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Universalist Radha-Krishnaism: The Way of Natural Devotion

Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism
The Way of Nat­ural Devo­tion; A Practitioner’s Handbook

Copy­right © 2009, 2011 by Steve Bohlert.
ISBN: 978–0-918475–04-6
Sky River Press, Pahoa, Hawai’i
Case­bound, approx­i­mately 200 pages
Avail­able later this year. List: $24.00
Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism: The Way of Nat­ural Devo­tion; A Practitioner’s Hand­book clearly and con­cisely reveals the eso­teric med­i­ta­tive process of par­tic­i­pat­ing in Radha-Krishna’s tran­scen­den­tal world. It includes solid his­tor­i­cal and the­o­log­i­cal ground­ing for this sub­lime devo­tional yoga prac­tice of cre­at­ing an eter­nal indi­vid­ual iden­tity. Life­long spir­i­tual prac­ti­tioner and teacher, Steve Bohlert, M.Div. (Subal Das Goswami) draws upon his inter­faith back­ground and presents every­thing seek­ers need to know to become full prac­ti­tion­ers. He adapted these teach­ings for con­tem­po­rary west­ern read­ers who need no prior knowl­edge of the sub­ject to begin.
Steve BohlertSteve Bohlert taught Radha-Krishna devo­tion inter­na­tion­ally since 1967. He lived in India and was ini­ti­ated by Lalita Prasad Thakur. He later served as a New Age leader and a Chris­t­ian pas­tor. He cur­rently enjoys a con­tem­pla­tive life with his wife in a remote area of Hawai’i.

Excerpt:

Amorous spir­i­tu­al­ity may seem rev­o­lu­tion­ary, but it has a long and var­ied his­tory. Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism rein­tro­duces it to enrich people’s lives. Those repressed by cen­turies of sex-negativity may think it a huge leap, but it is well worth the effort to become whole.
Nat­ural devo­tees inte­grate the needs of body, mind, and spirit. They real­ize the inter­con­nect­ed­ness of all exis­tence. Prac­ti­tion­ers bridge the gap between sacred and pro­fane, thus heal­ing them­selves and poten­tially heal­ing soci­ety as more peo­ple become whole. By trans­form­ing them­selves, peo­ple trans­form society.

Table of Contents:

The whole book has been rewrit­ten since the first edi­tion, Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism: A Spir­i­tu­al­ity of Lib­erty, Truth, and Love. Four new chap­ters (marked with *s) go more deeply into the process of becom­ing Radha-Krishna’s girl­friend. This book pro­vides ini­ti­a­tion and resources for the prac­tice of nat­ural devotion.

1. Intro­duc­tion
*2. Amorous Paths
3. Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism
4. His­tor­i­cal Roots
5. Means of Know­ing God-dess
6. Man­i­fes­ta­tions of Divinity
7. Indi­vid­ual Spirits
8. World of Experience
9. Nat­ural Devotion
*10. Enter­ing Braj
*11. Blaz­ing Sapphire
12. Braj Med­i­ta­tion (Short)
*13. Braj Med­i­ta­tion (Long)
Con­clu­sion
Glos­sary
Bib­li­og­ra­phy