The Divine Emergence Of The World-Teacher: The Realization, The Revelation, And The Revealing Ordeal of Da Kalki. A Biographical

Clearlake, CA: Dawn Horse Press. Paperback. 1990. 2nd printing. 8vo 514pp . Very Good with no DJ. B&W Photographs. Spine has barely visible crease. Small remainder mark at bottom of front edges. Adi Da Samraj (1939- 2008) , born Franklin Albert Jones in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, was a contemporary and often controversial guru, spiritual writer and artist. He was the founder of a new religious movement currently known as Adidam. Adi Da asserted that he had realized a higher state of consciousness or being, and that his followers could find similar realization through his guidance. He called his movement Adidam, or "The Way of the Heart". Similar to South Asian religions, his movement emphasized a devotional, guru/disciple relationship. Adi Da claimed and is seen by his devotees to be the most spiritually realized being ever to incarnate in human form, or even in the manifest cosmos. In the mid 1980s, allegations by former devotees of financial, sexual and emotional abuses within Adidam were reported in the local media and on NBC's The Today Show resulting in a high point of national media attention. These allegations culminated in a number of lawsuits. Adidam claimed that these allegations were part of a conspiracy to extort large sums of money from the movement. .