Kailasa Candra Dasa (; born 9 January 1951), also known as J. K. Goodwin, is an American Gaudiya Vaishnava teacher, sidereal astrologer and author with a small number of students. In 1972, he joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Madison, Wisconsin. After the passing of ISKCON founder A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, he opposed ISKCON's "zonal acharyas", beginning in 1978 and 1979. He is co-founder of the Vaishnava Foundation, a nonprofit organization incorporated under the name Metamorphosis League for Monastic Studies.<ref>Cumulative list of organizations described in section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Revised to October 31, 1988) Publisher/Author: United States</ref>J. Gordon Melton (editor-in-chief), Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions; Gale: 8th edition (February 13, 2009) He works out of the United States. He continues to oppose what he sees as the deviations that emerged within ISKCON after the demise of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Biography Born in early 1951, he was immediately put up for adoption and raised in Glenview, Illinois, as well as Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. His conservative, middle-class foster parents, Robert and Gladys Barber, named him Kevin R. Barber. As a child, he suffered from health problems (i.e. severe asthma and undiagnosed autism) and bullying from classmates. Raised Catholic, he embraced Darwinism and atheism in high school. He became sports editor of The Daily Cardinal, while majoring in journalism at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in the early 1970s. Experiencing an increase in psycho-physical distress, a waning interest in materialism, and a deepening commitment to “Truth or Bust”, he dropped out of college in November 1971. At that time, he became a vegetarian and began studying occult science. In late 1971, he distanced himself from his family. This was after experiencing domestic violence from his angered step-father. The welder, employed in Defense Department shipbuilding, disapproved of his step-son’s opposition to the Vietnam War. Reading Be Here Now (book) and encountering Rudra dās in Madison, Wisconsin led Kevin to the Hare Krishna movement, which he joined in February, 1972. In September 1972, he received Harer Nama diksha initiation from his guru, A. C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmi Prabhupāda at the rural ISKCON compound just outside Moundsville, West Virginia. The spiritual name bestowed on him, Kailāsa Candra dāsa'' (hereinafter, Kailāsa), identified him as a dāsa/servant of Lord Shiva, The Eminence of Kailāsa, the greatest Vaishnava. In the 1970s, Kailāsa ran Midwest college preaching programs