NMLP P-040158 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Be Here Now

Ram Dass · Lama Foundation (San Cristobal, New Mexico) · 1971

The first printing has no ISBN, no printing statement on the copyright page, a printed price at the base of the spine, and the Lama Foundation named alone as publisher on the rear cover — this last point is decisive, because the second printing of May 1971 and all subsequent printings (an eighth printing is recorded in November 1972) name Crown Publishers alongside the Lama Foundation

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040158 for "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040158, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).