Updating My Spiritual Reading List, Category 6, Daism

In my two nonfiction books (“Beyond the Power of Now” and “Electrical Christianity”), I provide a Spiritual Reading List (of Highly Recommended and Recommended texts in the “Great Traditions”). I made a few changes to the List between “Beyond the Power of Now” and “Electrical Christianity,” and there will be more changes to the List in my forthcoming book “The Power of Now Meditation Guide” (which should be published later this year). My Spiritual Reading List is divided into nine categories – Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism (Original), Buddhism (Tibetan), Buddhism (Zen), Christianity, Judaism, and Gnosticism, Daism, Hinduism (Yoga), Kashmir Shaivism, and Miscellaneous. In a nine-part series, I will, in turn, consider each category and provide its latest edition. Herewith is the sixth category, Daism, followed by my consideration.


Daism

Highly Recommended

Hridaya Rosary (Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction), Adi Da Samraj. (Excellent technical devotional-meditation book.)

The Knee of Listening, Adi Da Samraj. (Best spiritual autobiography ever written. “Must” reading for mystics. Get a copy of the latest edition, but also get a copy of an earlier edition written under either the names of Franklin Jones or Bubba Free John. These earlier editions, unlike later and current editions, contain Da’s outstanding “Meditation of Understanding,” instructions on the practice of “real meditation,” or “radical understanding.”)

The Liberator: The “Radical” Reality-Teachings of The Great Avataric Sage, Adi Da Samraj, Adi Da Samraj.

The Method of the Siddhas, Adi Da Samraj. (A truly great spiritual book. Out of print and only available used. Try to get a copy written under the names of either Franklin Jones or Bubba Free John. The current revised edition of the book, entitled My “Bright” Word, lacks the direct visceral impact of the original text.)

The Pneumaton, Adi Da Samraj. (Ultra-esoteric consideration of “Pneuma,” the Spirit.)

The Way of Perfect Knowledge: The “Radical” Practice of Transcendental Spirituality in the Way of Adidam, Adi Da Samraj.

Recommended

He-And-She Is Me: The Indivisibility of Consciousness and Light In the Divine Body of the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj.

Ruchira Avatara Hridaya-Siddha Yoga: The Divine (and Not Merely Cosmic) Spiritual Baptism in the Way of Adidam, Adi Da Samraj.

Santosha Adidam: The Essential Summary of the Divine Way of Adidam, Adi Da Samraj.

The All-Completing and Final Divine Revelation To Mankind: A Summary Description Of The Supreme Yoga Of The Seventh Stage Of Life In The Divine Way Of Adidam, Adi Da Samraj.

(The four books on the Recommended List contain several of the same essays. Nonetheless, each book includes enough unique material to merit its reading.)

Consideration

The only change I’ve made to this category since “Beyond the Power,” my first book, was adding “The Pneumaton” in “Electrical Christianity.” I’ve been asked why “The Aletheon” isn’t on my List. Two reasons: it’s overpriced at $150-plus, and I learned nothing new when I read it. Adi Da first “grand summary” of his work was supposed to be “The Dawn Horse Testament,” then it was supposed to be his Twenty-Three Source-Texts (including Seventeen Companion Volumes). And finally, it was “The Aletheon.”