presented by Adidam Europe

From participants at recent events Steve hosted:

It was a profound experience for me. I was completely engaged the entire time. A rarity. This was not a lecture or sermon. It was something unlike anything I've experienced before. Though I hadn't heard of Raymond Darling before this, or any of the other characters mentioned, it didn't matter. I can't say that I understood everything I heard and experienced. But I can say that it resonated with me in a unique way and I found it very moving. I want to learn and experience more of this. Steve amazed me many times. What he did was so much more than just "acting." His voice and gestures were a conduit for something so much bigger than that. I didn't feel like I was simply sitting there, watching and listening. I felt like I was part of everything happening. At one point toward the end, I became aware of everybody's breathing and felt like we were all part of a larger organism, which was itself part of a larger organism. I felt that in such a different way than I have before. It was certainly a transformative experience. This was a wonderful event, and I feel incredibly grateful and honored that I got to attend it. I feel like I just took my first few steps on my journey back home.

Jackie K. (non-devotee)
Theater Critic for a major Cleveland newspaper
commenting on a Chicago performance

Steve Brown's Event of The Mummery Book was filled with Adi Da's direct Communication. I literally felt that Steve was in egoless divine communion with Adi Da, enabling Him to speak and act through His devotee. There was a tangibly visible sense that Steve was not abstracting himself from The Mummery Book, but was instead allowing its Communication to be lived presently. I felt and understood The Mummery Book as Adi Da Himself and as myself in a Mysterious manner which I find hard to fully elucidate. Nonetheless it had a powerful impact that has stayed with me, and I am presently reading it with new eyes and ears.

David Y. (non-devotee)
commenting on a New York City performance

I'm so glad that I was able to attend the Mummery event yesterday. I have never experienced anything like what I saw, heard, and felt. What Steve talked about really resonated deeply within me — especially regarding the ego. This is what I continuously go through, each and every moment of not identifying "myself" with the ego. It's so easy to slip up and fall into that patterning but then through Adi Da, I let go of all that and just simply turn and commune with Him. My heart was deeply moved.

Alexis C. (non-devotee)
commenting on a New York City performance

The retreat center here is filled with beautiful flowers and [Adi Da's] most palpable Presence. This afternoon Steve Brown presented his "performance enhanced" sacred arts presentation taken from The Orpheum Trilogy. I cannot fully express, without sending my whole heart to you, just how extremely powerful Steve's "whole body puja" was. He was "on fire" with heart felt magnification of [Adi Da's] Dharma and superbly brought to life the Prologue, among many other excerpts from The Mummery Book. I am still feeling the heightened energy of Beloved's Dharma from Steve's nearly three and half hour "event".

Ron H. (devotee)
commenting on a Chicago performance