev Dale Borglum himself. History of the Living/Dying Project:

In 1976 Stephen Levine founded The Dying Project as part of The Hanuman Foundation. Shortly after founding the first organization in the Western world to actively promote conscious dying, Stephen was joined by Ram Dass, Ramdev Dale Borglum, and Ondrea Levine. The Dying Project offered conscious support to people with life-threatening illnesses and also included a national call-in consultation hot-line. For many years after its inception, the Project was the only organization here in the West which advocated seeing the dying process as an opportunity for spiritual awakening and using caregiving for those with life-threatening illness as a spiritual practice. In 1981, as part of the Hanuman Foundation Dying Project, the Dying Center in Santa Fe, NM, was created. This was the first residential facility in the West to care for clients who wished to see their confrontation with death as an opportunity for awakening, rather than seeing death merely a tragedy. From 1981-1984 Dale Borglum, the founding Director of the Dying Center, guided the facility in which approximately 85 people were served free of charge. In 1986 Dale relocated the Project to its present location in Marin County and changed the name to The Living/Dying Project.The Open Circle program of the Project offers free-of-charge emotional and spiritual support to people with life-threatening illnesses and to those who care for them. As well, the Project has an educational component whose mission is to explore healing in the context of a life-threatening illness. Dale has trained thousands of hospice care workers, nurses, therapists, doctors, and volunteers in palliative care. Counseling with Ramdev Dale Borglum PhD is available via phone or Zoom.

11/11/2025
We are delighted to welcome Parvati Markus to the Living/Dying Project Speaker Series. Join us in celebration of "There ...
11/11/2025

We are delighted to welcome Parvati Markus to the Living/Dying Project Speaker Series. Join us in celebration of "There Is No Other: The Way of Harmony and Wholeness," a newly released book of and friends' teachings.

Parvati and RamDev Dale Borglum were together in India in the early 1970s alongside Ram Dass and Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaji). More than fifty years later, these lifelong friends reunite for a heartfelt conversation that weaves together spiritual wisdom, personal stories, and the enduring presence of their guru.

This will be a warm, intimate, and inspiring gathering rooted in devotion, truth, and the remembrance of our shared heart. All are welcome.

🗓️ Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 10AM PT via Zoom
Register here: Register here: https://checkout.livingdying.org/parvati-markus/ 💛

The Pitfalls of Modern Spirituality with Sonia PotiéSaturday, November 8 at 10 AM PT 🧡✨🙏So many of us long for an authen...
11/04/2025

The Pitfalls of Modern Spirituality with Sonia Potié
Saturday, November 8 at 10 AM PT 🧡✨🙏

So many of us long for an authentic spiritual life, yet the modern spiritual landscape is full of shortcuts, spiritual performance, and ideas that can pull us further away from our own hearts.

Join us for a Living Dying Project Speaker Series conversation with Sonia Potié, RamDev Dale Borglum, and .beaudry.mla as we explore how to recognize common pitfalls on the path and how to return to what is real, grounded, and truly transformative.

In this talk, we will explore:

👉The pull of instant gratification in spiritual practice
👉The rise of the algorithmic guru and how social media shapes beliefs
👉Fragmented wisdom and the replacement of study with quotes and soundbites
👉Chasing peak experiences instead of deepening presence
👉The illusion of control on the spiritual journey

Sonia brings clarity, warmth, and embodied wisdom rooted in years of study in the Vajrayana tradition. She is devoted to revealing the shared heart of all traditions and supporting people to find a path that is genuine and uniquely their own.

Come with an open mind and your honest questions. All are welcome.

✨ Link in bio to register
Much love.

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11/04/2025

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🧡🌼 Blessings to you on Día de Los Mu***os. May you feel the light of your ancestors all around you. 🌼🧡
11/03/2025

🧡🌼 Blessings to you on Día de Los Mu***os. May you feel the light of your ancestors all around you. 🌼🧡

10/30/2025

Do what you do, but offer the fruits of those actions to something higher than yourself.

Join us for two opportunities to sit with RamDev live this weekend via Zoom, free of charge and open to all:

✨Saturday Spiritual Support Group: 11/1 at 9AM PT
✨Conscious Grief Support Group: 11/2 at 10AM PT

Register at livingdying.org 💛

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Our bodies and minds die. In our hearts lives the deathless.Can devotion to the truth of each moment prepare us for deat...
10/30/2025

Our bodies and minds die. In our hearts lives the deathless.

Can devotion to the truth of each moment prepare us for death? Can the certainty of our dying inspire us to live with an open heart now?

Join RamDev Dale Borglum, co-founder of the conscious dying movement alongside Ram Dass and Stephen Levine, for a powerful exploration of embodied spirituality, compassion, everyday sacredness, and the path of remembering who we are beyond birth and death.

🪷💛 You’ll explore:
• A practical healing paradigm rooted in the chakras, early development, Buddhism, devotion, and trauma-informed spiritual care
• Where you may be on the path, and what the next step could be
• Grief as a garden of compassion
• The Beloved as everything
• What happens after you die

RamDev is the founder of the first conscious dying center in the US, Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project, longtime devotee of Neem Karoli Baba, co-author of Journey of Awakening, and host of the Healing at the Edge podcast. His new book, How To Live So You Can Die Without Fear, will be released in 2026.

May this gathering support the opening of the heart, in life and in dying.he

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10/28/2025

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10/27/2025

The ways up the mountain are many, and it can be helpful to understand some of the well-trodden paths.

RamDev dives deeper into these teachings in his Saturday Spiritual Support Group, gathering every two weeks via Zoom.

Join us for meditation, dharma, community, and open-hearted conversation.

Our groups are free and open to all. Visit the Events page at livingdying.org to learn more.

Much love to you, always. 💛

Tomorrow! Psychedelics and Transcendence at End-of-Life with Dr. Anthony Bossis and RamDev Dale Borglum LIVE via Zoom 🍄✨...
10/25/2025

Tomorrow! Psychedelics and Transcendence at End-of-Life with Dr. Anthony Bossis and RamDev Dale Borglum LIVE via Zoom 🍄✨

In 2016, Dr. Anthony Bossis, a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine, led a landmark FDA-approved clinical trial exploring psilocybin-assisted therapy for people living with cancer.

Participants in the study reported not only profound reductions in depression, anxiety, and demoralization, but also a greater sense of spiritual well-being and peace at the end of life.

What do these findings (and the mushrooms themselves) reveal about the possibilities for awakening as we die? How might this medicine help us live so that we might die without fear?

Join Dr. Bossis and RamDev Dale Borglum this Saturday, October 25 at 10AM PT for a live conversation exploring the sacred potential of psilocybin and end-of-life care. Ticket holders will receive lifetime access to the recording shortly after the live event.

Register at the link in our bio, we look forward to being with you soon. 💛

In 2016, Dr. Anthony Bossis, a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine, led a l...
10/21/2025

In 2016, Dr. Anthony Bossis, a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine, led a landmark FDA-approved clinical trial exploring psilocybin-assisted therapy for individuals facing cancer.

Participants experienced profound reductions in depression, anxiety, and demoralization as well as greater spiritual well-being and peace at the end of life.

What do these findings, and the mushrooms themselves, reveal about the possibilities for awakening as we die?

Join Dr. Bossis and RamDev Dale Borglum this Saturday for a live and recorded conversation exploring the sacred potential of psilocybin and end-of-life care.

🌿 Register through the link in our bio.

Psychedelics and Transcendence at the End of Life with Dr. Anthony Bossis | Saturday, October 25 at 10 AM PST ✨We are th...
10/20/2025

Psychedelics and Transcendence at the End of Life with Dr. Anthony Bossis | Saturday, October 25 at 10 AM PST ✨

We are thrilled to welcome Anthony Bossis, PhD to the Living/Dying Project Speaker Series this weekend for a rich dialogue at the intersection of science, spirit, and the great mystery of death.

Dr. Bossis is a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. Since 2009, he has been at the forefront of FDA-approved clinical research on psilocybin, including the landmark 2016 trial showing how a single psilocybin session can bring profound relief from depression, anxiety, and demoralization in people living with cancer, while enhancing spiritual well-being and quality of life.

In this conversation with Living/Dying Project Director and co-founder, RamDev Dale Borglum, Dr. Bossis will share insights from his pioneering research into how psychedelics can help ease end-of-life distress, open pathways to transcendence, and deepen our understanding of consciousness and spirituality.

✨ Registration is open at livingdying dot org.

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History of the Living/Dying Project: In 1976 Stephen Levine founded The Dying Project as part of The Hanuman Foundation. Shortly after founding the first organization in the Western world to actively promote conscious dying, Stephen was joined by Ram Dass, Dale Borglum, and Ondrea Levine. The Dying Project offered conscious support to people with life-theatening illnesses and also included a national call-in consultation hot-line. For many years after its inception, the Project was the only organization here in the West which advocated seeing the dying process as an opportunity for spiritual awakening and using caregiving for those with life-threatening illness as a spiritual practice. In 1981, as part of the Hanuman Foundation Dying Project, the Dying Center in Santa Fe, NM, was created. This was the first residential facility in the West to care for clients who wished to see their confrontation with death as an opportunity for awakening, rather than seeing death merely a tragedy. From 1981-1984 Dale Borglum, the founding Director of the Dying Center, guided the facility in which approximately 85 people were served free of charge. In 1986 Dale relocated the Project to its present location in Marin County and changed the name to The Living/Dying Project.The Open Circle program of the Project offers free-of-charge emotional and spiritual support to people with life-threatening illnesses and to those who care for them. As well, the Project has an educational component whose mission is to explore healing in the context of a life-threatening illness. Dale has trained thousands of hospice care workers, nurses, therapists, doctors, and volunteers in palliative care.