Da Free John (1939–2008)
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Easy Death: Spiritual Discourses and Essays on the Inherent and Ultimate Transcendence of Death and Everything Else (1983) 54 exemplares
Four Fundamental Questions: Talks and Essays About Human Experience and the Actual Practice of an Enlightened Way of… (1980) 20 exemplares
Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House! (1980) 15 exemplares
The Heart's Shout: Perfect and Urgent Wisdom from the Living Heart of Reality, the Incarnate Divine Person (1993) 12 exemplares
Transcendental Realism: The Image-Art of Egoless Coincidence with Reality Itself (New, Expanded Second Edition) (2007) 12 exemplares
The Ancient Reality-Teachings ("Perfect Knowledge" Series) (Perfect Knowledge Series) (2006) 10 exemplares
Garbage and the Goddess: The last miracles and final spiritual instructions of Bubba Free John (1974) 10 exemplares
Crazy Da Must Sing Inclined to His Weaker Side: Confessional Poems of Liberation and Love (1982) 10 exemplares
Da Love-Ananda Gita: The Free Gift of the Divine Love-Bliss (The Five Books of the Heart of the Adidam Revelation , No… (1998) 9 exemplares
Compulsory Dancing: Talks and Essays on the Spiritual and Evolutionary Necessity of Emotional Surrender to the… (1980) 9 exemplares
Ruchira Avatara Gita (the way of the divine heart-master) : the "late-time" Avataric revelation of the great secret of… (1998) 8 exemplares
Look at the sunlight on the water: Educating children for a life of self-transcending love and happiness : an… (1983) 8 exemplares
The Incarnation of Love: "Radical" Spiritual Wisdom and Practical Instruction on Self-Transcending Love and Service in… (1993) 8 exemplares
The love-ananda gita: The wisdom-song of nonseparateness : the "simple" revelation-book of Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda (1989) 7 exemplares
no remedy: An introduction to the life and practices of the spiritual community of Bubba Free John (1975) 7 exemplares
See My Brightness Face to Face: A Celebration of the Ruchira Buddha, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, and the First 25 Years of… (1997) 7 exemplares
The Hymn of the True Heart-Master: The New Revelation-Book of the Ancient and Eternal Religion of Devotion to the… (1982) 7 exemplares
My "Bright" Word: Discourses from the Divine Siddha-Method of the Ruchira Avatar (2005) 6 exemplares
Drifted in the Deeper Land: Talks on Relinquishing the Superficiality of Mortal Existence and Falling by Grace Into… (1997) 6 exemplares
The bodily location of happiness : on the incarnation of the divine person and the transmission of love-bliss (1982) 5 exemplares
Breath and name : the initiation and foundation practices of free spiritual life (1977) 5 exemplares
I give you the gift of one another: The call to ego-transcending cooperation and the creation of authentic intimate… (2000) 4 exemplares
The Seven Stages of Life: Transcending the Six Stages of Egoic Life, and Realizing the Ego-Transcending Seventh Stage… (2000) 4 exemplares
The Order of My Free Names: The Self-Revelation of the Incarnate Divine Person, Adi Da, and How to Call Him by Name (1995) 4 exemplares
The adept: Selections from talks and essays by Da Free John on the nature and function of the enlightened teacher (1983) 4 exemplares
Enlightenment and the transformation of man: Selections from talks and essays on the spiritual process and… (1983) 4 exemplares
The Liberator (Eleutherios): The Epitome of the Perfect Wisdom and the Perfect Practice of the Way of the Heart (1982) 4 exemplares
The Lion Sutra: The Ultimate Teachings and the Perfect Practice of Feeling-Enquiry (1995) 4 exemplares
Paradox of Instruction: An Introduction to the Esoteric Spiritual Teaching of Bubba Free John (Vision Mound Ceremony… (1977) 4 exemplares
"I" is the body of life: Talks and essays on the art and science of equanimity and the self-transcending process of… (1981) 4 exemplares
The Santosha Avatara Gita: (The Revelation of the Great Means of the Divine Heart-Way of No-Seeking and Non-… (1995) 3 exemplares
God is not a gentleman and I am that one: Ecstatic talks on conventional foolishness versus the crazy wisdom of… (1983) 3 exemplares
Conductivity Healing (Energy-Healing Practices That Support An Intelligent, Harmonious, and Flowing Re-Integration of… (2018) 3 exemplares
Recognition Of Me Is Liberation: The Radical Conversion To Intrinsic egolessness In The Divine Reality-Way of Adidam (2010) 3 exemplares
The bodily sacrifice of attention: Introductory talks on radical understanding and the life of divine ignorance (1981) 3 exemplares
Quandra Loka (the indivisible space of conscious light) : 52 views : April 8-May 10, 2003 (2003) 3 exemplares
Polarity Screens: A Safe, Simple, and Naturally Effective Method of Restoring and Balancing the Energies of the Body (1991) 3 exemplares
Bodily worship of the Living God: The esoteric practice of prayer taught by Da Free John : the devotional way of life… (1980) 3 exemplares
Reality Is All The God There Is: The Single Transcendental Truth Taught by the Great Sages and the Revelation of… (2008) 3 exemplares
He-And-She Is Me: The Invisibility of Consciousness and Light in the Divine Body of the Ruchira Avatar (The Seventeen… (2000) 2 exemplares
Santosha Adidam (The Essential Summary Of The Divine Way Of Adidam) (The Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse) 2 exemplares
The illusion of relatedness: Essays on true and free renunciation and the radical transcendence of conditional… (1986) 2 exemplares
The art and yoga of sexual practice: Talks on the regenerative sexual yoga for beginners in the way of the heart (1994) 2 exemplares
The Da Upanishad : the short discourses on self-renunciation, God-realization, and the illusion of relatedness (1989) 2 exemplares
The Gift of Truth Itself: The Ever-Living Means Whereby Everyone Can Realize Truth, or Perfect Happiness (2013) 2 exemplares
Forehead, breath, and smile: An anthology of devotional readings from the spiritual teaching of Master Da Free John (1982) 2 exemplares
Turn the Total Body - Mind to Me : Selected Passages from the Dawn Horse Testament of the Ruchira Avatar (2003) 1 exemplar
Up?: Beyond the Beginner's Spiritual Way of Saint Jesus and the Traditions of Mystical Cosmic Ascent 1 exemplar
The Commitment to God-realization - Talks on Video By the Divine World-teacher and True Heart-master, Da Avabhasa ("The… (1993) 1 exemplar
The Next option : an introduction to the teaching of the adept Da Free John and the Johannine Daist Communion (1984) 1 exemplar
Self-Understanding and Divine Communion: A Selection of Talks Celebrating 30 Years of His Divine Teaching-Revelation… (2002) 1 exemplar
Fire Gospel 1 exemplar
The only complete way to realize the unbroken light of real God : an introductory overview of the "radical" divine way… (2000) 1 exemplar
"Consider" This: Selected Readings from the Avataric Divine Word of The Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj (3) (2005) 1 exemplar
Always Enact Fidelity To Me: The Foundation Emotional-Sexual Discipline In The Divine Reality-Way of Adidam (2012) 1 exemplar
Notice this : the five reality-teachings of his divine presence, Avatar Adi da Samraj (2012) 1 exemplar
Abide with me in faithful love: The heart-word of Adi Da (The Da Avatar) on sexual practice and renunciation in the way… (1995) 1 exemplar
HUMAN HISTORY IS ONE GREAT TRADITION 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Jones, Franklin Albert (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1939-11-03
- Data de falecimento
- 2008-11-27
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Fiji
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 141
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 839
- Popularidade
- #30,461
- Avaliação
- 3.2
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 176
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- 1
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- 1
I'm a Buddhist and have worked in science and technology, so this book covers topics that I have thought a lot about. I think Da Free John's main theological foundation is out of Kashmir Saivism. What he writes sounds a bit like Yogacara Buddhism. The universe is some kind of play of consciousness, er, Consciousness. This book makes constant use of Capital Letters to indicate the mode of a word, whether it is referring to the mundane level or the Transcendental level. Typographical dualism leads to ontological dualism, apparently.
There are some really nice ideas in there, e.g. the universe is like a bunch of software routines, layers of software, each layer interpreted or execute by the next layer down. I have seen this idea proposed as a semantics for object oriented programs, for example.
There is a beautiful essay on E=mc^2 being a modern version of "Christ is risen." That is beautiful metaphysical poetry but it starts to fall apart when it is taken too literally. That's one problem with this book, is that it takes metaphors too concretely. Da Free John brings up Rupert Sheldrake's M-fields and morphic resonance and takes that to the hypothesis that somehow if everyone got enlightened then the physical universe would be transformed into light or some such.
One problem with the book is that it is long on theory but quite short on practice. The practice seems to come down too much on just hanging out with the Guru. The whole Da Free John scene did seem to turn somewhat into a cult. It's a tricky business. Any kind of devotion that leads to transcendence is probably going to look like a cult. Are there good cults and bad cults? Probably it depends mostly on the student. Each of us requires a path that suits our character.
I think this is the first book of Da Free John that I have read, though I first heard about him many years ago. Did I see him on South Street one night in Philadelphia late at night, just hanging out watching the scene? Someone that looked a lot like him, anyway! I was a bit dubious about what I would find in this book. I got a lot more out of it than I expected. I think he stumbles over the edge in a few places... but some of that is just me being overly fussy about scientific metaphors.… (mais)