UNDER THE BLANKET

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Sitaram Dass returns to the podcast for a delightful conversation. We discuss nobody specialness, preferences, burning out karma through media consumption and other juicy topics. We relate it all to our spiritual awakening.

“The Great Way is not difficult

for those who have no preferences.”

- Third Zen patriarch

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. He is the Director of the Sacred Community Project, where he works to lower the barriers of access to contemplative and devotional practices through affordable, free, and donation-based offerings, one-on-one spiritual support, and prison outreach. His new book, From and for God, is an intimate and contemplative collection of writings on the spiritual path. Learn more about Sitaram Dass at: sitaramdass.com

Website: https://sitaramdass.com

Sacred Community Project: https://sacredcommunityproject.org

From and for God: www.fromandforgod.com

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as we meet Nathan and we explain together as One…😂♾😂 the cosmic joke😂♾😂♾😂🕉. In this heart opening conversation, we explore how “Spiritual bipolar” influenced his 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 identify with my guru, Maharaj-ji. For his giggle was not of this world. It was not a social or personality giggle, but rather a cosmic chuckle, the delight in the fun of it all. His giggle was from the plane that gives us the term “lila,” the divine dance of life.”

– Ram Dass

Links to “my” audiobook/Ebook. Free versions

https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/episodes/Spiritual-BiPolAR-the-audiobook-experience-efqfie

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/359028

The smash words website is free to sign up and all my books can be found there for free.

(It helps if you get it through audible)

https://www.audible.com/pd/Spiritual-BiPolar-Audiobook/B08FBPWK6K

Soundtrack for the book (Spotify playlist)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0g90RIWHjyH2slLvd5n9ey?si=aNNiRmGESDe3VfacBjLPZA&dl_branch=1

https://www.facebook.com/Spiritual-Bipolar-Audiobook-101642565230967/

राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम (108 Ram)

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Willie Katinowsky, author of “Spiritual as F*ck”returns to the show. We discuss compassion, Buddha, the judgmental mind, spiritual community, social media and how it all relates to our spiritual awakening.

“Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people.”

- Ram Dass

Willie is the author of Spiritual as F*ck and a teacher of yoga and meditation, currently in the Reading Pennsylvania area. His book is a relatable tale of navigating the realm of spirituality from a skeptical viewpoint. He also wrote this in the third person, which is kind of weird.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1952352061/ref=cm_sw_r_fm_api_glt_fabc_B0Q489MP6M25CPQKYFY6

“Attachment is the strongest block to realization.”

- Neem Karoli Baba Maharajji

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the show. We discuss non-duality, determinism, spiritual powers, and others topics related to our spiritual awakening. Let the podcast wash over you and don’t get busy being identified with he or she who listens.

Where are you?

Here!

What time is it?

Now!

Are you a listener and am I a podcast host???

Come on 😂😂😂😂

Out of the role into the soul♥️♾♥️☝🏿🦋

Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus’ upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration.

Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada’s Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio’s Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions.

In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi.

Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank’s work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master’s degree in counseling at Athabasca University.

Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology.

http://therummery.ca

https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif

“We're talking about a metamorphosis. We're talking about going from a caterpillar to butterfly we're talking about how to become a butterfly. i mean: the caterpillar isn't walking around saying: MAN i'll soon be a butterfly because; as long as he's busy being a caterpillar he CAN"T be a butterfly. It's only when caterpillarness is done that one starts to be a butterfly”. - Ram Dass

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as yoga instructor and meditation teacher Sarah Marshall Marcus and Baba Here Love discuss doubt, death, her awakening journey and how it relates to our spiritual awakening.

Folks can connect with Sarah through

laughingcosmosstudios.com

westashevilleyoga.com

Or IG at laughing.cosmos

“I was carrying a burden of doubt when I returned to India to see Maharaj-ji in 1970.  In America there was a boy who had been my student who had died.  He was a deeply spiritual kid whose father was a foreign scientist.  The family was well off and had a home in New Hampshire and lived in Arizona.  The boy lived in New York but had gone to do sadhana in a cave on their place in Arizona.  Later I heard from his mother that he had died.

The mother said, “My son has achieved mahasamadhi (final merging).”  She showed me the diary that he had kept.  He wrote that he was taking samadhi, that she should not worry and that he would be watching over her.  She asked me, “Is everything he said true?”  I said, “Well I don’t know, but I’m going back to India in the fall to see my guru, and he will certainly know.”  I had my doubts.  No student of mine had gained mahasamadhi, and I said to myself that it must be drugs. Later I learned he had indeed taken LSD.  There had been blood on the walls of the cave and I assumed he had done prānayāma (yogic breath control) while on LSD and he overdid it.

One day we were all showing our photos to Maharaj-ji, passport pictures and pictures from our wallets.  I remembered I had this boy’s photo and went to get it.   It was his high school graduation picture. It didn’t look much like how I remembered him.  But I put his picture next to Maharaj-ji, who said, “He left his body.”  Then he proceeded to quote from the boy’s diary, “Tell Ram Dass I have finished my work. I will be watching over you, Mother …” and he give me all the information from the diary.  Maharaj-ji said, “He’s one with Christ.  He has finished his work. He’s watching over his mother.”

Then he said, “Your medicines weren’t the cause of his death.”  That had been weighing on my mind.  I wrote to the mother and told her what Maharaj-ji said.  This is just one instance of how Maharaj-ji worked with the subtleties of our lives beyond the appearances to confirm our faith, including our drug karma.”

– Ram Dass from Be Love Now

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Jason and Baba Here Love speak about modern society, politics, raising children, culture and relate it all to our spiritual awakening.

“Somebody whose role is hellish.. Like I visited a Benedictine monastery. I was meditating with brother David from upper NY, and the Abbot said, “I’d like to have you come to my office.” He asked me one question, “What did the kiss between Judas and Jesus mean?” Well, I said, “I thought they congratulated themselves on this thing they planned, which is going to give the gift of the story… commending something. One good guy and one bad guy right? They kiss.”

They’re two souls and they are saying, “One of us will play the good guy and one of us will play the bad guy.” See, you go up a triangle, you go up and you come to the point of one, after going from one and two, you come to three, at the point and along the way, the one includes the two, and the one includes good and bad. That’s who we are, that third, single point, containing both.”

 

-Ram Dass

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Marcus Rummery gets to the truth of why Baba Here Love left the co-host position of the giant rock podcast.

https://giantrockpodcast.com

We explore the death of Balki, so to speak, in a perfect strangers analogy and get into the nitty gritty of tantra yoga. In this humorous and perhaps mind blowing episode we relate all topics that come up to our spiritual awakening that is happening NOW.

“All is God's will, but Maya prevents you from knowing it's all God's will. He gave us eyes, ears, nose, mouth. But He also gave us wisdom to use them to attain God.” - Neem Karoli Baba (Maharajji)

Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus’ upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration.

Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada’s Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio’s Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions.

In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi.

Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank’s work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master’s degree in counseling at Athabasca University.

Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology.

http://therummery.ca

https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as we meet Hanuman Das and he tells his inspirational story of spiritual awakening. We discuss the Ramayana, methods, Neem Karoli Baba, and cosmic consciousness.

“It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.” 
-- Neem Karoli Baba

Hanuman Das’s Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069749606073

The podcast Hanuman Das hosts

https://anchor.fm/hanuman-dass/episodes/THE-ALL-NEW---Hanuman-Healing-Hour-e13fu9m

Hanuman Das’s book

https://www.amazon.com/-/es/John-Newell-ebook/dp/B08TZGK7LG

“In this book I hope to tell my story and to give inspiration to any of those who may find it through the practices I have found in meditation.”

राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम (108 Ram)

Venture under Maharajji’s Blanket as Jason and I meet the mother energy of cosmic consciousness. We talk about her dance of capitalism, AOC marrying the capitalists and going beyond US vs. Them. It’s all us. It’s all One

Here is a story from Ram Dass

“Some years ago I put out a set of records called “Love, Serve, Remember.” The records – which had music, readings from the Gospel of John, and all kinds of neat things – came in an album with a beautiful booklet with text and pictures. It was a wonderful package, and we sold it by mail order for about $4.50.

I showed the album to my father. Dad was a wealthy Boston lawyer – a conservative Republican, a capitalist, and, at the time, the President of a railroad. He looked over the album and said, “Great job here! But, gee, you know – four and a half dollars? You could probably sell this for ten, maybe fifteen dollars, don’t you think?”

I said, “Yeah, I know.”

“Would fewer people buy it if it were more expensive?” he asked.

“No,” I replied, “probably the same number would buy it.”

”Well I don’t understand, then,” he pressed on. “You could sell it for at least ten, and you’re selling it for $4.50? What’s wrong, are you against capitalism or profit or something?”

I tried to figure out how to explain to him how our approaches differed. I said, “Dad didn’t you just try a law case for Uncle Henry?”

”Yeah,” he replied, “and it was a damned tough case. I spent a lot of time in the law library.”

I asked, “Did you win the case?”

And he answered, “Yeah, I won it.”

Now, my father was a very successful attorney, and he charged fees that were commensurate with his reputation. So I continued. “Well, I bet you charged him an arm and a leg for that one.”

Dad was indignant at the suggestion. “What, are you out of your mind? That’s Uncle Henry – I couldn’t charge him.”

“Well, that’s my problem,” I said. “If you find anyone who isn’t Uncle Henry, show me, and I’ll rip them off.””

- Ram Dass

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Marcus Rummery divinely dances through the art of conversation with our nutty host Baba Here Love aka nobody special. We discuss psychedelic medicine, gurus, western science, revolution and the transformation of society.

“These medicines will allow you to come and visit Christ, but you can only stay two hours. Then you have to leave again. This is not the true samadhi. It’s better to become Christ than to visit him – but even the visit of a saint for a moment is useful.” Then he added, “But love is the most powerful medicine.” 

For love slowly transforms you into what the psychedelics only let you glimpse.”

- Ram Dass

Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus’ upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration.

Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada’s Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio’s Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions.

In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi.

Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank’s work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master’s degree in counseling at Athabasca University.

Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology.

http://therummery.ca

https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/