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2025-09-1000 min
Guru Viking PodcastEp314: Me & My Gurus - Ani PemaIn this episode I am joined by Ani Pema, an American nun in the Tibetan Buddhist religion and former swami in the Siddha Yoga organisation.
Ani Pema recalls her childhood in Boise Idaho, her high flying career in fashion working for Vogue magazine, and how dissatisfaction with the American dream set her on a spiritual search.
Ani Pema details her sixteen years of close discipleship and ordination under the renowned Siddha Yoga guru Swami Muktananda, her transformative encounters with the 16th Karmapa, and her subsequent discipleship under Tibetan Buddhist teachers such as Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and Namkhai Nyingpo.
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2025-07-041h 09
KUKURUMarcel Hof over Wim Hof, spiritualiteit, BDE’s, intuïtie en overgave | KUKURU #280In dit diepe en persoonlijke gesprek vertelt Marcel Hof (de broer van Wim Hof) over zijn eigen pad van fysieke extremen naar innerlijke verbinding. Hij deelt inzichten over intuïtie, trauma, ademwerk, de kracht van kou, familiebanden en zijn dochter met schizofrenie. Marcel benadrukt het belang van ervaring boven theorie: echte heling begint van binnenuit. Hij spreekt eerlijk over zijn verleden, het ontstaan van de Wim Hof Methode, en zijn eigen methodiek waarin spiritualiteit, wetenschap en sound healing samenkomen.Marcel Hof (1964) is ademcoach, spreker en trainer, bekend om zijn intuïtieve benadering van ademhaling, kou en innerlijke hel...
2025-06-151h 48
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy157 I Took a Vow to a Cult Leader (And Lived to Tell the Truth)I was a member of the cult of Adidam, following guru Adi Da Samraj. I go inside the actual vow ceremony where I became a formal devotee to the guru, and became a formal dues paying member of a cult. Live 5/17/2025. 0:00 – Overview of feelings about followers of Adidam & Adi Da Samraj | sharing life experience of being in a cult6:40 – Situation of taking vow to become formal devotee8:56 – Reading formal vow Part 1 "sacred vow of practice" for 3C membership level of Adidam from 2010 with commentary | level of spiritual maturity18:21 – Reading vow Part 2 with commentary21:19 – Reading vo...
2025-05-1858 min
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy150 Shelter's Bassist Said What I Wish Gurus Would Say About TruthSharing thoughts on finding truth, being in a cult, and my time in Adidam following cult leader Adi Da Samraj, based on an e-mail I received from Krishna Chaitanya Dasa the former bassist of Krishnacore Straight Edge punk band Shelter (with the line-up of Ray Cappo, John Porcelly, Eric Dailey, Vic DiCara. They did the albums "In Defense Of Reality" & "Attaining The Supreme"). Live 3.29.2025This is his Sanatana Dharma blog: https://vedasonic.org/Shelter official facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shelterofficial/0:00 – Sharing letter about truth from Krishna Chaitanya Dasa the bassist of Shelter4:12 – Trut...
2025-03-3018 min
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy116 Culture & Dharma – Don’t Be Andrew Tate: Be Real, Be Grounded, Be YouContinuing from eps. 114 on Andrew Tate, including being yourself & being authentic, being attractive to women vs being a boring unattractive person, discussing Islam & religious conversation, responding to negative comments. Live 7.20.20240:00 – Intro | trying to understand the world better via asking questions & dissecting ideas | spiritual life & social life6:21 – Tate not all bad7:33 – Tate's conversion to Islam | my thoughts on Islam | respecting those who made big religious conversions that breaks comfort zone12:01 – Experimenting with things to find yourself vs focusing on one thing13:51 – Making things your own via experimenting to develop our personality vs wearing a mask | Kei...
2024-07-211h 34
I Don't Know Anything with Paige Harriman32: Feel the Mystery with Rucharia Adi Da SamrajFeel the Mystery! I have been doing this for a long time, and it is the best and most important feeling of all. (Here is a link to the original material.)
2024-06-0703 min
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy106 Fake Gurus Exposed – Amma Sri Karunamayi (Part 1/2): Emotional ManipulationDoing a reaction video to 3 interviews with Amma Sri Karunamayi, who I didn't know before this video. I'd only seen her name, which is often confused with Amma the Hugging Saint. Is Amma a legit guru? Live 6.1.2024.0:00 – Intro to reaction videos of interviews with Amma Sri Karunamayi7:29 – Reacting to interview: Vedic gods | ego & pride vs spiritual growth | Amma's divinity16:34 – Reaction con't: Spirituality of children | questions on how karma works25:23 – Reaction con't: Paths to god & ego | avatarhood & god expressing emotions | seeing light like Adi Da Samraj | dealing with negativity in life | difficult working life vs spiritua...
2024-06-021h 53
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy102 Fake Gurus Exposed – Swami Rudi: The Man Behind Swami Chetanananda & Adi DaA reaction video to largely forgotten spiritual guru & meditation teacher Swami Rudrananada, aka Rudi, who I discovered as a devotee of Adi Da Samraj. Today he might be more known as the guru of disgraced fallen guru Swami Chetanananda of Oregon. Live 5.11.20240:00 – Reacting to the late Swami Rudrananda "Rudi" the somewhat forgotten New York meditation teacher & guru of Franklin Jones (aka Adi Da) & the disgraced Oregon guru Swami Chetanananda (aka J. Michael Shoemaker), Rudi wiki bio & website of Rudi's legacy https://www.rudi.org/teachings (Note: apology for change in sound, as a second microphone got turned on...
2024-05-1254 min
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy97 Fake Gurus Exposed – Santosha Tantra: Real Teaching or Spiritual Theater?Reaction video to some talks by lesser known Santosha Tantra of California, the divine mother, who I think is one of the few real spiritual gurus & maybe enlightened people. She is connected to Adi Da Samraj & has a focus on women's spirituality. Live 4.14.20240:00 – Intro to reaction video of spiritual teacher & artist Santosha Tantra whose teaching is focused on knowing one's self, not a cult leader, women's spirituality issues, inspired by Raman Maharishi & Hinduism08:48 – Introduced to Ma by Theo Cedar Jones of the band Swaybone (referenced interview)09:57 – Ma's website: https://www.santosha-tantra.com/, memoirs: "Woman Warrior and th...
2024-04-181h 37
Kingdom NowInside AdidamCults fascinate the general population as people wonder what draws individuals to get involved with them. What's it like to be in one and what's it like to get out of one? Join Apostle Lee Ann Marino and guest Aaron Joy (Portland, Maine) for an exploration into his time as a member in Adidam, a cult centered around the ideas of Adi Da Samraj. (Intro and conclusion track "No Mistakes" provided by https://slip.stream/748LSd.)
2024-04-021h 20
New Thinking Allowed Audio PodcastScandals at the Ashram with Julie AndersonJulie Anderson, a former Playboy centerfold model, was an intimate companion of Adi Da Samraj from 1976 until 1992. During that time she was known as Kanya Samarpana Remembrance (also Swami Dama Kalottara Devi, and a number of other names). Her article, “The Real Practice of Guru-Devotion,” was published in the Free Daist Magazine in 1992. You can learn more about Julie at the following sites: https://www.evelynexposedandfreed.com/, https://beezone.com/julieanderson/introduction.html and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNyLAXqHYDc&ab_channel=TheBeezone
In this heartfelt interview, she describes her situation in the 1980s, being in the...
2024-03-281h 27
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy91 The Dharma Path – Can’t Find a Guru? Why “Becoming One” Isn’t the Answer (Dr. Frawley Reading)A criticism of finding the inner guru, or becoming a guru, by Dr. David Frawley, due to the difficulty of finding a true living guru. Live 3.24.20240:00 – Sharing a quote from my teacher Dr. David Frawley (Acharya Vamadeva Shastri): "The idea of an inner guru is very popular today, particularly given the difficulty of finding a true living guru, as well as the scandals that may be associated rightly or wrongly with existing gurus known to the public. Some gurus also have so many followers that we may not be able to have a direct relationship with them, ev...
2024-03-2731 minNew Thinking Allowed Audio PodcastA Penetrating Spiritual Experience with Julie AndersonJulie Anderson, a former Playboy centerfold model, was an intimate companion of Adi Da Samraj from 1976 until 1992. During that time she was known as Kanya Samarpana Remembrance (also Swami Dama Kalottara Devi, and a number of other names). Her article, “The Real Practice of Guru-Devotion,” was published in the Free Daist Magazine in 1992.
Following up on her previous interview in which she shared details of life in the household of Adi Da Samraj, she goes into some depth describing his philosophy and the spiritual disciplines she practiced.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is auth...
2024-02-081h 35New Thinking Allowed Audio PodcastLiving with the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj, with Julie AndersonJulie Anderson, a former Playboy centerfold model, was an intimate companion of Adi Da Samraj from 1976 until 1992. During that time she was known as Kanya Samarpana Remembrance (also Swami Dama Kalottara Devi, and a number of other names). Her article, “The Real Practice of Guru-Devotion,” was published in the Free Daist Magazine in 1992.
Here she shares many details of the sixteen year period when she lived in the household of the spiritual master known as the Ruchira Avatar (among other names).
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi...
2024-01-061h 52
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy70 Culture & Dharma – Poetry I Wrote for Adi Da, Read by a Devotee Who Still BelievesPeter Owens in England reads my poetry book inspired by Adi Da Samraj. Peter is a devotee of Adi Da Samraj, though not involved with Adidam. Live 11.10.20230:00 – Show intro3:25 – Background to my poetry book "Into Da Bright: Poetry Inspired And In Tribute To The Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj (Revised Edition)" including my novella "Da Eyes: The Striptease" 14:23 – Poetry reading of "Into Da Bright" by Peter Owens of the 'Be Already Happy' youtube channel For seekers who’ve outgrown spiritual fluff. This isn’t about trends, vibes, or blind devotion. This is real talk for r...
2023-11-111h 12
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy43 Mantra & Grace – Chanting Om Ma Da 108x: Adi Da’s Mantra and a Critique of Non-DualismChanting Om Ma Da 108 times, a mantra of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, plus a criticism of Advaita Vedanta & discussion of the ego aka self-contraction. Live 6.28.20230:00 – Intro to testing new microphone1:47 – Chanting mantra from time as devotee of Avatar Adi Da Samraj (aka Franklin Jones, Da Free John, Bubba Free John), kundalini experience shared in episode 73:23 – Criticism of Advaita Vedanta "I am God"4:14 – Dissection of Om Ma Da mantra, divine feminine, no tilak7:23 – Intro to chant8:25 – Chanting Aum Ma Da 108x 13:10 – Adi Da's teaching on the ego (aka self-contraction) with a closed fist, gurus no...
2023-06-2922 min
Yeah... Nah!Da Allodial Sleepdrop RetrogradeCraig is back with us and having a breather before his future travels to Utah, so we are making him work twice as hard. We debunk the rise of mercury in retrograde in the current newscycle; devour a very interesting Official Information Act Request; despair that claiming allodial title doesn’t preclude you from paying taxes; and dive into the life and crazy wisdom of the late American spiritual guru, Franklin Jones, aka Adi Da Samraj, aka Da Free John, aka Bubba Free John.
About this episode
Articles we talk about:
Mercury in retrograde
New Freeland, Re...
2023-05-171h 10Yeah... Nah!Da Allodial Sleepdrop RetrogradeCraig is back with us and having a breather before his future travels to Utah, so we are making him work twice as hard. We debunk the rise of mercury in retrograde in the current newscycle; devour a very interesting Official Information Act Request; despair that claiming allodial title doesn’t preclude you from paying taxes; and dive into the life and crazy wisdom of the late American spiritual guru, Franklin Jones, aka Adi Da Samraj, aka Da Free John, aka Bubba Free John.
About this episode
Articles we talk about:
Mercury in retrograde
New Freeland, Re...
2023-05-171h 10
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy19 Culture & Dharma – Book Bans, Bible Rewrites & Censorship in a Post-Truth AgeThoughts on book censorship via Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl & the future Chinese approved Bible translation, plus authenticity of religious texts. Live 2.20.2023.0:00 – Gayatri mantra, reading from "Living Dharma" by Sri Dharma Acharya 1:48 – Intro, world post-"Mr. Rogers Neighborhood", thoughts on book censorship4:45 – Book censorship is now book editing for inclusivity/woke progressive agenda,questionable editing of Agatha Christie to not be racist, stereotypes8:59 – Editing Roald Dahl for inclusiveness (referenced news article)10:33 – Forthcoming pro-Communist Chinese Bible "translation" (see here) vs pro-Marxist novel edits13:38 – Declaring old classic authors as racist who are beyond editing, what is immune to...
2023-02-2426 min
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy14 The Dharma Path – Here's Why I'm no longer Afraid of My Own ReligionTalking about my childhood & how I was afraid to share my religious beliefs because I was afraid of myself & not knowing what I really believed, based on a reading from Swaminarayan's Shikshapatri. Live 2/10/2023.0:00 – Gayatri mantra, reading verse 39 from "Shikshapatri" by Shree Swaminarayan1:24 – "And worship of god shall not being given up fearing some foolish persons shall rail at it" (verse 39) reflects my own life as I feared sharing my religion3:44 – Story of not sharing Adi Da Samraj with neighbor5:00 – Never discussing religion, silenced from knowing about Judaism as a boy6:39 – I was private about reli...
2023-02-1325 min
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy13 The Dharma path – Polarity Therapy, Eeman Circuits & Adi Da’s Spiritual TechMy experience with polarity therapy massage & polarity screens (aka Eeman Biocircuts), the later popularized by Avatar Adi Da Samraj. Live 2.10.20230:00 – Gayatri mantra, reading from "Living Dharma" by Sri Dharma Acharya 1:32 – Introduction4:30 – Brief history of polarity therapy & Dr. Randolph Stone (referenced article), Theosophical Society8:40 – Questionable introduction to polarity screens via Adi Da Samraj12:11 – Trying polarity screens in 2019 5x, falling asleep was not a benefit18:57 – Never seen any negative reviews of polarity screens, was Adi Da devotee hiding the truth20:40 – Amazing experience with polarity therapy massage, personal history with massage & leg pain29:25 – Following a mass...
2023-02-1239 min
Live Mindfully with Lori MooreThe Art of Slowing DownRelax, nothing is under control ~ Adi Da Samraj - is one of my all time favourite quotes and certainly appropriate here.In today's episode we look at the art of slowing down, what the benefits are; as always, what the research says and why rushing isn't getting you anywhere faster.Today's episode is short and sweet for a reason ♡To learn more about the art of slowing down and what the research says, check out the resources below:Why you should stop rushing (your brain is tricking you): https://mindfulambition.net/st...
2023-01-3110 min
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy7 Cult Detox – Miracles of a Cult Leader, Plus Reflections on Racism & Government LiesDiscussing racism & Martin Luther King Jr day, New Zealand's ministry of truth, religious oppression & hypocrisy, responding to comments on my video of Dr. Jordan Peterson, plus details of religious miracles & strange things I've witnessed via Adi Da Samraj including out of body experience & automatic writing. Live 1.21.2023.0:00 – Gayatri Mantra & reading from Sri Dharma Acharya's book "Living Dharma"1:35 – Now on youtube, bitchute, spotify, anchor podcasts4:13 – Lack of race activism on Martin Luther King Jr Day, multi-million dollar Martin Luther King Jr statue to fight racism see video here9:45 – Source of truth New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern r...
2023-01-221h 25
Unfiltered Society With Aaron Joy5 The Dharma Path – False Paths & Real Dharma: How I Found My GuruDiscussion of definitions of maya, Law of Attraction, & religious universalism history. Personal history looking for a guru. Live 1.7.20230:00 – Intro1:33 – Definitions of Maya (i.e. illusion) from Sri Chaitanya and Adi Shankara5:48 – What is Maya, who is Maya dependent on, where does Maya come from?7:16 – O.B.L. Kapoor's book "The Philosophy and Religion of Sri Chaitanya (The Philosophical background of the Hare Krishna Movement)"10:19 – Law of Attraction, Claude M. Bristol's book "The Magic of Believing: The Science of Setting Your Goal and Reaching It"16:54 – Religious universalism unintentionally re-interprets and eventually destroys religions22:14 – A...
2023-01-211h 29
Buddha at the Gas PumpSandra Glickman - Buddha at the Gas Pump InterviewAlso see http://batgap.com/sandra-glickman/
A lifelong seeker of spiritual awakening, Sandra has deeply applied and correlated many teachings, methods, disciplines, healings, experiments, adventures, and views of every kind to forge a comprehensive understanding of human identity. She attended the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, an interdisciplinary program, experientially based, and purposed toward personal transformation. Her investigations led her to become a devotee of Adi Da Samraj between 1986 and 1996. She then began studying with Saniel Bonder, founder of Waking Down in Mutuality, with whose guidance she awakened in 1996, to a non-dual conscious embodiment of both her divine a...
2022-11-121h 42
Love CodeLove Code - How to Journey with Death and Dying with Angelo DrudaAngelo Druda practices Oriental Medicine in Cobb, CA. He is the founder of Traditional Botanical Medicine, the author of “The Tao of Rejuvenation” and a contributor to “Easy Death” by Adi Da Samraj. Elizabeth Kubler Ross called “Easy Death” : “A masterpiece” of death and dying wisdom. Angelo has offered seminars and webinars all over the world on how to prepare for death and how to serve the dying. He has served and instructed hundreds of people in their own death process.
https://www.traditionalbotanicalmedicine.com
2022-09-2659 min
Breakthrough WallsEpisode 425 - Interview With Patricia Gagic!PATRICIA KAREN GAGIC DStG Patricia is an accomplished International Contemporary Artist and an award-winning Author. She is President of Patricia Karen Gagic Art Enterprise Inc. Patricia is represented by the Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach and Miami, 13th Street Gallery in St. Catharines, Visual Voices In New York, and FACEC In France. Patricia has exhibited with BB International Fine Arts in Switzerland with her work accepted to Art Fairs including Geneva, Berlin, France, Austria, Zurich, London United Kingdom and Seoul, Korea. Exhibitions across North America have included the Coda Gallery in New York, Meg Gallery and Peak Gallery...
2022-04-201h 15
Breakthrough WallsEpisode 425 - Interview With Patricia Gagic!PATRICIA KAREN GAGIC DStG Patricia is an accomplished International Contemporary Artist and an award-winning Author. She is President of Patricia Karen Gagic Art Enterprise Inc. Patricia is represented by the Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach and Miami, 13th Street Gallery in St. Catharines, Visual Voices In New York, and FACEC In France. Patricia has exhibited with BB International Fine Arts in Switzerland with her work accepted to Art Fairs including Geneva, Berlin, France, Austria, Zurich, London United Kingdom and Seoul, Korea. Exhibitions across North America have included the Coda Gallery in New York, Meg Gallery and Peak Gallery...
2022-04-201h 15Love CodeLove Code - How to Journey with Death and Dying with Angelo Druda
Angelo Druda practices Oriental Medicine in Cobb, CA. He is the founder of Traditional Botanical Medicine, the author of "The Tao of Rejuvenation" and a contributor to "Easy Death" by Adi Da Samraj. Elizabeth Kubler Ross called "Easy Death" : "A masterpiece" of death and dying wisdom. Angelo has offered seminars and webinars all over the world on how to prepare for death and how to serve the dying. He has served and instructed hundreds of people in their own death process.
2022-03-2859 minNew Thinking Allowed Audio PodcastThe Spiritual Quest with Dan MillmanDan Millman is author of the novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, that was made into a motion picture. His other books on the spiritual quest include Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior, The Life You Were Born to Live, The Four Purposes of Life, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior, Everyday Enlightenment, Body Mind Mastery, and most recently Peaceful Heart Warrior Spirit: The True Story of My Spiritual Quest. His website is https://www.peacefulwarrior.com/
Here he describes four of the most important teachers he studied on his journey: Oscar Ichazo, founder of the Arica School...
2022-03-261h 16
WE Earth Radio: Conversations That Make A Difference with Michael Stone and GuestsLeo BurkeAdi Da Samraj, was an American spiritual teacher, writer, and artist. He was the founder of a new religious movement known as Adidam. Adi Da initially became known in the spiritual counterculture of the 1970s for his books and public talks, and for the activities of his religious community. His philosophy was essentially similar to many eastern religions which see spiritual enlightenment as the ultimate priority of human life.Adi Da wrote many books about his spiritual philosophy and related matters, founding a publishing house to print them. Today we are going to have a conversation with one...
2021-10-0358 min
Thoughts From the Threshold: A Course in Miracles Podcast#8: What is the Body?Today we read from the workbook: “What is the Body?”, as well as the Lesson of the Day: "Creation’s gentleness is all that I see". We also read a selection from “The World as Light" by Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
2021-09-2628 min
JacquelinaMusicI Am HereFrom. The CD entitled, "Let Me Tell of You"
"I Am Here" from 'Crazy Da Must Sing Inclined To His Weaker Side: Confessional Poems of Liberation and Love' by Adi Da Samraj
Music & Production
Jacquelina Music / Vocals and Music
Angie Accord/Guitar
2020-07-0402 min
JacquelinaMusicThe Wound Of LoveFrom. The CD entitled, "Love's Own Heart"
Words by Adi Da Samraj
Music & Production
Jacquelina Music /Nick Milo Production
2020-07-0106 minNew Thinking Allowed Audio PodcastInPresence 0150: Avatars Meher Baba & Adi Da SamrajInPresence host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). For many years he served as president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people were supported and encouraged in developing inner intuitive abilities.
Jeffrey Mishlove notes that, since the advent of computer games and the movi...
2020-06-0214 min
Empowerment Radio ShowPatricia Gagic, Artist, Author & Humanitarian of Patricia Karen Gagic Art Enterprise Ltd., Gallery on the BayPatricia is an accomplished International Contemporary Artist. She is the President of Patricia Karen Gagic Art Enterprises Inc. represented by Gallery on the Bay in Hamilton, Ontario, Artworld Fine Art in Toronto, Art Productions New York, F@CEC in France and Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach and Miami. Patricia has exhibited her art in many countries around the world such as Britain, Germany, France, Austria, and Switzerland. In 1999, Patricia began her studies with master artist Dragan Dragic in Savoillan, France. In 2007, she was an Honorary Commissioner at the 52nd Venice Biennale in support of Transcendental Realism – art of A...
2020-04-2723 min
WE Earth Radio: Conversations That Make A Difference with Michael Stone and GuestsLeo Burke ~Adi Da ~Not-Two is PeaceAdi Da Samraj, was an American spiritual teacher, writer and artist. He was the founder of a new religious movement known as Adidam. Adi Da initially became known in the spiritual counterculture of the 1970s for his books and public talks, and for the activities of his religious community. His philosophy was essentially similar to many eastern religions which see spiritual enlightenment as the ultimate priority of human life.Adi Da wrote many books about his spiritual philosophy and related matters, founding a publishing house to print them. Today we are going to have...
2020-04-1455 min
A Better World with Mitchell J. RabinMitchell Rabin Interviews Directors of film Conscious Light on Adi Da SamrajConscious Light offers a penetrating glimpse into the remarkable life and enlightened teachings of Avatar Adi Da Samraj and his work to establish a way of ultimate spiritual realization for everyone. It draws on extensive archival film, photography, and audio recordings, as well as interviews with students who lived with Avatar Adi Da and continue to practice the way that he revealed.
Peter Harvey-Wright is an award-winning filmmaker who spent most of his working life in Australia in the theatre, film and television industry – on both sides of the camera or stage. After graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of...
2019-02-1152 min
New DimensionsAn Awakened, Undefended and Intelligent Heart - Terry Patten - ND3645In the midst of our present polarization and alienation from one another, Patten exhorts us to understand that “we are in this lifeboat together and the fiercest thing we can do is to say, I’m living in a new republic of the heart. I’m a revolutionary. You are not going to separate yourself from me. I refuse to be in separation from you.”Tags: Terry Patten, York Center Community Co-op, Church of the Brethren, Adi Da Samraj, Integral Institute, despair, climate change, overshoot, activism, neurocardiology, Candace Pert, human intelligence systems, evolutionary emergence, empathy, fear, anger, tipping point, new trib...
2018-07-2500 min
JacquelinaMusicHe And She Is Me - "Jaya" The BandThe band Jaya began in 1997 with an ecstatic collection of music dedicated to Avatar Adi Da Samraj. They launched their first concert tour in Boston and New York and soon followed with a 5-city CD release tour.
A special project of world class musicians with a common vision: that the full palette of world music can awaken us to ecstasy by invoking the Divine.
Jaya's fresh, intoxicating blend of delicious dance grooves, engaging English lyrics and Sanskrit chant will move you into ecstatic space. It has unexpected shapes and curves - sounds that take you where you want to go.
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2017-09-0705 min
JacquelinaMusicFirst Great InvocationThe First Great Invocation,
Words By Adi Da Samraj
music, vocals, guitar by Jacquelina
Production and Arrangement by LionStar Studio
2017-07-0903 min
A Better World with Mitchell J. RabinLive Food & Climate Change Roundtable with Green GorillaThis evening Mitchell conducts a Round Table discussion on the relationship between diet and Climate Change. Inside this is tremendous possibility for both personal-planetary transformation and spiritual growth.
Joining Mitchell is Abel Slater and Dina Lautman. Abel and Dina have been devotees of spiritual teacher, Avatar Adi Da Samraj for over 25 years, spent significant time in Naitauba, Fiji at Adi Da’s principal hermitage sanctuary where they received direct guidance from Adi Da, both in practical life wisdom and esoteric spiritual practice. Now based in New York, they also travel extensively throughout the world presenting Adi Da’s spiritual teachings about righ...
2016-03-311h 05
"TRANSFORMING REALITY" TALK SHOWDEATH OF ANOTHER: A Mysterious Process that Includes You - with Angelo Druda (Mate Moce Ministry)Death is a mysterious process misunderstood and feared by most of humankind.
Some of us live as if we will never die, but death is inevitable for each of us.
No one gets out of here alive!
In this (22 minute) interview Angelo Druda articulates profound traditional spiritual wisdom for anyone serving another who is dying, and for each of us in preparing for our own inevitable passing.
Angelo Druda is a senior educator for the Mate Moce Ministry which was established by the well-known spiritual t...
2013-07-2922 min
Professionally SpeakingBook Review: The Art of Immersion, by Frank RoseA decade ago, the tools of communications belonged to a chosen few. Editorial control over newspapers, television and radio was in the hands of those professionals tasked with selecting content deemed worthy of the front page, the headline, the news bulletin. National newspapers and mass media channels were scarce resources. The stories they carried were linear and sequential. The 10 o'clock news was broadcast for an hour each evening at the same time. Important news was on the front page, above the fold.
That was then, this is now.
Immersive storytelling
Today's world is nonlinear, filled with always-on devices giving anywhere...
2012-12-2100 min
The Radical TruthTruth is Prior to the Body/MindIn this discourse Adi Da Samraj adresses the fact that Truth or God Realization is not dependent on, nor does it have anything to do with, the functions and activities of the body mind.
2012-01-1509 minThe Radical TruthBe Purposed to Realization - Beyond Race, Gender, or Any Form of 'self'-Identity.In this discourse, a devotee asks Adi Da Samraj about her practice of Adidam as an African-American woman in a predominantly white community.
2011-07-3125 minThe Radical TruthMoney, Food, and SexIn an historic discourse from 1972, Adi Da addresses the dilemma those taking up 'spiritual life' encounter when bringing discipline to the areas of money, food, and sex.
2010-11-2625 minThe Radical TruthHelping the DyingIn this discourse given May 29, 1980, a student of Avatar Adi Da asks for suggestions to help her dying mother. Adi Da responds both with compassion, and also with very practical and useful advice.
2010-10-0412 minThe Radical TruthThe Responsibility for LoveAn excerpt from a 1977 discourse of Adi Da Samraj, in which he responds to a devotee's question about the difficulty - and apparent inability - to love.
2010-07-2419 minThe Radical Truth'My Work Is Urgent'Adi Da speaks to the crisis mankind is in and the urgency for true spiritual practice - the disposition that undermines mankind's assumption of separation.
2010-05-2216 minThe Radical TruthAdi Da's Reading of His Love-Ananda GitaIn this historical recording of April of 1986, we hear Adi Da Samraj reciting the final section of his Love-Ananda Gita. In it Adi Da communicates his most 'radical' transcendental teaching regarding true renunciation of the egoic motive of seperation and Realization of the Divine Self-Condition.
2010-04-0410 min
Buddha at the Gas Pump013. Sandra GlickmanA lifelong seeker of spiritual awakening, Sandra has deeply applied and correlated many teachings, methods, disciplines, healings, experiments, adventures, and views of every kind to forge a comprehensive understanding of human identity. She attended the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, an interdisciplinary program, experientially based, and purposed toward personal transformation. Her investigations led her to become a devotee of Adi Da Samraj between 1986 and 1996. She then began studying with Saniel Bonder, founder of Waking Down in Mutuality, with whose guidance she awakened in 1996, to a non-dual conscious embodiment of both her divine and human nature. She is currently a Senior Teacher...
2010-03-071h 23The Radical Truth'When you Live you Make Mind...'In this discourse, given in 1985, Adi Da communciates that while we survive death, that fact is of no consulation. At death there is the falling off of the physical body, but the mind, psych and personality created during one's life continue without the anchor of the body. Without this anchor we drift aimlessly into the disturbances of mind and psyche that remain. Therefore what occurs after death is directly associated with what one does in life. Adi Da goes on to suggest that it would be best to associate and use one's lifetime to grow beyond the limits 'body only...
2009-12-2820 minThe Radical TruthAdi Da's Poetry: Confessional Poems of Liberation and LoveAdi Da Samraj communicates his 'Bright' realization and the purpose of his liberating work through poems He wrote between 1971 and 1976. The poems included in this podcast were selected from the full collection of Adi Da's poetry. The recitations are placed in an order that relates to Avatar Adi Da's Lifetime and Realization, and his relationship to the world. You are invited to relax the mind and listen to Adi Da's confessions of love and happiness.
2009-10-2520 minThe Radical TruthThe Death of Adi Da SamrajOn November 27, 2008 Adi Da Samraj passed from His body in His hermitage sanctuary in Fiji. This extended podcast includes a chronicle of this time of His passing, an audio excerpt from 1999 of Adi Da speaking about His physical death and continuation of His spiritual and world work, and finally interviews with devotees who made the pilgrimage to Fiji for this event.
2009-07-1223 minThe Radical TruthThe Commercialization of ReligionThe consumer mentality has infiltrated the area of religion. We hear from the media and the popular psyche that you can buy religion and become 'spiritual' without real change - and this presumption is false. In this episode, which includes two segments from discourses and a recitation from His Teaching, Avatar Adi Da brings His unique clarity and offers commentary on the matter.
2008-12-2817 minThe Radical TruthAll Religious History is One Great TraditionThe history of human spirituality is actually One Great Tradition. In this discourse Avatar Adi Da calls upon us to study and understand the searches, doctrines and spiritual attainments of mankind as a whole, not as seperate traditions or paths. He also urges mankind to transcend merely belief-based religious myths, dogma and "religious provincialism" which only support egoic seperation and conflict.
2008-09-2225 minThe Radical TruthThe Romanticism of ScienceDoes religion have the answer to truth.. or does science explain it all? In this discourse Adi Da Samraj speaks to what science can serve and what are the limits in its endeavor to discover the truth about Reality.
2008-04-2920 minThe Radical TruthTranscending the Mood of DoubtDoubt is not a sign that we may be betrayed. Adi Da describes the "solution" to doubt - identifying with the Divine, beyond temporary cycles of body and mind.
2008-01-2520 minThe Radical TruthThe Only Way Beyond FearAvatar Adi Da Samraj addresses the root cause of fear which is at the core of all suffering. He speaks about the "self-contraction" or the activity of presumed identification exclusively with the separate and mortal body as the place where fear arises. Rather than avoiding the fear inherent in being a body, or try to come up with techniques to "cure it", Adi Da Samraj Calls us to understand and transcend that self-knot by identifying and the Divine Condition that is Always Already the Case and in Prior Unity to presumed separateness of the body-mind.
2007-12-1022 minThe Radical TruthWhat is Adidam?Adi Da clarifies that the Way of Adidam is based solely on the inherent heart-response to his spiritual state. That heart-response in feeling relationship to Adi Da leads to the self-understanding and willingness to take up the real ego-transcending practice and ultimately to the outshining of conditional appearances and separation.
2007-06-2212 minThe Radical Truth"God" Is not the CauseA devotee askes Adi Da a question about the nature of the "ego", and how the sense of self-separation is caused. In response, Adi Da gives a Radical and profound description of the true nature of the Divine Reality, Stating that the Divine is the substance of all that arises, not the "cause" of anything, Avatar Adi Da goes on to describe how it is our own separation from that which is the very Divine, that causes the assumption of separation.
2007-05-0716 minThe Radical TruthCults and CultismIn this talk Avatar Adi Da notes that cultism is rooted in the childish need to believe and to depend on a person, group, myth, or symbol - without assuming responsibility for oneself. He then points out that the tendency to create a cult of whatever kind is present in everyone - at every level of human society and culture. Avatar Adi Da criticizes the tendency toward cultism in the world at large and even within His own community of devotees. He calls His Devotees to understand and relinquish all modes of false and childish dependency on Him as a...
2007-04-1712 minThe Radical TruthDeath and The Purpose of ExistenceIn this episode, Avatar Adi Da describes how the habits of attention, or the patterning of mind while alive determine what happens in and after death. He dispels the myth of "when you die you go to heaven", and elucidates the process of life, death and reincarnation. Adi Da also gives a clear picture of how the death process works and why Spiritual life is absolutely necessary in serving that process. In the second part of this episode a devotee recounts a near death experience of a friend and how Adi Da saved that individual from death.
2007-03-1534 minThe Radical TruthBeyond Death, Sorrow, and Loss: A Discourse by Adi Da SamrajIn this episode, Avatar Adi Da Samraj responds to a question from a devotee who had lost a grandchild and was asking for some understanding that might ease his sorrow. Avatar Adi Da describes how there is no answer to the pain of loss except for Divine Realization. He Calls His devotee to use the experience of loss to move one to Realize that which transcends the position of separation in which loss can be experienced, through Communion with Him, and ultimately Divine Realization of Prior Unity.
2007-02-2416 minThe Radical TruthThe Need for The Spiritual MasterYou will hear two excerpts from Talks by Avatar Adi Da: In the first excerpt, Avatar Adi Da Samraj speaks of the ancient and time-honored understanding of the indispensable need for a true and fully accomplished spiritual Realizer if anyone hopes to discover the ultimate nature of Reality and Truth. In the second excerpt Avatar Adi Da Samraj considers with his devotees why someone is attracted to a Spiritual Realizer and how that attraction leads one become a devotee of a Realizer.
2007-02-0419 minThe Radical TruthThe BrightAvatar Adi Da reads His own description of the unique State of Spiritual Freedom He has enjoyed since His birth. From His earliest childhood, He has used the term "The 'Bright'" to convey His experience of the overwhelming Spiritual Radiance of Reality. Adi Da is alive now in our time and the entire purpose of His Life and Work is to freely transmit the Perfect Condition of the "The 'Bright'" to everyone.
2007-01-1919 min
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFAvatar Adi Da Samraj - Julian Butler (incomplete)Julian Butler first read the teachings of Adi Dam in 1979. He became formally involved in the 1980s when the teachings were being established in the U.K. He is the head priest at the Mountain of Attention Sanctuary in Northern California. You can learn more about the Sanctuary and teachings of Adi Da at https://www.adidaupclose.org/Empowered_Places/mountain_of_attention.html ______________ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/There you can: Donate Learn how to participate live Find our s...
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