Why the name “Jungle Dispatch”

I live in the jun­gle of South Puna on the Big Island of Hawai’i, hence the name “Jun­gle Dis­patch.” It’s been rain­ing and cool for sev­eral weeks. I miss

My jungle home.

My jun­gle home.

the sun. My wife and I moved here in 2005. We wanted to escape the grow­ing fas­cism of the Bush admin­is­tra­tion and be some­where sus­tain­able in the face of impend­ing eco­nomic col­lapse and increas­ing cli­mate change. So, here we are liv­ing on the biggest moun­tain in the world, which is an active vol­cano, in the mid­dle of the biggest ocean, far from any con­ti­nent and its masses.

I am offi­cially retired, which frees me to engage in spir­i­tual prac­tices and writ­ing. We live a sim­ple off-grid lifestyle sur­rounded by untamed nat­ural beauty. This is an ideal spir­i­tual envi­ron­ment for me, which helps me think out­side the box. It is my dream come true. I don’t know if I could have writ­ten Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism any­where else. So many events, some planned, some deter­mined by cir­cum­stance have led me here, and I trust there is divine guid­ance behind it all. Live the dream, fol­low the bliss, be the per­son you want to be–in this life and the next. Trust in God-dess’ love. Aloha.


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