In about 6 hours I take a boat from Padang, Sumatra to the Mentawai Islands, where I will be for one or two weeks, probably just one. I will be totally off line, at least as far as the wired and wireless world goes, but hopefully plugged in to and on some other line. I have found two amazing guides who are like angels from heaven guiding me on my trip. They are Chi Chi and Nikmah, students who are graduating from the English Language Study Program at State University of Padang (UNP). I was shopping at Gramedia, a store that sells books and multimedia stuff, and a woman who worked there, Nanda, hooked me up. These young women want to go into the Travel Guide or similar type of business, and they are using me as their test case! I already can tell that I would highly recommend them.

Here’s the third in a little triptych I am putting up here which features the spiritual direction I am now following.

I had the pleasure a couple weeks ago of interviewing HiềnTài ĐOÀN KIM SƠN, author of THE SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL WAYS PRACTISED SIMULTANEOUSLY, and an elder at the TAY NINH HOLY SEE in Vietnam of the Cao Dai faith. Here he and I are talking about the Dao. It is part of the above-mentioned book he wrote, which I am editing. This book is part of THE GREAT WAY OF THE THIRD UNIVERSAL SALVATION promulgated by ĐOÀN KIM SƠN, and it’s pretty neat stuff.

This portion of the interview I posted on FB, but the other two excerpts available here, on this blog, were not posted to FB.

Another excerpt from my set of interviews with HiềnTài ĐOÀN KIM SƠN, author of THE SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL WAYS PRACTISED SIMULTANEOUSLY, and an elder at the TAY NINH HOLY SEE in Vietnam of the Cao Dai faith.

I did these interviews a couple of weeks ago while in Vietnam. I can’t wait to get all this stuff edited and out to the world!

Lots of love everybody!