“Remember Be Here Now”

The title of this contribution comes from Dr. Richard Alpert, a.k.a. Baba Ram Dass, author of the classic cult book of the early 1970s, Remember Be Here Now. The title encapsulates the essence of the following chapter in which different words are interchangeably used to identify a concept but the concept remains the same. That concept: the “present,” which in psychology can be termed “immediacy, the here and now or being in the moment.” They all represent the same thing and what they represent is an effective tool of intervention in interpersonal learning for clients in group therapy (Vinogradov & Yalom, 1989).