UNDER THE BLANKET

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as Elliot Nexus comes on the show for the first time. We discuss issues currently facing our planet, the global system, accountability, changing society and how it all relates to our spiritual awakening.

“If you get too focused on individual differences, you lose it. Because behind all the different faces is the One. If you only see the One and don’t see all the different faces, you lose it. If you only see the unity and don’t see the uniqueness, you miss the mark. What a challenge for us, to keep the balance, and to see our lives as instruments for bringing that balance back into the social fabric.” – Ram Dass

Elliot has been heavily involved in nightlife since his first Chicago warehouse event in 2006. It was during this time that he began writing music and making a name for himself locally as a DJ. Since then, Elliot Moved his love of music and nightlight to Nashville, then Los Angeles. Having produced over 300 live events in LA since 2010, his music and live event experience eventually saw him tapped to become the LA event director for an international music festival and industry conference, speak on industry panels about his experiences, tapped for his A&R experience on behalf of several industry entities, and acted as a business manager, as well as a tour manager for multiple acts from all genres including hip-hop, electronic, rock & roll over the last decade. This all solidified into an event sponsorship deal with Pabst Blue Ribbon that spanned from 2015 - 2018.

During that time, Elliot hosted “The Pregame with Elliot Next”, a podcast featuring a wide range of artists. ranging from the underground artists performing at Elliot’s events Like Richie the Barber, to underground heroes like Oso Negro, as well as major acts including members of Thievery Corporation.

Elliot thinks you should check out Tigercide at tigercide.com

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Get lost in love under Maharajji’s blanket with first time guest Sam. You can feel this episode! So jump in the warm bath of love and surrender to the way it is.

“Meditate like Christ...He lost himself in love.” 
-- Neem Karoli Baba

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as we talk with Rich about the cosmic conspiracy, conspiracy culture, conspiracies, the mind, cognitive dissonance, belief structures and how it all relates to our spiritual awakening.

“The whole design of your incarnation is like an incredible computer program that sets you into the exact life situations to move you forward towards true awareness. It’s all perfect. Every part of the birth you are taking is part of the unfolding of the karma you need to burn through. There is not one experience you are having or could have or have had that is not part of that process.”

- Ram Dass

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 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

Some experiences in life can leave an impression that effect a person on such a deep level that they are forever changed. Some people have these life changing experiences over and over again. And sometimes these experiences cause problems in their lives like difficulty sleeping, feelings of panic, seemingly irrational fears, and even believing they may be going crazy. Erin Montgomery is such a person, and with her training in the counseling field, has been able to unravel some of the mysteries in her own life that have contributed to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Risking her career and job, friendships, and family relationships, Erin explores her past as an alien contactee, her abduction memories, and how this phenomenon has brought her to understand her place in this world and others.

https://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Little-Secret-Confessions-Contactee/dp/B08BF14DYB

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, which in turn is affecting everything that comes back. and when you meet somebody who is caught in the world of WE and THEM, and you are HIM to that person and you get caught in his mindset, you are both just intensifying one another's paranoia

HIPPIES CREATE POLICE-----------POLICE CREATE HIPPIES

If you're in polarity you're creating opposites, polar opposites, you can only protest effectively when you love the person whose ideas you are protesting against as much as you love yourself

‘Love has to spring spontaneously from within: and it is in no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. love and coercion can never go together; but though love cannot be forced on anyone, it can be awakened in him through love itself. love is essentially self-communicative. those who do not have it, catch it from those who have it. true love is unconquerable and irresistable; and it goes on gathering power and spreading itself until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches.’

meher baba”

- Ram Dass from Be Here Love

“Love everyone” - Neem Karoli Baba

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 sky

Imagine all the people

Livin' for today

Ah

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion, too

Imagine all the people

Livin' life in peace

You

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one”

Songwriters: John Winston Lennon

“There are countless paths, each with its own landmarks, its own route. Meditation unfolds in a sequence, but the specific experiences and their order vary from person to person and from method to method. In devotional meditation or prayer you may be filled with intense love, or with great pain of separation, or with the presence of the Living Spirit. If on the other hand you meditate using a one-pointedness technique, such as concentration on the breath, you may first experience agitation, then quietness, a deepening silence, more immediate awareness of smaller units of thought, and finally the silent space and emptiness that exists beyond form. In still another approach to meditation, say a movement method like t’ai chi, your first experiences might be of balance, harmony, or flow with the earth, the air, and the surroundings. It is not possible to chart a single path, or to say that every individual will have the same experience. The paths of the heart, the mind, and the body each traverse different terrain to the same goal.”

- Ram Dass

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

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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 power, I will use it,” then you’re stuck again. A new attachment, a new ego trip. Don’t use them, rather let them be used through you.

Purity brings powers. Unfortunately, that’s one of the lions at the gate that brings you incredible powers. The minute you’re a little less attached than everybody else, you have incredible power over everybody, because you don’t want anything that everybody else wants so much. The minute you don’t want so much, suddenly you’re free, in a way that you can’t believe because you’re so used to being trapped in this network of needs and desires.”

- Ram Dass

Some experiences in life can leave an impression that effect a person on such a deep level that they are forever changed. Some people have these life changing experiences over and over again. And sometimes these experiences cause problems in their lives like difficulty sleeping, feelings of panic, seemingly irrational fears, and even believing they may be going crazy. Erin Montgomery is such a person, and with her training in the counseling field, has been able to unravel some of the mysteries in her own life that have contributed to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Risking her career and job, friendships, and family relationships, Erin explores her past as an alien contactee, her abduction memories, and how this phenomenon has brought her to understand her place in this world and others.

https://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Little-Secret-Confessions-Contactee/dp/B08BF14DYB

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 then he laughed.

And he had been very close to her. And the other guy, who was a very close devotee and kind of had a kidding relationship with Maharajji said “Why are you laughing. She is dead. Are you some kind of butcher?” And Mahharajji said “What would you have me do? Make believe I am one of the puppets?”

Story of Neem Karoli Baba Maharajji

Link to Willie’s book

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-as-ck-Willie-Katinowsky/dp/1952352061

Spiritual as F*ck is a journey of self-discovery written with cunning intellect and delightful sarcasm. As someone who guarded themselves from faith under the guise of being 'realistic, ' I believe this book will help even the biggest skeptics re-evaluate whether the doubts they cling to are really serving them. Allow Spiritual as F*ck to inspire you on an entertaining journey to trust in the universe and to discover the power of faith, belief, and the law of attraction.

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 God when you are sick, in the cremation ground or hospital . You call on God when you suffer”

- Neem Karoli Baba