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"Chaconne" — track 5 from Crane Kirkbride's album,, Liquid Light.

Liquid Light is a sequel of a kind to Crane's earlier album, Infinite Well. It is more ambitious, including new devotional songs by John Mackay, who also produced this album, a Chaconne by Louis Rozier, several classical pieces set to Words by Adi Da Samraj, even the duet from "The Pearlfishers!" Katharine DeBoer, Roger Ohlsen and Mel McMurrin join Crane as vocalists for this album, which also introduces some fine instrumentalists. Every song except "If You Keep Too Many Cats" has been offered to Avatar Adi Da in a "Sacred Offering".

For more of Crane's music, visit his website.

Tags: Crane Kirkbride   music  

[Contains German subtitles.]

Light Imagery created by Ute Posegga-Rudd against the backdrop of music and chanting from the Adidam Music Guild, based on the Word of Adi Da Samraj. "There is Only Light" is by John Mackay, from his album, Danavira.

Tags: Light Imagery   German   Music Guild   John Mackay  

Light Imagery created by Ute Posegga-Rudd against the backdrop of music and chanting from the Adidam Music Guild, based on the Word of Adi Da Samraj.

"There is Only Light" is by John Mackay, from his album, Danavira. It draws on the Qawwali tradition of Sufi devotional music (exemplified by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan). Read Adi Da's appreciation of the Qawwali musical tradition here.

Tags: Light Imagery   Music Guild   John Mackay   Qawwali  

Adi Da's very humorous and wonderfully instructive talk from 1987, The Way Of Fun, about how, after being around His devotees, He "finally got it", that "it's time for the Siddhas" to adapt to modern times, "time for the Truth to change". This new way ("The Way of Fun") — for realizing God without requiring self-transcendence — will "require nothing of you except to really dig those Divine Vibes." The talk is Adi Da's masterful reflection of how the ego is always trying to revise the Way into something that is self-fulfilling rather than self-transcending, something that has no requirements and no difficulties, and that takes no time at all. "So whatever kind of association you have with Me . . . as long as it's fun, you're happy to do it. But if it requires anything of you, your resistance comes on immediately."

For more on this theme, read our article, The Way of the Bone.

A brief tour of some of the damage wrought by Cyclone Tomas on the island of Naitauba.

To learn more, and to help, visit the Cyclone Tomas Relief Fund site.

Tags: Naitauba   Cyclone Tomas  

Several of the devotee residents of Naitauba (Bill Krenz, Gilbert Evans, June Mori, and James Newcome) briefly describe the devastation wrought by Cyclone Tomas on the island.

To learn more, and to help, visit the Cyclone Tomas Relief Fund site.

Tags: Naitauba   Cyclone Tomas   Gilbert Evans   June Mori   Bill Krenz   James Newcome  

A brief clip of Cyclone Tomas in action on Naitauba, in mid-March, 2010, wreaking unprecedented destruction to this sacred island.

To learn more, and to help, visit the Cyclone Tomas Relief Fund site.

Tags: Cyclone Tomas   Naitauba  

Solo Finau, one of the Fijian elders living on Naitauba, briefly describes the devastation wrought by Cyclone Tomas in the Fijian village of Ciqomi, and on the island altogether.

To learn more, and to help, visit the Cyclone Tomas Relief Fund site.

Tags: Naitauba   Cyclone Tomas   Solo Finau  

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  

Slideshow of the Divine Island Hermitage of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, mixed with a selection of art from the Spiralled Light page.

Song is David Byrne, "Dream Operator".

Created by Eo Anderson, developer of the Facebook page, The Spiralled Light of Kali Yuga.

Tags: David Byrne   Naitauba   Adi Da Samrajashram   slideshow  

Adi Da Samraj creating the Orpheus One and Linead One suites. Accompanied by Adi Da talking about His Image-Art. Edited by Carmen Morrow.

Tags: Orpheus One   Linead One   Image-Art  

John Wubbenhorst (bansuri) and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla) perform North Indian ragas at the Adidam Spiritual Center in Natick, MA.

11 South Main Street
Natick, MA

suggested donation: $12

Tags: John Wubbenhorst   Tabla   Samrat Kakkeri  

Studio Sessions 2006-2007. Pictures and video clips of Adi Da at work on His Image-Art and His Art being transported, installed, and exhibited. Accompanied by Adi Da talking about His Image-Art.

Tags: Image-Art  

Video from Leroy Stilwell. Bansuri music by John Wubbenhorst.

Two Fiji Iguanas hatching within only moments of each other at the Fear-No-More Zoo, Naitauba, Fiji.

Tags: John Wubbenhorst   Iguanas   Fear-No-More Zoo   Naitauba  

A video showing a one-room cottage people can stay in while visiting Tat Sundaram. Located across the street from Walk About Joy.

Tags: Trinidad   retreat accomodation   California   Walk About Joy   Tat Sundaram