poster: Tastingthemoon speaker: Meg Fortune McDonnell length: 09:30 date added: April 7, 2012 language: English views: 5302; views this month: 9; views this week: 2 Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This excerpt is the culminating story in the chapter, "First Encounters," which begins with the startling dreams and unusual synchronicities that drew Meg to Adi Da.
poster: Tastingthemoon length: 08:15 date added: April 7, 2012 language: English views: 5586; views this month: 11; views this week: 3 Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This story appears in the chapter, "To You, Love-Ananda," which begins when Meg travels to Fiji for the first time, to see her teacher in a new island setting.
poster: Tastingthemoon speaker: Meg Fortune McDonnell length: 12:03 date added: April 7, 2012 language: English views: 4907; views this month: 8; views this week: 2 Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This story appears at the beginning of the chapter, "God's Eyes," which goes on to describe more explorations of dress, sexuality, and gender roles.
poster: Tastingthemoon speaker: Meg Fortune McDonnell length: 11:01 date added: April 6, 2012 language: English views: 4665; views this month: 10; views this week: 4 Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This story is excerpted from the chapter, "In Plain Talk Chapel". Meg recounts her early Catholic experiences and the conclusions she drew in relation to her religious upbringing.
poster: Adidam Europe speaker: Tilly length: 03:28 date added: April 5, 2012 event date: March 2012 language: English views: 5265; views this month: 9; views this week: 2 Tilly talks about the value of growing up within the Adidam community, her relationship and time with Adi Da, and her Sacred Art of music.
poster: Adidam Europe speaker: James Steinberg length: 04:27 date added: March 13, 2012 event date: March 2012 language: English views: 5059; views this month: 10; views this week: 3 James Steinberg tells a couple of incredible (and humorous) stories about Adi Da's extraordinary Spiritual Power and the psychic awareness that comes from being the Consciousness of every being.
A Devotee's Journey into Death and Back poster: AdiDaUpClose speaker: Frans Bakker length: 19:59 date added: February 18, 2012 language: English listens: 3420; listens this month: 8; listens this week: 3 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.
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poster: antoniavidor speaker: Toni Vidor length: 05:02 date added: February 2, 2012 language: English views: 5755; views this month: 13; views this week: 8 Toni Vidor talks about healing a non-human friend, the German shepherd, Megan in 1980, at Adi Da's request. She describes a fundamental lesson she learned: if oriented properly, the devotee healer serves as a conduit for Adi Da, and Adi Da does the healing, with an efficacy and speed not otherwise possible.
poster: antoniavidor speaker: Toni Vidor length: 08:50 date added: February 2, 2012 event date: January 2012 language: English views: 4767; views this month: 13; views this week: 9 Toni Vidor talks about her experience of Adi Da's relationship and play with non-humans.
poster: antoniavidor speaker: Toni Vidor length: 02:06 date added: January 14, 2012 language: English views: 4793; views this month: 10; views this week: 3 After becoming Adi Da's devotee, Toni Vidor talks about meeting Him for the first time at Ordeal Bath Lodge, at The Mountain Of Attention. She is stunned by what she sees!
poster: antoniavidor speaker: Toni Vidor length: 07:01 date added: January 13, 2012 language: English views: 4581; views this month: 10; views this week: 6 Toni Vidor talks about her mission to India to find (at Adi Da's request) the elusive "mercury bead", said to possess rejuvenative qualities and provide healing. How she Gracefully fulfilled Adi Da's seemingly impossible request.
poster: AdidamRevelationMagazine speaker: Tom Williams length: 09:09 date added: September 18, 2011 language: English views: 3965; views this month: 7; views this week: 3 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.tags: Tom Williams
poster: AdidamRevelationMagazine speaker: Tom Williams length: 09:08 date added: September 18, 2011 language: English views: 4212; views this month: 1; views this week: 0 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.tags: Tom Williams
poster: adidatribute speakers: Rachel Kuhn, DVD length: 06:18 date added: July 6, 2011 event date: November 29, 2009 language: English views: 6727; views this month: 19; views this week: 6 Devotee Rachel Kuhn, who grew up in the Company of Adi Da, offers this testimonial to His life and work.
Excerpt from Second Evening: Track 7 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.
poster: adidatribute speaker: Crane Kirkbride length: 13:28 date added: July 6, 2011 event date: November 28, 2009 language: English views: 8002; views this month: 15; views this week: 6 Longtime devotee, Crane Kirkbride, offers this testimonial to the life and work of Adi Da Samraj, in which he describes singing for, and with, Adi Da. Includes a clip of Adi Da singing opera with Crane; and a slideshow of stunning pictures of Adi Da from 1972 through 2008, accompanied by Crane singing "I Am Who You Are".
This video clip is an excerpt from First Evening: Tracks 16 and 17 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.
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