UNDER THE BLANKET

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Erin Montgomery returns to the show to talk with Baba Here Love about cosmic humor, humor in general, laughter yoga and how this all relates to our spiritual awakening. “Often the perspectives about yourself and the universe that you arrive at through meditation make you want to giggle or laugh. This giggle is without malice. It’s a cosmic giggle, one that I id...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Jason returns to the show to talk about divisions in America and relate it to spiritual awakening. We address political divisions, ideological divisions, reaching the “other” side, and share personal anecdotes. “You realize, that every moment you are being a full statement of your being, and you're sending out vibrations that are affecting everything around you...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Rich and I discuss religion as it relates to spiritual awakening. We also discuss the being ram Dass book, different gurus, purity, and much more with just the right dose of the cosmic giggle. “All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody.” — Neem Karoli Baba “Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only s...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as we meet Jai Ram Lentine. He speaks about his spiritual awakening and his time working with Ram Dass. We get into awareness, spiritual concepts like non-duality, and so much more. “We’re all just walking each other home” - Ram Dass Nandi Dass provides teachings, retreats, publications, and sacred ceremony, creating an experience of beholding and being beheld by...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Erin Montgomery returns to the podcast and we discuss the issue of spiritual powers, like telepathy, in relation to the spiritual awakening process. We both use examples from our own journey and perhaps this show may give you clarity on this issue. “The game of powers is always very simple: Don’t use them. The minute you get a power and say, “I’ve got this powe...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as we meet Willie Katinowsky, author of “Spiritual as Fuck.” We discuss his awakening journey, awareness, the judgmental mind, the cosmic joke and relate it to our awakening journey. “One day when my guru was walking down the street with one of his old devotees- he closed his eyes for a minute and he said “So and so, this old devotee, so and so just died.” And the...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Joel and I discuss suffering as it pertains to spiritual awakening. We dive into Maharajji’s teaching about suffering, the first noble truth of the Buddha, the grace of suffering, getting out of suffering, and much more. “Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.” - Ram Dass “You get wisdom from suffering, you are alone with...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Jason returns to the show to discuss sex and spiritual awakening. We talk about cultural issues, different approaches to sexuality for people becoming awake, how to practice tantric sex and more. “Let's talk about sex, baby Let's talk about you and me Let's talk about all the good things And the bad things that may be Let's talk about sex” - Salt and Pepper “An...

Venture under Maharajji’s Blanket as Erin Montgomery returns to the show and we discuss the process of spreading the spiritual awakening. A lot comes up with this topic related to our own awakening, ego traps, divine timing and more. “The more conscious a being becomes, the more he can use any occupation as a vehicle for spreading light.” - Ram Dass “Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God, an...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Rich and I discuss American cultural phenomena, the cosmic giggle and how it relates to our spiritual awakening. Of course my pretend podcast nemesis Joe Rogan, the king of bros, infiltrates the episode with his alt right cult of white men in their 20s exploring their toxic masculinity and following their white daddy into a fluffy cloud of ego. Yet Rogan and hi...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Joel and I have a hilarious and fun sacred discussion of the Ramayana. We explore how it applies to our spiritual awakening and you can feel the love of Hanuman for Ram! “The relation of my Guru (Maharajji) to Ram is of perfect service. He is the servant of Ram. My Guru is a reincarnation of Hanuman, and as a perfect servant of Ram, he is totally selfless.” – R...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as we meet Jeremy Hoffeld through a discussion of a passage from be here now, creativity with spiritual practice, different ego trips we can get caught in and seeing it all as God. “It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.” - Neem Karoli Baba Jeremy’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.hoffeld

Venture under Maharajji’s Blanket and meet Sitaram Dass. We had a beautiful and profound conversation. Sitaram Dass spent several years serving his beloved teacher Ram Dass on Maui, where he was shown the path of Bhakti, the yoga of service and devotion to God. Through writings, music, teachings, workshops, and one-on-one counseling, he works to strengthen our sense of the Timeless Sacred in today...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as James Cox returns to the show and we discuss worldliness vs. spiritual awakening relating it to our journey. “Two things are required: one is: VAIGAGYA....the falling away of worldliness....the return of innocence. that means you’re starting to have enough of all that. you see that everything you’re going to experience through your senses and everything you’re...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Ryan comes on the show again and we discuss stages in the journey of awakening to our spiritual oneness with it all. “Welcome! It’s so graceful to share the journey. We’ve been on the journey a long time together. We’ve gone through a lot of stages. And just as in any journey, some people have dropped along the way, have had enough for this round. Others have b...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as we meet Rich and discuss spiritual-ego, hear about his amazing glimpse of Oneness and other topics related to spiritual awakening. “Service as a spiritual path lacks glamour. I liked moving in and out of planes of reality, esoteric teachings, secret mantras, meditation in caves, experiences of bliss. Those experiences of different planes originated in my use of...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Erin Montgomery returns to the show. We discuss astral planes relating it to our spiritual awakening. “One system through which you can look at it all, is that there are a set of vibrations or frequencies, you can call them the physical plane, the astral plane, the causal plane, and that which is beyond the beyond. That’s a good image, “beyond the beyond.” In T...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Joel and I discuss American culture relating it to our spiritual awakening. The advertisement on TV tells you are not enough as you are so buy this. You are enough as you are, the fulfillment is within you. We discuss social media, Hollywood, seeing it all as a leela and have a groovy time together. “It’s better to see God in everything then to figure it all ou...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as we meet Ryan. Ryan tells how he met Neem Karoli Baba Maharajji not when he was in his body but through books, stories, and so on. “It is not necessary to meet your guru on the physical plane. The guru is not external.” — Neem Karoli Baba

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as I have Jagadish on the show again and we crack open miracle of love. The stories of our guru Neem Karoli Baba Maharajji from the book fuel our discussion of prasad, miracles, faith, money, relationships, gurus and of course our personal experiences on this path of awakening to oneness. “I remembered that Maharajji had brought some sweets from Vrindaban, saying,...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Jeff Crawford, host of the giant rock podcast, and I discuss sex and spirituality. We talk about celibacy, tantric sex yoga, lust, American culture’s impact on sex and how it relates to our awakening to the One Love. https://giantrockpodcast.com “Sex and spirituality are cosmically intertwined. The more evolved you become spiritually, the less boundaries there...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Bob and I take a DeLorean time machine back to the 60s revolution. We discuss the spiritual awakening and the mind blowing music of that time. The 60s does have a message of love for today and the revolution that is now! “There was a major shift that occurred in the 60’s, the shift from what you call absolute reality; thinking that what you saw and what your th...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket not getting caught in being “busy listening“ and returning to the here and now. We talk with a wonderful, funny insightful guest host Jason. We discuss modern society, culture and politics relating it to spiritual awakening of oneness. We are in a revolution now. We take on the myth of cancel culture, a false narrative of the right and even touch on the topic of p...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Ryan, a regular on the show, and I discuss methods, different paths and getting trapped in methods. There are many promises and pitfalls in spiritual awakening surrounding the issue of methods which we explore in this conversation. Many paths up the mountain, many methods to climb but at the top the view is the same. “The method of offering it to Kali, of purif...

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Erin and I discuss the reincarnation cycle. We talk about our experiences connecting to other incarnations usually called past lives. We talk about how reincarnation works and why this is all happening. We also address the law of karma and Oneness. “The whole design of your incarnation is like an incredible computer program that sets you into the exact life sit...