Rather than God-dess giv­ing humans domin­ion over other species and the envi­ron­ment, we are given stew­ard­ship of them–responsibility to care for them. In today’s urban envi­ron­ments we tend to loose our con­nec­tion with nature, and mate­ri­al­is­tic cap­i­tal­ism dominates.

One of the main under­ly­ing causes dri­ving a mul­ti­plic­ity of prob­lems is rapid pop­u­la­tion growth that takes us […]

Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism is aimed at a well edu­cated, open audi­ence. It presents eso­teric Vedic wis­dom in plain, well-written Eng­lish, avoid­ing tech­ni­cal San­skrit terms.

Remem­ber­ing Radha-Krishna Through­out the Day
The fol­low­ing is intended to be med­i­tated on daily while we imag­ine our­selves in our per­fect spir­i­tual iden­tity as a char­ac­ter inter­act­ing in the play. It fol­lows the basic plot out­line given by Rupa Goswami in his Ashta-Kaliya-Leela-Smarana-Mangala-Stotram. We updated it for con­tem­po­rary use, while try­ing to remain as faith­ful to the […]

I saw the DVD “Milk” last night–a poignant reminder of our not so dis­tant past and the ongo­ing strug­gle for equal rights for all. I want to make it clear that Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism is open to and affirm­ing of queers of all types.
I’ve always been an out­sider myself. My strug­gle against the con­ser­v­a­tive ele­ments Milk also […]

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.