By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly I am an atheist and happy, most of the time, being so. I am rational and scientific, I hope, in most things, and happy, most of the time being so. I remain susceptible to mysticism, though, and thirsty for transcendence. I find these, ironically, in some types of religious […]
Krishna Das: Traditional singing to the ‘Soul of All’
By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly One of the best-known singers in the Indian kirtan tradition — a Hindi devotional tradition involving call-and-response between the singer and the audience — is Krishna Das, originally known as Jeffrey Kagel. After studies in India with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba (also known as Maharaj-ji), the singer […]