In the following article from:
VISION MOUND
Volume 1, Number 3
SEPTEMBER 1977
The True Teaching Is a Renewal of Culture
Bubba Free John (Adi Da Samraj) in dialogue with a devotee.
Adi Da states, “an aspect of spiritual growth is the passage through the revelation of so-called internal content. But the individual overcomes the content in the process. He stands over against it, in relationship to it, consciously, just as he must also stand in relationship to the so-called outer world. But people tend to become involved in subjectivity rather than transcending it. They get turned off to the “outside” world and turned on to the “inside,” and then they become obsessed with all kinds of symbols of the mind that they identify with Truth, everything from artificial designs of God, to subtler aspects of the subjective order, such as internal lights and spontaneous visions. Thus, every tradition in religious history has been subject to the illusion of the internal. This Teaching, however, is the expression of the radical Way of Truth. It criticizes the order of the mind, the subtle dimension, just as it criticizes the gross or objective dimension.”
In looking at the article and listening and hearing what Adi Da is saying I want to ask this question. Does Adidam, as a representation of Adi Da’s Person and word demonstrate the capacity to “overcome”, “stand over” (beyond) internal , subjective content?
I could begin to follow the logic of the above paragraph and attempt to answer the premise of “subjectivity” and the ability to transcend it. But I’d rather look at the assumptions in these words and ideas and show how words and their meanings often go by and create an argument or state a premise falsely, because the premise is not inspected fully.
I’m going to answer the question that the above quote addresss first by saying that Adidam as the representation of Adi Da’s word is a subjective and non-existent singlular “thing”. Adidam is a name for an understanding, collectivity organized, by a consensus of apparent individuals interpretating Adi Da – the person, himself subjective – NON objective.
Adi Da was a person speaking and acting in the same functional world we all exist in and this is the reason he was “NEVER FULLY UNDERSTOOD”.