Dear Huber ( as your mother called you). Eduardo, Ramon, Alejandro, Ravi Gupta, and Ravi Singh -(altho I do not have his email- please forward to him)

There has been a shameful delay in my writing to send my extreme appreciation for having been part of a most excellent project and experience with you all in Lima.  

Your unusual confluence of energies produced a most compelling program. I was glad to be part of it.

I am sorry for not writing sooner. This has been an intense summer so am just now settled enough to gather my thoughts.

It was a pleasure to be with the kind and generous  Nios group, to be with Eduardo and Guida in Lima, to meet the attentive and shepherding Alejandro, to glimpse the full personality of Ramon.

I learned a great deal from Ravi Gupta, and felt at ease with the gracious Ravi Singh group.

I received your idea for a conference on art and the sacred while here on Naoshima, an art island in Japan's Inland Sea. It is extraordinary,  a Tadeo Ando mix of buildings and outstanding art on this island and several of the surrounding ones. There are works here be De Maria and Turrell that are religious experiences. It is an artlover's paradise.

Four years ago, I was part of the art and psyche working group that produced a four day conference in New York: Art and Psyche in the City. It was an excellent conference with artists, art teachers and critics, curators, art therapists, and analysts interested in art. I could send you the program to see what we organized if you like.

The visual arts are certainly a huge field. Are you thinking of focusing on the visual? or interested also in music and dance and literature?

If you proceed with this plan I could offer you some fine speakers. Kenneth Soehner, the chief librarian of the Metropolitan Museum Watson Library, and John Haworth, current director of the Museum of the American Indian in New York, He is very active in work with indigenous peoples and also in truth and reconciliation efforts.

One artist who it would be a coup to have involved is the video artist Bill Viola.

So yes your idea for the next conference is stimulating.

Next week is the Jungian International Conference in Kyoto, and then back to NYC mid September. If any of you come to New York, please let me know in advance as it would be a pleasure to greet you.

Once again I thank you for your invitation, for your kindness to me while there, and for allowing me to participate in such a fine enterprise.

With appreciation and the very best wishes,

Beverley Zabriskie

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HpS (Huber)

Jaya Sri Krsna,
We got your letter. Thank you. We have been drowning in our work also.
Thank you so much for your words.  We hope that you and your community can be excellent source of strategy for this 2018 conference that it can do great good for this world.   We were thinking of all art.
Marshall McLuhan: Art is whatever you can get away with.
We will send more news soon. Very best of wishes for your work.
Our dream in life is to be able to have a few words with Shonu to clarify his thoughts about Jung, India etc. Maybe you can find some chance for a little concentrated exchange with him.
Thank you.

AGTSP!!!    paoho...  We can't find the collection of recipes right away that Nama' Das sent??!   It must be somewhere, but we hope he still has it and can continue to edit this book.

Here is Page One to BACHELOR BEANS - Recipes for Real Men:

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SOAK SOME SPLIT PEAS over-night and then boil them lightly in the morning while you chant one round of Rosary. Then add about the same amount of rolled oats (little salt and butter) and continue the light boiling for another round.

Transfer the whole Peas Porridge to your pot and settle down in front of your plate with your hands folded and your head bent and mumble a few heartfelt prayers to the good Lord who gave you life, and the father and mother who reared you. If you stay a real bachelor like that your whole life you will never have any problem which is not both an immediate opportunity, and a doorway to eternity for you and all.

Our greatest personal focus now is the writing project Prefaced below. We take this up with Radhika-ramana Das' assurance of help and of course all of you who read this now.
AGTSP!!!     paoho...

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DR. SINGH’S DINNER PARTY
A Multi-cultural View of Sankhya
(Science and Engineering in the Vedas)

Preface

Are your Top-hat and Tails straight?  Is your wife’s bouquet in bloom? We are going for a dinner party, both remembered and imagined and our host shall be Dr. T. D. Singh of the Bhaktivedanta Institute. We sat at such tables with such distinguished guests as Prof. Henry Stapp of the Livermore Laboratory; Dr. T. D. Singh, both Doctorate in Chemistry and traditional Bengali monk; Nobel Laureates Charles Townes; Sri John and Lady Eccles; Dalai Lama et al. Our aim is to build at least a little foot-bridge across the chasm that separates the cosmology, medicine, physics, psychology of the West from the East. Over this bridge we think that many valuable items like the rare perfumes and crystals goblets unique to China and Venice may pass, for the unprecedented benefit of our beleaguered modern world.

Who are these Monkeys in splendid livery who hold the door open to this enchanted carriage? Let us see how that is revealed as the different phases of the night progress, but at least let us say that scholarship in theology, Indology, electrical engineering, biology and psychology from Oxford, Berkeley and the far distant Calcutta University shall not be lacking.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

I am writing because at least 10 devotees wrote to me asking for your offering to SP.

I remembered one or two. I just answered that all is in the blog

Gurudeva may u be so kind and post your offering to SP

Thank   U so much

Trying to be useful

Cmdd

HpS - AGTSP!   Paoho....   I can't find our 2016 offering. Some things got misplaced when we left the other computer in Peru and then moved to this one. So, we will write a new one right now and post it. I hope it is useful.

Hare Krsna, Prabhu,
AgtSP. Paoho.   Here we are back in our cave in Nashville and gradually getting everything sorted out. The symposium in Peru, "Psychology and the Sacred", was incredible. Now everyone is aiming for a global event in 2018, "Art and the Sacred".
We all listened to your 3rd Canto lecture and then had a discussion on it the following Saturday.
We made up up study questions for each lecture, and the links to listen to them on-line. You can see these Guides at www.jayarama.us/archives/godfather-diploma. Your's are at the bottom at "gf-vais...".
T H A N K   Y O U!

Canto Four?
      Maybe do that about Radhastami? About September 10th?

Your analysis has been very instructive. We think these lectures can be used by all the BhVai programs.
Can you look at more specific situations in Canto Four? In the gf-vais-sb3.docx above I went though a bigger list of the specific preaching encounters in Canto Three. Of course, we had no time this pass to look at each one, but even looking at a few was so amazing. If you could consider several of them and the specific situations and people involved as examples for us to take to heart that might be supper useful to us Sankirtan Slows.

Second thing is that we discussed first getting the educational content of these Six Cantos together, and then addressing the record keeping and educational administration. For our group the Tests are all over the place, if anyone has a copy at all. So this has to be be cleared up, and the same problem exists there for the two groups after us. So, maybe you, me, Hari-lila Das, who is running things in Texas, and our great Hero of Education, Srivasa Pandita Das, can get together for a few minutes by phone and make some strategy for correcting these problems.

For our way of mind, it is just as hard to develop an educational system, as it is to build dozens of Temples! Your association in this perspective has been so, so, so important for us.

                   HARE KRSNA DEAR GURUDEVA,

                   PAOHO, AGTSP!!

                    WE ARE WRITTING YOU AS PROMISED IN THE LAST TEXT...

                    WE DON´T KNOW ABOUT DATES  FOR YOU TO VISIT SPAIN YET, WE WILL CHECK AGAIN SOON.

HpS - ASA ---  Hare Krsna!   I guess we will be in India from 10 January to 15 February, so we could visit The Spain, coming our going.  Which is best?

                    THIS MONTH YADUNANDANA MAHARAJA IS PUSHING US TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD

                    IN OUR STUDIES (SB SECOND CANTO) AND ALSO HELPING US TO BECOME CLEAR ABOUT

                    OUR LIFES BY CREATING A PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT (AND FAMILY MISSION STATEMENT).

                    LOKANATHA PRABHU IS TAKING US OUT FOR HARINAMA TWICE A MONTH.

                    WE ARE LIKE DOGS DEPENDING ON THE MERCY OF THE DEVOTEES.

                    WE WANT TO WAKE UP AND DO SERVICE.

                    LIVING JUST ACROSS RADHA GOVINDA CANDRA (AND G&N, L&N AND SP) IS QUITE A HAPPY LIFE, WE

                    FEEL TAKEN CARED OF BY THEM, WE REALLY DO. FEELING GREATFULL FOR SUCH CAUSLESS MERCY.

                    CAN WE COME AND VISIT YOU? HOW IS THAT? IS IT LIKE A SCHOLARSHIP OR SOMETHING?

HpS - ASA -- We have a little mobile home with a little room etc. It is freezing in the Winter and Buring in the Summer, but Nitai-gaurasundara Das also has so place in his house for guests. We are trying to develope a permanent program on the Campus (Middle Tennessee State University), with a "Krsna House" near the campus. One could apply for grants to do a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Education or Mass Communication (selling Coca-cola etc) as a Foreign Student, the study there, preach and get association of ourselves and the other devotees here.

                     HOPING THAT YOU ARE FEELING OK ( WE HAVE KNOWN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE UNPLEASANT ISSUE IN PERU)

                     YOUR SINCERE ASPIRANT TO SERVANT

                     BHADRA VARDHANA DAS AND SANANDA DEVI DAS

HpS - We are trying to get a little bit involved in the politics of ISKCON to help push things forward, so it is quite natural that we get our feelings twisted a little bit as a result. If you want to have kids you have to suffer, but the result can be pretty nice.

Do you have copies of SOLARIS?   You can meet with Enrique Galan and give him copy and discuss with him. Dandha's boy friend, Editorial Ciruela (the one that publishes Jung's works and Journey to the West), and then we can get contacts from Ramon. He is Director of the National Library of Peru and Member of the Cervantes Foundation.

Jung is such a natural base for a bridge from East to West.

Your Deities need a roof!