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3 I expect that you’ve been lying awake at and night wondering, what is Monkotopia? It’s really quite simple. You’ve heard of utopia — a perfect world where everything seems designed to please You. Hence ‘You’ topia. It makes ‘You’ happy to live in this kind of world. Dystopia is the opposite. It’s when everything seems designed…

1 Mantra chanting, or kiirtan (aka kirtan) is a beautiful way to create the mood for meditation, either alone or in a group. This mantra, Baba Nam Kevalam, means ‘only the feeling of limitless love’. The tune was written by a friend of mine from the Netherlands, Didi Ananda Advaeta.

0 Back in 2011 I attended a spiritual event in California. There was a big crowd of around 6000 and we’d all come to see Amma – the hugging saint from India. Everyone was singing kiirtan, chanting sanskrit mantras, and the vibe was amazing. There was such a charged atmosphere of love – we were…