I tried being an optimist and believing things can change for the better. I actively worked to make this a better world for everyone by protesting, organizing, preaching, teaching, networking, voting, and other big or small ways. I worked within the mainstream and on the fringes. Now, after over forty years, I am very pessimistic […]
The current police chief publicly dismissed the new ordinance passed by the people of Hawaii County making enforcement of cannabis laws the police’s lowest priority. He said nothing would change and called those who support marijuana use “terrorist supporters.” Thirteen other U.S. communities have similar ordinances. This community has been subjected to a paramilitary marijuana […]
After the last two presidential elections, I just about gave up hope of ever seeing another free and fair election in this country. Not only do we have a new president and hope for the future, but the people of Hawai’i, The Big Island, passed an initiative making cannabis law enforcement’s lowest priority. Regarding Obama, […]
Aloha. Last night I posted updates to the Universalilst Radha-Krishnaism website such as a new template, new home page, new background page, and a newly revised introduction to Universalist Radha-Krishnaism based on process theology. I continue to work on my book, Universalist Radha-Krishnaism: A Spirituality of Liberty, Truth, and Love. I’ve also been landscaping my […]
I am studying Chaitanya Charitamrita with translation and commentary by Edward C. Dimock, Jr. I recently completed the Chaitanya Bhagavat. I hope to deepen my understanding of Chaitanya and his teachings from these two most authoritative sources. I am working on a book proposal for Universalist Radha Krishnaism: A Spirituality of Liberty, Truth and Love, […]
Divine love implies two things: the feeling of attachment or affection for the beloved and happiness. However, divine love is not synonymous with happiness as a kind of personal satisfaction. Rather than seeking anything for itself, it longs “to contribute to the happiness…of the beloved, even…at the cost of one’s own happiness. It does not […]
Devotion “cannot, strictly speaking, be defined because it is transcendental.†Sages and scriptures variously described it as: “exclusive and intense loving attachment to†God-dess; “the highest and the most satisfying function of the soul;†“the highest end;†“indescribable love…and the grandest and sublimest of all human experiencesâ€; and “the only means for the attainment of†[…]
A Note on the History and Myth of Radha Krishna and Chaitanya Due to the late dates of the Bhagavatam and initial mention of Radha by Jayadev in Gita Govinda, I can safely say, the pastimes of Radha Krishna are a lovely myth containing profound universal spiritual truths. They are not historically accurate on the […]
Philosophical thought regarding the relation between God-dess and humans, God-dess “and the world of finite experience, the noumena and the phenomena, is directed along two main lines. Some, emphasizing the essential distinction between the infinite and the finite, accept the absolute transcendence of the one over the other, while others, emphasizing the identity between them […]
The world is a manifestation of the material energy of God-dess and is therefore real. God-dess intrinsically transcends matter, but matter depends upon God-dess for its existence. God-dess, the spiritual abodes and associates exist before creation. At creation the universe is projected out of God-dess in what we now call the big bang. Matter becomes […]