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	== Bubba Free John (1973-1979) ==
	In August 1973 , Franklin Jones left for India with one student devotee visiting several holy sites in the manner of a devotee paying homage to spiritual sources, the most important Ashrams visited were that of ] in Ganeshpuri (the last time he saw Swami Muktananda) and to the deceased South Indian Sage ]'s Ashram at Thiruvannaamalai. It was on this trip that he adopted the name Bubba Free John.<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 99-193 Lee.C 1998</ref><ref> The Enlightenment of The Whole Body page 45 Bubba Free John 1978</ref>

	Upon returning to Los Angeles he instigated the first of several "teaching demonstrations" beginning with the free use of intoxicants and partying, including sexual activity, in the midst of this Bubba continued to teach and magnify what he called his "Divine Siddhi" or spiritual force while instructing students to recognize the limitations of all such experience "both high and low". Cycles of celebration would be punctuated by return to former strict disciplines of dietary restriction and purification practices.<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 99-193 Lee.C 1998</ref>

	During this time the first Hermitage Sanctuary (]) was established in Northern California, now known as The Mountain of Attention Sanctuary, this teaching cycle culminated into what was called the "Garbage and The Goddess" period, officially ending in July 1974. This period was noted for reports by students of apparent miraculous spiritual psychic and spontaneous enlightenment states.

	One such report "The first time I saw Bubba Free John was in 1974 at an incredibly powerful occasion during which he walked into the meditation hall, surrounded by a clearly visible golden aura, and proceeded to blast the room and its inhabitants with a show of force so potent it seemed the walls would explode."<ref>The Divine Emergence of the World Teacher page 150 Bonder Saniel 1989 </ref><ref>Garbage and The Goddess - the last miracles and final instructions of bubba free john - Bubba Free John 1974</ref>

	In 1975 another Teacher ] made a written complaint to Bubba and basically asked him "to stop teaching this way!" after considering the letter his response was to pen an essay with the opening and self explanatory line "What I do is not the way that I am but the way that I teach ... I have not shown them myself by all of this, all that I do and speak only reveals people to themselves." (Which became the rationale taught by Bubba to his student devotees and public to explain his often paradoxical behaviors). This way of seeing the teacher as a mere sacrificial mirror to students own tendencies and internal natures was later clarified under the banner of "Crazy Wisdom" teaching.<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 99-193 Lee.C 1998</ref>

	In July 1976 another major teaching demonstration began, later named the "Indoor Summer" since many of the group instructions and activities (known as "gatherings") occurred indoors. Here Bubba began a fundamental group consideration on knowledge itself and the possibility of bodily based enlightenment (rather than something of mind or higher states). His fundamental address was "Do you know what anything is?" and if this consideration was fruitful, yielded what was called "Divine Ignorance" or direct unmediated enlightenment.<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 195-233 Lee.C 1998</ref> ] (now an independent spiritual teacher) wrote of this period: "He swept devotees into an open ended investigation of existence, showing us countless glimpses of the state of unqualifiedly free consciousness, or "Divine Ignorance" and exploring with us how we should live if that intuition, and only that intuition, were made the basis of all human perception, thought, action and relationship."<ref>The Divine Emergence of the World Teacher page 147 Bonder Saniel 1989</ref>

	This period was noted for emphasis on outward activity and achievement rather than spiritual phenomena and attainments: "He also allowed and appeared to encourage the pursuit of worldly fulfillments in the form of high living, grand philosophy, wealth, political power and even physical immortality."<ref>Breathe and Name -Bubba Free John -1977 page 9</ref> Parties and use of intoxicants (including some use of cannabis and naturally occurring mild hallucinogenics) both by Bubba and students (according to Bonder, Bubba demanded that these intoxicants be used in a ritual, sacramental manner rather than as a mere indulgence) characterized this period. Followed by a return to former strict dietary and life disciplines.<ref> The Divine Emergence of the World Teacher page 146 Bonder Saniel 1989 </ref>

	In 1977 Bubba Free John made a brief return to India, he continued to write prolifically, living in relative seclusion compared to earlier years, in 1978 the Sanctuary in Hawaii was purchased. The same year the teaching emphasis shifted to consider sacramental and devotional rituals to be incorporated into daily practice.<ref>The Promised God-man is Here page 195-233 Lee.C 1998</ref>

	== Da Free John (1979-1986) ==

	On September 13th 1979, Bubba Free John announced a name change via a handwritten letter to devotees, the letter beginning "Beloved I am Da ..." made it clear that Da Free John or Da (to give or bestow- Sanskrit) was an incarnation of God (Lee makes the point that he was not proclaiming the status of God-The Father or Creator).<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 251 Lee.C 1998</ref>

	A few days later, on one of Adidam's most notable historical days named The Day of The Heart, Da Free John declared in front of several hundred students and public "All the scriptures are fulfilled in your sight, and your prayers are answered with a clear voice".<ref> The Divine Emergence of the World Teacher page 147 Bonder Saniel 1989</ref>

	In 1980 Da Free John began spending more time at the Hawaiian Sanctuary then known as "Tumomama" (fierce woman). In 1980 and 1981 he began to work with a group of students who appeared interested in an "esoteric" and "renunciate" practice forming a fledgling "Renunciate Order". The book ''The Dreaded Gom-Boo'' covers this period up to 1983, in which he writes: "Motiveless renunciation, or truly humorous and free transcendence of the human circumstance, is inevitable in the course of The Way That I Teach."<ref>The Dreaded Gomboo or The imaginary Disease Religion Seeks to Cure- Da Free John 1983</ref>

	In 1983 Da Free John and his renunciate devotees began to search for a more remote hermitage sanctuary (which Da Free John felt he needed to continue his spiritual work) particularly in the Fijian Islands, after a period of wandering a suitable Island was located and purchased with funding from a patron devotee. The Island, named Naitauba, became known as Translation Island initially and later went through several more name changes.<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 309-360 Lee.C 1998</ref>

	Da Free John returned briefly to California in 1984. In early 1985 a legal suit and intense media publicity lead to a period of crisis. The effect on him was described thus: "Psychically the God-Man, open hearted and free, had to absorb and transform the energy of this entire attempt to destroy his sometimes unconventional but always benign and profoundly necessary teaching work." Temporarily withdrawing from active teaching work, he completed his summary text ''The Dawn Horse Testament''.<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 309-360 Lee.C 1998</ref><ref> The Divine Emergence of the World Teacher page 246 Bonder Saniel 1989 </ref><!-- Commented out because image was deleted: ] -->

	On January 11th, 1986 Da Free John went into a semi consciousness death-like swoon (one of several apparently transformative states associated with near death, recorded in his life). He spoke of this later: "In my profound frustration this body died ... and then I found myself reintegrated with it ... I have become this body, utterly. My mood is different my face is sad, but not without illumination, now I am the ], the Icon and it is full of Divine Presence." This event was later called "The Divine Emergence" (Jan 27, 1986).<ref>The Divine Emergence of the World Teacher page 266 Bonder Saniel 1989</ref>

	In spring 1986 Da Free John returned to the Mountain of Attention in California calling for profound spiritual practice and intense discipline from his devotees, he briefly took the title "Swami" (explaining his right to this title via Swami Muktananda) and dressed in traditional Hindu renunciate orange clothing. He traveled in California and then to New York, France, England and Holland.

	Da Free John juice fasted continually for nearly 18 weeks over this period as Tapas or Penance, he called for any devotee students who had the capacity to immediately embrace what he called "the perfect practice"<ref>http://www.adidam.org/AdiDa/teachings/progressofpractice.htm</ref> (abiding as consciousness) and to begin renunciate disciplines including raw vegetarian diet and complete celibacy. Many students world wide found they could respond in this manner (for a limited time).<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 361-398 Lee.C 1998</ref><ref>The Divine Emergence of the World Teacher page 273-284 Bonder Saniel 1989</ref><ref>Atma Murti-Swami Da Love-Ananda Paramahansa Advadhoota 1986</ref>

	== Da Love-Ananda , Da Kalki , Da Avabhasa ( 1986-1994 ) ==

	In 1987 again residing on Naitauba, Adi Da <ref> note: for simplicity will use the name Adi Da to cover this period </ref> ( known principally as Da Love-Ananda from 1986 to 1989 ) began a full summary teaching demonstration referred to as the "Indoor Yajna" (yajna here meaning "tour of blessing") Adi Da re-capitulated, the fundamentals of his teaching via constant "gatherings", long interactive dialogues and wild dancing, this teaching cycle lasted until March 1988.

	Devotional response to the Guru became the principal theme, in an almost traditional Hindu approach to Guru devotion (with some major differences), Adi Da's bodily form (and multi dimensional spiritual and pure consciousness state) itself became the object of contemplation for student devotees this was epitomized in the book "Love-Ananda Gita" released 1989. <ref>The Love-Ananda Gita -Da Love-Ananda 1989</ref>
	<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 405-424 Lee.C 1998</ref>
	<ref>The Divine Emergence of the World Teacher page 284-324 Bonder Saniel 1989</ref>
	<ref>The Free Daist vol 1 page 22</ref>

	In 1989 Adi Da entered a period of what was described as using or intensifying his blessing influence for the sake of changing the current world situation, and another period of seclusion and penance.
	<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 405-424 Lee.C 1998</ref>

	In April 1990, according to Lee, Adi Da briefly received the name "Da ]" given by devotees and based on him being seen in the likeness of the 10th or final Avatar of Hinduism in this what he has called, "Dark Epoch" or "Late Time."
	<ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 487 Lee.C 1998</ref>
	<ref>The Free Daist Vol 1 # 6</ref>

	In April 1991 Adi Da took the name Da Avabhasa (brightness-Sanskrit). <ref>http://names.adidam.org/daavabhasa.htm</ref>
	In March 1993 Adi Da claimed to be "the first, last and only" 7th stage Adept Realizer <ref>http://www.adidaupclose.org/FLO/donw1.html</ref> (or Guru of Adidam) and "my manifestation and my work have made Divine Self Realization possible" he went on to say "Most of what I have done will not be noticed in my physical life time." <ref>The Promised Godman is Here page 499-501 Lee.C 1998</ref>

	In the same month Adi Da began speaking of his association with Swami ] and ], speaking of his own birth he said "The Deeper Personality Vehicle of Swami Vivekananda arose in the conditional domain and provided the conjunction with Me (As I Am). That Vehicle was conjoined with My Very Being. Swami Vivekananda was given up completely, and the Vehicle became transparent to Me."
	<ref>The Promised God-Man is Here page-509 Lee.C 1998</ref>

	In October 1993 Adi Da received a Fijian passport. From 1993 to 1994 Adi Da held over 130 "gatherings" with devotees wherein he instructed them in the particular way bhakti yoga is used and understood in Adidam, it was then called "] ] ]."
	<ref>The Promised God-Man is Here page-540-553 Lee.C 1998 </ref>

	==Teaching and community==		==Teaching and community==

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Adi Da Samraj (born Franklin Albert Jones, November 3, 1939 in Jamaica, New York is a contemporary and controversial guru or spiritual master, artist and writer, and founder of the new religious movement known as Adidam. He has used names such as Bubba Free John, Da Free John, and Da Love-Ananda to correspond with changes in his work as a spiritual teacher. Adi Da states that he is an "Avataric Incarnation", a uniquely full and complete manifestation of the Divine in human form, and that his life and teaching fulfills what he terms the "Great Tradition" of human spirituality.

Allegations by ex-members of Adidam that Adi Da and his followers engaged in financial, sexual and emotional abuses were widely reported in American news media in 1985, including The Today Show. Adidam rejects these allegations.. Eventually the claims were settled out of court .

Life

The following is largely summarized from Adi Da's autobiography The Knee of Listening: Adi Da was born Franklin Albert Jones and raised in the New York City borough of Queens. He attended Columbia College, where he received a degree in philosophy, and Stanford University, where he completed his M.A. in English literature with a thesis on Gertrude Stein. In 1965, Adi Da became a disciple of Albert Rudolph, also known as Rudi or Swami Rudrananda. He describes that period as one of human maturation, extensive disciplining of the body, and his first acquaintance with "spiritual transmission" from a human teacher. Following Rudi's instruction, Adi Da married his girlfriend, Nina Davis. (They later divorced; she was then and has remained his devotee.) Adi Da described how he reached a point where he had exhausted what he could learn from Rudi, and in 1968, became a disciple of Rudi's Indian teacher Swami Muktananda, whom he first visited in India in early April of 1968, and who, he wrote, gave him extraordinary spiritual experiences and realization. For approximately one year, in 1968-1969, Adi Da was involved with Scientology (mention of which was omitted from subsequent versions of his autobiography, which say that during this period he did not meditate, but "simply listened"). He returned to India in August of 1969 to see Muktananda, who subsequently gave Adi Da a letter acknowledging his yogic realization and authorizing him to initiate others. After a period Adi Da describes as including visionary experiences wherein he was guided by both Muktananda's teacher, Bhagawan Nityananda, and "the Goddess", Adi Da wrote that he re-awakened (as a divine incarnation) to his original divine state of full enlightenment, on September 10, 1970.

Adi Da founded his own group in April of 1972, operating out of a bookstore in Los Angeles, California. Initially known as the Dawn Horse Communion, the movement founded by Adi Da has been through several name changes: previous names have included The Free Primitive Church of Divine Communion, The Johannine Daist Communion, and Free Daism. It is now known as Adidam, or The Way of the Heart. Adi Da permanently broke with Muktananda after a meeting in India in 1973 in which Adi Da and Muktananda engaged in a discussion wherein it became clear they each had very different notions of what the highest, or most enlightened, spiritual state is, and that Muktananda would not acknowledge his enlightenment. Adi Da would later say, however, that he still regularly "connected with" Muktananda (and Rudi) in subtle planes, and that he always held a great love for his former gurus.

Adi Da has three biological daughters by three different women, and a fourth adopted daughter. (Feuerstein, 1991)

Teaching and community

Adi Da states that he is an "Avataric Incarnation", a uniquely full and complete manifestation of the Divine in human form, and that his life and teaching fulfills what he terms the "Great Tradition" of human spirituality. He describes his teaching as a "radical" (or most direct), original, and uniquely complete offering that, for the first time in history, has made the total way and wisdom of the "precosmic Divine Light", or the "Bright", available to human beings.

Adi Da has described human life as unfolding in seven potential stages. While other religious teachers, such as Jesus and the Buddha, are said by Adi Da to have attained the status of "Fifth" (or "Sixth") Stage Realizer, he maintains that he is the "first, last, and only seventh stage Adept-Realizer" (cf. The Basket of Tolerance, 1991 ). Adi Da says that his Divine Incarnation is the unique means for sentient beings to attain Seventh Stage realization now and for all future time. In 1984, Adi Da said "I am here in my lifetime to change the course of human history, and I want to see some evidence of it. No one on Earth compares to me. ... I believe that before this body dies, all mankind will acknowledge me."

Adi Da teaches that, in reality, there is Only God . That is, that there is only a single, Indivisible, All-Pervading, Self-Existing and Self-Radiant "Source-Condition", "Nature", and "Substance" that is Reality, in and of which everything and everyone arises as a spontaneous and unnecessary modification. Adi Da teaches the One Divine Reality is "always already" the human Condition, and therefore our task is not to seek for God or Realization but to become responsible for the action whereby we forget, obscure, and obstruct the prior State—which activity he generally describes as "self-contraction", "Narcissus", or the "avoidance of relationship" . But Adi Da also teaches that one cannot Realize the Divine through one's own efforts, because all ego-based action cannot but fail to overcome its own original presumption of egoity itself. One must be awakened out of this "dream" by tangible Divine Spiritual Grace itself, appearing through the Agency of the God-Realized Human Guru. Adi Da teaches that his grace must be accessed by devotional submission and obedience to him as Satguru via joining and taking up the formal practices of Adidam.

There are a number of Adidam communities around the world. According to Adidam, formal devotees of Adi Da can choose to perform disciplines including meditation, sacramental worship, financial contributions, study, service, diet, yoga and formal exercise, cooperative living, regular work, sexuality, and spiritual retreats. Adidam states degree to which the disciplines are engaged depends on the devotee's level of participation, and their careful consideration of the disciplines.

Hermitage Ashrams

Adi Da and his devotees have established five Hermitage Ashrams or places empowered by him as Guru or Spiritual Teacher to be used principally for spiritual practice and meditation retreats and in Adidam Philosophy to function as spiritual blessing points of influence.

The main Hermitage Ashram is called Adi Da Samrajashram and covers the Fijian Island of Naitauba. Others are The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary (Northern California) Tat Sundaram Hermitage (Northern California) Da Love-Ananda Mahal (Kauai in Hawaii) Love's Point Hermitage (Northern California)

Artist and writer

Adi Da has created a large body of spiritual writings with over 70 published books . According to Adidam, he began the creative text now called the The Mummery Book in 1957 "when he spontaneously began engaging the process of examining his own conscious process." English Professor and Adidam study group coordinator Askold Skalsky described it as "a novel in the mode of a vast parable, in which mystical and esoteric states of awareness are fleshed in poetic imagery. It is an experimental work — what Adi Da Samraj calls a 'prose opera' — that shatters the conventional limits of language and raises literary portrayal to radical levels of consciousness".

During the mid-60s to mid-90s, Adi Da also produced a body of drawings and paintings. In 1998, he turned to the medium of photography as what he wanted to intensively develop. Since that time he has created a body of work that presently numbers over 50,000 images. Adi Da says of his approach to photography "I paint with light. I use the camera, but I use it as medium like people use paintbrushes. What I'm fundamentally using is light, and I use it like paint. But I am not merely luxuriating in the art I create. I have a message to bring to the world."

The artistic rendering he uses with the photographic images is described as "typically involving more than two (and even as many as ten or more) superimposed layers. He creates these multiple-exposed images entirely in camera, though he is not a photographer, as such. Rather, he creates large-scale works of "light-imagery," using photographic (and also videographic) technology. No manipulation in the darkroom (or by digital means) is used. He relates to his photographic negatives as "blueprints," referring to them as the basis for making "monumental fabrications.". In 2006, Adi Da began to work entirely in the digital medium .

Adi Da is currently exhibiting a selection of his art at the 2007 Venice Biennale from June 10th to November 21st, as a Collateral entrant , Achille Bonito Oliva and Peter Frank are both curators for the exhibit.

Controversies

In 1985 Adi Da and his church were sued by an ex-member for (among other things) fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, and assault and battery; the suit sought $5 million in damages (San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday April 4, 1985). The church, claiming extortion, counter-sued for $20 million.In November 1985 a Marin County judge ruled that the plaintiff had no legal basis for bringing the original lawsuit. In 1986, Adi Da was again sued for fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress. for a sum of 20 million in punitive damages. In 2005, the Washington Post reported: '"The lawsuits and threatened suits that dogged the group in the mid-1980s were settled with payments and confidentiality agreements", says a California lawyer, Ford Greene, who handled three such cases.' No negative reports have appeared in the news media since the mid-1980s.

Around the time of these lawsuits, Adi Da and Adidam (then known as Da Free John and The Johannine Daist Communion) were subjects of a report on The Today Show. There, and in other media reports, former devotees were quoted as saying that Adi Da exhibited a pattern of abusive, and self-serving behavior (San Francisco Examiner, April 5, 1985).

Around that same time, local media reported that a church spokesman disclosed that despite previous denials, controversial sexual practices involving the guru had continued after 1976, but had been hidden from some members and the general public In the same article Adidam responded with a letter stating: "We understand our way of life is an ongoing spiritual experiment in which we constantly consider and discover what will best serve our spiritual evolution. For this reason we value the period of liberal experimentation with various lifestyles in the early years of our existence. It was a time full of learning, growth, and spiritual celebration. It was a happy and foolish time." .

In his 1989 book , Saniel Bonder (at the time a leading spokesman for Adidam) wrote "Much of which was alleged in the media was sheerly preposterous and much of the rest was twisted and distorted...the representatives of our institution learned the hard way there is no way to achieve a fair hearing in the sensation-mongering elements of public reporting."

Criticism

Indologist Georg Feuerstein, a former student of Adi Da, has become highly critical of Adi Da's so-called crazy-wisdom behavior and his extravagant lifestyle, as is clear from the second edition of Feuerstein's book Holy Madness.

Popular author Ken Wilber has repeatedly commented on Adi Da, both positively and negatively. In 1998, in his last written comment on the subject, he wrote: "...I affirm all of the extremes of my statements about Da: he is one of the greatest spiritual Realizers of all time, in my opinion, and yet other aspects of his personality lag far behind those extraordinary heights. By all means look to him for utterly profound revelations, unequalled in many ways; yet step into his community at your own risk." Wilber has never been actively involved as a formal member of Adidam.

Teaching literature

Adi Da has authored over 70 books on spirituality and the process of God-Realization. Since the late 1990s, he has been working on a series of definitive volumes commonly referred to as the "23 Source Texts." Not all of the 23 source texts have appeared as of mid-2006. The culmination of these "Source Texts" is a massive volume entitled "The Dawn Horse Testament," which summarizes his teachings.

The texts comprising this body of work—the Dharma (or Scripture) of the Way of the Heart—are distinct from other general or introductory Adidam books. It should be noted that over the decades the books in the canon have changed, with many receiving editorial changes making them into new books, while older books that were once in the canon have been removed or incorporated into later books. The current structure of this canon is listed at adidam.org.

The essay "First Word" appears at the beginning of each Source Text, according to Adi Da, as a way of orienting the reader to the "right understanding" of the "point of view" expressed in the text, and to counter what Adi Da says is the inevitable cultic mind-set that most "unenlightened seekers" bring to their approach.

Adi Da's written work has been at times praised by scholars on textual and conceptual grounds. For example, Jeffrey J. Kripal describes "this English idiom has been enriched by a kind of hybridized English-Sanskrit, and that a new type of mystical grammar has been created, embodied most dramatically (and, to the ego, jarringly) in Adi Da’s anti-ego capitalization practice, in which just about every grammatical move is nondualistically endowed with the status once imperially preserved in English for the non-existent “I”. Such a reading experience constantly calls upon one’s ability to think and feel beyond the socially constructed ego "

Adi Da's teaching about his avataric function has evolved over time. In a 1971 preface to the original version of his autobiography, Adi Da wrote: "It has taken me at least thirty-one years to produce this book. If I were an Avatar or one of the eternal Siddhas I would have made it for you as soon as my faculties were fit to write. But I had to learn it all instead according to the condition of our usual birth...I promise that none of this will lead to me but always to reality, which is conscious and unqualified joy." Many years later as he evolved further in his realization and his understanding he wrote: "I Am the Da Avatar, the all-Completing Adept, the First, Last, and Only Adept-Revealer (or Siddha) of the seventh stage of life" , and "I Am The Perfectly Subjective Divine Person, Self-Manifested As The Ruchira Avatar—Who Is The First, The Last, and The Only Adept-Realizer, Adept-Revealer, and Adept-Revelation of The Seventh Stage of Life". .

Name changes

Adi Da is noted for his frequent name changes in the past. As a student of Muktananda, he was given the name Dhyanananda. Shortly after becoming an independent teacher, he took the name Bubba Free John, "Bubba" being a colloquialism for "brother" and "Free John" a loose translation of "Franklin Jones". In 1979, he began calling himself Da Free John, "Da" meaning, in Sanskrit, "the giver". From 1986 to 1990, he was known primarily as Da Love-Ananda, "Ananda" meaning, in Sanskrit, "bliss". From 1990 to 1991, he was known as Da Kalki, in reference to the Hindu avatar Kalki, the 10th and final incarnation of Vishnu, and from 1991 to 1994 as Da Avabhasa, "Avabhasa" meaning "brightness". The title his devotees currently use for him is the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj, literally "the radiant avatar, primordial giver, universal ruler". They also frequently refer to him simply as "Beloved".

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Bibliography

(incomplete list)

The Dawn Horse Testament
The Knee Of Listening
Not-Two Is Peace
Up?
Is
Aham Da Asmi (Beloved, I Am Da)
Ruchira Avatara Gita (The Way Of The Divine Heart-Master)
Da Love-Ananda Gita
Hridaya Rosary (Four Thorns Of Heart-Instruction)
Eleutherios (The Only Truth That Sets The Heart Free)
The Truly Human New World-Culture Of Unbroken Real-God-Man
The Only Complete Way To Realize The Unbroken Light Of Real God
The Divine Siddha-Method Of The Ruchira Avatar
The Mummery Book - A Parable Of The Divine True Love, Told By A Self-Illuminated Illustration Of The Totality Of Mind
He-and-She Is Me
Ruchira Shaktipat Yoga
Ruchira Tantra Yoga
The Seven Stages Of Life
The All-Completing and Final Divine Revelation To Mankind
What, Where, When, How, Why, and Who To Remember To Be Happy
No Seeking—Mere Beholding
Santosha Adidam
The Lion Sutra
The Overnight Revelation Of Conscious Light
Basket Of Tolerance
Easy Death
My Bright Word
The Transmission of Doubt
Love of The Two Armed Form
The Enlightenment of The Whole Body

Books written about Adi Da

The Divine Emergence of The World Teacher- Bonder Saniel 1989
Drifted in a Deeper Land -James Steinberg
The Promised God-Man is Here- Lee. C 1998
The Innocence of Her Form: The Divine Revelation of She Is - Santosha Tantra 1996

External links

Advocacy

Adidam.org: official website of Adidam
The Dawn Horse Press: publisher of the literature of Adidam
DaPlastique: Adi Da's "Transcendental Realism" Art
Fear no more zoo Zoo established by Adi Da
DAbase: unofficial advocacy site (includes mirrored Adidam publications)
Beezone: unofficial advocacy site (includes mirrored Adidam publications)
Adidaupclose: Personal accounts of current devotees of Adi Da Samraj
Adidabiennale: Official Adi Da - Venice Biennale information website

Criticism

The Daism Seminar, a critical site (includes mirrored news articles)
Holy Madness: The Dangerous and Disillusioning Example of Da Free John, by Georg Feuerstein, 1996 (follower in early 1980s)
The Case of Adi Da by Ken Wilber
Rick Ross Institute page on Adi Da/Adidam: material compiled by anti-cult activist Rick Ross (includes mirrored news articles)
A Room With A Guru, by Dennis Trunk, 1999 (follower in early 1970s)

Other sites

Profile of Adidam from the Religious Movements Homepage Project

Adi Da/Adidam from the Kheper Site by M. Alan Kazlev

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