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When Ram Dass, the onetime proponent of hallucinogenic drugs turned spiritual seeker and New Age guru, died on Dec. 22 in Maui, Hawaii, Rameshwar Das of Springs was at his side.

Dass, born Richard Alpert, and Mr. Das, who coauthored “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart” and “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live From Your Spiritual Heart,” were working on the former’s memoir at the time of his death. Mr.

Das, who is chairman of East Hampton Town’s Waterfront Advisory Committee and has taken photographs for The Star and The New York Times, must now complete the memoir without his friend and mentor of more than 50 years.

“When someone with not so much attachment to life and death dies, it kind of opens a door, between form and formless, life and death, here and not here,” Mr.

Das wrote in an email from Hawaii. “Ram Dass opened that door and now he has gone through it. In some way he has proved that love does not di