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Aug 13th, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Review of Steve Bohlert’s Universalist Radha-Krishnaism
There are books which are the result of a life-long engagement with a subject. They impress us by the depth of experience and the profundity of thought. Steve Bohlert’s Universalist Radha-Krishnaism is such a book. It is an outcome of the author’s thirty-five year long spiritual quest. The book is a personal account of...
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Aug 8th, 2011
Daniel Cooper Clark is one of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami’s original New York disciples. We met at the 26 Second Avenue temple in January 1968 when I visited there from my Santa Fe temple. We later worked together closely at _Back to Godhead_ and the New Age Caucus. I send him a pdf of my new book manuscript and asked him to write a review. This is what he said:
Steve Bohlert has dared to break the shackles...
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Aug 2nd, 2011
Steve Bohlert, otherwise known as Subal Das Goswami, is a friend and a senior Godbrother, having taking initiation from Lalita Prasad Thakur several years before I did. Since his life trajectory and mine have some interesting parallels, I feel a great affinity and friendship for him. Some time ago he sent me a book that he has written, Universalist Radha Krishnaism: A Spirituality of Liberty, Truth and Love,...
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Jan 2nd, 2010
A Review of Universalist Radha-Krishnaism by Daniel Clark–longtime Radha-Krishna devotee
It’s evident the book is a product of a lifetime-to-date of experience and contemplation. Steve, you’ve put not just your thoughts, but your entire self on the pages. As a personalist should. Thank you for not hiding behind words.
I hope everyone who is or was a “Hare Krishna” reads it. Your...
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Nov 4th, 2009
Universalist Radha-Krishnaism: Unique and Important
Universalist Radha-Krishnaism is the first attempt to articulate a “progressive” or “modernist” form of Vaishnava Hinduism. Drawing upon the resources of theological trends in Western scholarship, Steve Bohlert offers a synthesis of Eastern and Western thought that makes the heart of Radha-Krishna devotion fully accessible to Westerners who have no...
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Nov 4th, 2009
As the old saying goes, “If the map doesn’t agree with the ground, then the map is wrong.” In the world of Radha-Krishna devotion, truer words haven’t been said in a while. The time has finally come for creation of a new map.
The world has changed and is constantly changing. Long gone are the times of desert prophets, runaway princes seeking deliverance, heroes of the impossible, gods and goddesses...
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Aug 9th, 2009
As a life long seeker myself, open to both Eastern and Western religious ideas, I consider this book a portal to enlightenment. Bohlert leads the reader up a spiral staircase to the light, winding through the Christian and Hindu faiths as we ascend.
– Nori Muster
This book comes as a cooling breeze on a hot day. It offers a glimpse into an eternal world of love that actually surrounds us at all times....