Birth, Life & Death
Endorsements
 This section is organized as follows: ENDORSEMENTS OF ADI DA  The life and teaching of Avatar Adi Da Samraj are of profound and decisive spiritual significance at this critical moment in history. Bryan Deschamps Adi Da is the transcendent and transformational Being of our era. He is the Good News Who has come in answer to our prayers. Dan Hamburg Adi Da's teachings take the great ancient traditions forward, not by negating them, but towards their fulfillment. Rishi Kumar Mishra Adi Da Samraj has created a body of work that surpasses in its force and insight that of any other author and teacher of our time. Paul E. Muller-Ortega It is obvious, from all sorts of subtle details, that he knows what IT’s all about . . . a rare being. Alan Watts I regard Adi Da Samraj as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today. Irina Tweedie Adi Da Samraj is a man who has truly walked in Spirit and given true enlightenment to many. Sun Bear Adi Da Samraj has spoken directly to the heart of our human situation — the shocking gravity of our brief and unbidden lives. Through his words I have experienced a glimmering of eternal life, and view my own existence as timeless and spaceless in a way that I never have before. Richard Grossinger Adi Da Samraj and his unique body of teaching work offer a rare and extraordinary opportunity for those courageous students who are ready to move beyond ego and take the plunge into deepest communion with the Absolute. Importantly, the teaching is grounded in explicit discussion of necessary psychospiritual evolution and guides the student to self-responsibility and self-awareness. Elisabeth Targ, M.D. That God can, among other things, actually incarnate in human form once seemed unbelievable to me. But reading the books of Avatar Adi Da obliterated all doubt about the existence of God right now, here on Earth in human form. Charmian Anderson, Ph.D. From the day I first encountered the writings of Adi Da (as Da Free John) in the mid-80s, I knew that I was reading a contemporary religious genius. The [writings of Adi Da Samraj] are the most doctrinally thorough, the most philosophically sophisticated, the most culturally challenging, and the most creatively original literature on radical nonduality currently available in the English language. Jeffrey Kripal, Ph.D. Nothing like this has ever been Revealed before. We have waited for this moment in history for countless lifetimes. Adi Da Samraj is the True Heart of the world. Roger Savoie, Ph.D. If there is a man today who is God-illumined, that man is Avatar Adi Da Samraj. There exists nowhere in the world, among Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or any other groups, anyone who has so much to teach. Avatar Adi Da is a force to be reckoned with, a Pole around which the world can get its bearings. Henry Leroy Finch Jr. Adi Da's Teachings have tremendous significance for humanity. . . He represents a foundation and a structure for sanity. Robert K. Hall, M.D. I regard the work of Adi Da and his devotees as one of the most penetrating spiritual and social experiments happening on the planet in our era. Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D. Fly to the side of this God-Man. His Divine Transmission works miracles of change not possible by any other Spiritual means. Lee Sannella, M.D. That God can, among other things, actually incarnate in human form once seemed unbelievable to me. But reading the books of Avatar Adi Da obliterated all doubt about the existence of God right now, here on Earth in human form. Charmian Anderson, Ph.D. My relationship with Adi Da Samraj over many years has only confirmed His Realization and the Truth of His impeccable Teaching. He is much more than simply an inspiration of my music, but is really a living demonstration that perfect transcendence is actually possible. This is both a great relief and a great challenge. If you thirst for truth, here is a rare opportunity to drink. Ray Lynch A great teacher with the dynamic ability to awaken in his listeners something of the Divine Reality in which he is grounded, with which he is identified, and which, in fact, he is. Israel Regardie Who is Adi Da Samraj? I cannot say. But I do know that he offers a timely and especially essential message — a message animated by timeless and universal truths. His written work and his art are a whisper reminding us of the necessary and infinite that define us. He is one of the great secrets and comforts of the last century. Stuart Gibson I have spent a lifetime studying and experimenting with the traditional and contemporary "solutions" to the basic Spiritual problems with which humankind has struggled for eons. And so I can say without a doubt (not merely as a scholar, but as a practitioner) that Avatar Adi Da Samraj offers to all beings the greatest Spiritual Realization ever made available on this planet — Perfect, Eternal Happiness — and for realizing it, He provides a foolproof means whose only limit is oneself. Strong words! Words that affront many who are raised in our contemporary materialistic society (and its obligatory but uninformed egalitarianism: "all spiritual paths are equal" — they are not). Words that require much to back up. But I've dedicated much of my recent life and creativity to doing just that: providing the evidence . . . with the passionate intent that many others become aware of, and drink from, this Unlimited Fountain of Perfect Knowledge and Perfect Happiness. Chris Tong, Ph.D. ENDORSEMENTS FOR ADI DA'S IMAGE-ART  I believe that art should always be a surprise. It must create, even in the critic, not emotion, but a sense of insecurity. When one views Adi Da's art, it is easy to see "pop art", "op art", all the possible linguistic, ethnological, and iconographic references; but, in the end, the final work is always a surprise. With Adi Da's work, I did not simply find myself in front of a new personal iconographic universe but rather in front of images that returned me to an experience of "epiphany". Achille Bonito Oliva It is a rare artist who can convey, convincingly, the sense of being face to face with the source of being. Adi Da can clearly live in the depths without succumbing to their pressure, bringing back pearls of art to prove it. What is perhaps most striking about Adi Da's photographs is their gnostic quality — the intricate movement of light and shadow that gives them their expressive depth and profound intimacy. It is more than a matter of standard chiaroscuro. Adi Da is not simply employing the evocative power of light and shadow, but bringing out their emblematic character. Interweaving them — and in numerous works skeins of light ("the fire of the sun") play over and within shadowy if transparent water ("the water of life") — Adi Da suggests the union of opposites that is the core of mystical experience. Ecstatic experience of their unity brings with it a sense of the immeasurable. Donald Kuspit Adi Da's pursuit of the spiritual paths found in early abstraction, from Kandinsky to Mondrian, and [his] translation of that pursuit into the digital age, restore a transcendental spirituality to the materialism of the machine aesthetic. Peter Weibel Adi Da's Art is a paradoxical experience, a multi-dimensional one, a revelatory one, a liberating one, an ordeal also, a participation that is extraordinary . . . In my opinion, this is utterly a Work of great genius, completely original and inspiring, a great gift to humanity, human culture, and the world of art. Ron Fouts Adi Da's Work is a modern-day religious icon that communicates multiple levels of reality. Adi Da's exploration of mind, memory, the human psyche, is complex and multi-dimensional. This is the sacred art of our time. David Hanson Adi Da is inviting us to see that art is capable of relating to the world in a way that reflects a truer understanding of reality than our present culture is willing to acknowledge. It is also clear that the spiritual nature of His art lies not in any idealistic consideration of what ought to be, but in its insistence that we open our eyes and see what is; that that requires us to enter into a relationship, one in which we accept the fact of mystery, but gain a greater sense of meaning, and of affirmation. Jan Taylor Clearly Adi Da is an artist focused on understanding the basis of real life, of human life, and trying to understand the connection between everyday life and human needs. Everyday life is not simply something realistic and linked to the needs of the human body. It is something linked to superior considerations. The art of Adi Da is clearly focused on this. Beauty is balance. Adi Da takes chaos and in a certain sense simplifies it, but in another sense makes it even more complex; and in an aesthetic, moral, philosophical, and spiritual sense, he gives that which we see around us meaning. Anamaria Tofani Through his artwork, Adi Da is redefining the nature of art, returning art to its ancient, sacred origins. In his remarkable, transformative artwork, viewers are being given both an embodiment of Adi Da's realization, and an opportunity to experience the ecstatic unity of creation. His images. . . offer a truly rare opportunity for revelation. David T. Hanson Before we can participate in truth and the beautiful as aesthetic experience, Adi Da says, our emerging world culture needs to be transformed by the possibilities of sacred energy, the Light that runs through all things. It is a mystical view that runs through both Western and Eastern cultures, from the biblical call to “see with new eyes”, to St. Francis Assisi’s understanding of the natural world as expressing divine presence, to the Chinese scholar-artists’ perception of the formlessness in form, to the transformative spaces of Monet or Rothko. This intuitive stance provides hope for romantic and mystical artists, hope that the essence of their work will become manifest. That Adi Da challenges our culture to return art to its original, sacred purpose without merely recreating a long-lost past makes Transcendental Realism a significant work, not only for artists but anyone who senses the limitations of contemporary culture and strives to create a more vivid way of being. Celia Rabinovitch, Ph.D. ENDORSEMENTS FOR ADI DA's BOOK NOT-TWO IS PEACE  This extraordinary collection of illuminating essays offers a deep diagnosis of humanity's predicament. The cure Adi Da prescribes, based on higher laws, is simultaneously radical, urgent, and straightforward. Adi Da's is a uniquely authentic and compelling voice in this global age. Rolf C. Carriere Not-Two Is Peace contains wisdom that can transform the current and ongoing world crises that so desperately need effective conflict resolution. If truly acted upon, what Adi Da advocates has the power to bring an end to the horrors and suffering that are the result of our mad need to differentiate between "us" and "them". Hugh O'Doherty In a world beset with innumerable challenges, Not-Two Is Peace offers a new vision for the future. Adi Da emphasizes “prior unity” as the basis for our decisions and actions. If we proceed with putting the interests of the whole of humanity first, then there is the possibility of growth and development for the nearly seven billion people on the planet, not just a privileged minority. Such wisdom cannot be ignored. Sam Pitroda At this crossroads in history, many serious attempts are being made to steer humanity toward a new and sustainable civilization. Among them, [Not-Two Is Peace] tby Adi Da is outstanding as a unique and radical message oriented to meet the global state of emergency through a new modus operandi, "the working-presumption of prior unity", and a Global Cooperative Forum that could empower the more than six billion inhabitants of the planet to take their destiny into their own hand. This vision deserves to be read and pondered, and decisively acted upon. Ervin Laszlo In Adi Da's wonderful book, this great friend of the whole world reaches out, with impeccably loving truth, profound compassion, and enlightened insight, to offer humanity a way forward to heal and re-solve our dis-membered psyche and thus our dysfunctional behaviors that continue to arise from its schism. Adi Da identifies its cause as our ego-based illusion of the apparent separation of the world and our collective forgetting of its and our "prior unity". Not only is his understanding of unity-expressed-in-diversity vital at this pivotal moment in human history, but it is gaining compelling and transformational validation from the latest scientific evidence. Dr. Jude Currivan The narrative of Adi Da's book is simple, powerful, accessible, and compassionate. And his message, grounded in global wisdom, is urgent and timely. . . . This important book should be read carefully and put into practice by all global citizens. Ashok Gangadean The work of Adi Da invites humanity to step through a portal into the nature of Reality Itself. With the power and poise of a true spiritual master, Adi Da uses this book to plant the seeds for a morally enlightened civilization based in the principle of prior unity, rather than in separation, domination, and control. At times fierce, at times gentle, Adi Da’s teachings shine like a bright star of hope that humanity can use to navigate its way forward. In humanity's curriculum, this book is required reading. Dustin Diperna In this book, Adi Da powerfully and elegantly cuts through the collective delusion of separateness upon which modern society is founded. He calls for the establishment of a Global Cooperative Forum based on the presumption of our prior, underlying, and inherent unity. He writes his wisdom into a time on this planet when, if we do not all start acting, all at once, for the common good, life on this planet will become unlivable for all of us. This book establishes the essential foundation for a new cooperative world order arising from the unity which is prior to our diversity. Bob Anderson Adi Da quietly arrives on the doorstep of the evolution of consciousness, revealing, step by step, what is required to sustain humanity and this beautiful planet. We should all be very interested in the mysterious state of "prior unity". Let us invest in this work of genius immediately. Let us never put this book on the shelf. It is a living document, forever active. Patricia Karen Gagic Through the ages, people have struggled with the idea that consciousness and being are a priori to physical manifestation. Today, our awareness of timeless union and inner value finds fragmented expression in a myriad of linear phenomena that we take for reality, including sovereign boundaries, property rights, market prices, interest rates, cyclical bubbles, and externalities such as pollution, poverty, social conflict, terrorism, and war. In this visionary and epochal book, Adi Da reminds us that humanity is already always a mass subjective unity and beckons us to fully externalize this conscious interconnectivity and ontological interdependence through our economic, social, and political institutions and collective decision-making. James B. Quilligan Not-Two Is Peace is Adi Da's urgent wake-up call to all men and women of conscience. Now is the time to bring together all our diverse gifts and talents into one shared project to make our world fit for all human beings to inhabit. We are united by the same need to live free of want, free of fear, and free to live a life of dignity. At the heart of the human condition lies the recognition that freedom for one must mean freedom for all. Peace is the prime directive. Peace is prior unity. The Global Cooperative Forum is the way. Hilde Rapp At this critical moment in the history of the human family, when the very foundations of civilization are being challenged, there is a message of compassion being spoken by one grounded in enduring wisdom and true discernment. In Not-Two Is Peace, Adi Da writes of the urgent need for a new form of global discourse, based on the recognition of the underlying unity of humankind. Such discourse would renew the ideals that originally underlay the foundation of the United Nations. And it would require humankind as a whole to listen to the ordinary people all over the world who are in dire need of greater human security. Bryan Deschamp At the Dawn of this New Divine Springtime, Beloved World-Friend Adi Da clearly enunciates the Sacred State of Consciousness — Prior Unity and Oneness — needed to actualize a Global Cooperative Forum, a dynamic and vital step toward Universal Peace, long prophesied by the Ancient Ones. Without a doubt, through the Everywhere Spirit that is manifesting in digital technology, we will unify "everybody-all-at-once" and take this historic step together, with One Heart and One Mind in many bodies. Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. Adi Da's poignant and profound Not-Two Is Peace reminds us to rise above prejudice to seek commonality over differences. We are living on a planet of increasingly finite resources. Adi Da reminds us of the interconnectivity of all things that ultimately binds us to each other and our planet. Laurence Brahm Adi Da offers not just one peace-making strategy among others. He goes deeper, reminding us that the very concept of "other" is a false basis from which to begin. He is right to insist that we must go beyond seeming divisions to the deeper reality that there is one singular whole of which all existence is, and always was, a part. His recognition and articulation of this "prior unity" offers a guiding light on the path forward. Sister Makrina Finlay, OSB Adi Da demonstrates the illusion we are living in and the separateness and greed that run both nations and large institutions, thereby affecting our lives. He presents a blueprint for a world that works but also points out the steps each individual can and must take to transcend the ego. His book is both visionary and practical, showing that cooperation is the only road available to us to avoid total destruction. Goran Wiklund Profound wisdom on the root of human conflict, and the path away from a grim destiny. An astonishing gift. Jonathan Lynch ENDORSEMENTS FOR ADI DA'S BOOK, CONDUCTIVITY HEALING  Conductivity Healing is a provocative and outstanding book dealing with the complexity of life. In simple terms, this book is about restoring the flow of energy in a direction that supports aliveness, health and creativity. I’ve always known, as a physician and psychotherapist, that when energy is obstructed, illness and pathology frequently follow. This book — from the Enlightened and highly intuitive Avatar Adi Da Samraj — is an absolute treasure, revealing several methodologies that support harmonious healing frequencies for not only the physical body, but for the emotional and spiritual domains as well. I loved reading it. Highly recommended! Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., F.A.C.C. Conductivity Healing is an eloquent invitation to go beyond the limitations of physical being and understand ourselves as energy; to consciously be alive as energy and live our lives as energy in relation to ourselves and to others. The book gives a foundation of etheric awareness and describes various practices for magnifying and circulating life-energy. All dimensions of healing are covered — the physical, the subtle, and the causal. It includes many practical exercises to awaken sensitivity, consciously participate with the universal field of life-energy, and facilitate healing on all levels. Debra Greene, PhD Conductivity Healing will captivate you, drawing you into the life and spirit of Adi Da Samraj, and the gift of healing he bestowed upon the world—a gift you may find insightful and useful in your healing journey, and the journey of others you serve and assist. Donald Yance, CN, MH I am a physician who lost faith in the tools I was given to treat my patients, triggering a personal healing journal, and my discovery of the beauty and tremendous healing powers of both energy and the breath. After my life-changing understanding of the nature of health, I incorporated energy healing into my medical practice, and I've seen great benefits for my patients. It was therefore with great joy that I received and read Adi Da's new book, Conductivity Healing — which I can now enthusiastically recommend to those of you, who, like myself, are seekers on the deepest levels. Enjoy! Felice Gersh, MD Energy, the energy body, energy transference, and energy healing are all real. Conductivity Healing, from Avatar Adi Da, adds a very important piece to the complex puzzle of healing with energy and healing with touch — and the simple, universal truth of healing with love. Dr. Marc Halpern At our most subtle level, we are made of vibrating energy. Learning to measure and harness this energy will be the future of medicine. Conductivity Healing offers a time-tested road map, using the most profound tools of yoga (union) to heal, in the simplest and most natural way possible. Dr. John Douillard, DC, CAP Conductivity Healing is a welcome addition to the world of health and healing books. In this book, energy healing is explored from the perspective of the Avatar Adi Da Samraj, and encompasses a wide range of practices and philosophies. Anyone who wants to become more knowledgeable about healing — and move to a higher energetic level — should consider reading Conductivity Healing. Misha Ruth Cohen, OMD, L.Ac. I read Conductivity Healing in one sitting, and feel like Avatar Adi Da took me on an incredible ride of concepts to find happiness, understand self-realization, and attain pure consciousness and energy. As an Ayurvedic practitioner, Avatar Adi Da reminds me of an Ayurvedic physician — one who is always in consideration of the whole body, and what it means to be an uninhibited human being, conducting the radiance of truth itself. I am inspired! DeAnna Batdorff Carefully crafted, Conductivity Healing offers a number of simple, supportive energy practices conducive to healthy living, all stemming from Avatar Adi Da's unique and extraordinarily dynamic demonstration of full spiritual realization. Technically and scientifically inclined readers interested in subtle energies will find original material for further exploration and elaboration. Scott Virden Anderson, MD Though I am not a devotee of Adi Da Samraj, I revere many ageless wisdom traditions that tell us energy transcends our human form. This brilliant work offers practical guidance on energy medicine. Use these simple disciplines to find healing beyond symptom-based "cures" — for yourself and others. Amanda McQuade Crawford, MA In the 1980's, Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi introduced me to the science of energy medicine. One of his many insightful and inspiring statements: "In every culture and every medicine before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy." Fortunately, the ancient methods of healing are resurging—acupuncture, Ayurveda, meditation, Tai Chi, and Yoga, to name a few. And energy medicine practitioners from every tradition, as well as scientists, are learning how to "move energy." Conductivity Healing is an important source of vital information on this subject. The book takes energy medicine beyond the physical and emotional body, to the ways energetic flows can be enhanced through simple, transformative, and pleasurable exercises. These are pure, potent, direct, and effective "conductivity practices." By practicing the methods described here, the "work" of healing becomes simple, ecstatic, intuitive, and radiant. James L. Oschman, Ph.D. Conductivity Healing contains the practical and the sublime, offering doctors and health practitioners — and everyone — an opportunity to read and receive the most radical healing instruction, the way beyond all dis-ease. In these pages, the Master Healer, Adi Da Samraj, offers fundamental instruction on the critical alignment of the physical body to the subtler energies that sustain it, and explains the ultimate antidote to human suffering. Highly recommended. Angelo Druda Adi Da is a master teacher and spiritual realizer. In this book, he reveals the secrets of energy healing in relation to self, others, and the world. In his usual comprehensive and straightforward way, Adi Da gives practical instructions on how to conduct energy, how to consciously use the breath, and how the laying on of hands can be used as a means to heal and transform. This book is a must read for all students of the healing arts. Dustin DiPerna ENDORSEMENTS FOR ADI DA'S WORK OF LITERATURE, THE MUMMERY BOOK  The Mummery Book is brilliant in all its aspects. It would be hard to express my happiness at the way it breaks and exposes the heart of the world. Living and working as a writer for many decades, I have not encountered a book like this, that mysteriously and unselfconsciously conveys so much of the Unspeakable Reality. Robert Lax If Dylan Thomas and Buddha shared a soul, The Mummery Book is what I would expect from such a joining. The Mummery Book is a vortex which, if you will permit it, will enliven, awaken, and rejuvenate the soul not only of this mortal life, but the soul of every existence possible. The Mummery Book is lucid, wild, an unraveling portrait of ego-life and a radiant vision of transcendence, which pass each other on the heart’s walk across the pages of this luminous book. Robert Boldman Adi Da's The Mummery Book is a most extraordinary novel indeed. While contemporary postmodern fictions claims to have assimilated the most daring philosophical experiments of the twentieth century, too many contemporary authors have forgotten the spiritual substance of these experiments, so that their literary works remain mere exercise in style. Without the slightest bit of scholarly pedantry, The Mummery Book is devoted to the real problem that engages contemporary philosophy and political theory: finitude, mortality, the critique of egoic subjectivity, and above all the affirmation of life in the face of its apparently tragic character. Framed as an allegory, The Mummery Book employs innovative syntax and narrative strategies to challenge and disable the linear rationality that we are trained to bring to texts, and that the allegory form itself seems to invite, leading to a reading experience that is nothing short of explosive (the ‘real’ world of power and need dissolves into a mere mummer’s play) and revelatory (a new, ecstatic relationship to life is glimpsed). Those familiar with contemporary philosophy will recognize methodological and thematic parallels with the work of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida, as well as writers of fiction who have been inspired by this work. But unlike most postmodern fiction, style here is in the service of substance, while remaining playful. This is a book that one will turn to again and again for the insight and pleasure it offers. Frederick Dolan, Ph.D. The appearance of The Mummery Book by Adi Da Samraj signals a remarkable occasion in the world of literature. It is 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. At the level of form and style, The Mummery Book is reminiscent of Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, and Joyce. Adi Da makes words crackle and swoon, pound and console with an endless suggestiveness guided by a desire to open up the reader’s heart and imagination to the possibility of transformation. . . . As playful as it is profound, as heart-breaking as it is consoling, The Mummery Book is an absolutely unique literary experience. from the foreword by Philip Kuberski, Ph.D. ENDORSEMENTS FOR ADI DA'S BOOK, EASY DEATH  Easy Death is an exciting, stimulating, and thought-provoking book that adds immensely to the ever-increasing literature on the phenomena of life and death. But, more important, perhaps, it is a confirmation that a life filled with love instead of fear can lead to ultimately meaningful life and death. Thank you for this masterpiece. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. It is a refreshment at every page to read Easy Death. This may seem paradoxical, in view of the fearful uncertainty with which most Westerners look forward to dying. But Adi Da Samraj's words about the relation of death to life, love, surrender, and transformation have a clarity of mind and emotion that feels like a fresh breeze. Elmer Green An engaging anthology — and a timely one. . . With essays, wisdom-commentaries, near-death experience, and teaching tales, there is much Adi Da Samraj offers here to read slowly and savor. Marilyn Ferguson ENDORSEMENTS FOR ADI DA'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THE KNEE OF LISTENING  The Knee of Listening is without a doubt the most profound Spiritual autobiography of all time. Roger Savoie, Ph.D. It is obvious from all sorts of subtle details, that he knows what IT's all about . . . a rare being. Alan Watts No reader professionally or personally invested in Asian forms of spirituality and concerned about their effective (as opposed to dysfunctional) translation into Western culture can afford to ignore The Knee Of Listening or the larger textual corpus in which it is now placed, that is, Adi Da's twenty-three Source-Texts. In my opinion, this latter total corpus constitutes the most doctrinally thorough, the most philosophically sophisticated, the most culturally challenging, and the most creatively original literature currently available in the English language. Jeffrey Kripal, Ph.D.  |
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