I’ve been quite busy managing various stages of constructing my home, and it’s coming together even better than I imagined–thanks to my wife’s imagination. Our vision of how we want to spend our elder years is manifesting, and I feel more optimistic, hopeful, and at home than ever before. At this traditional time of thanksgiving, […]
As I read reports of rapid highway infrastructure  development accompanied by destruction of traditional sacred spaces in Vrindaban, Braj, India which leads to ending the traditional lifestyles of many residents, I am saddened for those who live there and are traumatized by all this. I would also be saddened if such changes occurred here in […]
I have posted  ⦠“The Daily Meditation” (PDF) on stevebohlert.com. This is a draft of my adaptation of Radha-Krishna’s pastimes drawn from Krishnahnika Kaumudi and Bhavanasar Sangraha. It is the final chapter of my upcoming Universalist Radha-Krishnaism: A Spirituality of Natural Devotion. Read it here.
Although sourcing from progressive Christianity its outlook on personal revelation, and from Gaudiya Vaishnavism its enchantment with all-attractive God-dess, in its heart and mind Universalist Radha-Krishnaism is closest to ancient wisdom of Taoism than to either Gaudiya Vaishnavism or Christianity, for it refuses to share their predominantly outdated worldviews.
I’m reading a very interesting book, From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert Olen Butler. It seems the process of writing literary fiction is quite similar to the process of natural devotion in which we enter into a loving relationship with Radha-Krishna. They both involve a daily entrance […]
NEW ⦠“How I Learned This Process” (PDF): is a 65 page draft section from my second book, Universalist Radha-Krishnaism: A Spirituality of Natural Devotion. It is an except from my autobiography, Full Circle. It portrays the years 1971-1974 when I became the first Westerner of my generation to receive initiation into the process of […]
I just posted a draft section of my new book, Universalist Radha-Krishnaism: A Spirituality of Natural Devotion, in pdf format. It is available here: http://www.stevebohlert.com/Writings.htm. I’m open to comments and suggestions. Aloha.
For many months now, I’ve been working as an editor and publisher getting Universalist Radha-Krishnaism ready for release. I’m just waiting for Zvonimir to finish his wonderful design work, and it will be out soon. Meanwhile, it feels really good to be working as a writer on my new book titled Experiencing Radha-Krishna: A Guide […]
I just started my second book which will expand upon the final chapter of my Universalist Radha-Krishnaism book, “Remembering Radha-Krishna Throughout the Day.†I gave the philosophical basis and an introduction to the praxis of natural devotion in Universalist Radha-Krishnaism. Now, I will give a detailed explanation of the practice of involving ourselves in the […]
I used to be quite an ecstatic dancer in kirtan, but now I don’t do that. I think it’s a cultural practice that just isn’t part of the culture I live in. Now kirtan is my wife and I chanting sitting before our home altar. Just as the Orissa devotees moved from loud kirtans to […]