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Leroy Stilwell has been a formal devotee since 1976. He is one of the founders of this website. You can read his biographical information in the About Us section. Here he provides an update on his new book.

Dear friends and supporters,

Love's Sacrifice and the Ordeal to Become Human: 30 Years with my Spiritual Master, Adi Da is finally available in the UK and Europe in printed form! Yes! It's been available in the USA since February 8, and now it's "overseas". Australia is the next place to also have it printed in mid-June. If you go to www.30YearsWithAdiDa.com you can see that the link to www.amazon.co.uk is now live. Be sure to go through 30YearsWithAdiDa so that you can see the accompanying photo album and a/v material as well as the "Readers' comments."

Both devotees and public seem to really, really like the book. I'm hoping it can become a "must read" spiritual memoir of 2011.

The editors of The Shambhala Sun have a copy and are considering doing a review. I'll know in a couple of weeks if they will.

This week I just completed an interview about the book for a well-known internet site that is supportive of Bhagavan Adi Da, The Beezone:

I am also doing a special event in Marin about the book.

I've now begun contacting the editors of various student newspapers at colleges and universities to see if there is interest in doing a review of the book there. In the next month I am focusing on this.

I've also been contacting various Departments of Religious Studies in college and universities around the USA to see if there is any interest in including Love's Sacrifice in any of their reading lists for comparative or contemporary religious studies programs. There has been some interest.

The 30YearsWithAdiDa website has been "live" since September 2010. Until February 2011, visits to the site have averaged about 20-30 per day. Now, since February 8, they have been averaging 40-60 per day.

Here are some interesting stats:

The cities with the most visits since Feb 8, 2011 (in order):

Unknown (278), Cobb, CA (87), Mountain View, CA (87), Moscow, Russia (60), then Middletown, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Melbourne, Tokyo, Sydney, Seattle, and Beijing.

If there is anything you'd like to suggest to help to get Love's Sacrifice out there, or any way you yourself would like to help, please feel free to write me.

Best regards to everyone.
Dennis Leroy

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