An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

meetings at our yurt. Jahnava and I met every Sunday
morning for months. Hardly anyone else came.
As I developed my theological position, I
reached out on the internet to recruit devotee scholars
to collaborate and update Chaitanya’s teachings and
Radha-Krishna’s pastimes. Unfortunately, most Western
devotees of Radha-Krishna are literal fundamentalists
and not open to the changes needed to develop
an indigenous Radha-Krishna worship as Bhaktivinode
Thakur desired.
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I moved to the jungle to live a peaceful contemplative
life. Instead, I find myself in a war zone--a
war declared by federal, state, and local governments
against the people of the Big Island. It’s called Green
Harvest and is supposedly intended to eradicate cannabis
growing. Green Harvest has been going on for
over thirty years with disastrous consequences: economic
devastation, reduced supply of cannabis with
resulting price increases, which leads previously
happy, peaceful cannabis smokers to turn to ice in
epidemic numbers with ruinous social consequences.
In May 2006, I watched from my backyard as
an unmarked, yellow helicopter lowered two guys
from ropes and picked them up again with my neighbor’s
plants 150 feet from my home and personal garden.
They return regularly to terrorize and raid the
neighborhood. We’re oppressed by an alien, colonialist
government that co-opted the local government
against the interests of a majority of the population.
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