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Steve Bohlert appeared again on Com­mon Threads, Novem­ber 20 & 27, to dis­cuss his new book. It can be heard world-wide as a pod­cast.
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Mon­day, August 8, 2011
Review of Steve Bohlert’s Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism
There are books which are the result of a life-long engage­ment with a sub­ject. They impress us by the depth of expe­ri­ence and the pro­fun­dity of thought. Steve Bohlert’s Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism is such a book. It is an out­come of the author’s thirty-five year long spir­i­tual quest. The […]

This book is suf­fi­ciently impor­tant that its wide dis­sem­i­na­tion amongst devo­tees is a desider­a­tum.… old beliefs are given appar­ently rad­i­cal new inter­pre­ta­tions that widen their scope and poten­tial for mean­ing.… Subal [Steve Bohlert] has done a great ser­vice by intro­duc­ing or nam­ing the Vaish­nava con­cept of deity as panen­the­ism.… I favor rāgānugā [nat­ural devo­tion], as it seems does Subal, pre­cisely because it … is about reform­ing the id-controlled ego into a love-permeated ego.… There is no doubt that Subal’s is an impor­tant brick in the wall of reli­gious dis­course … His great con­tri­bu­tion … is that he has gone out on a limb and attempted to make a coher­ent and sys­tem­atic pre­sen­ta­tion of Radha-Krishna accord­ing to his vision. This means of course that he has set him­self up for crit­i­cism, but that kind of courage is what is needed to push the dis­course fur­ther. — Jagadananda Das/Jan Brzezin­ski, trans­la­tor and anno­ta­tor of Mys­tic Poetry: Rupa Gosvamin’s Uddhava-sandeśa & Hamsadūta.

Mike Valle and Steve Bohlert dis­cuss Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism spir­i­tual prac­tices: Bohlert Podcast 2

Mike Valle and Steve Bohlert dis­cuss the nature of God-dess:   Valle:Bohlert Podcast 1

I love the sweet smell of Kilkare Woods. It sig­nals my re-entry to Sunol. Twenty-three years ago, I pried myself away from here and my posi­tion as edi­tor of the Suno­lian. I now live in a yurt in the Hawai­ian rain for­est. A per­sonal jour­ney by Geral­dine Baldassarre.

Dr. M. Valle, a chair­man of phi­los­o­phy of reli­gion at Scotts­dale Com­mu­nity Col­lege (AZ) reviews Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism book. He says, “Draw­ing upon the resources of the­o­log­i­cal trends in West­ern schol­ar­ship, Steve Bohlert offers a syn­the­sis of East­ern and West­ern thought that makes the heart of Radha-Krishna devo­tion fully acces­si­ble to West­ern­ers who have no Indian background.”

First reflec­tions on our new book — read a in depth review by Nori Muster.

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