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karma-dharma-bhutadaya
http://karma-dharma-bhutadaya.blogspot.com
This blog is a rather ecclectic collection of posts on a variety of topics from religious history, the environment, personal mystical experience, conspiracy, adventure, etc., all from the perspective of a former Baptist preacher turned Yogi-hippie-activist-wildman.
Recent Posts
Paranoia in Perspective: A Comparative Scale of Human Rights Abuses
As I was perusing an article in the NYT about the prison-beatings of several people arrested during the recent protests in Iran, a thought occured to me regarding the recent record of Iran in comparison with the United States government's human rig...
Hooray, hurrah!! Hari-Hara!?!?!?
I shall admit I've not gone to the trouble of dating the aforementioned terms denoting and exclaiming jubilation, nor of endeavoring to uncover whatever etymological literature might exist on said subject. Nonetheless, tis not too much to infer th...
Death and Dharma
There is a story in the sacred texts which issue from India which tells of a devotee asking some avatar of Divine Being or other for the end of death (forgot the details, and the precise reference). The supplicant is told in response to this request...
Martha Quinn and Prince and The Revolution . . . In Sheridan, No Less!!
Sitting in the coffeehouse listening to Martha Quinn DJ a satelite radio show covering the music of the eighties, and I'm reminded of an interesting retro-story. When I penned the post "Chance Encounters With Celebrities or Their Dopples," I forgot ...
The Story Behind "The Sound of Silence"
As I mentioned in a previous post, President Eisenhower, decorated WWII general, warned of the dangers of the military industrial complex in his farewell address (see post titled, "Former President and WWII General Warned of the Dangerous Military ...
Just a Smidgen of Evidence . . .
Hung out with a few of these folks on Haight and in Golden Gate Park some years back. For those of you who've heard or read the tale of how I came to understand that I had been murdered (if that's the correct term to use, as I seem to yet live) in Go...

