After spending 9 months in 2003-2004 traveling from region to region experiencing the powerful healing effects of Agnihotra, I returned to the United States.
The transformation had begun.
The exposure to such incredible circumstances, both positive and negative completely changed my outlook. I was thrown into a state of extreme bewilderment by all the happenings on our Planet. I no longer felt apart of the day-to-day and my goals started to change. Still I made an attempt to re-settle into life in America, which lasted for about 11 months, when in June of 2005 I returned to India.
I was not completely free from my addictions because while in America I commenced smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol, all of which stifled any kind of spiritual development, or discipline I needed to remain totally sober.
On Feb 13, 2011 several of us traveled to Kudashi village to support the commencement of what will become a 20 village cluster or 40 village women empowerment project. Anne Godfrey, founder of Rose Circles 
Extreme poverty in desperate conditions is what is to be seen today throughout India. A Dr. wrote an article titled "Slow Poisoning of India" wherein he describes the conditions of the Indian agricultural system as it has been affected by chemicals over the last 40 years. It is slowly becoming a desert in parts and other areas where the land is with water you find disease of all kinds growing on the crops. The tragedy this has created is only the beginning of what is felt, as an after-shock, by the women. (See "