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Ep. 265 - Ram Dass Fellowship: Putting Love into Action with Benjy Wertheimer
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- Jul 24, 2026
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Summary
Jackie Dobrinska speaks with devotional musician Benjy Wertheimer about dharmic shifts, discovering how our unique gifts can evolve into deeper forms of selfless service. Today’s podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/beherenow and get on your way to being your best self. This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, Benjy and Jackie explore: Benjy’s unconventional journey from music and technology to spiritual service The idea of a “dharmic shift” and how life can redirect our path Ram Dass’s influence on Benjy’s music and spiritual calling Using our unique gifts in service of something larger than ourselves Walt Whitman’s shift from poet to Civil War nurse Deep practice as a form of service and connection Balancing personal gifts with humility and non-attachment Listening, finding common ground, and navigating disagreement Grief, anger, self-care, and “healing the healer” Service as an evolving practice of love and compassion “The Dharmic shift that I went through from that point, somebody who was maybe helping a lot of people with computer systems, and I was maybe pretty good at it, but I never would have been great because my heart wasn't there, was suddenly called into service with music and with the practice of kirtan, using whatever gifts I could bring to honor something bigger than myself.” –Benjy Wertheimer About Benjy Wertheimer: Benjy Wertheimer is an award-winning devotional musician, composer, vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist equally accomplished on tabla, congas, percussion, esraj, guitar, and keyboards. Benjy’s connection to Ram Dass predates his birth. His father, Professor Michael Wertheimer, was Richard Alpert’s Masters Thesis adviser at Wesleyan in the early 1950s. Some half a century later, Benjy joi…