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To: uu who wrote (451)	11/9/2001 9:51:11 AM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 2926

ADI DA: Adi Da is an American-born Spiritual Master, 62 years old. He was born "Franklin Jones" on Long Island, New York on November 3,1939. The process of his "enlightenment" is very fully described in his first book, THE KNEE OF LISTENING. If anybody on this thread wants a free copy, send me a PM and I will send it to them. Adi Da has published over 50 books of exquisite and complete Spiritual Teaching. He has also reviewed over 100,000 Spiritual books of all traditions, selecting from amongst them the 2,000 or so most important. Then he wrote 100 essays, linking and explaining the whole "Great Tradition" of mankind. This is still to be published, under the title THE BASKET OF TOLERANCE. In my (no question, biased) opinion Adi Da is the greatest Spiritual Teacher, ever. However, he certainly is NOT the ONLY Spiritual Teacher ever, nor does he claim to be. In addition to being a Guru and writer, he is a graphic artist, playwright and photographer. He will eventually be understood by the masses as a character like Leonardo, Goethe etc. But he is in the tradition of Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Zoroaster, Meher Baba, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda. The website is: www.adidam.org Namaste! Jim

To: uu who wrote (451)	11/9/2001 11:10:54 AM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 2926

THE ESOTERIC PROCESS: As mentioned in an earlier post, this exists in many religions. Here is a description of the process that is offered by Adi Da. From the book, THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE WHOLE BODY: <<<THE DIVINE PHYSICS OF EVOLUTION The great affair that I am desribing is absolutely uncommon. It has hardly every transpired in ayone's case in the whole history of the human world. What I am describing is a process that belongs to the further evolution of humanity. At best it belongs to thousands, million, billions of years in the future for the race as a whole. At present almost all human beings persist in an infantile moment in the evolution of existence, a moment that has nothing whatever to do with the ultimate Truth. Modern men and women are still dependent, violent, self-possessed, still seeking consolations in the realm of changes. So people should not imagine for a moment that the Way of Truth is an easy matter, that they can simply listen to this argument and thereby enter the ultimate Realization. This Way is the work of evolution, the work of the universe itself. It is the obligation or Law of eternal Existence that we are considering, and that the true relationship to the Spiritual Master generates and regenerates. The human Spiritual Master is an agent to the advantage of those in like form. When one enters into right relationship with a Spiritual Master, changes happen in the literal physics of one's existence. It is not just a mattter of ideas. I am talking about transformations at the level of energy, at the level of the higher light of physics, at the level of mind beyond the physical limitations that people now presume, at the level of the absolute Speed of ultimate Light. The transforming process is enacted in devotees, duplicated in and through that Living Company. It is not a matter of conceptual symbolisms or emotional attachment to some extraordinary person It is real physics. And it is to the advantage of people when someone among them has gone through the whole cyle of Transformation, because they can then make use of the the Offering of the Process, that Company. Spiritual life has nothing to do with the childishness that people tend to dramatize in the relationship to the Spiritual Master. I criticize that childish or dependent approach more directly than most people. Others are merely petulant about it, in the self-righteous mood of adolescence. But there are real reasons why both the childish and adolescent approaches to the Spiriual Master are forms of destructive nonsense and must be overcome. However, the mature, sacrificial relationship to the Spiritual Master is itself absolutely Lawful and necessary. Those who object to that relationship might as well object to the relationship between the Earth and the sun. Most people are willing to sacrifice things, but not themselves. They are willing to pay cash, in other words, for a quick salvation. This is an ancient ritual of worship, but it is false and futile. True worship is the sacrifice of your own bodily being in Truth in the living and Transforming Company of the Spiritual Master. People absolutely resist that sacrifice. The reason they resist it is that they know nothing about it. They are subhuman in their present level of adaptation. Sacrifice represents another stage of evolution for them. They are presently incapable of it in their actual, literal, psycho-physical condition. They must be drawn out of that condition, led out into another state of existence. And it is as far to go from where they are now to the ultimate Divine Realization as it is for the amoeba in the primal mud of the Earth to become a human being. Everything about them, even the body, must change radically. >>> Namaste! Jim