Here is a claim made by former Harvard professor and later spiritual teacher and author Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) in a YouTube video and in an article on his web-site
Ram Dass visited a Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba in India. Dass's mother had died six months earlier after her enlarged spleen was removed. The day before meeting Baba, Dass went outside under night sky and thought of his mother.
The next day Dass meets Baba, who told him:
Then he closed his eyes for a second and he said, “You"you were out under the stars thinking about your mother”. Now just put yourself in my position. Harvard professor of psychology, you know, like I’ve got my virginity to protect here. I’ve got my social science, and this quaint little man, how does he know that? I haven’t told anybody that. I said, “Yeah.”
Then he tells me, “She diedyour mother last year.”
“Yeah.”
And I could feel the sweat started to come down my arms. My spine started to tingle, and I had a very strange feeling.
And he said, “She got very big in the belly before she died.”
“Yeah,” I said, and that was all in Hindinight".
Then he leaned forward really close to me and in English, which was bizarre, because he never spoke English later, he said, “Spleen,” and I fell apart.
The video presents a translator as an eye witness of the event. American yogi Bhagavan Das also appears in the video, claiming to have made Ram Dass visit Neem Karoli Baba, but is unclear whether he was present during the event.
Did Neem Karoli Baba read the thoughts of Ram Dass?