Love Is The Author

David Nichtern is a longtime Buddhist teacher, founder of Dharma Moon , author, musician and Emmy-winning composer whose life has unfolded at the peculiar intersection of meditation, creativity, culture, livelihood and the everyday predicament of being a person. David returns to the podcast for his fouth appearance, wandering through territory the LITA audience is most interested in: how to live t...

Shamelle Gonzalez is a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, translator, editor, retreatant, and the human being behind Jaymee’s favorite Instagram account, @PemaLotus , an extraordinary resource for authentic Tibetan Buddhist teachings. A conversation about what happens when the Dharma stops being something you’re interested in and becomes the architecture of your life. THiS POD is a LABOR of LOVE. PLEA...

Mystical/Cynical is a podcast formerly hosted by artist Daren Thomas Magee aka Real Fun, Wow! and Jaymee that boasts three seasons and 100 episodes. It's been a year and change since they ended the show, so Love Is The Author is hosting a two hour reunion show for end times sake.  THiS POD is a LABOR of LOVE. PLEASE SUPPORT:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.patreon.com/loveistheauthorpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ LITA PODCAST:  hosted...

KOANHEADS is a Buddhist-based conversation between former death row inmate and best selling author Damien Echols , certified mindfulness teacher Chris Carmena , and Jaymee focusing specifically on the Zen tradition, practices and homegrown realizations. Damien's new book The Alchemy Of The Broken Blade was released this week and is available wherever fine books are sold.  SPONSORED BY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠...

In one of the most intimate conversations ever shared on Love Is The Author, Jaymee sits down his mother Victoria Roberts for a conversation about how she survived a decade of horrific sexual abuse by her father, the silence and self-blame she carried, and the spiritual life raft that preserved something in her no one could touch. She recounts confronting her abuser, reclaiming her innocence, and...

John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s close friend, assistant and artistic collaborator Dan Richter takes us even deeper behind the doors of rock-and-roll history in part two of their conversation, recalling the making of Imagine with Phil Spector , what The Beatles’ breakup looked like from inside John and Yoko’s world, and John’s enduring artistic rivalry with Paul McCartney . He shares how Yoko’s relentle...

This episode features Jaymee’s conversation with artist Dan Richter —immortalized as Moonwatcher in Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey , a role he not only performed but choreographed while in the grip of heroin addiction. Dan takes us behind the eyes of one of cinema’s most iconic figures and into the astonishing life that followed. From 1969 to 1973, he served as John...

Jaymee's spiritual teacher Lama Lhanang Rinpoche returns to the podcast for his 6th recorded conversation on LITA. Lama Lhanang is a Vajrayana Buddhist teacher from Tibet, now the director of the Jigme Lingpa Center in San Diego, who is hosting the upcoming Celebration Of Awakening: World Peace Through Inner Peace event at St. David's Episcopal Church in San Diego on September 19th. He is an autho...

Jaymee and Lacee share how they turned their recent miscarriage into a method for spiritual awakening, how they've tended to their grief while practicing non-attachment, and why they feel love is limitlessness that transcends death. SPONSORED BY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠www.yerbamadre.com⁠ Interested in Spiritual Mentorship with Jaymee or Lacee? email: lacee@loveistheauthor.com to set up a free consultation, or vi...

Keith Slettedahl is an American songwriter/musician and lead singer of the pop rock band The 88 who perform the opening theme to the Emmy Award winning sitcom Community . He's  played with legendary artists like Ray Davies, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, The Zombies and The Flaming Lips, but what most people don't know about the charismatic frontman is that he's a spiritual giant posin...

Yawn & Loko return with the biggest little announcement of their lives. In a deep conversation about the depths of intimacy in partnership, ego death and beholding the great mystery, Jaymee and Lacee share the news they’ve been waiting to tell: they're expecting their first child together.  Interested in Spiritual Mentorship with Jaymee or Lacee? email: lacee@loveistheauthor.com to set up...

Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award-winning historian, writer, and lecturer who explores the intersections of metaphysics, ethics, and self-transformation. He is the author of over a dozen books including his newest release Esoterika: Formula's Against The False Self . Jaymee and Mitch have a two hour discussion on the inconvenient recipe for unconditional love, human rights for witches, Christian S...

Sam Bercholz is a senior teacher in the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and the founder of Shambhala Publications . He was a close disciple of Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche , and was empowered by them to teach and given the title Acharya (religious instructor). Samuel returns for his eleventh conversation with Jaymee on the podcast to promote his new boo...

EULOGY (originally released: 7/14/24): a unique collection of home recordings of Jaymee's from the past decade (prayers, notes, ceremonies, dreams) held together by a sound collage of interviews with inspirational artistic deities. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST:  produced, edited, engineered and hosted by Jaymee Carpenter.  TO BOOK SPIRITUAL MENTORSHIP SESSIONS w/ JAYMEE - email: lacee@loveisthea...

For the first time, Jaymee welcomes his 16-year-old daughter, Siabelle Darling Carpenter, to Love Is The Author for an extraordinary conversation on self-love, spirituality, emotional intelligence, friendship, and the gift of truly listening. We invite you to spend some time tripping in the unified field of their father/daughter bond, and to ask yourself the deeper questions along with them. LITA...

Bob Roth —legendary teacher, author, CEO of the David Lynch Foundation , and one of the most influential figures in the Transcendental Meditation movement—takes the host’s chair to explore the life and journey of Jaymee Carpenter . Over the past five decades, Bob has introduced meditation to everyone from Martin Scorsese, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, and Jonah Hill to hundreds of thousands of student...

Damien Echols is a bestselling American author who spent nearly half his life wrongfully imprisoned on death row as one of the West Memphis Three , documented in the three-part HBO series Paradise Lost , as well as director Amy Berg's documentary West Of Memphis . This is not a conversation about true crime... it's a conversation about how meditation, spiritual study and ritual turned his...

Jess Damuck was one of Martha Stewart’s right hands in creating magazines and television shows for over a decade. She is now a creative director, food stylist, and the author of the bestselling cookbooks Salad Freak , Health Nut , and Open Wide with Benny Blanco . "Martha Stewart is my guru!" Musician John Moods is a German-Polish songwriter and recording artist who's intention is to...

Ruthanna Halprin Hopper is an American artist known for blending visual arts, dance, and somatic psychology. She is the daughter of actor Dennis Hopper and dancer Daria Halprin, and the granddaughter of renowned environmental designer Lawrence Halprin and dance pioneer Anna Halprin, creators of the world renown Halprin Method . Jaymee and Ruthanna discuss shadow work, synchronicities, collective s...

Robert Ryan is known for being one of the best tattoo artists on the planet, also a member of the band Soma (kirtan) , whose new album Songs Of The Lotus Born is out June 11 on Centripetal Force Records . Devendra Banhart is a Venezuelan-American singer songwriter and visual artist, whose new book of poems Four Nose Jobs A Day is out now on Unnamed Press. The three friends jam on Lord Padmasambhav...

Dory Bavarsky is a composer and music producer known for his music for television and film and his record label Full Color Sound Records. Recently, musician Devendra Banhart introduced Jaymee to Dory at a Buddhist gathering, and in the weeks that followed the two new friends entered into a mutual admiration society of each others work. On a recent trip to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Dory wrot...

Jaymee welcomes Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche of Pristine Mind Foundation for an in depth discussion on the merits of being a good natured rebel on the path, how one's inner motivation speaks louder than words or actions, and the principles behind his new book The Tibetan Book of Success out now on Shambhala Publications .  LITA PODCAST:  hosted, produced, and recorded...

Jaymee welcomes back RamDev Dale Borglum of the Living/Dying Project for a highly contemplative, hilarious and deeply meaningful  conversation surrounding his upcoming book How To Live So You Can Die Without Fear . Drawing from decades of work accompanying people through death, grief, and spiritual transformation, RamDev shares the hard-earned wisdom that comes from sitting intimately beside imper...

In this fascinating episode of Love Is The Author , Jaymee sits down with Rani Singh of the Harry Smith Archives for a deep dive into the mythic life and enduring legacy of visionary artist, anthropologist, filmmaker, occult explorer, and collector Harry Smith . Best known to many for compiling the legendary Anthology of American Folk Music , Harry Smith’s influence quietly shaped generations of a...

Street Monk 2 is the second in a series of spontaneous dharma talks of Jaymee's, this episode recorded outdoors at the park, as he shares teachings and contemplations with the support of nature and a choir of wind, birds and insects. LITA PODCAST:  hosted, produced, and recorded by Jaymee Carpenter .  SOUND MIXED: Chris Faller OPENING SONG: Ocean Of Beauty by Earthtones Music & Sheela Bringi CLOSI...