Felt's Daughter Tied to Cult

NewsMax ^ | 6/12/05 | Carl Limbacher

[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."

[SkyPilot]

Three characteristics of a cult:

1. A totalitarian control over the lifestyle and time of its members - Many cults tend to dictate exactly what its followers should read, eat, how and with whom they should spend their time, and even what they should do in off hours.

2. A charismatic, self-appointed leader with complete authority - Cult members are taught not to question the teachings, practices, or ideas of the leader.

3. A focus on withholding truth from non-members - Many cults teach their followers to be completely open and truthful within the group, while at the same time they are encouraged to be secretive and evasive when questioned by people outside of the group.

[Dante3]

Exactly.

[Shaka]

Scientology. Bingo...cult of the stars, can only hope they start drinking Kool-aid together.

[Fred Hayek]

Wonder if one of his other assumed names is Da Free John. Looks familiar. Dude tried riding the so-called New Age Physics bandwagon (Fritjof (?) Capra was one of the ringleaders). Came off as really arrogant.

[Brian Allen]

<< Why is the Post tearing her down?

Could it be to discredit her enough so no one will publish her book?

Ah the snakes hissing at each other!!!! >>

They are all busily effecting tearing her down -- and staging any other distraction they can pull together -- to distract us from the fact that Felt could not possibly have been "deep pile" -- or whatever Graham/Bradley et al called whoever it was they deluded us with as, in time of war, they subverted the President of the United States -- and thus effectively caused more than three million American, South Easy Asian and Israeli deaths.

They were then and still are indistinguishable from absolute traitors of the Hanoi John and Jane variety.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Your three characteristics do apply to cults, but they also apply, for instance, to Islam.

I'm sure that's just coincidence. /s

On the other hand, they also apply to the Army Ranger (except for the leader being self-appointed -- and in the early days he was).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[OldFriend]

The media has and always will be the enemy.

[Alia]

... and "doing" live births with cameras and audience was a very "happening" event since the 60s in the age of "let it be."

[Dante3]

Speaking of Scientology, I heard that a couple on the Nancy Grace show claimed their daughter was kidnapped by Scientologists.

[Alia]

Firesign Theatre *really* was on top of what was going on, back then.

[TheMole]

Yep, Bubba Free John and Da Free John are one and the same. Incredible how much cosmic debris from the 60s and 70s is still floating around. Of course Jaoan Felt could use some cash. She had three kids without ever bothering to form a family.

[Neenah]

"DA PLANE!!!" , " DA PLANE!!"

[BelegStrongbow]

Good catch on the names. It's only a speculation, but this kind of thing does happen when a religious 'person' is trying to keep one step ahead of the IRS.

[jocon307]

"This just keeps getting better!"

That dame is a real loon. She's upset someone is questioning her about stuff from 20 years ago? And yet no one would have a thing to say to her if it weren't for events from THIRTY years ago.

[jocon307]

"I am shocked at how many [cults] there are."

There are a lot of crazy, lonely people out there. It really is sad when you think about it. Basically, I think if everyone in your life is basically sane, not a psycho, not a total loss drug addict, criminal, etc. one is very lucky and has much for which to give thanks to the Lord. Because the loonies and the evil doers are everywhere.

[Malesherbes]

Jocon307 is absolutely right. The world is a very messy place with a lot of evil lurking. Kids are targets - from California all the way to Aruba and beyond.

[river rat]

She did, however, live at a commune in 1974 where her eldest son, Nick Jones was born........


Franklin Jones, founder of Adidam

DADDY!!!
Looks like the loony bitch fell for the guru..

Semper Fi

[wildwood]

This is 20 years ago, 20 years ago, that you're digging up stuff."

isn't that what she is trying to SELL? decades old crap? seems like it's relevant.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Nick Danger still lurks around this site!!!!

[Alia]

I've seen 'im. Is he still pursuing Rocky Roccoco?