What a long, cloudy, rainy win­ter it has been. Today, Jah­nava and I took the vinyl win­dows off our yurt until fall. It’s 94 F inside with the ceil­ing fan going full and 78 out­side. The sun is shin­ning brightly, the birds are singing, the wind blew the vog away and life is about as […]

The exis­tence of God-dess can­not be con­clu­sively proved or dis­proved. God-dess exists beyond time, space, rea­son, and con­cep­tion as well as in time, space, rea­son, and con­cep­tion. There­fore, we can know God-dess to the degree we com­pre­hend his-her self-revelation at the moment. So, it comes down to faith aided by intu­ition and rea­son. Faith is […]

As I have said, Universalist Radha-Krishnaism is strongly influ­enced by pro­gres­sive Chris­t­ian thought.  Some of the major Chris­t­ian influ­ences are:
Matthew Fox: Orig­i­nal Bless­ing, The Com­ing of the Cos­mic Christ — drew me to Chris­tian­ity with his inter­faith, panen­the­is­tic, life-affirming mys­ti­cal views. He demon­strates that orig­i­nal sin is not bib­li­cal and that life is a bless­ing. The Cosmic […]

God-dess is present in other reli­gions, but usu­ally in a more lim­ited stage of real­iza­tion. For exam­ple, the Abra­hamic reli­gions tend to focus on a male cre­ator God who started out as sort of a storm god, war god or tribal god who grad­u­ally evolved to become a more uni­ver­sal God as Karen Arm­strong nicely […]

Some ideas of how to under­stand where Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism fits into a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent con­texts. As Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism is based in flu­id­ity, I encour­age fur­ther think­ing about and cri­tique of what I have here written.

The mate­r­ial world is not a pun­ish­ing appa­ra­tus, and we did not fall from paradise.

After weeks of dis­mal clouds and rain, I woke up this morn­ing with the ris­ing sun on my face. I felt quite bliss­ful and blessed like a true Easter mir­a­cle hap­pened. I under­stood per­fectly why peo­ple wor­ship the sun–the source of light and life.
Later in the morn­ing, the sun was cov­ered by clouds again, although not […]

It’s the sec­ond Sat­ur­day of the month, which means Uni­ver­sal Dances of Peace are held a few miles down the road at a per­ma­cul­ture com­mu­nity. This is the spir­i­tual group my wife and I most attend. We feel quite com­fort­able there and look for­ward to the expe­ri­ence.
It is a form of Sufi danc­ing adapted for […]

I live in the jun­gle of South Puna on the Big Island of Hawai’i, hence the name “Jungle …

Aloha. Wel­come to the new home of Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism. I am Steve Bohlert / Subal Das Goswami, the found­ing teacher. Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism is the cul­mi­na­tion of my life’s work as a spir­i­tual leader of the Vedic, New Age, and Chris­t­ian paths. It is a hybrid of these tra­di­tions with a few oth­ers thrown in for […]