I just copied this from peacefulsky.com the main website for this initiative. The simple, direct ballot initiative question is this: “Shall public policy be amended to end all marijuana eradication operations and transfer any and all manpower and funds for such programs to anti-methamphetamine education and treatment programs?” Yes No Related News and Events Thursday […]
Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur, my grand guru, is a shining example to me as I read his writings and see how he dealt with the spiritual issues of his day. He remains relevant and an inspiration to me and other progressive thinkers. I just re-read the opening pages to his Sri Krishna Samhita, written in 1880, […]
I moved to the jungle to live a peaceful, quiet, contemplative life. Instead, I find myself in a war zone, a war declared by the federal, state and local governments against the people of the Big Island. It’s called Green Harvest and is intended to eradicate cannabis growing. Green Harvest has been going on for […]
I finished reading God As Mother: A Feminine Theology in India, by Cheever Mackenzie Brown. I am 124 pages into the Brahmavaivarta Purana (BVP) which is 1500 pages. While there is still anti-feminine rhetoric in the BVP due to the strong patriarchal, ascetic, renunciate strain in Vedic theology which sees the feminine as the seductress […]
I have been reading God As Mother: A Feminine Theology in India, by Cheever Mackenzie Brown, and I am about half way through it. It is a fascinating study of the Brahmavaivarta Purana (BVP) in which I found many theological points I resonate with, so much so that I have now ordered the whole BVP. […]
Sh*t happens. God-dess isn’t doing it and our karmic involvement might just be being in the wrong place at the wrong time like a drunk driver having a head on collision with a family on the way home from the temple. Just because bad things happen to people doesn’t mean God willed it or they […]
I have been reading Ananda Vrindaban Champu, by Kavi-karnapur, translated by Bhanu Swami & Subhag Swami with great joy. It is very well written and edited as to be very readable. Still there are things I feel should be changed. I will not go into them now. I am about half way through, having skipped […]
Babaji made me wait about a year before he gave me ekadas bhav. I asked him for it when I first met him, but he wouldn’t do it. He said I should talk to my guru. After going back to the west to preach for nine months, I went back to Babaji prepared to stay […]
I think sadhana (spiritual practice) needs to vary from person to person. I don’t have a one size fits all program. I make my japa chanting requirements minimal–at least one round of each mantra the person in inititated in daily. I like the idea of bhajans (songs) in the native language. I need some poets […]
I have decided that in the spiritual world, my eternal age will be eighteen. When Lalita Prasad initiated me into the eleven moods of a maidservant of Radha, he said I should pick an age between ten and thirteen. I said thirteen. I would have liked it to be older then, but I wasn’t about […]