I’m back. After camping out on our land for seven months while building our home, we are now comfortably situated in our thirty foot diameter yurt. We have telephone service, so I am now able to be on the internet at home rather than needing to go to an internet café eight miles away. We […]
I find that it all comes down to universal love. I am not much of a systematic theologian, but I have written some of my views on my website www.stevebohlert.com. I am able to be a vaishnava among vaishnavas, a Christian among Christians, etc. I am basically an eccelectic universalist and don’t get hung up […]
My wife and I are quite comfortable living on our land for the past few weeks. Occasionally, several days of rain are a little trying, but all in all we love it. Friday, we engaged a designer to start work on our house. We will be owner builders and hope to be in it by […]
Greetings from the Aloha Outpost Internet Café in lovely Pahoa, Hawaii. It is a beautiful day here in paradise. I decided to take the day off from working on the land. I drove down the Red Road stopping at various awesome places along the coast and bathing at the hot pool. Now I’m enjoying town […]
Aloha. Greetings from the Big Island. I’m staying at a vacation rental place in Hawaiian Paradise Park until I can move onto our land, hopefully in a week or two. It’s simple but nice. In the week I’ve been here, I bought a truck that is just what I wanted, a ’98 Mazda B4000 4X4 […]
I made my plane reservation yesterday. I will leave for Hawaii, April 27th. I’ll set up camp on our land there and begin building a more permanent structure. This is another new beginning for me. I will be traveling very light. My plan is to re-establish my ministry there. I have been thinking of many […]
I have had a wonderful day today. The temperature got up around 70. The sun was out. I got my flute back from the shop where it was completely overhauled. I got a shipment from Vedic Resources which included [I]Bhajan Rahasya[/I] by Srila Bhaktivinoda, “The Divine Couple” by Jadurani, and “Ocean of Mercy” by jaya […]
The question is are we made in God’s image or is God made in our image? I still subscribe to the theory that this material world is a perverted reflection of the spiritual world and the things that exist here also exist in the spiritual world in their perfect transcendental nature. Of course the way […]
When I was studying Old Testament my first semester in seminary, a student asked, “After what we’ve done to the Old Testament how can I ever preach on it again?” Prof. Marv Chaney answered that it is possible to attain a second naivete in relation to the scriptures even after dissecting the Books of Moses […]
I received the following questions in response to my blog of February 11th: “How should it be modernized?” By being open to critical thinking, by dressing in a modern way, by accepting pluralism, by accepting bhakti, service, love as the basis of all religion, by replacing outmoded ideas e.g. the sun revolves around the earth […]