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Dakota Wint is a travel vlogger and podcast host who shares his thoughts and adventures through life. His primary interests are spirituality and shamanistic practices.   You can find him virtually anywhere by searching for Dakota Wint, @dakotawint or Dakota of Earth. All music is performed by Nick Filth (Mahesh Das) You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

This is the tenth episode of a separate venture within Polishing The Black Stone; it's called Polishing Pebbles. These episodes will be shorter in length and will not include any guests, rather they will be answering questions sent in by you! Yes you, any question that you've had regarding a guest, or Nick Filth (Mahesh Das) personally please email to: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and it might be chosen as a Polishing Pebbles topic. Questions can be as superficial or as deep and personal as you'd like. Perhaps you want Nick to shed light/express his opinion on something you've been going through. No matter how trivial, banal, or abstract, please send us your thoughts and questions!   All music is performed by Nick Filth(Mahesh Das). You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

Jon "Vasu" Seskevich is a Great 100 in NC Nursing award winner in 2005-06, was nominated for the Fetzer Foundation Norman Cousin’s Mind/Body Medicine Award in 1996. In 1998 he received the Friends’ of Nursing, “Excellence in Nursing Practice” award, and the “Alumnus of the Year” award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing, Alumni Association in 1997. Jon has given over 300 presentations, lectures, workshops and classes that teach stress reduction, mind-body, and complementary therapies to hospital patients, health care professionals, community and church groups, and high-school and college students. He is founder and president of the Flying Monkey Programs, which sponsors mind-body-spirit educational workshops and seminars in North Carolina. All of Jon’s programs are designed to help nurses, doctors, health care professionals, and peacemakers deliver more compassionate care to patients, families and communities. Jon is a Certified Practitioner of Healing Touch therapy and is responsible for bringing this healing therapy to North Carolina through more than twenty workshops and seminars in the early 1990’s. Jon began his own meditation practice in 1972. In 1975, at age 23, he started his training as a teacher of meditation and healing under the mentorship of meditation expert, psychologist, spiritual teacher and writer, Ram Dass (Richard Alpert, Ph.D.), who wrote about Jon in 1996: “His recognition of the need for both a spiritual dimension in healing work and grounded, responsible social action in spiritual work have defined his career in nursing. To that career he has brought a creative energy for integrating, in mind-body healing, meditative practices with stress reduction, healing touch with traditional nursing practices and a spiritual perspective for patients facing traumatic illness.” “The integration of spiritual dimensions in his work is very personal for Jon. His own inner work takes the form of being fully present for both patients and fellow staff members, and offering a very warm, heart-full human dimension to what are too often impersonal medical procedures.” “Jon is truly a brilliant example of compassion in action. He not only serves his patient community, but seems tireless in his willingness to share and teach, and to explore innovative techniques for humanizing nursing for nurses and patients alike.” Ram Dass (Richard Alpert, Ph.D.) www.ManageStressNow.com www.flyingmonkey.ws www.frombindutoojas.com www.universalchanting.com ram1008@hotmail.com https://www.facebook.com/jon.seskevich   All music is performed by Nick Filth (Mahesh Das) You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

This is the ninth episode of a separate venture within Polishing The Black Stone; it's called Polishing Pebbles. These episodes will be shorter in length and will not include any guests, rather they will be answering questions sent in by you! Yes you, any question that you've had regarding a guest, or Nick Filth (Mahesh Das) personally please email to: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and it might be chosen as a Polishing Pebbles topic. Questions can be as superficial or as deep and personal as you'd like. Perhaps you want Nick to shed light/express his opinion on something you've been going through. No matter how trivial, banal, or abstract, please send us your thoughts and questions!   All music is performed by Nick Filth(Mahesh Das). You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

Tim Lehi @timlehi is a tattoo artist working out of Lucky Wizard Tattoo in Brattleboro Vermont. When Tim is not traveling the world tattooing he is either painting or working on musical projects such as Eerie, Twilight, Draugar, and many more. You can find Tim Lehi's artwork here https://timlehi.bigcartel.com/ All music is performed by Nick Filth (Mahesh Das) Interrupting man: Adam Gray You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

This is the eighth episode of a separate venture within Polishing The Black Stone; it's called Polishing Pebbles. These episodes will be shorter in length and will not include any guests, rather they will be answering questions sent in by you! Yes you, any question that you've had regarding a guest, or Nick Filth (Mahesh Das) personally please email to: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and it might be chosen as a Polishing Pebbles topic. Questions can be as superficial or as deep and personal as you'd like. Perhaps you want Nick to shed light/express his opinion on something you've been going through. No matter how trivial, banal, or abstract, please send us your thoughts and questions!   All music is performed by Nick Filth(Mahesh Das). You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

Matthew 'Sudama' Ceuvorst was born and raised in Pittsburgh PA, and took interest in the human condition from a young age, leading him to Penn State University where he received a Bachelors of Science in Psychology. He traveled to Plum Village in France, to practice meditation and mindful living under Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. From there, his journeys led him to India, where he was introduced to the 4 Paths of Yoga. He returned to India two years later to earn his hatha yoga instructor certification from the Vinyasa Yoga School in Rishikesh.  It was these adventure and inquiries that gradually, but inevitably led Matthew to Ram Dass and the wisdom teachings of Neem Karoli Baba. Matthew’s journey from psychology, into psychedelics, Buddhism, and eventually Bhakti, awakened in him a yearning for a life of service, devotion, and satsang.  Matthew currently serves as a caretaker for his teacher, Ram Dass and facilitates biannual pilgrimages to India, the Himalayan Yoga Yatra. When he is not traveling, Matthew resides in the expansive mountains of Asheville, NC, where he has spent the last year managing the Asheville Yoga Center, teaching yoga and mindfulness to incarcerated individuals, and deepening his relationship with satsang. All music is performed by Nick Filth (Mahesh Das) You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

Todays Polishing Pebbles episode is a guided meditation. For all those who believe they do not have the time, or don't know how to "meditate", and even for those who meditate every day, this episode is for you. This is the seventh episode of a separate venture within Polishing The Black Stone; it's called Polishing Pebbles. These episodes will be shorter in length and will not include any guests, rather they will be answering questions sent in by you! Yes you, any question that you've had regarding a guest, or Nick Filth personally please email to: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and it might be chosen as a Polishing Pebbles topic. Questions can be as superficial or as deep and personal as you'd like. Perhaps you want Nick to shed light/express his opinion on something you've been going through. No matter how trivial, banal, or abstract, please send us your thoughts and questions!   All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

Aaron Riddle sends Nick (Mahesh Das) an email while Nick is in Varanasi, India. Admitting jealousy and envy towards Mahesh Das's "Love for God". Aaron and Nick discuss this email, and dig deeper into subjects such as spiritual tourism, money with spirutality, and devotional practice. Aaron Riddle is a tattooer working out of Tempe Arizona in a private studio. You can find him on Instagram by simply searching his name @aaronriddletattoos. All music is performed by Nick Filth (Mahesh Das) You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

This is the sixth episode of a new venture within Polishing The Black Stone; it's called Polishing Pebbles. These episodes will be shorter in length and will not include any guests, rather they will be answering questions sent in by you! Yes you, any question that you've had regarding a guest, or Nick Filth personally please email to: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and it might be chosen as a Polishing Pebbles topic. Questions can be as superficial or as deep and personal as you'd like. Perhaps you want Nick to shed light/express his opinion on something you've been going through. No matter how trivial, banal, or abstract, please send us your thoughts and questions!   All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

T.J. Hutchinson and Nick Filth the difference between "I" and "ME" T.J. is a PhD Candidate in Political Science, a teaching fellow at CUA and an Adjunct Humanities Professor at Nashua NH Community College. So he’s smart to say the least. T.J. is also a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Brown Belt, and a BJJ instructor. He was also an MMA flyweight competitor. All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

This is the fifth episode of a new venture within Polishing The Black Stone; it's called Polishing Pebbles. These episodes will be shorter in length and will not include any guests, rather they will be answering questions sent in by you! Yes you, any question that you've had regarding a guest, or Nick Filth personally please email to: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and it might be chosen as a Polishing Pebbles topic. Questions can be as superficial or as deep and personal as you'd like. Perhaps you want Nick to shed light/express his opinion on something you've been going through. No matter how trivial, banal, or abstract, please send us your thoughts and questions!   All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

Andrew Stickler discusses his spiritual path and practices with plant medicine. Andrew and Nick converse over the Guru. Nick Filth continues the story of finding his own guru. A story which began on the episode: "Sean/Aaron Riddle - Taos Hanuman Temple/Clarifying Doubt" Andrew Stickler is a tattoo artist and owns the shop Odds & Ends in Rockford IL. You can find his work on instagram at @astickler and on the web by searching "Odds & Ends Tattoo" All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

This is the fourth episode of a new venture within Polishing The Black Stone; it's called Polishing Pebbles. These episodes will be shorter in length and will not include any guests, rather they will be answering questions sent in by you! Yes you, any question that you've had regarding a guest, or Nick Filth personally please email to: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and it might be chosen as a Polishing Pebbles topic. Questions can be as superficial or as deep and personal as you'd like. Perhaps you want Nick to shed light/express his opinion on something you've been going through. No matter how trivial, banal, or abstract, please send us your thoughts and questions!   All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

You can find more information on the Taos Neem Karoli Baba Ashram here: http://nkbashram.org/ Aaron Riddle is a tattooer working out of Tempe Arizona. You can find him on instagram by simply searching his name @aaronriddletattoos or by visiting www.27tattoo.com All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

This is the third episode of a new venture within Polishing The Black Stone; it's called Polishing Pebbles. These episodes will be shorter in length and will not include any guests, rather they will be answering questions sent in by you! Yes you, any question that you've had regarding a guest, or Nick Filth personally please email to: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and it might be chosen as a Polishing Pebbles topic. Questions can be as superficial or as deep and personal as you'd like. Perhaps you want Nick to shed light/express his opinion on something you've been going through. No matter how trivial, banal, or abstract, please send us your thoughts and questions!   All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

Adam Gray is a tattooer working out of Hidden History Tattoo in Dover, NH. Adam and Nick speak about truth and Adam divulges a personal story in which he believes he had a “religious experience”. You can view his work on instagram by searching @tattoosbyaginger   All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

This is the second episode of a new venture within Polishing The Black Stone; it's called Polishing Pebbles. These episodes will be shorter in length and will not include any guests, rather they will be answering questions sent in by you! Yes you, any question that you've had regarding a guest, or Nick Filth personally please email to: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and it might be chosen as a Polishing Pebbles topic. Questions can be as superficial or as deep and personal as you'd like. Perhaps you want Nick to shed light/express his opinion on something you've been going through. No matter how trivial, banal, or abstract, please send us your thoughts and questions!   All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

Aaron Riddle is a tattooer working out of Tempe Arizona. You can find him on instagram by simply searching his name @aaronriddletattoos or by visiting www.27tattoo.com All music is performed by Nick Filth. Except for Happy Go Lively by Laurie Johnson  You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps!  For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com

This is the first installment of a new venture within Polishing The Black Stone; it's called Polishing Pebbles. These episodes will be shorter in length and will not include any guests, rather they will be answering questions sent in by you! Yes you, any question that you've had regarding a guest, or Nick Filth personally please email to: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and it might be chosen as a Polishing Pebbles topic. Questions can be as superficial or as deep and personal as you'd like. Perhaps you want Nick to shed light/express his opinion on something you've been going through. No matter how trivial, banal, or abstract, please send us your thoughts and questions!   All music is performed by Nick Filth. You can hear more episodes by visiting www.polishingtheblackstone.com, visiting iTunes and subscribing to Polishing The Black Stone, and on Instagram @polishingtheblackstone Please Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, it helps! For more information, questions, or comments please email: polishingtheblackstone@gmail.com and you might have your question featured on an episode! You can also visit us on the web at http://www.polishingtheblackstone.com