Talk about Summer Reading, and year-round reading--Two books on the fundamental problem that underlies the mess that is current governance in this world and that is at the root of all conflict: "Prior Unity" and "Not-Two IS Peace". NTIP was written by "The World-Friend Adi Da" ( 1939 -2008) who finished the book in its third edition on the last day of his life on Thanksgiving 2008 . A few of the essays of key significance from "Prior Unity" including one entitled "No Enemies" were included in the recent 4th edition that added an additional 20 pages to the third edition.
About the author: The World-Friend Adi Da was born in a spiritually illumined state which moved him to devote his life to a profound work of spiritual teaching including the writing of over 70 books dedicating to revealing the truth of existence. His engagement with Art in his later years was to show visually the essential nature or truth that he was trying to communicate with his literature. His Monumental sized Image Art appeared in esteemed galleries and museum's in the United States and Europe, including the Bargello Museum in Florence in 2015, and as an official collateral exhibitor at the Venice Biennale in 2007 curated by the great Achille Bonito Oliva, where it was regarded by the art critics at the time as among the top five exhibits at that Biennale. In his later years Avatar Adi Da went on to publish a handful of books of social wisdom , including one on a new post modern direction for Art entitled "Transcendental Realism".
"Prior Unity" and "Not-Two IS Peace" were his books on social wisdom accessible to anyone of any religious or non- religious persuasion where he offered badly needed advice from a spiritual perspective, in the role of a friend-to-the-world, as a calling and a blessing for humanity.
"Prior Unity" is a simpler book to approach, with bits and pieces left out of NTIP but no less profound. There is a Web site with essays from NTIP including some recorded readings. Some of those recorded readings are recited by the late great Canadian actor Kenneth Welsch, who was moved by the author and the book and on that basis offered to do the recitations.
At first blush it looks like the usual one world government approach that puts people off. But after you read the testimonials to the book are all from thought leaders and esteemed spiritually minded thinkers who would never support anything like that, you realize that it is a far more profound dive into the nature of life than a mere collective grouping of the populace would suggest.
This is about awakening on a global scale into our collective root- condition that has rarely been written about or even discussed. It is about a deep-in-your-bones understanding and "dropping into" of what "non-separateness" and "the working presumption of Prior Unity" actually means for humanity's future, not merely as a concept, but as an actual yet unrealized description of Reality itself. A book that gets to the heart of our actual and always present collective situation and how to step into the Tao, or stream of Reality that would change humankind, and earth-kind, to help realize its true destiny. Here is a link to one of the recitations: https://www.nottwoispeace.org/excerpt-everybody-all-at-once/. This book should be required reading for everyone on planet earth.
Talk about Summer Reading, and year-round reading--Two books on the fundamental problem that underlies the mess that is current governance in this world and that is at the root of all conflict: "Prior Unity" and "Not-Two IS Peace". NTIP was written by "The World-Friend Adi Da" ( 1939 -2008) who finished the book in its third edition on the last day of his life on Thanksgiving 2008 . A few of the essays of key significance from "Prior Unity" including one entitled "No Enemies" were included in the recent 4th edition that added an additional 20 pages to the third edition.
About the author: The World-Friend Adi Da was born in a spiritually illumined state which moved him to devote his life to a profound work of spiritual teaching including the writing of over 70 books dedicating to revealing the truth of existence. His engagement with Art in his later years was to show visually the essential nature or truth that he was trying to communicate with his literature. His Monumental sized Image Art appeared in esteemed galleries and museum's in the United States and Europe, including the Bargello Museum in Florence in 2015, and as an official collateral exhibitor at the Venice Biennale in 2007 curated by the great Achille Bonito Oliva, where it was regarded by the art critics at the time as among the top five exhibits at that Biennale. In his later years Avatar Adi Da went on to publish a handful of books of social wisdom , including one on a new post modern direction for Art entitled "Transcendental Realism".
"Prior Unity" and "Not-Two IS Peace" were his books on social wisdom accessible to anyone of any religious or non- religious persuasion where he offered badly needed advice from a spiritual perspective, in the role of a friend-to-the-world, as a calling and a blessing for humanity.
"Prior Unity" is a simpler book to approach, with bits and pieces left out of NTIP but no less profound. There is a Web site with essays from NTIP including some recorded readings. Some of those recorded readings are recited by the late great Canadian actor Kenneth Welsch, who was moved by the author and the book and on that basis offered to do the recitations.
At first blush it looks like the usual one world government approach that puts people off. But after you read the testimonials to the book are all from thought leaders and esteemed spiritually minded thinkers who would never support anything like that, you realize that it is a far more profound dive into the nature of life than a mere collective grouping of the populace would suggest.
This is about awakening on a global scale into our collective root- condition that has rarely been written about or even discussed. It is about a deep-in-your-bones understanding and "dropping into" of what "non-separateness" and "the working presumption of Prior Unity" actually means for humanity's future, not merely as a concept, but as an actual yet unrealized description of Reality itself. A book that gets to the heart of our actual and always present collective situation and how to step into the Tao, or stream of Reality that would change humankind, and earth-kind, to help realize its true destiny. Here is a link to one of the recitations: https://www.nottwoispeace.org/excerpt-everybody-all-at-once/. This book should be required reading for everyone on planet earth.
Hows that for an endorsement?
Mario A Leblanc - I read 1,807,438 words on Substack last summer. You are on my top substacks Dr Tess Lawrie.
https://marioaleblanc.substack.com/publish/post/149836835