Okay, this post is going to be a little bit boring, writing about myself so bluntly is not my favorite thing, but slightly necessary I think. I live in Seattle, WA, USA, and I currently attend the school of nowhere. I work and live at a local independent bookstore owned by a friends family. I plan on applying to schools eventually, but I am pretty unsure what I want to do with my life, and I am enjoying the free life for a while. My name is Ganesh, like the Hindu Elephant God. Funny thing is my last name is Auerbacher, I am German and have no right to be named Ganesh, but I have a brother named Vishnu and a sister named Buddhi. My parents are former hippies who have some odd attachment to Indian culture.

I am a bit of a”religion-shopper”, as cliche and shallow as that whole phenomenon is. I don’t really have a label for what I believe, and I am too open-minded right now to settle on one. I am however happy with where I am spiritually, I attend Liberal Quaker meetings regularly with my parents, who are both long time Friends. In a lot of ways I am a Quaker, but I am not a member of any Quaker Meeting, and as a religion for me it is not a great fit. I have issues with pacifism and I am too much of a universalist yet also too much of a Christian for it to be a perfect fit. I definitely believe in God, and that everyone can and should pursue a relationship with God. My beliefs sit in a sort of a Manichaeist, Gnostic mess. I find a lot of truth in Zoroastrian and Hindu beliefs, yet I definitely see Christ as Logos and as having died for our sins, but what that means changes a lot in my mind. I see God as unknowable and see Monotheistic and Polytheistic approaches as equally valid metaphors to use when trying to approach the divine. The purpose of this blog is to share a bit of my life and my spiritual journey with the world, and honestly for a bit of self-indulgent catharsis.

God Bless, Ganesh