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"You Have a Choice to Make"

Stuart Camps


Stuart Camps has been a devotee of Adi Da Samraj for many years. He has been the director of Fear-No-More Zoo since 1993. Serving the animals of Fear-No-More Zoo under Adi Da's guidance and instruction, and developing an ever deepening understanding of Adi Da's Vision of Fear-No-More, Stuart also writes papers and articles about the contemplative life of the non-humans, the environment, conservation, and the sacred relationship that humans may develop with everything else. This story is republished from Stuart Camps' site, The Vision of Fear-No-More.

What will you do? You have a choice to make, all of you together, regardless of race or religion. . . the entire human family. . . You are fully capable of choosing a different, more benign, destiny than the path you've set yourselves upon. It is up to you. . .

It was December 26, 2004, early morning in Fiji. The preceding night had been a lengthy ordeal of discussions mundane and profound. As Adi Da rose to leave the room, he whispered, "Blessings on those who pass today."

Within hours, word arrived of the earthquake and tsunami, right then impacting South Asia and East Africa, inundating coastlines and killing hundreds of thousands of people, and many millions of non-humans.

The next night, Adi Da recounted an incident that occurred between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, of a time when they expressed their differences to each other so strongly that a nearby wooden bookcase split!

A different sign of conflict came when Jung asked Freud what he made of parapsychology. Sigmund was a complete skeptic: occult phenomena were to him a "black tide of mud". But as they were sitting talking, Jung's diaphragm began to feel hot. Suddenly, a bookcase in the room cracked loudly and they both jumped up. "There, that is an example of a so-called catalytic exteriorisation phenomenon", Jung retorted — referring to his theory that the uncanny could be projections of internal strife. "Bosh!" Freud retorted, before Jung predicted that there would be another crack, which there was.

Mark Vernon, "Carl Jung, part 2", The Guardian, June 6, 2011

Using this example, Adi Da proposed that the earthquake, and resultant tsunami, may have been been generated by negative forces active in the collective of mankind. Could all of our large and small conflicts, competitiveness, tribal rivalries, and wars generate sufficient energy to pressure the earth into cracking and pushing oceans over dry land?

"There are oppositions, energies colliding, there is terrible energy in the world", he said. "It needn't be believed that it cracked the earth, but suspicion must be raised."

When asked how he foresaw the coming catastrophe, which moved him to bless those soon to pass, Adi Da began explaining some of his perceptual capacities, but then paused, and simply waved his hand above the heads of those present saying, "I also just see it in the flow."

He spoke with deep compassion and love for all the humans and non-humans who perished in the tsunami, for all the survivors too, and for each one of us who simply lives here and apparently dies.

He expressed his wish for all of humanity to learn love, forgiveness, tolerance and peace, and for all of us to be made serious by the fragility of life — to no longer be naive and foolish, to not assume differences, and finally, for all to live truly free.

Over and over, he said it is simply not enough to believe in God.

Instead, we must realize Divine Reality to be our actual state.

For another piece by Stuart Camps, read Serving the Transition of Dying Animals.