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Recently went to the Melbourne Adidam Centre and noticed there was a huge stack of old Laughing Man, Free Daist & Crazy Wisdom magazines for sale for “peanuts”. My good fortune perhaps, I bought all I didn’t have.
I have always thought that devotees should have a sense of history to fully appreciate “The Event”; without that historical perspective it’s all so localized, history adds or shows the great dimensions that it spans and continues to. Not to mention the intellectual and aesthetic enjoyment in all of this. Adi Da Samraj certainly displayed this quality, His historical perspective on everything, was second to none.
Tags: Adidam History, for devotees
I agree! I was at a New York retreat last weekend (where I took my 3C vow) and a bunch of us were talking about old books and getting rid of them. Yes, keeping them means we may have numerous editions of what is essentially the same book … but, as you say … there’s a historical aspect to it. Considering his own interpretations of historical texts, as in the Gnosticon, history has great educational value. I’m finishing up a 1974 copy of Knee of Listening right now that I found on Amazon. It’s like looking in on another life, not that of our Beloved. It’s a young guru’s book of discovery. I read this and see where Adidam all started – that book – and I float in joy seeing where it all went and continues to go! ~ Love, Aaron, Manhattan
Hey Aaron, nice to catch up, your creativity is great, please let it roll on, also how you get Beloved and Ayn Rand in the same room is baffling but enjoyable non the less. Also will read Da Eyes. It’s quite incredible the number of musicians taking at least some inspiration from Bhagavan Adi Da, had no idea http://www.romanmidnightmusic.org/adidammusic.html get them all in the same room I say, transform the world, any chance ?
As for “Ayn And Adi” in the same room (you’re the first to point out that seemingly contradiction!) — besides being a pretty big room, one is a great writer and one is a great teacher AND writer. One I like. One I love. I think you can figure out who is who in my mind. Further, you can’t have good without the qualifying reflection bad. So, the ’selfish’ cynic makes the Beautiful that much brighter! Reading The Fountainhead brought out Adi Da Samraj that much more.