Just be your self. Be nat­ural. Whoa! Who knows how to do that? We’re so con­di­ti­tioned from child­hood that we for­get who we really are. Many go to their grave not know­ing who they are. Are you seek­ing? Are you try­ing to real­ize who you really are? You should be.
Don’t allow your­self to be defined […]

Labor Day, USA, 2003, what a joke. What a pity. Mil­lions out of work. Pen­sion plans plun­dered and dec­i­mated. Oppor­tu­ni­ties for edu­ca­tion and a promis­ing careers dimin­ish­ing. Oppor­tu­ni­ties to go to prison increas­ing. Ille­gal immi­grants doing unwanted jobs. Per­sons with col­lege degrees doing unwanted jobs. Down­siz­ing, merg­ing, watch­ing the bot­tom line. Global econ­omy, jobs going […]

Erotic love is one of the best ways to share love between two per­sons in this world. Done in the right con­scious­ness, it can be a spir­i­tual expe­ri­ence mir­ror­ing the love of God/Goddess and devo­tee. It’s a shame Chris­tian­ity has done so much to defile erotic love in the minds of so many per­sons. Yet […]

Yes. We live in some very messed up trou­bled times. What can we do about it? We can start by work­ing on our­selves. We can work on becom­ing the enlight­ened, lov­ing, high func­tion­ing per­sons we are meant to be so that we are part of the solu­tion rather than part of the prob­lem. We can […]

Here I am in Grand Rapids, Michi­gan. Recently con­sid­ered an “All Amer­i­can City”. Now ranked 15th most seg­re­gated in the most seg­re­gated state. A city that dri­ves out gay pas­tors who dare come to town with their black at-risk adopted chil­dren. A very decent place to live. A city that strives to be one of […]

Life involves many activ­i­ties that we need to do but would pre­fer not to. For exam­ple, I am in the process of tear­ing up the wall to wall car­pet­ing in my home and restor­ing the hard wood floors under­neath. This is hard on my back and I don’t really enjoy this type of work. Yet […]

This is a good day. My friend and col­league, Rev. Mary Mar­tin, has avoided another attempt to remove her as pas­tor of Wallin United Church of Christ. We had a won­der­ful, Spirit filled wor­ship this morn­ing with Mary, I and three oth­ers preach­ing. About 16 new mem­bers joined the church this morn­ing in sup­port of […]

This evening, I’m going to Grand Haven, MI to a new church start called Extended Grace to talk about Hin­duism. Then we will watch the movie “Sid­dhartha” fol­lowed by more dis­cus­sion. From 1967–1974, I was a dis­ci­ple of A.C. Bhak­tivedanta Swami. I became a swami or renun­ci­ate myself and lived in India for three years. […]

What a mess this coun­try and the world are in. When you have a guy who’s pres­i­dent who gets into office play­ing the vil­lage idiot and then turns into the anti-Christ, Wow! Or are he and his bud­dies really space alliens who have come to earth to destroy human­ity, civ­i­liza­tion, the planet? What are their […]

Well, life is pretty good inspite of its many short­com­ings which include birth, death, dis­ease and old age. It’s dif­fi­cult for the spirit soul to be com­fort­able in this embod­ied mate­r­ial state since the soul’s nature is to be eter­nal, full of knowl­edge and full of bliss. How­ever, if one devel­opes the right con­scious­ness and […]