A Review of Universalist Radha-Krishnaism by Daniel Cooper Clark

Daniel Cooper Clark is one of A.C. Bhak­tivedanta Swami’s orig­i­nal New York dis­ci­ples. We met at the 26 Sec­ond Avenue tem­ple in Jan­u­ary 1968 when I vis­ited there from my Santa Fe tem­ple. We later worked together closely at Back to God­head and the New Age Cau­cus. I sent him a pdf man­u­script of my new book and asked him to write a review. This is what he said:
Steve Bohlert has dared to break the shack­les of fun­da­men­tal­ism to deliver a much-needed re-visioning of an ancient reli­gion of India, giv­ing it new life for those of us in a mul­ti­cul­tural 21st Cen­tury world.
He has extracted the essence of Ben­gali Vaish­nav­ism, and while stay­ing true to its person-ality, has planted the seed back into the human body,
so we may again receive the Orig­i­nal Blessing.
I do not hes­i­tate to call Steve Bohlert a prophet, not only as one gifted with spir­i­tual insight, but also as one who fore­tells the future — of a path that must be some­thing like he sees it or not be at all.
That is, with­out such a re-birthing of Vaish­nav­ism, its soul will never plant roots in the world at large. The ortho­dox will of course decry it and con­demn him. “The dogs may bark, but the car­a­van will pass.”

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