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."
Yeah. It was all 20 years ago. But IT IS ALL STILL HAPPENING! Joan is a stooge.
He stopped on a dime. Unfortunately the dime was in the pocket of Rocky Rococo . . .
"Nyeh..nyeh-heh-HEHEHEHEHEHHHHhhheheheheh...!"
Hey Nita! You still around?
Yeah, but not a lot. Too much noise. :-)
Nice to see ya again.
Happy to see you again too! : )
I would like to send you a PM when you are available for a few minutes. Nothing personal, just about some old business, dots......
Frank Jones used to be a pretty good Ale Brewery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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