Does anyone have recent info on what is going on with the Lake County group in CA? I would like to talk to someone who quit group in the last few years. Has there been any recent investigations in the last couple of years concerning groups activities. Has anyone written a book in the last few years about Adidam?

Thanks

You may be able to find some information if you correspond here.

[www.lightgate.net]

Elias, the webmaster, is very well informed. Registration for this site is free.


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There's never been any book published about Adidam, except those published by the official Adidam organisation.

Most of the info on the abuses of Franklin Jones aka Adi Da stems from court cases in 1985:

[uk.youtube.com]

There is critical commentary at

[www.adidaarchives.org]

but the fact remains that Adi Da or Da Free John was the most accomplished Western religious performance con-artist on the planet. The likes of Andrew Cohen or Aleister Crowley are less than amateurs by comparison, even if more popular.

The Adidam community will now be doing their damnedest to institute a new world religion and some vague media hype from 1985 about drug-induced sexual abuse one or two people complained about is not going to get in their way.

Unless someone publishes a really sensational rip-roaring page-turner about how it all carried on beyond the 70s 'Garbage and the Goddess' era into the 80s right up til the 21st Century when he copped it.

Georg Feurstein was involved with Adi Da and wrote a book Holy Madness in two editions after leaving Da.

The first edition was published in the very early 1990s and the second edition was published in 2007 or 2008.

Feurstein seems to take the stance that allegedly enlightened gurus as enlightened beings, behave in paradoxical ways and that their behavior cannot be judged by conventional standards of right and wrongand that such behavior is a challenge to ego bound attitudes of observers.

(Yeah, sure.)

However there appear to be some differences between the two editions--including different publishers.

So researchers interested in this matter need to acquire copies of both editions and then read them carefully, pencil and notebook in hand, and list the differences and revisions and also material in the footnotes.

Another former follower of Adi Da described some of it on his blog, Broken Yogi Samyama. Much of the material he wrote about Adi Da was published in 2006

[brokenyogi.blogspot.com]



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