An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

Chapter 5
NEW LIFE
I moved to Wailuku, Maui and shared a shack with
my former assistant Jagat. We got jobs as stock clerks
at Long’s Drug Store and rented a two bedroom
condo. Those jobs didn’t last long. Jagat acquired
money from his family and started a vegetarian restaurant
at Mr. Natural’s Health Food Store in Lahaina.
I managed it with the promise of a share of future
profits.
Mr. Natural’s was a hip place with reggae music
playing most of the time. Alice Cooper’s ex-wife
was a customer and invited us to some great parties
at her house. Sometimes I lived in the kitchen after
hours while people smoked pot and had sex on the
picnic tables outside. Other times, I slept in the back
seat of my car at the beach or on the beach. Sometimes
my friend Monica and I slept in the old whalers’
prison or in a graveyard. No one would disturb us
there. I thought it was quite tantric even though we
did not have a sexual relationship.
Some early influences on me at this time were
The Samurai Trilogy, three Japanese films depicting the
life of Miyamoto Musashi, the greatest samurai who
became a hermit, philosopher, and artist in an obscure
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