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For as long as I can remember I had been looking for the sacred. Wether it was in the stories and religions of the Greeks, the wonder of the Nordic Saga's, through a love of art or the hedonism of student life. The search going on quietly in the background, not so obviously apparent. In April 1997 about 2 weeks before my 22nd birthday I became a monk in the Krishna Bhakti tradition. 10 months before, in a hired room in Swansea, I tried mantra meditation for the 1st time. It felt amazingly normal, sure it was a little weird to...