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An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

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lovely things that made their way to my shack, like a<br />

multicolored grass room size rug.<br />

First we repaired the structure. Then Jiva and I<br />

dragged corrugated sheet metal roofing from another<br />

old shack and put it on. Inside, we covered the metal<br />

with beautiful white brocade drapes. A little white<br />

paint, a low Japanese style table, an oil lamp, and I<br />

had a home complete with front porch. It was the<br />

hermitage I always wanted.<br />

I studied tai chi there with my friend Sebastian<br />

James, a dashing Londoner who looked like he just<br />

stepped out of the Renaissance Fair. He really did and<br />

knew the belly dance groups who per<strong>for</strong>med there. I<br />

admired him and his roguish charm with women. He<br />

was a silversmith by trade. I also studied kendo at a<br />

local dojo and practiced with a bamboo sword.<br />

One night on acid, I went around the property<br />

with my sword and dared anyone to challenge me being<br />

there. I felt not myself as I am in this life, but<br />

rather like a previous life in which I was a samurai.<br />

Next, I experienced another life as a Japanese princess,<br />

and then another as a queen in Lemuria. It was<br />

as if I was in the bodies of those persons successively<br />

or rather that they temporarily awakened in this<br />

body.<br />

<strong>An</strong>other time while tripping in the shack in the<br />

middle of the night, I lay on the floor deep in prayers<br />

of separation from <strong>Radha</strong>-Krishna. I heard knocking<br />

on the wall. I couldn’t imagine who it was in the<br />

middle of the night in the <strong>for</strong>est. Was it Krishna?<br />

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