Time to come back before I leave again. I'll tell you why and what happened.
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It’s a strange story for sure but let’s start. I’ve been in Koh Samui (Koh Soulless) for 2 years. Thailand 12 years. I’ve spent the last few months figuring out how I could depart this planet and leave my money to Fern, I wasn’t doing anything anyway except going to the beach or watching Netflix all day long. I was existing in the realm of the first chakra (sex). All I really wanted was to go to gogo bars and Soi 6 again in Pattaya. I couldn’t even get an erection due to severe ED (more on that later). And a year ago I took a trip to Koh Phangan island an hour away by ferry for the first time alone with my motorbike. It’s a great place, the ‘full moon party’ place. Yoga everywhere. I was interested in visiting especially this place, ‘The Sanctuary’ retreat center. But I couldn’t find the road to it on Google as much as I kept driving all over the coast frustratingly. I was so stupid or was it destiny? I gave up, my mind was blocked from finding this place…until last week. The Sanctuary started popping up in my mind as I was home many times. Oh, must be a message (that’s how my mind works in getting messages from Maharaji). So this time I checked on google and it turns out you can only get there by longtail boat from Haad Riin ferry terminal after the big ferry arrives from Koh Samui. I got emails from the retreat office on how to do it exactly, etc. ‘Welcome and come on over and get a room, we’ll take of you.’ First part of the miracle.
That started the ascent back to the second chakra (where most of us reside). This place is paradise. The island is paradise and the capital of the New Age, and as residents also say, the new Ibiza. https://www.thesanctuarythailand.com/
Funny things happened to me. I’m 81 and barely exercise or walk well anymore and they no matter what you ask the Thais for gave me a room almost 200 yards from the restaurant/beach. I could only go back once a day to shower. And also I’m used to AC in Samui all night to sleep in the tropics here but they gave me a room with a fan as the lowest price I could afford. AC was double. I’ve never slept without AC for 12 years here. So I said I would try it. From 8-10pm it was uncomfortable, like a burning almost, but after 10pm with the fan blowing on me it cooled down because the bungalow was in the jungle and later I needed a sheet to keep me warm the rest of the night (but I also didn’t sleep well as usual). Weird.
Here’s part of the miracle. The Sanctuary and the island have a special vibe, you just relax and eat in their 5-star veggie restaurant, go paddle boarding (for the first time in years) on this incredible bay and swim. Hang out with all the dozen guests (low season) doing yoga and detox from all over the world. So the third night I start to feel my sex member stirring in the middle of the night, hmn… that’s strange. At this point in my life there is no more sperm in ejaculation, only a teaspoon of clear liquid at most. But doctors say you need to clear it every three months no matter what age. And the problem is I also have an enlarged prostate and a bladder stone. Wonderful. I’ve refused surgery. Taking viagra does nothing. You don’t need to know anything more. Then the next night, surprise, I was having a four hour erection which has not happened for 2 or 3 years. Even sleeping with the gorgeous Fern doesn’t do anything. Wow! Back to the second chakra. And then I’m starting to feel high, the kundalini and shakti are doing something. I’m not the same person from last year or two months ago. It’s starting to feel like what happened to me in India many times. I thought I was Jesus Christ like when I thought I could end the Pakistan Bangladesh war in 1971 and Maharaji stopped me with a wag of his finger. It’s in my book.
So then I am swimming in the morning and this old guy is in the water, I say hello and he says he is German and he starts mumbling ‘second coming, second coming’ and is acting crazy. I ask what he means and he says he had a dream and ‘the second coming’ will be here in two weeks (around Halloween'). Well who else could he have been referring to but me. That’s why Maharaji sent me here exactly this moment in the universe. Hey, but I am not going to Israel to stop the war this time (at least not yet). There and then I decided I am moving to KP next Saturday. I told the landlord I’m gone already last night. That means moving and changing addresses, yuck. I didn’t even have the energy to go shopping or brush my teeth the last few months. My eyes have opened. Ravi Dass is back, reborn. I will start doing satsangs on KP next week before we nuke ourselves and tell the spiritual people here about Maharaji and Mother Mary…Ma…Maria…Nossa Senhora.
Okay and then I decide to go back Monday morning to start packing. I was going to take the longtail to Haad Riin at 3pm for the 4pm ferry to Samui and I had to check out 11am so all my luggage was at the restaurant and I’ll just listen to mantras and Mary songs until then and relax. But an unusual woman I met at the retreat who drove me crazy with making times to meet me and take me to dances and never showed up and got me upset arrives at noon in a longtail from the next bay. I stopped even talking to her. And I yelled ‘whoa’, take me now to Haad Riin, I’ll wait there and gaze at the water.
Now pay attention. I get off the boat and have 4 hours so I am going to wander around the village. This is the ‘full moon’ party village and only comes to life 2 days for the party but a few restaurants are open. I was walking into the village and I see an Indian restaurant open and lo and behold the crazy woman is eating there but I walk past but on the way back I decide I will have ‘chai’, she is gone, no worries. I sit down and notice about 8 young Indians eating, weird here, so naturally I always go over to Indians and chat. No shit…they had been to Kainchi and knew of Maharaji. WTF. They had a photo of Kainchi. Do you understand the timing of the last four days. It’s all preordained, it’s all Maharaji lila and I am the puppet. So maybe ‘second coming’ finishes I can get out of here soon.
And this miracle. I usually have only from my SSA money average about 60000 baht in my bank account each month, pretty steady from January. But in the last two months the money kept growing as I looked in the account and it now was over 500,000 baht. Where did that come from? That was the problem I had when I thought I would leave the planet and had to get the money to Fern before the government and police took it from my death because we are not married so I took out the cash and hid it in the house. Maharaji said ‘all the money in the world is his’. Guess it is. Now I can move and dig in KP.
Oh, and by the way Fern goes to the doctor and says she has Stage 1 cervical cancer. Just what I need now. She is supposed to go for chemotherapy for 2 months and go back to her village hospital. Are we finished? Can I take her to KP and cure her or is it over. There are so many single bikini dakinis on KP you can’t believe your eyes. Who will be my new shakti?
I also was put in contact with an American writer expat who runs the largest KP facebook spiritual notice board (Koh Phangan Conscious Community). And he will maybe help me organize satsangs. Maharaji had me tell my story to people for hours at the retreat so now I am ready to do my Ram Dass act. I am not nervous, it just flows. I will tell them I am just a straw that Maharaji’s grace flows through.
In this photo from Nainital 1971 called ‘Nainital High’. Parvati Marcus still has the original negative. Quote in who is who: 3rd row …Ravi Das (Ron Zimardi, Neem karoli considered Ravi Dass the reincarnation of the 15th/16th-century Indian Saint Ravidas). I didn’t write this up and I just noticed it. It was witnessed the day he gave me the name by the whole group in Kainchi. Why did she put this in? He never told anyone else they were a reincarnation, and why do you think that is. How many people will come to a lecture by a reincarnated person/saint, huh? Have you ever met the reincarnation of anyone much less a Saint. Who better to choose that which is ‘coming’. You know my lineage started with the Shivapuri Baba and Ananda Mayi Ma in 1965. And then Maharaji and Ram Dass in 1970-1972. And of course Ginsberg, Little Joe and I must be honest Muktananda and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and others.
So I want you to listen to mantras and this song every moment you are free with headphone or live. You need to get your assess over to Koh Phangan before the shit hits the fan. We can build a Maharaji ashram.