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Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam

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Adi Da Samraj (1939–2008, born Franklin Albert Jones) was a radical and sometimes controversial spiritual master and teacher. In The Knee Of Listening, an autobiography of his spiritual quest, Adi Da writes that he was born as the “Bright”—the “Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Space of Inf-nitely and inherently Free Being” that is reality itself (2004b, 26).1 His mission as an avatar, whose purpose was the spiritual liberation of humankind, became gradually clear to him over the course of his early life.

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Costabile, M.A. (2014). Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam. In: Bogdan, H., Lewis, J.R. (eds) Sexuality and New Religious Movements. Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137386434_5

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