Posted on 06/12/2005 2:03:11 PM PDT by wagglebee
As an FBI agent under J. Edgar Hoover like all Bureau men of his time, Mark Felt was a spit and polish company man who spent much of his time investigating radical hippie movements, wiretapping groups like the Weather Underground and registering disgust over the so-called free love counter-culture.
But apparently the counter-culture had captured his own daughter Joan. In an extensive profile of Felt's rebel daughter the Washington Post revealed her ties to the Adidam cult.
The paper reported that the cult’s leader is a "a self-proclaimed guru who, in two California lawsuits and several public statements 20 years ago, was accused of sexual abuse, slavery, false imprisonment, assault and brainwashing that was said to include persuading people to give him all their money."
The lawsuits that dogged the group in the mid-1980s were settled with payments and confidentiality agreements, a California lawyer, Ford Greene, who handled three such cases, told the Post.
Joan Felt refused to discuss the group and suggested that her involvement was past history.
But the Post revealed that Felt’s name and home phone number are currently listed on the Internet as a contact for an Adidam Study Group in Santa Rosa, Calif., where she lives with her father and sons.
It is not known whether she ever lived at any of the cult's many communal households and sanctuaries throughout California and elsewhere.
She did, however, live at a commune in 1974 where her eldest son, Nick Jones was born - a birth recorded for a documentary called "The Birth of Ludi," according to the Vanity Fair article which revealed Mark Felt as Deep Throat.
The article also described Felt's parents visiting her there and finding her sitting naked in the sun while breast-feeding her baby.
Adidam is named for its leader, Franklin Albert Jones who was born in New York in 1939.
The guru who founded his cult in 1972 in Los Angeles has also been known as Adi Da Samraj, Bubba Free John or Da Love-Ananda, as well as several other names.
Since 1982, he has lived in seclusion with a harem and devotees on the tiny Fiji island of Naitouba, according to defectors from the cult as well as news articles. The Post reported that he bought the island for $2.1 million from actor Raymond Burr.
According to an Adidam Web site, the cult practices "the devotional and spiritual relationship with Adi Da Samraj," and seeks "to bring one's life and body-mind into greater balance." Its purpose is "to transform every moment in life -- whether one is eating, sexing, meditating, doing business or whatever -- into Divine Communion."
The Adidam movement is believed to have just a few thousand followers, with groups and book stores in several major cities, including one in the suburbs of Washington D.C.
Steve Hassan, a licensed mental health counselor and a Boston-based cult expert for nearly 30 years, told the Post that Adidam fits the classic cult model. "I have counseled victims of this man," says Hassan, " . . . a couple dozen over 20-plus years," including as recently as 2002. Joan Felt bristled when the Post asked about Adidam, noting that "her pleasant disposition turns testy when she is pressed to discuss past allegations against the guru."
She told the paper during a phone call, "That's all way far in the past. This is 20 years ago, 20 years ago, that you're digging up stuff."
Getting into the sicko cult mindset, could it be that Adidam is the father of "Nick Jones," AKA Ludi? And the name Ludi indicates he's just another pawn in Adidam's game? Or maybe, guru and follower played Ludi with Adidam winning the "prize" of sex with this idiot woman when thereby conceived this hapless child. How sick is that? Probably not halfway as sick as the reality of the case.
Will Adidam be the beneficiary of the money Felt's daughter gets?
Thank you. That was the point I was making.
She can dish it out, but she can't take. I hope it blows up in her face big time.
I agree... see #27
Come on, Give me a physical break.
Say what you want about Felt, but it's plainly obvious his daughter is and utter imbecile.
yep. and it's free entertainment.
she looks like jane fonda.
LMAO!
Exactly what I was thinking.....
He looks like Petah Arnett.
Link to Vanity Fair article:
http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/050530roco02?print=true
The daughter belongs in a wax museum! Have you all seen the close ups of her face???? Good Lord, she's definitely been stitched and pulled a few hundred times. It's like honey, your 61, not 21. No matter what you do, you can't turn back the hands of time.
She probably was an informant, whether she knew it or not.
Oh, to be
Bubba free.
Obvious Yoda lineage.
Principal Beliefs:
The most basic belief of The Way of the Heart is that Adi Da is the divine incarnation in bodily form. He teaches that humanity's search for God, truth, and reality is no longer necessary because he is here, and he personally approaches humanity. Adi Da has made it possible to have a living relationship with the divine Being, and this can bring absolute freedom from both the emptiness of a meaningless life and the pain of a self-obsessed existence. The guru continually asserts his divine nature in both his lectures and his writings. This is evident in what is, perhaps, his most repeated phrase, "Aham Da Asmi." Here, "Aham Da Asmi" can be translated "I am Da", where "Da" is alternately defined as "the one who gives" and "the one real God."
I wonder if he has a sister.....LA DEE DA ???
I loved reading about all his names and all the names of his cult: The Revelatory Names of the Divine Person, Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
Franklin Jones | Bubba Free John | Da Free John | Dau Loloma | Da Love-Ananda
Da Avadhoota | Da Kalki | Da Avabhasa | Adi Da
Shree Hridayam Satsang | The Dawn Horse Communion | The Free Communion Church
The Free Primitive Church of Divine Communion | Vision Mound Ceremony | The Crazy Wisdom Fellowship
The Johannine Daist Communion | The Advaitayana Buddhist Communion | The Way of the Heart
The Free Daist Communion | Adidam.
Found here: http://names.adidam.org/
My favorite is Bubba Free John. The Crazy Wisdom Fellowship seems fitting for the group.
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