Interesting. I've heard of Adi Da before but never read any of him. Didn't realise he was such an old school Freudian. I've come across the Jung/New Age mix before but the Freudian/New Age one is a bit rarer. I can see more similarities with the New Thought crowd and their offspring (Napoleon Hill, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Wayne Dyer e…
Interesting. I've heard of Adi Da before but never read any of him. Didn't realise he was such an old school Freudian. I've come across the Jung/New Age mix before but the Freudian/New Age one is a bit rarer. I can see more similarities with the New Thought crowd and their offspring (Napoleon Hill, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Wayne Dyer etc) than I expected. Very interesting mix.
I'm familiar with this way of approaching such questions and it's yet another way of thinking I was once deeply intoxicated with! I'll not get into it in this series but this is a whole interpretive system I'd like to dig down on in future. For now I'll just say that this (in my opinion) is another ideology (my definition of this forthcoming) which fits all our experience into a narrow theoretical framework. It's a very compressed map with a number of different threads.
Apologies for the delay responding! I may read more of this at a later time but for now I'll say that in the original articles he explicitly talks about the Oedipal and Narcissus not in criticism but using them psychologically. Then his whole model has a lot to do with reprogramming childhood conditioning. He may have criticised Freud but my lord he seems to have taken in a lot of his way of viewing the world
Narcissus is a key archetypal image/concept in Adi Da's Teaching. He used the word in his first book The Knee of Listening the latest edition of which is featured here http://www.kneeoflistening.com
We Westerners are of course very offended by the notion and function of Spiritual Masters - let along the appearance of an Avatar.
I think there are an awful lot of Westerners who are quite the opposite of offended by the notion of spiritual masters but are positively infatuated.
As for the rest I mean it seems he's taken a whole chunk of Freudian theory and married it with the New Age version of Indian thought and thus found his own little niche there. But I see nothing in what you say to lead me to think that this man isn't deeply influenced by Freudian thought. It seems axiomatic to him
Interesting. I've heard of Adi Da before but never read any of him. Didn't realise he was such an old school Freudian. I've come across the Jung/New Age mix before but the Freudian/New Age one is a bit rarer. I can see more similarities with the New Thought crowd and their offspring (Napoleon Hill, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Wayne Dyer etc) than I expected. Very interesting mix.
I'm familiar with this way of approaching such questions and it's yet another way of thinking I was once deeply intoxicated with! I'll not get into it in this series but this is a whole interpretive system I'd like to dig down on in future. For now I'll just say that this (in my opinion) is another ideology (my definition of this forthcoming) which fits all our experience into a narrow theoretical framework. It's a very compressed map with a number of different threads.
Please also find some more references related to this topic
The Pleasure Dome Principle
http://beezone.com/adida/quandramamashikhara/thelawofpleasuredomeedit.html
Love Is a Fierce Force
http://beezone.com/lopezisland/lopezislanddescription.html
http://beezone.com/current/the-big-picture.html The Big Picture as it was 30 years ago.
There is nothing remotely Freudian communicated in these essays.
In fact in one of the essays he specifically criticizes the limitations of Freud's postulations.
Apologies for the delay responding! I may read more of this at a later time but for now I'll say that in the original articles he explicitly talks about the Oedipal and Narcissus not in criticism but using them psychologically. Then his whole model has a lot to do with reprogramming childhood conditioning. He may have criticised Freud but my lord he seems to have taken in a lot of his way of viewing the world
Please also find an extended description of Adi Da's Understanding of what he calls Conscious Child Rearing.
http://www.adidaupclose.org/Children.html
His description of Narcissus http://beezone.com/adida/narcissus.html
Narcissus is a key archetypal image/concept in Adi Da's Teaching. He used the word in his first book The Knee of Listening the latest edition of which is featured here http://www.kneeoflistening.com
We Westerners are of course very offended by the notion and function of Spiritual Masters - let along the appearance of an Avatar.
I think there are an awful lot of Westerners who are quite the opposite of offended by the notion of spiritual masters but are positively infatuated.
As for the rest I mean it seems he's taken a whole chunk of Freudian theory and married it with the New Age version of Indian thought and thus found his own little niche there. But I see nothing in what you say to lead me to think that this man isn't deeply influenced by Freudian thought. It seems axiomatic to him