02.27.06

The Vampire is back!!!

Posted in New Age at 8:54 pm by nemo

In the last post I cited a letter to Enlightenment magazine (wie.org) about the ’second Axial Age’, and in the process of reading up on it found a note on this guy, ‘Da Free John’, one of the more notorious of the New Age gurus. Many will not have heard of him. After the blowout of his ashram in the eighties, he escaped to a Pacific island with his harem.
Now he has returned to California and is back in business apparently.

I have an idea: why doesn’t Dennett try and study this guy and see why he is well named the Vampire. (Hint read, Rudranandra’s old book Spiritual Cannibalism).

This Da free John is a man to beware of, a truly nauseating case. I tangled with a number of these people in the seventies and was totally disillusioned by the degree of dishonestly, explotation, crypto-fascist anti-modernism, and everything else.
Gurus, of course, are completely written off in secular circles, but people rarely understand them. Just as well secular types stay away from such people.
My heart goes out to the innocent people who get hurt by vultures like this one. (I have no connection(s) whatever with such groups, but I am sensitive to these people from a distance, the worst are certain sufis, and some of the Tibetans)

This Da Free John actually stooped to making his disciples go sell plasma to make donations to his ashram. Since he’s got plenty of cash stashed you have to wonder at the need. Maybe the vampire symbolism, which he seems to enjoy. Get the point. You can suffer real harm from these people. They could care less about your spiritual path. They want your ‘grubstake’.

Take him at his word! Stay the hell away from such people. Don’t ever get involved in their orbit on the basis of consent. They have no authority whatsoever you are required to submit to. Don’t agree to anything. That’s what makes you vulnerable.
Gurus are supposed to help people on their spiritual path. Don’t believe it. Too many, as here, will do everything they can to keep you mesmerized and undeveloped.

In any case, note from below the dangerous lunacy he is proposing now: an eternal contract of some kind. Spit in his face, and walk out the door. This is not India, where a guru’s word is law, and a disciple’s dissent is a sentence of death.
Spit in his face and walk out the door.
There are a thousand sutras you can use to find your own way. Old Buddhism amply warned of the need to maintain you independence, although nowadays with all these Tibetans around the guru racket is rife among Buddhists too. Be ye lamps unto yourselves.
You MUST do the game alone. Like the Lord of the Rings they will find you, trying to do that, so be ready.
With the Da Free Johns out for blood, you have no choice in any case.
Religions prey on children, gurus on yound adults. You have to survive that early green period and find your way through to something real.

Dan Dennett, get to work on it.

Will the World Teacher please stand up? After decades of seclusion from
the public eye, leaving his multitudes of books. videos, and devotees as the only avenues through which to transmit his “Divine Blessing Work” to the masses. the guru formerly known as Da Free John (among other names! : has cast his doors open to the world at large. Adi Da Samraj, the Western guru renowned for his sophisticated teachings and for claiming to be the most enlightened being in history,
recently moved from his private Fijian island to his spiritual ashram in
. Northern California. There, for the first time since the seventies, he’s been
offering “darshan”-the transmission of an awakened master-to
respectful and grateful members of the public who are not formal
practitioners of the Way of Adidam… as one representative put it. In addition,
the grapevine has it that Adi Da’s most . senior students have been working
diligently to “call back” ex-members of their flock, saying there’s never : been a better time to be a devotee,

But for those of us new to It all, what does it take to qualify for an audience with the ” Ruchira Avatar” of our age? : Mainly just sincere interest and sanity, with one caveat You must be open to . the possibility of coming under vow in the Way of Adidam-a vow that is said to be eternal.

update: a useful link
http://lightmind.com/library/daismfiles/

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