[soc.religion.eastern] where is Da Free John now?

walsha@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (06/14/91)

there have been some very nice postings quoting 
Franklin Jones/Bubba Free John/Da Free John/Da Avasvhaba(sic?)
who all seem to be one man under a variety of names. can anyone
give me a good source of his books? where is this guy now? does he
have a teaching organization?

many thanks,
   ando.

cyee@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Chut Ngeow YEE) (06/19/91)

Da Avabhasa now lives in his principal hermitage at a small island of Fiji.
He has stop teaching and is now in what he called the Blessing phase of
his work. The passages that I have been quoting are from his teaching years,
where he engage his devotees in real life considerations and demonstrations,
leading them through the lesson of life. Over fourteen years (1972 to 1986)
he generated over 40 volumes of teaching, ranging from money, food and sex
to the esoteric evolution of man and the cosmic process.

His work with his devotees now is that of silent transmission, and at present
he sits only with devotees who have demonstrated the commitment to a life of
self-transcending disciplines. The gateway to him is the Free Daist
Communion, the community of practitioners that he painstakingly established
over the past 20 years. Try the phone book. There may be a community not
to far away from you. I recommend that you contact the the community and go
for some the video screenings. Seeing the teaching enliven in him is much
more profound than reading his teaching words.

All his books are published by the Dawn Horse Press. But unfortunately most
of his earlier books are out of print now. His recent works are more summary
in nature, quite different from the postings that I have been doing. The
language used is very precise but at the same time so beautiful and poetic
as to be almost beyond words.  They should be available at many mystical
book store. Ask for Da Free John or Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda when
looking for his books. These are two of the more well known names that he
used. I may do a couple of postings from his recent works to give you a feel
what they are like.

I would like to say lots more about him, but his life is so beautiful and
complex that I simply do not know where to begin. A couple volumes of
biography has already been written about him, and more are in the making.
His life and work is like a legend, except more beautiful, and it is
happening here and now....

Yee.