Adi Da, Adidam,
and Current World Events

May 5, 2022:
Kenneth Welsh: An Appreciation — Kenneth Welsh, a Canadian actor known for his memorable villain from Twin Peaks, in addition to roles in such hit films as The Day After Tomorrow and The Aviator, has died (on May 5, 2022) at the age of 80. Ken was a devotee of Adi Da, and will be greatly missed by all those in the Adidam community who knew or appreciated him. This article is an appreciation of Ken.

October 8, 2018:
Conscious Light Wins Best Feature Documentary at the Awareness Film Festival — The new documentary film, "Conscious Light", about the "Divine Life and Revelation of Avatar Adi Da Samraj", just won the Audience Award for "best feature documentary" at the 2018 Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles.

October 16, 2018:
Ivanka Trump Unknowingly Paraphrases Adi Da Samraj — On October 16, 2018, President Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, tweeted a motivational quote she attributed to Socrates (the Greek philosopher), that begins with the words, "the secret of change". Twitter had a field day with that, because the quote actually came from a fictional character named Socrates, in a book by Dan Millman. In this article, we dig deeper, and make the case that the quote in Millman's book was actually a paraphrase of Adi Da Samraj's well-known essay, "The Secret of How To Change". Our case is based on textual analysis, background analysis (Millman was a formal student of Adi Da for years), Millman's own overt acknowledgement of Adi Da in the credits of his book, and his overt inclusion of an excerpt from "The Secret of How To Change" in one of his later books.