Hey, I’m James. I’m a social worker, psychotherapist, and entrepreneur.

I created this site to share my spiritual journey with Hare Krishna.

As part of my study, I was already making notes on the Bhagavad Gita anyway… might as well share them.

How I got here

I was baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church, I grew up believing in God and praying to deceased ancestors.

In university, I read The Selfish Gene and became an atheist. That was hard.

A few years later I was introduced to Buddhism by someone I was dating and it resonated.

The Buddha thought questions about God do not help end suffering.

Over time I developed a strong mindfulness and meditation practice and lived according to many Buddhist principles (not all!).

Even the theoretical orientation of my Psychotherapy practice is heavily based on Buddhist psychology.

I’m not an atheist anymore, I consider myself to be agnostic.

I’m fascinated by the mystery of the universe. I enjoy learning about black holes, quantum entanglement, and time travel.

Staring up at the night sky and seeing some stars that are 2,500 light years away, and others that are only 11, and they look identical. Yet we’re literally seeing light that was emitted when people like Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, and Confucius were alive.

And from the photon’s perspective, no time passed during that journey.

All of this mystery can be considered God. God comes in different forms (which I’m going to share about later). The mystery of the universe, corresponds with the impersonal form.

Crisis

Now in my mid-thirties, facing substantial adversity, Buddhism was no longer meeting my needs.

I was missing community, guidance, and devotional practice.

That’s when I stumbled upon a local Hare Krishna temple through a local devotee.

The path shares many similarities with Buddhism, so the transition felt natural.

This blog documents where that path is taking me.

What to expect

I’ll be sharing my study notes from the Bhagavad Gita, reflections on temple visits, and how Krishna consciousness is shaping my daily practice.

If you’re exploring the intersection of Eastern philosophy and devotional spirituality, or transitioning between spiritual paths, you might find something useful here.

I have several intentions for this site.

1. It’s fun for me to work on
2. What I’m learning about is filling me up spiritually, that I feel the need to share it
3. It forces me to become granular with my understandings of certain concepts, and confront what I don’t understand
4. It has been a long time since I’ve had my own personal website, I want to try little experiments for ranking it on Google and LLM’s like ChatGPT
5. I’m going to include some affiliate links to relevant content, but I listed this last because this website is so much more than that to me

Note: my middle name is James. To avoid my psychotherapy clients worrying about my practice being too “religious”, I have decided not to use my full name on this blog yet.