East Forest recounts his powerful experience meeting and recording with Ram Dass, and offers a live set of transcendent music seamlessly interwoven with Ram Dass’s timeless teachings.
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In this episode, hear East Forest perform and learn more about:
- East Forest’s profound and intimate collaboration with Ram Dass
- How the peace of nature can be a spiritual tool for us
- The integral role of psilocybin and psychedelics in Ram Dass’s awakening and teachings
- The synergistic relationship between the audience and the performer during live music
- Relating to the wilderness within our own hearts through music
- The technology of our breath and how it calms us down into the present moment
- The human connection to nature and nature as a manifestation of God
- Loving all beings and all elements of the world around us
- Letting go of everything within ourselves that we do not need
This episode was recorded at the 2022 Summer Mountain Retreat. Join us for the Open Your Heart in Paradise retreat this December in Maui!
About East Forest:
East Forest is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and ceremony guide. Since 2008, East Forest’s “lush” (Rolling Stone) and “blissful” (NPR) music has blended ambient, neoclassical, electronic, and avant-pop to explore sound as a tool for inner journeys and consciousness expansion. Known for being the first musician to collaborate with Ram Dass, his latest endeavor is the feature-length film Music for Mushrooms, a narrative documentary showcasing the transformative power of psychedelics, music, and community.
“I’m not up here generating something and presenting something for you to passively receive. It’s more that your attention into this space, the Bhakti space, the love space, the emptiness, it feeds the emptiness itself for me to hopefully channel that back out. It’s like surfing: we go in, we go out. In that, we can have a real experience together that can be whatever it needs to be right now.” –East Forest