Jaymee spends a solo episode questioning the solidity of self, and how to be a solid citizen and a householder in modern day society without compromising your spiritual beliefs. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: produced, edited, and hosted by Jaymee Carpenter. INSTAGRAM: @loveistheauthor + @unconventionalgardener + @zweifelstudios BOOK MENTORSHIP SESSIONS w/ JAYMEE or LACEE!  email: [email protected]

20 years ago Jaymee met an unbelievably talented songwriter named Benny who had been touring in a popular Beatles Cover band as the "Paul McCartney" of the group, who could mimic Paul's voice, movements and play multiple instruments like Paul to perfection. At one point Jaymee heard a collection of home recordings Benny had been compiling on a new digital home recording software using dial up internet (2003). The songs and recordings were heavily influenced musically by The Beatles, The Beach...

Raghu Markus is Executive Director of the Love Serve Remember Foundation, which preserves the legacy and teachings of Ram Dass and the great Indian saint Neem Karoli Baba ("Maharaji-ji"). Raghu is also host of Mindrolling Podcast, and is easily recognizable as the friendly voice who introduces hundreds of Ram Dass lectures on the Here And Now Podcast. Raghu and Jaymee have become close friends over the past year, and it is through the vehicle of this extraordinary friendship that Jaymee was...

Pete Holmes is one of the funniest and most attractive stand-up comedians in the whole world. He's also a great father, husband, podcaster and a devoted spiritual practitioner who somehow finds time to maintain his ripped abs. Pete has a new Netflix stand-up special coming out next Tuesday, October 24th called I Am Not For Everybody that you can set a reminder to watch. It could save your life. Watch the full length video companion on our new Love Is The Author YouTube channel:...

Rob Dietrich is the currently the Master Distiller of Metallica's Blackened American Whiskey, though he may have the most diverse resume in his field, reflecting a man that remains impossible to categorize (and hard to hold down for long). Rob is a combat veteran who joined the Army in his twenties and served three tours, one of them being the incident referred to as "Black Hawk Down". He's a lifelong die-hard music fan of every genre, who chooses to have a record player in his home instead...

This is a very special conversation on the importance of the teacher/student relationship between Jaymee and his root guru, the Venerable Lama Lhanang Rinpoche. FEATURED MUSIC: "Rabbit In Your Headlights" by UNKLE + "Skill Of The Man" by The Bees. JIGME LINGPA CENTER (San Diego): http://www.buddhistsandiego.com LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: produced, edited, and hosted by Jaymee Carpenter. INSTAGRAM: @loveistheauthor + @unconventionalgardener  BOOK MENTORSHIP SESSIONS w/ JAYMEE or...

Jaymee's youngest brother Ryland's first appearance on the LITA podcast was a fan favorite, and remains one of our most listened to episodes to date. Ryland returns to the podcast with his new bride, Sarah, to share the unfoldment of their supernatural love story, and offer solid relationship advice not only for romantic partnerships, but for the relationship we have with ourselves. Also discussed: the ingredients of hospitality the MDMA assisted therapy session that healed Ryland ...

Richard Eagleton is a musician and spiritual seeker who met Jaymee's parents in the 1970's, eventually joining their band in Los Angeles in 1976, the year Jaymee was born. Born in Beirut, Lebanon to an American Diplomat in the 1950's, Richard had a rich multicultural experience throughout his youth, setting the stage nicely for the spiritual exploration and psychedelic ingestion that arrived in the late 1960's. After studying various spiritual paths and receiving teachings from notable...

Zach Leary is the host of the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) Podcast and the son of psychedelic pioneer Timothy Leary. Zach grew up surrounded by the deities of the counterculture, and had the extraordinary karma of being partially raised by Ram Dass, but life wasn't all rainbows and orange sunshine growing up Leary. In an intimate conversation with Jaymee, Zach generously shares the pain and the magic of being raised in and out of the shadow of the most...

For his 30th birthday, Levi James' partner Karley wanted to blow his mind with the perfect present, something intangible to encourage his spiritual growth. Knowing how big of a fan Levi is of both Love Is The Author and Jaymee's former podcast Mystical/Cynical, Karley blindly reached out to Lacee months ago from their home near Calgary, Canada to see if she could schedule two future in-person mentorship sessions with Jaymee, and surprise Levi with an unforgettable trip to Ojai. What Levi...

Legendary founder/editor in chief of Shambhala Publications Samuel Bercholz returns for his 5th appearance on the podcast to pick up the mic he dropped here in January. Instead, he drops the mic at least 5 more times in this gorgeous new episode dripping with crazy wisdom, penetrating truths and an onslaught of questionable humor. Sparks fly as Samuel and Jaymee share about the rebellious nature of the Buddha and how skepticism is widely used as a vehicle toward developing Buddhist fatih. Sam...

Jaymee and his partner Lacee are back as YAWN & LOKO to TUNE IN to indwelling presence, to TURN YOU ON to The Science Of Mind, and to DROP YOU OUT of your bummer trip habitual patterns through elevating conscious awareness. So slow down your rap, take an extra micro-dose and trip out on the space of spiritual imagination we've created for you in this super dank Episode 68. FEATURED GUEST: Lacee Dilmore LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST! produced, edited, and hosted by Jaymee...

"Gonzo Recovery" is a phrase Jaymee coined to describe his healing journey out of 12 step sobriety, how he returned to sanity and now maintains a positive relationship with altered states of consciousness after a decade spent in recovery, therapy, meditation, plant medicine ceremonies and spiritual growth. Jaymee's best friend, attorney and music publisher Jeremy Smith share gnarly (untold) stories from their checkered pasts as former addicts, some of the most incomprehensible amends they had...

A new friend of Jaymee's (actor/screenwriter Thomas Ronca who was raised on Tibetan Buddhism and the teachings of Trungpa Rinpoche), conducts a 90 minute Autobiography Of A Yogi style interview with Jaymee in the Love Serve Remember Foundation kirtan space at Raghu Markus's home in Ojai, CA. Jaymee shares what it was like running away from home at 17 and landing on The Deftones couch in Sacramento, the backstory of how his band got the gig as prom band on That 70's Show, what is was like...

Nicole Macias McNamara is the star of HBO's Emmy winning series 100 Foot Wave. Wife and partner of legendary big wave surfer Garrett McNamara, over the past decade Nicole has become a legend of her own as the creative intuitive force behind their international big wave surfing operation. She masterfully balances multiple high pressure roles in their life, while being a dedicated mother to their 3 children, and step-mother to Garett's 3 children from his previous marriage. Jaymee has been a...

Jaymee goes full stream of consciousness for 60 minutes straight in this "Ghost Dog" themed episode, covering everything from psychedelically induced ego deaths, to how he healed from childhood sexual abuse utilizing the buddhist concept of interconnectedness. Jaymee shares everyday practices for living a gentle existence with no enemies, and why it's so important for parents to develop meditative awareness as a primary vehicle for listening more to their children. All of this and an insane...

Jaymee and his partner Lacee return as YAWN + LOKO to pop the hood and give you all another peek at the inner workings of their conscious romantic partnership, covering everything from expressions of unconditional love to practices in non-conceptional awareness. Jaymee shares what it was like to officiate his brother Ryland's wedding ceremony completely unscripted this past week in Lake Tahoe, and why it's important as a parent to be your child's friend. Lacee names Action Bronson as her...

Jaymee introduces you to his miraculous new neighbors, musicians and spiritual seekers Genevieve Schatz & Chris Faller. Chris is a former member of the arena rock band The Hush Sound, and Genevieve is a featured vocalist on the new Goo Goo Dolls album. The young married couple and longtime music collaborators from Chicago are devotees of Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji) who cosmically landed in the next door apartment of Jaymee and Lacee. This episode is insanely hilarious 90 minute hang,...

This is a very special conversation on the Nature of God between Jaymee, his mother Victoria Roberts and his partner/manager Lacee Dilmore - recorded in the heart of Joshua Tree, CA during the full Strawberry Moon. All three contributors share their collective wisdom and accumulated experiences forming/maintaining relationships with the "Invisible Supply", how to see Love in the face of differences, and Oneness in a sea of duality. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST! produced, edited, and hosted...

Dïn Morris and Michael Morgan grew up with Jaymee in Altadena, CA. The three friends and collaborators have known each other spanning 3 decades, developing lifelong bonds early on with each other through their collective love of record collecting, beat making, photography, burritos and spiritual understanding. Whenever these three friends get together, they are a vortex of synchronicity and unconditional love. Din and Michael are two of the most important men in Jaymee's life; exuding wisdom,...

In this episode, Jaymee fields topics and questions posed to him by some of the legendary guests who have graced the L.I.T.A Podcast in the last year including: Raghu Markus, Samuel Bercholz, Devendra Banhart, David Nichtern, Susan Piver, Robert Ryan, Jim & Carolyn Gimian, and Andy Karr. A rare late evening recording in Los Angeles moderated by a stoned Lacee Dilmore sets the tone for a very special "YAWN & LOKO" episode, and sets the stage for Jaymee to process some of his recent...

Andy Karr is the author of the forthcoming Shambhala Publications release Into The Mirror: A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality, released May 23. He is a Buddhist teacher who studied under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche before moving to Paris in 1979, where he co-founded the first Shambhala Center in France. Andy is a dharma photographer who has co-authored a book on the subject: The Practice Of Contemplative Photography (Shambhala...

Samuel Bercholz, founder/editor-in-chief of legendary spiritual press Shambhala Publications and close friend/student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, returns for his 4th appearance on the podcast! Jaymee and Sam had been playing phone tag and decided to turn their catch up with each other into something to share for the benefit of all beings equally. The two friends don't disappoint with this new L.I.T.A classic. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST! produced, edited, and hosted by Jaymee...

YAWN & LOKO star in this De La Soul Is Dead themed episode, the couple's first podcast after a month long hiatus from the show. Jaymee (Yawn) and his partner/manager Lacee (Loko) take their time fielding amazing questions posed by some of their mentees around the globe. FEATURING! original episodic music by Lottie Darger - and narration by Max Krone. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST! produced, edited, and hosted by Jaymee Carpenter. INSTAGRAM! @loveistheauthor + @unconventionalgardener +...

This episode features Jaymee in an extremely rare conversation with Lady Diana Mukpo, wife of The Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, on the 36th anniversary of his Parinirvana ("death"). Lady Diana had originally invited Jaymee to her home in Florida to record the episode in person, but she found herself unexpectedly hospitalized nearing the recording date. To Jaymee's astonishment, Lady Diana remained committed to their recording on this day, and the two were able to meet for the first time...