UNDER THE BLANKET

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 out” - Neem Karoli Baba

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, “This is Biharaji [Krishna] prasad...”

Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaji) Stories: Baba on Food and Drink - ramdass.org/neem-karoli-baba-maharaji-stories-baba-food-drink/

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 are between my energy and THE energy. When your energy is used in a way that is destructive, meaning that it creates suffering to you and other people and creates pain of separation, you want to keep working to move that energy in other ways, to create a more compassionate environment.”

- Ram Dass

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 thinking mind thought it understood was only one kind of reality. And there was another experience of reality. William James, of course, had said that many years before, if you remember his quote,

“Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We might spend our entire life without knowing of their existence, but apply the requisite stimulus and there they are in their completeness”.

It’s interesting that William James said that when he was a professor at Harvard. I was thrown out of William James Hall for doing what he said.

Up until the 60’s, the primary spiritual containers were the organized religions of this culture. They were primarily the holders of the ethical constraints of the culture. They motivated people to behave ethically through fear and through internalized superego. The primary mediator between you and God was the priest, so there was a priest class. What the 60’s did through psychedelics, initially, was blow that whole system apart. Because it made the relationship to God a direct experience, once again of the individual. Of course the Quakers have had that, and had a long history of it as did other traditions. But in terms of mainstream, this was a new concept coming into the culture, which was spiritual and not formally religious.

Most of the time, up until then, mystical experience had been pretty much denied and treated as irrelevant in our culture. I was a social scientist, I just spurned it, I cynically spurned it. I wouldn’t even read that stuff. Rilke said about that period that the only courage this demanded of us, was to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, the most inexplicable, that which we may encounter.

Mankind, in this sense, has been cowardly and has done life endless harm. The experiences that are called visions, the whole so called spirit world, death, all these things that are so closely akin to us have been, by daily parrying, so crowded out of our life, that the sense with which we could have grasped them are atrophied, to say nothing of God.

In the 60’s that changed. Most of us recognized a part of our being that we had never known before. We experienced a part of our being that was not separated from the universe. We saw how much of our behavior was based on the desire to alleviate the pain from our own separateness”

-Ram Dass

Bob Salihar is a music teacher

His website

https://www.onlineguitarbassandvocallessons.com/

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 peaceful Extra Terrestrials. What will be earth’s future be?

“The transformation doesn’t begin with the institution. We don’t organize to transform the universe. We don’t get a God squad together to do it. We start with the individual human heart. We start right here inside ourselves.”

- Ram Dass

“Love everyone” - Neem Karoli Baba Maharajji

The Revolution is within you

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 purification is one method. Meditation is a method. Devotion and prayer are methods. Hatha yoga is a method. Dance is a method. Methods upon methods. However, the methods are an illusion. You use the illusion to get out of the illusion.

The game isn’t to end up a good meditator; but to end up free.

The game isn’t to end up a good Buddhist; it’s to end up Buddha.

The game isn’t to end up a good Christian; but to end up Christ.

The game isn’t to end up loving; it’s to end up being love.

You must ask for it all. Demand it all, but be willing to sacrifice. And surrender all.

Look around and see what methods you feel you need to use for what you’ve got to clean up your game.”

- Ram Dass

“Meditation is good, one can attain a pure mind by one-pointedness and detachment. Meditate upon one point and you will know God.” – Maharaji 

Ryan’s website

https://www.presenceprojects.com

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 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

Erin’s book

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

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket for this very special episode where I talk with a merry prankster part of the 1960’s psychedelic revolution known as the Intrepid traveller aka Ken Babbs. We discuss those amazing times including their famous bus trip in 1964. How does that time apply to today and what’s happening now? Let your freak flag fly as you find out in this fun and trippy episode.

Ken Babbs websites

https://www.facebook.com/ken.babbs.1

https://www.facebook.com/7-POEMS-by-KEN-BABBS-106211268122693/

“And then we waited. After some time he pulled the blanket over his face, and when he came out after a moment his eyes were rolling and his mouth was ajar and he looked totally mad. I got upset. What was happening? Had I misjudged his powers? After all, he was an old man (though how old I had no idea), and I had let him take twelve hundred micrograms. Maybe last time he had thrown them away and then he read my mind and was trying to prove to me he could do it, not realizing how strong the “medicine” really was. Guilt and anxiety poured through me. But when I looked at him again he was perfectly normal and looking at the watch.

At the end of an hour it was obvious nothing had happened. His reactions had been a total put-on. And then he asked, “Have you got anything stronger?” I didn’t. Then he said, “These medicines were used in Kullu Valley long ago. But yogis have lost that knowledge. They were used with fasting. Nobody knows now. To take them with no effect, your mind must be firmly fixed on God. Others would be afraid to take. Many saints would not take this.” And he left it at that.”

- Ram Dass

Are you on the bus or off the bus?

Venture under Maharajji’s blanket as first time guest John and I talk about the connection between science and spirituality. We dive into topics like quantum physics proving oneness, timewaves, light, what is reality, and scanning brains on meditation in this delightful conversation. At the end you may ask yourself... is this just a dream?

“It seems to me that when we face paradox within any system, it forces us up a level of consciousness into a meta-system that is more embracing.” – Ram Dass

“It’s better to see God in everything then to figure it all out” - Neem Karoli Baba Maharajji