Episode 24 – Self Enquiry
Self enquiry is a practice which has been popularized by the great indian saint Ramana Maharshi. It's a direct way of investigating the "I" or the "I AM". In this episode the brothers talk about their own experience with this...
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Episode 23 – Interview with Arjun Bruggeman (Part 2 of 2)
Arjun Bruggeman is the tabla player of world famous kirtan singer Krishna Das. This is the second interview of two with Arjun and in this episode he share a few stories and experiences that has affected his spiritual journey and life. He talk about his experiences...
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Episode 22 – Matthew Ryan
Matthew Ryan is the creator of a unique healing modality called Gamma Wave Healing. He preform healing sessions both in person and remotely where he helps identifying and clearing energetic patterns. Matthew travels around the world teaching Gamma Wave Healing through...
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Episode 21 – Interview with Arjun Bruggeman (Part 1 of 2)
Arjun Bruggeman is the tabla player of world famous kirtan singer Krishna Das. In this interview Arjun talks about his own spiritual journey, how he met and started to play with Krishna Das, meeting Ram Dass, his relationship to Neem Karoli baba and Siddhi Ma and...
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Sri M
The first time I ever heard of Sri M was when Magnus shared a video he had seen a few days earlier. When I watched the video, I was initially quite skeptical, but the more I listened and focused on the story he shared, I became increasingly interested. A few moments...
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Episode 20 – Meeting Sri M
In April 2017 we traveled to Villa Unspunnen in Switzerland for a retreat with the yogi Sri M. In this episode we explain how we found out about Sri M and we share our experience of meeting Sri M in...
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A Journey To India – Part 6 – The Divine Life Society
In April 2017, Tobias and I traveled to northern India to visit different holy places in and around Nainital, Rishikesh and Dharamsala. When we planned our trip to Rishikesh, visiting Sivananda Ashram ended up being quite high up on our priority list. The Sivananda...
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Episode 19 – Satsang with Ram Dass & Kirtan with Krishna Das
Magnus recently traveled to Hawaii where he attended the Sunday satsang with Ram Dass & Krishna Das. He share his experience from this event and also share what happened when he also attended a kirtan concert with Krishna Das. Last november Tobias traveled to New...
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God in my heart – Meeting Ram Dass and Krishna Das
At the end of November 2017 I went to Maui, Hawaii, to attend the Ram Dass Thanksgiving satsang which he held together with Krishna Das. The following day, Krishna Das also held a kirtan concert. During both evenings, the beautiful church of Makawao Union Church was...
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Episode 18 – Journey to India – Rishikesh and Dharamsala
Magnus and Tobias talk about their travels to Rishikesh and Dharamsala. They share their experiences with visiting The Divine Life Society, Ganga Mira and other...
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A Journey to India – Part 5 – Haidakhan Baba
Tobias and I went to the area around Nainital in India mainly to visit the places where the two saints Neem Karoli baba and Sombari baba stayed when they where alive. You can read about our visits to these places in the earlier parts of this article series. However,...
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Episode 17 – Journey to India – Haidakhan Ashram
In this episode we talk about our visit to the ashrams of Haidakhan babaji and Hariakhan baba. Followers of these saints claim that they are the very same person. During our visit to these ashrams we received some life changing insights as well as some remarkable...
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The Barking Dog
Once I came across a parable that compared thoughts with a barking dog. I thought it was a very entertaining parable and since then I have found it to be true. The ego is very complex and if you've ever carefully observed how it works then you've probably seen that it...
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A Journey to India – Part 4 – Kakrighat
From Nainital we started the journey towards Kakrighat to visit the ashram where Sombari Baba spent his time during the winter. Getting to this ashram was a bit more problematic as the road was in worse condition than the roads to the previous ashrams we had visited....
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Episode 16 – Journey to India – Sombari Baba
On our next stop in India we visited the ashrams of the great saint Sombari Baba. We talk about our visits to Padampuri and Kakrighat where Sombari Baba lived during the later part of his life. He was a saint in high regard who is considered to be one of the greatest...
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A Journey to India – Part 3 – Padampuri ashram
One of the places we wanted to visit when we were in the area around the small city of Nainital up in the Himalayan mountains was the Indian saint Sombari baba's two ashrams in Padampuri and Kakrighat. This area of India has hosted many great saints like Neem Karoli...
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Sombari Baba
A saint that is not that well-known in the western world was a man named Sombari Baba. A big reason for this is that he passed away back in 1919 and at that time there were very few westerners who ever had the opportunity to meet him. This was also a time when it was...
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A Journey to India – Part 2 – Hanuman Gadh
When we planned our trip to India, that is, we who run this site, Tobias and Magnus Ahlberg, we both wanted to visit Kainchi Dham. It is the ashram that is most associated with the Indian guru Neem Karoli Baba, also known as Maharaj-ji. The guru that Richard Alpert,...
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Episode 15 – Journey to India – Kainchi Dham & Hanuman Ghari
In the beginning of 2017 we visited India for three weeks. Our first destination was the famous Neem Karoli Baba ashram called Kainchi Dham. It was a very special moment for the both of us and it showed us that Maharaj-ji is very much alive in spirit. We also made our...
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A Journey to India – Part 1 – Kainchi Dham
We traveled to India in 2017, and in this article series we will share what we experienced in a variety of places. Prior to this journey we had read a lot about Neem Karoli Baba, also known as Maharaj-ji, so we had a big attraction towards visiting the various ashrams...
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