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Image-Art Testimonial: Stanley Hastingsvideo
part 12 of A Tribute to the Life and Work of Adi Da Samraj

poster: AdiDaVideos
speaker: Stanley Hastings
length: 25:06
date added: March 31, 2015
event date: November 29, 2009
language: English
views: 10497; views this month: 47; views this week: 11
This video appreciation of Adi Da's Image-Art begins with a testimonial from devotee Stanley Hastings, who grew up in the Adidam community and is the Co-Director of Da Plastique (the group that presents Avatar Adi Da's Art to the public), and who worked with Adi Da on His Divine Image-Art.

Then, at 9:34, we hear various art professionals express their appreciation of Adi Da's Image-Art.

This is followed (at 13:14) by a slideshow of photos drawn from some the Exhibitions of Adi Da's Image-Art, from 2001-2009.

The video concludes (at 18:58) with a slideshow of photos of Adi Da creating His Image-Art from 1998-2008. Background music is Naamleela Free Jones, "I Served to Priest the Pharaohs", from her album, Eyes In Other Worlds.
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image-art   Stanley Hastings   Mahasamadhi   Tribute   DVD  

Divina.com Trailervideo
poster: FlorenceDanceCompany
length: 15:04
date added: November 19, 2010
event date: July 2010
language: English
views: 8887; views this month: 41; views this week: 4
A promotional video from The Florence Dance Company showing Divina.com, a work presented in Italy at the Bargello Museum in Florence, in July, 2010. An expanded group of the Florence Dance Company's principal dancers perform a dance based on Dante Alighieri's 700 year-old epic literary masterpiece, "La Divina Commedia" (The Divine Comedy). Choreographed and directed by Keith Ferrone and Marga Nativo, the dance takes place in front of a monumental multimedia display of the breakthrough (and sometimes animated) digital art of Adi Da Samraj. All of this is accompanied by live musical performances from master Florentine pianist, Stefano Maurizi, and the electronic musical mastery of Maurizio Fasolo, and Enzo Regi (who lead the European underground electronic group, Pankow). Voice in song by Hélène Tavernier, guitar Lorenzo Castiglia. Piano preludes introducing each part are composed and performed live by Naamleela Free Jones.
tags:
Dance   Keith Ferrone   Maurizio Fosolo   Stefano Maurizi   Dante   Image-Art   Florence Dance Company   Bargello Museum   Naamleela Free Jones   Helene Tavernier  

In The Time Of Light (Naamleela Free Jones, 2012)audio
part 7 of Music from the Ballet, Not-Two Is Peace

poster: DawnHorsePress
length: 01:29
date added: December 7, 2012
language: English
listens: 8590; listens this month: 32; listens this week: 7
Excerpts from Naamleela Free Jones's CD, In The Time Of Light. A musical celebration of light and peace, just in time for the Season of Light-In-Everybody!

On July 22 and 23, 2012, the Florence Dance Company presented a multimedia spectacle entitled Not-Two Is Peace. The performance at the Bargello Museum in Florence, Italy brought together image-art by Adi Da Samraj, original ballet by the Florence Dance Company, and live music — a dynamic exploration of the principles of world peace and prior unity as described in Adi Da's book, Not-Two Is Peace.

Part Two of the performance featured music for solo piano, composed and performed by Naamleela Free Jones, and presented here in this commemorative recording. The CD also features photographs from the performance as well as the city of Florence.
tags:
Naamleela   music   CD   peace   image-art   Florence Dance Company  

Sacred Offering: a Celebration of Music and Art, to benefit Naitauba, Fiji: July 17, 2010video
poster: FacingEast108
length: 03:01
date added: May 21, 2010
language: English
views: 8579; views this month: 14; views this week: 2
A special benefit concert to provide relief for Naitauba, Fiji, after the recent devastating cyclone.

Saturday July 17th, 2010 7-9:30 pm
St. John's Presbyterian Church
2727 College Avenue
Berkeley, California

Featuring the Facing East group, with John Wubbenhorst (bansuri), Steve Zerlin (bass), Rishabh Dhar (packhawaj), Kit Walker (keyboards), and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla). Also music from Adi Da's daughter, Tamarind Free Jones (vocal), and a performance by Peter van Gelder (sitar) and Tim Witter (tabla).

There will also be a showing of the Divine Image-Art of Adi Da Samraj, accompanied by group improvisations from the musicians.
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Facing East   Image-Art   John Wubbenhorst   Steve Zerlin   Rishabh Dhar   Kit Walker   Tamarind Free Jones   Peter van Gelder  

Image-Art Testimonial: Ben Grissovideo
part 11 of A Tribute to the Life and Work of Adi Da Samraj

poster: adidatribute
speaker: Ben Grisso
length: 08:33
date added: July 6, 2011
event date: November 29, 2009
language: English
views: 7776; views this month: 37; views this week: 5
Devotee Ben Grisso, who grew up in the Adidam community, and who worked with Adi Da on His Divine Image-Art, offers this testimonial to Adi Da's life and work.

Excerpt from Second Evening: Track 11 on the DVD, A Tribute to the Life and Work of His Divine Presence, Adi Da Samraj. More than 7 hours long, this Tribute DVD was filmed on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, when devotees, family, and friends of Adi Da Samraj gathered at Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji (Adi Da's principal Hermitage), to acknowledge Adi Da as the Divine in human form, to praise His Greatness, and to express their heart-felt gratitude for the Blessings they have received from Him.

A list of all the tracks on this DVD can be found here.
tags:
image-art   Ben Grisso   Mahasamadhi   Tribute   DVD  

All Of This Is Sacred. All Of This Is Is Beautiful.video
poster: 2012spirit
length: 09:52
date added: July 3, 2010
language: English
views: 7201; views this month: 10; views this week: 4
The Divine Image-Art of Adi Da Samraj: A Meditation on the Divine Love-Bliss, on the Divine LIGHT of Lights.


Only that which is loved is beautiful.... The necessary essence of art is Love.... Love must be the mother of the arts, not architecture, not structure, not function. True art always involves the observer in the participatory gesture of being, or what we call love.... Where the sacred is absent, then the best art can do is meditate on the beautiful and bring people to feel that. But there is nothing beautiful without love.

My Art is the Art of Heart-Participation, Heart-Activity. It is Art made of feeling, rather than of a perception or a conception merely. The total field of feeling — perceptually located, ecstatically Realized—is the content of My Artwork.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj



Adi Da Samraj's Image-Art reflects His extraordinary Divine Purification and Blessing Work with the world.

There Is Only Light.
Light Is All There Is.
All That Is Is Light.

Avatar Adi Da Samraj


The music is by Ray Lynch, from his albums, Deep Breakfast and The Sky Of Mind (the part with the singing bells).
tags:
Image-Art   Ray Lynch   Deep Breakfast   The Sky Of Mind  

Achille Bonito Oliva: Opening Night Remarks, Sundaram Tagore Gallery Exhibit of Adi Da's Image-Artvideo
poster: Daplastique
speaker: Archille Bonito Oliva
length: 10:51
date added: September 29, 2010
event date: September 9, 2010
language: English
views: 6776; views this month: 34; views this week: 5
Achille Bonito Oliva speaks (Italian) at the opening of Adi Da Samraj's solo exhibition, 'Orpheus and Linead', at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York - September 9, 2010. Translated by Teresa Romero.

"Adi Da has a flexibility in his expression that encompasses all the art forms and techniques of the East and West. His work is a multiplication of space in time and time in space.... He's like a barman shaking Western space in the fluidity of Eastern concepts and forms. Adi Da wants to ultimately affirm art as a form of, a spiritual representation of the Divine nature of man, which can articulate a new vision of space and a new vision of time. This relationship between the East and West is very important. In a historical moment such as this, it is important to affirm, as a fundamental value of art at this time, the coexistence of differences."
tags:
Sundaram Tagore Gallery   Achille Bonito Oliva   Orpheus Linead   Image-Art  

Divine Distraction with James Steinbergaudio
poster: AdiDaUpClose
speaker: James Steinberg
length: 50:54
date added: February 1, 2016
language: English
listens: 6205; listens this month: 15; listens this week: 5
James Steinberg is interviewed on the podcast, Vajra Body Vajra Mind. Vajra Body Vajra Mind is a provocative podcast that explores the outer limits of spiritual practice and human development. James Steinberg is a longtime devotee of Adi Da, and the author of Divine Distraction and Love of the God-Man.

In this episode of Vajra Body Vajra Mind, we discuss James' life with Adi Da. We talk about the practice of Guru Yoga, challenges in reading Adi Da's Teaching, anti-Guru sentiment in contemporary culture, sexuality in spirituality, the importance of discipline in the Way of Adidam, the unique Transmission of Adi Da's Revelation and Presence (through photographs, videos, Image-Art, etc), resistance to the Guru by the ego, positive disillusionment (aka "the Lesson of Life"), and more.

Orpheus in the Modern Worldaudio
poster: CoaguLAradio
length: 60:00
date added: July 4, 2012
event date: October 5, 2011
language: English
listens: 6065; listens this month: 12; listens this week: 3
Art Panel: Orpheus in the Modern World (October 5, 2011) — The later work and aesthetic philosophy of Adi Da Samraj was the subject of discussion between Los Angeles art writers and those close with the late artist and spiritual teacher. (This is a recording of first hour of the hour and 15 minutes panel.)

Moderator: Peter Frank

Panelists:
Bill Bush (Founder of Artweek.LA)
Shana Nys Dambrot (writer/curator)
Gary Coates (author, professor of Architecture at Kansas State University)
Stanley Hastings (Co-Director of Da Plastique)

Recorded by CoaguLAradio, as Episode 25 ("Aesthetic Ecstasy") of their "Beer & Tall Buildings" series.

This Art Panel was part of the exhibit, "Orpheus and Linead: Solo Exhibition" at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills (September 8 - October 8, 2011).
tags:
Image-Art  

Retreat at The European Danda: November 1-4, 2012video
poster: Adidam Europe
length: 05:03
date added: September 27, 2012
event date: November 1, 2012
language: English
views: 5992; views this month: 18; views this week: 4

We invite you to participate in a profound transformation at the depth of life and consciousness — a transformation made possible by the Divine Appearance and Self-Revelation of Adi Da Samraj. Come and experience His Blessing-Transmission, His Avataric Teachings, and His Divine Image-Art. Feel and receive Adi Da’s Spiritual Presence, which is powerfully communicated via Sacred Sightings of Him (recorded during His physical Lifetime). Enjoy the live Sacred Offerings of gifted devotee musicians who serve the process of retreat with keen sensitivity and feeling.

For more about this retreat, click here.

Narrator: Anthony Costabile
Videographer: Matt Braithwaite
tags:
European Danda   retreat  

Image-Art Testimonial: Ben Grissovideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
speaker: Ben Grisso
length: 08:30
date added: June 11, 2014
event date: November 29, 2009
language: English
views: 5963; views this month: 32; views this week: 11
Devotee Ben Grisso, who grew up in the Adidam community, and who worked with Adi Da on His Divine Image-Art, offers this testimonial to Adi Da's life and work.

Excerpt from Second Evening: Track 11 on the DVD, A Tribute to the Life and Work of His Divine Presence, Adi Da Samraj. More than 7 hours long, this Tribute DVD was filmed on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, when devotees, family, and friends of Adi Da Samraj gathered at Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji (Adi Da's principal Hermitage), to acknowledge Adi Da as the Divine in human form, to praise His Greatness, and to express their heart-felt gratitude for the Blessings they have received from Him.

A list of all the tracks on this DVD can be found here.

To watch more excerpts from the Tribute DVD, click here.
tags:
image-art   Ben Grisso   Mahasamadhi   Tribute   DVD  

April 2013 Retreat at The European Dandavideo
poster: Adidam Europe
speakers: Matthew Braithwaite, Ineke van Amerongen
length: 04:29
date added: March 12, 2013
event date: April 25, 2013
language: English
views: 5931; views this month: 22; views this week: 10

We invite you to participate in a profound transformation at the depth of life and consciousness — a transformation made possible by the Divine Appearance and Self-Revelation of Adi Da Samraj. Come and experience His Blessing-Transmission, His Avataric Teachings, and His Divine Image-Art. Feel and receive Adi Da’s Spiritual Presence, which is powerfully communicated via Sacred Sightings of Him (recorded during His physical Lifetime). Enjoy the live Sacred Offerings of gifted devotee musicians who serve the process of retreat with keen sensitivity and feeling.

Narrated by Matthew Braithwaite.

Special introduction to the European Danda (the location for this retreat) narrated by Ineke van Amerongen.

The retreat will be hosted by four longtime devotees of Adi Da: Anthony Costabile, Eileen McCarthy, Sally Taylor, and Frans van den Bossche.

For more about this retreat, click here.

Videographer: Matt Braithwaite
tags:
European Danda   retreat  

The Quandra Loka Suitevideo
poster: scribe108
length: 06:32
date added: November 22, 2012
language: English
views: 5925; views this month: 27; views this week: 5
In late 2002 and early 2003, Adi Da Samraj created the photographic suite, Quandra Loka. The images are generally multiple exposures on a single black-and-white frame of film. Adi Da then created configurations (diptychs, triptychs, and polyptychs) from the single frame images.

Music is "Facing Beloved", from the CD, Facing Beloved, with John Wubbenhorst (bansuri), Subash Chandran (ghatam) and Ganesh Kumar (kanjira). This piece is based on a melody from J.S. Bach (siciliano) with elements of Raga Kirwani.
tags:
Image-Art   Quandra Loka   CD  

Quattro Maggiore 2014: A Multimedia Dance Eventvideo
poster: Matt Braithwaite
length: 05:49
date added: July 26, 2014
event date: July 20, 2014
language: English
views: 5797; views this month: 19; views this week: 4
On July 21 and 22, 2014, The Florence Dance Company performed the multimedia dance event, Quattro Maggiore ("Four Seasons") — set to the music of Vivaldi (his most well-known work, "Quattro Maggiore", performed live) and the art of Adi Da Samraj. The venue was the courtyard of the historic Bargello Museum in Florence.

This video clip provides an introduction to the place (Florence), the dancers, the musicians, the art (images from Adi Da's Geome One: Alberti's Window, in four different colorings for the four seasons), and the costumes (which were color-coordinated with the art).

Also in this clip: Italian art critic, Giuliano Serafini (author of Matisse e il Mediterraneo and Goya, praises the combination of music, dance, and art: "It's the best!". Serafini, Keith Ferrone (director of the Florence Dance Company), and Ruchiradama Nadikanta all note the technological advance represented by the LED lighting in the back panels, that brought out the color in Adi Da's art to a far greater degree than in previous performances (assisted by new fabrications of Adi Da's art), and enlivened the dancers' performance.

Ruchiradama Nadikanta: "Absolutely exquisite! . . . It was one symphony — of dance, and art, and music. . . Adi Da was immensely present, infusing every note and every step, as well as shining through His extraordinary Art. . . You feel [the dancers] really dancing to the Art."

Videographer: Matt Braithwaite
tags:
Image-Art   Florence Dance Company  

Ben Grisso: Being with Adi Davideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 20:02
date added: February 23, 2014
event date: 2011
language: English
views: 5607; views this month: 32; views this week: 5
Devotee Ben Grisso talks about growing up in the community of Adi Da's devotees and the joy of being with Adi Da as a child. He describes how he later lived on Naitauba and served Adi Da's Image-Art work for many years. He tells a humorous story of the Crazy-Wise play Adi Da engaged in, to reflect to Ben his tendency to be "analytic".

Ben was in the room with Adi Da at the time of His Divine Mahasamadhi (on November 27, 2008), and he talks about that moment, and its significance.
tags:
Image-art   mahasamadhi  
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