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Self-Righteous Seva as Spiritual Bypass

Upon returning from Rootwire, I was fired up. Festivals always fill me with lots of raw power, pulsating energy, and a whole boatload of idealism, but those are generally accompanied by a great pit of frustration at “normal life” in the working world. This time upon touching back down on home soil, I felt a passionate pull to direct my life towards something more in line with spirituality, to offer true service to the world. Already frustrated at the repetitive cyclical mundanity of five years working at a health food store, I came back from the festival destined with a drive to propel myself out of the clutches of the corporate 40 hour work week and into something which contained more fre

Wisdom Bananas: Rootwire 2018

So, when we go to festivals we do this thing called “Wisdom Bananas.” It started back at Resonance 2015 in Legend Valley, Ohio along the brightly lit and bustling walkway atop the hill overlooking the stages. It was a hit and only grew from there. What we do, is we set up large boxes of bananas at our camp in front of a big board adorned with various colored markers that says “Take a Banana, Leave Wisdom.” We are trading food for food-for-thought. On one side, bananas are great festival food, proper sustenance, just the right amount, and they come in their own natural carrying case so they don’t get dirty. On the other side, it’s really illuminating to compare and contrast the wisdom f

Rootwire 2018: Full Festival Review

An eclectic and driven fusion of neo-archaic tribal earthiness and otherworldly futuristic electronic sensory overload, Rootwire Transformational Arts Festival fully lived up to its name. Reaching back to our grounded and well-rooted tribal past in communion with Mother Earth, alongside our technologically expanding wired future; this festival seemed to span eons in all directions, creating a timeless space that was rooted in the past, wired for the future, but so comfortably right here in the present moment. So many festivals can fall too much to one side of the spectrum, losing their grip on where we have come from or where we are destined to go. Rootwire did not have this problem, as i

Whose Guru Is It Anyway?: How Singing with Hare Krishnas on the Beach at a Dubstep Festival Helped M

I was having a little guru confusion a while back. Neem Karoli Baba, or Maharaji as he was affectionately known by his devotees, despite no longer being in his body, had touched my heart in such a way that I undoubtedly innately trusted him as my guru. Over the years of coming into contact with spirituality; however, I was gifted the Bhagavad Gita As It Is, the Prabhupada version, numerous of times. Being the placebo master I can be, I felt it may be an auspiciously directed sign and that I should give in to Prabhupada as a possible guru, and follow his way of doing things, his prescribed japas and rather strict path to liberation, even though it never touched me intuitively on a heart le

 

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