Index of All Features

The Best Articles of 2007
— Our Readers' Favorites
March 2008

Month after month, the articles catalogued here have shown a sustained level of interest from around the world. In fact, many people have come back to visit these pages and their video and audio excerpts again and again.

The Mummery Book:
A Uniquely Transformative Theatrical Experience
October 2007

"I know the theatre scene in this country, and I don't believe this is happening anywhere else."

— Tony Curiel
Member, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
Associate Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
Princess Grace Theatre Fellow

Adi Da Samraj Chosen as a Featured Artist
for the prestigious Venice Biennale
March 2007

Adi Da's sublime, paradoxical Image-Art was chosen from hundreds of submissions of museum quality work included in the world-renowned 2007 Venice Biennale Art Exhibition.

The Realm of the Divine
by Molly Jones
June 2005

It had been like being in another world, the Realm of the Divine — and Avatar Adi Da had walked me right into that Realm, for the first time in my life.

The "Bright" in the Darkness
by Frank Marrero
May 2005

I had an intuitive revelation: I realized that it was Avatar Adi Da who had visited me in the extreme darkness of my prison cell, some 20 years earlier.

The Heart Hears and Sees the Truth
by Kevin Pinkstone
April 2004

My mind has learned to cope with this Truth since then – that God is alive in human form! I have learned that it is the heart that hears and sees the Truth, and the mind must be conformed to the heart, to act with true intelligence and discrimination.

Home At Last!
by Leonard Mehlmauer
January 2004

Tears filled my eyes as I tried to tie my shoes. I felt so happy! Why? I didn't know. What had He done? It was the God-Man. I'd only been in His Presence for a few moments. What a Blessing!

How Total Satisfaction Found Me
by Greg Wells
July 2003

In a huge meeting hall overflowing with people chanting to the Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj, swooned a veteran of the "black liberation movement." I was so happy that I hardly noticed I was injuring my knee as I swayed to the feeling of Adi Da Samraj as Love-Bliss.

A Retreat Diary
by Toni Vidor
July 2003

There is an old saying that when you take one step towards God, He takes nine steps towards you. In other words, when the devotee makes a real gesture of surrender or devotion to the Guru, He will flood you with more gifts than you could possibly imagine. And this has happened to me.