An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

Starting Temples
Jananivas and I took a bus to the freeway ramp
and hitchhiked south. We heard Seton Castle was for
rent outside Santa Fe. It is a huge, fifty room haunted
hacienda that was the home of Ernest Thompson Seton,
one of the founders of the Boy Scouts. It is located
in the Sangria de Christo Mountains about six miles
out of Santa Fe in Seton Village. Mrs. Seton rented to
us. The rent was a reasonable one hundred fifty dollars
a month.
I phoned for Krishna Devi and other devotees
to drive down and join us. About half the Haight
Ashbury temple came. I taught classes daily, hiked in
the mountains, managed temple affairs, and worked
down the hill in the printing and wrought iron shop
run by the Seton's son.
We soon discovered Mr. Seton's ghost lived in
the castle along with a number of Indian ghosts from
the local burial ground. The castle was left just like
when Seton lived there. His buckskin jacket still hung
on the chair at his desk. There were numerous Indian
artifacts he collected. Our skin crawled when we entered
some unused rooms. Sometimes the ghosts entered
our quarters and bothered us.
A Hopi medicine man and artisan lived in the
village. He was a friend and tried helping us free the
castle of its' numerous Indian ghosts. We were unsuccessful
using both Hindu and Hopi methods such as
blowing conches, trying to get the ghost to enter a
feather, chanting, and burning incense. The Hopi ex-
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