As I read reports of rapid high­way infra­struc­ture  devel­op­ment accom­pa­nied by destruc­tion of tra­di­tional sacred spaces in Vrind­a­ban, Braj, India which leads to end­ing the tra­di­tional lifestyles of many res­i­dents, I am sad­dened for those who live there and are trau­ma­tized by all this. I would also be sad­dened if such changes occurred here in […]

I have posted  ❦ “The Daily Med­i­ta­tion” (PDF) on stevebohlert.com. This is a draft of my adap­ta­tion of Radha-Krishna’s pas­times drawn from Krish­nah­nika Kau­mudi and Bha­vanasar San­graha. It is the final chap­ter of my upcom­ing Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism: A Spir­i­tu­al­ity of Nat­ural Devo­tion. Read it here.

Although sourc­ing from pro­gres­sive Chris­tian­ity its out­look on per­sonal rev­e­la­tion, and from Gaudiya Vaish­nav­ism its enchant­ment with all-attractive God-dess, in its heart and mind Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism is clos­est to ancient wis­dom of Tao­ism than to either Gaudiya Vaish­nav­ism or Chris­tian­ity, for it refuses to share their pre­dom­i­nantly out­dated worldviews.

I’m read­ing a very inter­est­ing book, From Where You Dream: The Process of Writ­ing Fic­tion, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert Olen But­ler. It seems the process of writ­ing lit­er­ary fic­tion is quite sim­i­lar to the process of nat­ural devo­tion in which we enter into a lov­ing rela­tion­ship with Radha-Krishna. They both involve a daily entrance […]

NEW ❦ “How I Learned This Process” (PDF): is a 65 page draft sec­tion from my sec­ond book, Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism: A Spir­i­tu­al­ity of Nat­ural Devo­tion. It is an except from my auto­bi­og­ra­phy, Full Cir­cle. It por­trays the years 1971–1974 when I became the first West­erner of my gen­er­a­tion to receive ini­ti­a­tion into the process of […]

I just posted a draft sec­tion of my new book, Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism: A Spir­i­tu­al­ity of Nat­ural Devo­tion, in pdf for­mat. It is avail­able here: http://www.stevebohlert.com/Writings.htm. I’m open to com­ments and sug­ges­tions. Aloha.

For many months now, I’ve been work­ing as an edi­tor and pub­lisher get­ting Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism ready for release. I’m just wait­ing for Zvon­imir to fin­ish his won­der­ful design work, and it will be out soon.
Mean­while, it feels really good to be work­ing as a writer on my new book titled Expe­ri­enc­ing Radha-Krishna: A Guide for Entering […]

I just started my sec­ond book which will expand upon the final chap­ter of my Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism book, “Remem­ber­ing Radha-Krishna Through­out the Day.” I gave the philo­soph­i­cal basis and an intro­duc­tion to the praxis of nat­ural devo­tion in Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism. Now, I will give a detailed expla­na­tion of the prac­tice of involv­ing our­selves in the […]

I used to be quite an ecsta­tic dancer in kir­tan, but now I don’t do that. I think it’s a cul­tural prac­tice that just isn’t part of the cul­ture I live in. Now kir­tan is my wife and I chant­ing sit­ting before our home altar.
Just as the Orissa devo­tees moved from loud kir­tans to more personal, […]

Thus, we arrive at a point where the high­est human con­cep­tion of God-dess and the high­est ser­vice one can ren­der them is for them to be a lov­ing young cou­ple, with us as their friends and lovers, totally unaware of their divin­ity. Deep, intense love remains the key element.