Re: THE DA SCANDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SEX SLAVES, DEATH CULT

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: : Thank you for finding these reports. (seriously) It is important to be discriminative and hear every side. Because just to believe is dangerous. : >>Indeed it is! (However, this and the rest of your language is the standard "Da-speak" one learns when joining the Adidam cult.) : : These reports make Adidam sound like a Mcarthy era death cult or sex cult. : >>These reports represent only a fraction of what former devotees have revealed about the hidden, negative side of Adidam. The book Knee of Daism, research material listed there and ongoing debate on the forum at http://www.lightmind.com/Impermanence/Library/knee/ is a must to understand Adidam. Reports going back to 1973 reveal a picture much darker than Adidam's public face, a deliberate pattern of deception by the cult. By the way, as one who was alive during the McCarthy era, your knowledge of the history of that period is as lacking as your knowledge of the true history of Adidam. : : I have read these reports prior to becoming a devotee of Adi Da Samraj. I was even questioned by devotees prior to my initiation about what I thought of headlines such as these. : >>This is a critical part of the indoctrination that propective cult members are subjected to. They never met those who made the charges, or others with such information, and are told that those who made the charges exaggerated and made them up, which makes sense given the carefully screened access they are given and what they are allowed to see at their level. What they are not told is that Adidam, after intense pressure, settled out of court for a sum of money because putting Da on the stand in his condition would have lost the case for them, and that Adidam admitted publically that the majority of the church had not been told the truth about these ongoing activities. What they are not told is that from the very beginning, Da, who finally divorced his "wife" who he repeatedly beat in the 80s, was always, through his close confidants, given access to the women he wanted and has had sex with considerably more than 100 of his devotees, often under coorcive and abusive conditions, knowingly giving some of them herpes. What they are not told is that Da was a drug user, alcoholic, food binger, etc., during much of this period. : : Luckily I had something of an education in the tradition of "Avadhoots" or "Crazy-Wise" Teachers. There is a great tradition of Teachers or Guru's who would go to any length to reveal the disciples egoic character to themselves and instruct them. Because for these Teachers Divine Realization is more important than any mere moral principles or conventions wich always change over time anyways. They would often intentionally upset all the disciples ego-based dependence on empty religious ritual, adolescent and childish approaches to religion, and ego-made religious idealisms that a saint should be a sexless, thin, elusive being with ever upturned eyes. That basically reflect our own massive complications relative to "money, food and sex" and the feeling that such gross domain things are somehow to be repressed, exploited or endlessly manipulated. : >>This "education", which amounts to more like indoctrination, as virtually every member of Adidam will quote the above verbatim, fails to address the significant differences between Da and these "Advahoots". The issue is not whether a guru must be "sexless, thin, elusive being with ever upturned eyes". The issue is how one who beat and abused women, with an obssessive sex life and pornography fascination which continues to this day, who smoked, drank alcohol heavily and and still uses drugs, to the point where he developed glaucoma in his early '50s, and who demands large sums of money from his devotees, compares with traditional Avadhoots! What Adidam converts are told is that he is "working out their karmas". Sure... : : So there was a period where Adi Da would consider all aspects and possibilities in the realms of money, food, sex, or in other words the outer gross level experience that bind our attention as well as the realms of subtle experiences that bind our attention. He would generate all kinds of self-reflecting experiences and situations from the very ordinary to the most extroadinary spiritual experiences and powers and create a catharsis in his devotees. A wild time to be sure but those who where able to see it through where greatly liberated from their neuroses and binding attachment to experience and desires. It all served to form the sublime Spiritual instruction of his 23 source texts. You see the teachings of Adi Da are born out of experimentation both in His own life and in the lifes of his devotees. However such experimentation is not pretty much over as the "teaching years" are now finished in the story of Adi Da's life. The lawsuit mentioned by the way was withdrawn by the plaintiff shortly after and never went through. : >>Da is now 62 years old, so this "period" which lasted until recently, ended only because Da had to scale back his activities. In this period, only a small percentage of the many thousands who participated decided to stay, which speaks to the effectiveness of his "crazy wisdom". He still "has to be pleasured to stay in his body", apparently meaning he still receives erotic massages and enjoys porno, and still uses his glaucoma as an excuse for "medical" use of marijuana. And as I have said, Adidam continues to lie and say the lawsuit was withdrawn, when in fact it was settled for an undisclosed payment. : :You have to admit that this article has "scandal" written all over it and was written at a time when there where many tragic cults such as the Mcarthy one around. As long as I have known Adi Da he has been the most principled man I have ever known. He never once does or is able even to stray from His work of enlightening His disciples. He is "Crazy" in the sense that He will go to any extreme for this most important cause. : >>All cults say the same thing, especially at this level where they are not privy to the truth. This article only addresses those who actually sued in court. There are hundreds of others who could testify how tax exempt church funds were used to buy drugs with Da's knowledge, of the beatings, wild drug and alcohol induced parties, opulent lifestyle while ordinary members were living on $7 per day, etc, etc. : : Please look up "Avadhuta, or Avadhoota on the internet" to see what I was talking about. : >>Yes, but with all the facts, not just the rationalizations of cultists, and you will see how absurd this cult is. : >>P.S. Daniel wants all to meditate on the pictures at Adidam.org., for a good reason. Back in 1972, then Franklin Jones, who was a kundalini yogi who attracted people with his ability to transmit shakti even when not physically present, admitted to a disciple that he "meditated a mantric form" in to his books and that explained the "blissful" awakenings many who later came to him felt from reading Knee of Listening, and he does the same thing with his other books and pictures to this day. Those sensitive to this type of energy and the radionics he uses, such as Daniel Tynan, can get hooked. Sad. : : : : "Sex Slave" Sues Guru : : : Pacific Isle Orgies Charged : : : San Francisco Chronicle/April 3, 1985 : : : By Katy Butler : : : Mark Miller was a college tennis star obsessed with finding "absolute truth" when he picked up a book called "The Knee of Listening" in 1976. : : : Six months later, Miller was a devoted follower of Franklin Jones, a fat New Yolk­born guru who held court at an old hot springs near Clear Lake. His girlfriend, a former cheerleader and Playboy centerfold, had become one of the guru's nine wives. : : : "We were naive, trusting kids from Southern California," Miller told The Chronicle. "We believed that Playboy was an art form and Franklin Jones was God." : : : Franklin Jones, known as Da Free John, now heads a philosophical empire with 1000 adherents in' Northern California, Europe, Australia and Hawaii. : : : Jones, who claimed to be enlightened, is being sued by a former member of the sect. And he is being accused by Miller and other disillusioned former members of indulging in long drinking binges, public sex and humiliation, assault, and feasts of caviar and fancy food with his inner circle. Women devotees were dressed in naughty lingerie for the guru's pleasure and subjected to nights of psychological and physical abuse, they said. : : : Beverly O'Mahony, a former flutist for the San Francisco Symphony, filed a $5 million lawsuit in Marin County Superior Court March 4, charging that Brian O'Mahony, her estranged husband and a member of the sect, was ordered by Da Free John to sexually abuse her. : : : She also charged she was "compelled, over a prolonged period of time to accept physical and sexual abuses, confinement, degrading acts, inadequate diet and the surrendering of her children" to Free John. : : : Her suit named nine leaders of the group, including her husband. : : : Representatives of Jones' religious group denied all the charges, conceding only that the group went through a brief binge of sexual experimentation and wild parties in 1976. Now, they said, Free John lives a life of solitude and contemplation in a "hermitage" on the remote Fiji an island of Naitauba. : : : Miller and four other former devotees charged yesterday that their dreams of a religious life had been twisted and exploited during their years with Jones. : : : The followers of Jones, a philosophy graduate and former Scientology adherent, accept the old Hindu concept that spiritual "en lightenment" and religious ecstasy can be reached by perfect devotion to a guru. Even Jones' most bizarre actions were explained as religious teachings. : : : In 1976, Jones withdrew into a small inner circle of followers, ostensibly to live a more contemplative life. : : : But a 38 year old Marin County businesswoman who spent six months with the inner circle in Hawaii in 1983 said the group was anything but ascetic. : : : The woman, whose husband was then the group's lawyer, spent six months at Jones' house on Kauai. Each night, she told The Chronicle, the group assembled for what were described as religious talks. "We were forced to drink large quantities of beer, and after the party, when everybody was really swacked he would talk about himself. Afterwards, there would usually be some kind of sexual event usually other people performing and him watching. : : : "I was told I was a lesbian. I was accused of being so unattractive that nobody would ever want to sleep with me. Night after night, he would go on about how ugly one of his wives was, how she looked as though she had been run over by a track shoe, and she was a beautiful woman." : : : "I was too chicken to confront him. I was still under his spell," said the woman, who left with her husband in 1983 after she said she had been sexually assaulted in front of the group by order of Free John. : : : For three months after returning to San Francisco, they were both like zombies, she said. She added she is now in therapy to deal with some of the humiliation and abuse that she suffered. : : : The devotees, who follow a strict vegetarian diet and restrict their sexual activities to marriage, tithe 10 percent to 15 percent of their earnings to support Free John on a remote private island in Fiji where he now lives with 30 close followers. : : : Most of the ordinary members have no contact with Free John. They study his writings, an eclectic blend of eastern religions and original thought. He is described as an 'avatar,' a God in human form. : : : The disillusioned followers conceded yesterday that they were not coerced to join the group, nor were they prevented from leaving. But they came to believe during their time in the group that all of Da Free John's actions ­­ however sadistic -- were religious teachings. : : : They were bright young college students, seeking deep religious experience like many members of their generation, when they ran across Jones' books in the mid 1970s. : : : Mark Miller, for example, the product of a fundamentalist home in Southern California, was "burning himself out" on religious philosophy as he searched for an absolute metaphysical truth he could rely on. : : : A straight­A student at Berkeley and UC San Diego, he decided to devote his life to Free John's teaching without ever having met the man. : : : Miller and Julie Anderson, his 19­year old girlfriend, packed everything into his old Volkswagen fastback and drove to San Francisco from Los Angeles in 1976 to join the group. : : : They were immediately whisked up to the guru's home at an old hot springs near Clear Lake, long known as Siegler's Springs and renamed Persimmon. : : : Everybody there seemed to know a Playboy centerfold was coming, said Miller. : : : Miller said that when he first saw Jones, "the room seemed to be filled with golden light. He stared into my eyes. I was tremendously disoriented. I was expecting truth. I thought it was a confirmation of what I wanted to believe." : : : After two nights of wild drinking and drug­taking, Miller said, he found himself shut out of the party, crying and staring at the moon. Followers were pressuring him to stop being "uptight" about his girlfriend. Then Anderson came to him laughing hysterically and told him that her highest spiritual function in life was to be Da Free John's ninth wife. : : : It was Miller's spiritual obligation to surrender her, she said. : : : Miller, in a state of shock, soon learned to believe that the path to enlightenment was through the destruction of his own "ego." He was taught that his discomfort about losing his girlfriend was what the group called "Narcissus," or unenlightened ego, and he decided the guru would help him break it down. : : : "I was a superachiever, and I have a good self­image," Miller remembered. "I felt, "For once in your life you're going to drop this arrogant thing of yours."' : : : He sold his car to buy tennis racquets and fancy warmup outfits for the guru. He gave the chubby teacher tennis lessons and dreamed that the two of them were going to win national tennis tournaments. : : : He meditated two hours a day, staring at Jones' picture, dropped out of college and adopted a strict vegetarian diet. He even married one of the guru's discarded lovers. : : : "I was in such a state of shock from having this girlfriend ripped off, it was a way of not dealing with what I felt, a way of mythologizing what happened. It wasn't a horrible thing, but a 'divine exchange,"' Miller remembered. : : : Miller became one of Jones' worker bees," contributing 10 percent to 15 percent of his income to the group. : : : Jacky Estes, an actress who now lives in Novato, said that during the same year, she was living at the hot springs as one of Free John's "wives." : : : For about two months, she told The Chronicle, motion­picture cameras were set up in a basement room, and devotees were ordered to make pornographic films. Estes herself did not participate. But, she said, "I heard him telling men and women go downstairs and do it, and I saw the women crying hysterically afterwards." : : : "Everything that was done was interpreted a lesson about your own lack of spirituality," she said. : : : Estes also said she saw Free John's wife, Nina, come out of his house with a huge hunk of hair ripped out of her head, and a black eye. : : : "At the time, I was frightened and confused, and only later did I learn what the brainwashing process entailed," she said. "Twelve to 16 hours of my day were spent surrounded by cult members. You didn't watch TV or read magazines. It closes off your circuits to the rational process. Most members don't know anything about the inner violence of the innermost circle." : : : : : : : : : :

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