The Sloppy Bhakti

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 mun

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 ar

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 comfortabl

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 direct