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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.

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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

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