Love Is The Author

This episode features Jaymee's second interview with legendary tattoo icon and street monk Robert Ryan of Electric Tattoo, and Jaymee's teacher, Vajrayana Buddhist Master Lama Lhanang Rinpoche. Recorded LIVE on location, grand opening weekend of WANTS/NEEDS Community Arts Collective, on the morning after the packed premier of Robert Ryan's art show "DUALITY" in that space. The atmosphere of record...

Cody Montgomery is the brainchild and designer behind TOTALLY BLOWN, a clothing company that makes distressed clothing using shotguns in Joshua Tree, CA. Cody uses the shotgun as a tool to create beautiful and complex clothing that blurs the lines between contemporary art, contemporary fashion, and social activism. This unique approach creates intensely charged objects that are usable, aesthetical...

Sandy and Jason of Enid And Edgar Vintage in Ojai, CA are salt of the earth people who were once high school sweethearts. Their vintage shop is a one of a kind shopping experience, set outdoors underneath a gigantic oak tree, next to their modest home where they home school their children, and live a slow, highly intentional existence, rich with quality time and meaningful connection. Enid And Edg...

"Dirty Saints" are what Jaymee calls people who spends a good portion of their life in various forms of abuse and intoxication, who at some point face their demons by doing deep internal work on themselves, and then spend the rest of their lives searching for others to bless with the gift of identification. Mike "One Shot" Coulter is the definitive "Dirty Saint", a man who bleeds emotion and famou...

On September 19th, 2022, the Venerable Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, a particularly magical and important Tibetan Buddhist Lama, spent a full day in Jaymee's home in Ojai, CA. recording this podcast, performing healing ceremonies and offering longevity blessings for hours to the many dozens of attendees that day. Jaymee was honored to serve as Lama's attendee throughout the day and witnessed firsthand La...

After Jaymee's mother, artist Victoria Roberts, had survived a horribly abusive childhood by establishing a foundational relationship with God being Love, she arrived in London in 1971 at the age of 18 and was instantly swept into the inner circle of rock legends The Who and The Faces. The first time Who drummer Keith Moon met Victoria at The Roundhouse in London in 1971, he confessed his innermos...

After surviving crippling illness at birth, an emotionally disturbed violent alcoholic father in his youth, a bi-polar diagnosis at 13 that had him experimented on with every psych med and therapist on the market for nearly 20 years, Ben Pecorari at 26 years of age sought out spiritual mentorship sessions with Jaymee in the summer of 2021, keeping one secret to himself... he was going to commit su...

Raghu Markus is the Executive Director of the Love Serve Remember Foundation, co-founder of the Be Here Now Network, host of Ram Dass: Here and Now as well as his own Mindrolling podcast. He is a devotee and direct disciple of Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaji), whom Raghu lived with in India for 18 solid months alongside Ram Dass and Krishna Das in the early 1970's. Raghu is the chief storyteller within...

Jon "Vasu" Seskevich has been a trailblazing nurse clinician and primary disciple of Ram Dass's for 50 years. After two years of obsessively reading and re-reading Be Here Now in the early 70's while hitchhiking and practicing kundalini yoga, Jon endured a difficult LSD experience and took a shot in the dark writing Ram Dass a letter to ask his advice in processing the bad trip. Much to Jon's surp...

Our most requested return guest, Jaymee's partner and manager Lacee Jené Dilmore returns to share her wisdom in this Woodstock '69 themed episode. Lacee shares intimate details of her process, and Jaymee revels in being in the presence of the only spiritual teacher he's ever seen naked. Featuring a psychedelic sound-collage of Woodstock '69 concertgoer/organizer footage interviews guaranteed to br...

Samuel Bercholz is the Founder and Editor In Chief of the legendary Shambhala Publications, original publisher of an entire library of spiritual classics by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Pema Chödron, Shunryu Suzuki, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (to name a few), and was an early student of Trungpa Rinpoche's. Samuel is the genuine article mover and shaker of the early Buddhist scene in the U...

Robert Ryan is one of the most sought after tattoo artist's in the world, and an icon and pioneer of spiritually themed tattoo's inspired by the 19th century Kalighat tradition of Calcutta, India. After growing up on the east coast, largely inspired by hip-hop, punk rock, beat poetry and graffiiti culture, Robert had a life altering encounter with a Hare Krishna devotee who rerouted the direction...

Francisco Mazza is the Director of the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, CA. How did this disappointed, disenchanted youth growing up nihilist in the streets of Mendoza, Argentina, find his way to a genuine spiritual unfoldment? Would you believe surfing, ambient music and industrial bands like Ministry and Nine Inch Nails could lead one to the teachings of Krishnamurti? Francisco shares how his unique...

Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche is a Vajra Master within the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and Jaymee's "root guru". Born in the Hidden Land of Pemaköd, a sacred place well known to Himalayan Buddhists, Tulku Rinpoche was recognized as a reincarnate shortly after his birth by one of the most notable Tibetan Buddhist masters of the 20th century, His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, and began formal training...

"NO BIG DEAL" is a new, laid back 10 min guided meditation offering from Jaymee for beginners and/or daily practitioners looking to strengthen meditative consciousness and identify less with thought. An easy one for a busy morning, a lunch break at work, or simply a peaceful way to end the day - here's an interesting way for you and Jaymee to spend some quality time together. 4 min intro > 10 min...

Christopher Noxon is an author, artist and contributing journalist for The New Yorker, Details, The New York Times Magazine, and Salon. He has authored three books, one of which "Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook" recently made headlines after it was placed on a banned book list in Virginia Beach as a prop of conservative political theatre. His first book "Rejuvenille" landed hi...

John Dennis is one of Jaymee's favorite people on the planet. The "Quentin Tarantino of vintage", John is a true historian and die hard fan of thrift, style and decay, and is a dedicated practitioner and believer in the art of up-cycling. Through his wildly successful vintage company Sam Roberts LA and his brick and mortar Valley Of The Moon in Ojai, CA., John expresses himself boldly through the...

This episode features the unbelievable true life story of Jaymee's friend and Dharma brother Dorje Tsewang, who at the age of 21 escaped the Chinese occupation of his homeland Tibet on foot in an arduous journey through the Himalayan Mountains. Dorje, a Tibetan Buddhist in a group of 12 faced sub zero weather conditions with no shelter, empty pockets and very little food, warmed only by a burning...

This episode begins with a sound bath by Kelly Jean Anderson, recorded live on location at the legendary spiritual center and meditation garden Meditation Mount in Ojai, CA. Jaymee's interview with Kelly afterwards is a stunner, full of incredible information on how she overcome decades of addiction, sexual trauma, auto-immune and mental disorders through a sincere devotion to her spiritual path a...

When Devendra and Jaymee get together, they instantly become two children deep at play, bursting with positive energy, ceaselessly driven to expose the interconnectedness of life while utilizing Tibetan Buddhism as their primary navigation system. This episode is less of an interview and more of a natural long form conversation between two people who love each other. Jaymee and Devendra open up ab...