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DA AVATAR, DA BOMB, DA BUM 139
Jones, “The people are tired. They need a break.” Miller says
Jones replied, “They will work for me until they drop and
then they’ll get up and work some more” (Colin, et al., 1985).
Of course, such evident dearth of compassion has been demonstrated
many times before—by Da Scrooge if not Da Avatar.
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In 1980, Ken Wilber penned a fawning foreword for Adi Da’s Scientific
Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the
White House! Most of it was spent in arguing that Da was not creating
a harmful “cult” around himself, but Wilber also found space
to include the following praise:
[M]y opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John,
a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree.
I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing
out high-powered phrases to “hype” the works of Da Free
John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion:
Da Free John’s teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of
any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any
time, of any persuasion.
Not finished with hyperbole—or “syrupy devotionalism,” as
one critic (Kazlev, 2003) reasonably put it—in 1985 Wilber contributed
effusive text for the front matter of Adi Da’s The Dawn
Horse Testament:
This is not merely my personal opinion; this is a perfectly
obvious fact, available to anyone of intelligence, sensitivity,
and integrity: The Dawn Horse Testament is the most ecstatic,
most profound, most complete, most radical, and most
comprehensive single spiritual text ever to be penned and
confessed by the Human Transcendental Spirit.
Obviously, any sincere seeker reading such ecstatic praise
from the most highly respected “genius” in consciousness studies
(as Wilber has been regarded for the past quarter of a century)
might be inclined to experience for himself the teachings of such a
unique, “greatest living” Adept. Indeed, had I come across those
endorsements in my own (teenage years, at the time) search, and
been aware of and unduly awed by Wilber’s status in the consciousness
studies community, I myself might well have foolishly