poster: AdidamRevelationMagazine speaker: Tom Williams length: 09:08 date added: September 18, 2011 language: English views: 4214; views this month: 2; views this week: 2
Tom Williams, a former Presbyterian minister and longtime devotee of Avatar Adi Da, tells the story of how he "fell in love with God". He describes how he moved from an ordinary childhood, to study for the ministry, to despair that his faith and his service had failed to deepen his relationship to God. In a personal crisis, he became a pastoral counselor and then a marriage and family counselor — before finally finding the books of Avatar Adi Da and at last receiving the gift of sighting his Heart-Master at the "Love of the God-Man" celebration in northern California in 1984.
Interview with Meg McDonnell poster: TheBeezone speakers: Meg McDonnell, Ed Reither length: 58:40 date added: March 31, 2013 event date: March 27, 2013 language: English views: 4198; views this month: 15; views this week: 6
poster: AdiDaUpClose speaker: Steve Alexander length: 14:15 date added: July 8, 2012 language: English views: 4156; views this month: 10; views this week: 5
Steve Alexander describes his experiences of Huichol shamanism (while in his twenties), and his aspiration to become a shaman. Then, while on a Huichol pilgrimage in Mexico, "everything that could possible go wrong, did". For a "suburban kid from Los Angeles" it was like "trying to put on someone else's shoe".
Steve returned to focus on his university education in fine art. All the while, an awareness of a Divine Presence in his heart was growing. He describes how he cultivated his relationship with that Presence, even as he became increasingly aware of his own egoity and the ways it would tend to shut down that Presence.
Steve describes how his formal relinquishment of Huichol shamanism opened the door to the intensification of that Presence, and ultimately, to his devotional relationship with the human form of that Presence: Adi Da.
poster: realityway speaker: Max Rykov length: 08:24 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 4135; views this month: 10; views this week: 4
In part one of this three-part series, 20 year-old Max Rykov describes first hearing about Avatar Adi Da Samraj and how Beloved Adi Da began to manifest in his life. More from Max here.
Dr. Sally Taylor serves the Adidam culture by helping devotees with their practice of the Way of Adidam.
In this video, she talks about her voluntary participation in Adi Da's considerations about the emotional-sexual dimension of life. She describes the instructions she received, and the profound benefit she has derived by being "grown up" beyond childish patterns of self-suppression, shutting down of the life force, promiscuity, and limitations on love.
For more about Adi Da's wisdom on the emotional-sexual dimension of life, visit our Crazy Wisdom section.
My Spiritual Teacher, Adi Da poster: samraj07 speaker: Gavin Brown length: 07:53 date added: October 2, 2010 language: English views: 4057; views this month: 11; views this week: 3
UK devotee Gavin Brown talks briefly about his relationship to his Guru and spiritual teacher, Avatar Adi Da. Gavin gives a brief reading from Adi Da's essay, "Radical Adidam" (from Volume 2 of The Aletheon).
poster: AdidamRevelationMagazine speaker: Tom Williams length: 09:09 date added: September 18, 2011 language: English views: 3969; views this month: 10; views this week: 5
Tom Williams, a former Presbyterian minister and longtime devotee of Avatar Adi Da, tells the story of how he "fell in love with God". He describes how he moved from an ordinary childhood, to study for the ministry, to despair that his faith and his service had failed to deepen his relationship to God. In a personal crisis, he became a pastoral counselor and then a marriage and family counselor — before finally finding the books of Avatar Adi Da and at last receiving the gift of sighting his Heart-Master at the "Love of the God-Man" celebration in northern California in 1984.
poster: realityway speaker: Max Rykov length: 07:42 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 3913; views this month: 6; views this week: 3
In the second part of this three-part series, 20 year-old Max Rykov continues to describe the process he went through before becoming a formal devotee of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, including some of the difficulties he initially came up against.
poster: TheBeezone speakers: Ed Reither, James Steinberg length: 12:59 date added: February 13, 2011 event date: January 26, 2011 language: English views: 3901; views this month: 9; views this week: 3
Ed Reither of The Beezone interviews longtime devotee James Steinberg. James tells how, even though he came to Adi Da because He was "a teacher who can deal with me", nonetheless there were moments when James resisted Adi Da's "dealing" with him. He tells the story of one such moment and how studying the details of the Guru-devotee relationship in the spiritual traditions helped move him into right relationship with his Guru.
This video begins with longtime devotee, Anthony Costabile, describing how the relationship to Adi Da is manifesting after the end of Adi Da's human lifetime.
Then at 2:29, Adi Da also speaks on this subject. This is an excerpt from a talk He gave on April 16, 1995, "Love is How I Got To Here". You can read a transcript of much more of this talk here. The talk is also available as a CD here.
At 6:43, another longtime devotee, Dennis Coccaro, talks about the direct relationship to Adi Da after His lifetime.
poster: realityway speaker: Max Rykov length: 08:38 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 3590; views this month: 7; views this week: 3
In the final part of this three-part series, Max Rykov speaks of his recognition and experience of Who Adi Da Is.
poster: frank marrero speaker: Frank Marrero length: 07:56 date added: March 17, 2009 language: English views: 3543; views this month: 6; views this week: 2
Continuation (two minute "overlap" with part 1).
How Frank Marrero's struggle with Adi Da's "Divinity" was undone by Adi Da's Transmission at the Initiations after The Day of the Heart, in 1981.
A mini-documentary about the extraordinary life lived by Antonia (Toni) Vidor, the daughter of famous, old-Hollywood director King Vidor. Antonia was born into privilege, enduring her parents' stormy marriage and "spectacle" life. Ultimately, she would come to choose a radically different life, coming to rest with her Spiritual Teacher, Adi Da Samraj.
This is her story. For the full version, read Antonia's new book, Beyond The Illusion.
A Devotee's Journey into Death and Back poster: AdiDaUpClose speaker: Frans Bakker length: 19:59 date added: February 18, 2012 language: English listens: 3424; listens this month: 11; listens this week: 7
In December 1983, two months after Adi Da's arrival at Adi Da Samrajashram (on the island of Naitauba in Fiji), an accident occurred that would have been fatal without Avatar Adi Da's Intervention. The story of that incident is told by two people: Frans Bakker, one of the doctors involved; and Tom Closser, the devotee to whom the accident occurred, who describes his near-death experience, and a profound lesson about how "guilt" can become a self-destructive impediment to growth.
[Note: The quality of this audio clip is somewhat muffled, and the volume level fluctuates.]
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld length: 07:13 date added: February 21, 2017 event date: 2016 language: English views: 3409; views this month: 17; views this week: 11
Gerald Sheinfeld, a devotee of Avatar Adi Da since the early 1970's, tells the story of the day he became Adi Da's devotee. It happened about eight months after he first met Adi Da. On that day, Gerald experienced (and was overwhelmed and heart-opened by) Adi Da's absolute vulnerability and complete lack of egoic armoring and received the Revelation of Adi Da's Divine State.
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