The Big Guru Breakup

Here is a never before shown picture of me at my guru church. This was taken in Hollywood, California in 1973 at the temple of my guru.

Over the next few weeks (in between other interests) I'm going to share some of my personal experiences of life on the inside of an dharmic religion that makes claims to be a church of all religions, thereby including Jesus in their teachings, and what I know of why they added him, and how they successfully re-wrote his teachings and published parts of the New Testament.

Pantheistic  (Eastern) religion and Christianity can't be reconciled. I've written about this exclusively on this blog but it bears repeating. I will share some of why I broke up with my guru after a 30 year relationship, and how I returned to Jesus Christ.

I try (now more than ever) to remember that all of my experiences are the sum total of who I am, and that I must love all parts of my life to love the whole me. Thus, I embrace the memories of it "all" but see now how I was out of step with God in this church. We each only have our own experiences. I can only write about mine. But, I can also say I witnessed a swath of suffering in the lives of other devoted devotees striving for perfection under the iron hand of discipline.

What I've learned as a Christian is there is no perfection in this world. Stay tuned.