The Seven Stages of Life: Transcending the Six Stages of Egoic Life, and Realizing the Ego-Transcending Seventh Stage of Life, in the Divine Way of ... Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse) [Paperback]

Adi Da Samraj (Author)

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"Every sentence is Radiant with Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj's Presence and Heart Blessing, His Confession and Invitation." -- Robert K. Hall, M.D., psychiatrist; author, Out of Nowhere; co-founder, The Lomi School and The Lomi Clinic

"His argument does not require belief in dogmas or indoctrination in science, but only a free consideration of actual experience." -- Jonathan Lynch, Ph.D., Professor and Research Scientist, Penn State University

"the most profound understanding of the Life Process, stage by stage--from birth, through adolescence, into adulthood and beyond..." --Richard Perry, President, NutriBiotic, Inc.

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Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj has created a series of twenty-three books that He has designated as His "Source-Texts". Among these twenty-three books, there is a sub-series of seventeen volumes (called 'The Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse'), each of which offers His Wisdom relative to a fundamental aspect of true Spiritual life.

'The Seven Stages Of Life' (Book Ten of the "Seventeen Companions") contains Avatar Adi Da's instruction on the complete process of human development, from birth to Divine Enlightenment.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: The Dawn Horse Press (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570971056
• ISBN-13: 978-1570971051
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,357,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Adi Da was born in New York at the outbreak of World War II. From 1983 he lived principally in Fiji and became a Fijian citizen. The author of over sixty books on spirituality and a prolific artist, he also had profound attention for world affairs, particularly during the last decade of his life, as summarized in Not-Two Is Peace.
Adi Da was born in a unique spiritual state. As a young man, he immersed himself in the traditions of human wisdom and spirituality. His Western studies included university degrees--in philosophy from Columbia and in literature from Stanford. Following his university years, he intensively engaged both Western and Eastern forms of spiritual practice.
In 1970, at the age of thirty, Adi Da was re-established in the illumined condition he had known in his earliest life. He began to offer formal instruction in spiritual practice to those who came to him, creating (out of a free interactive participation with his devotees) what is now an unprecedented body of spiritual, philosophical, and practical writings (find the most current offerings at the Dawn Horse Press website), as well as an immense body of visual art (the website dedicated to Adi Da's art is called Daplastique). In 2007, his artwork was exhibited at the 52nd Venice Biennale, and subsequently in several other exhibitions, including in Florence, New York, and Los Angeles.
As spiritual teacher, artist, and "World Friend", Adi Da is not a conventional figure. He is not political in any ordinary sense of the word. Rather, his address to humanity comes from his lifelong communication of the truth of human existence. He is making clear the species-endangering forces of limitation in our world, the means to go beyond them, and the great urgency of this "going beyond".

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6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary Wisdom, a True Gift of Grace, December 20, 2001

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Rachel LaMell (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Seven Stages of Life: Transcending the Six Stages of Egoic Life, and Realizing the Ego-Transcending Seventh Stage of Life, in the Divine Way of ... Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse) (Paperback)

There are many gurus, saints and mystics who have been realized to one degree or another, but the depth of wisdom and realization that shines through this book surpasses anything that I have ever read or seen in my extensive search for spiritual wisdom. This book has vastly clarified my understanding of what it means to transcend the ego and to realize the Source or Truth of existence. I feel that Avatar Adi Da Samraj is a true Heart-Master who has given the world the transcendental help that we have all been praying for. I am forever grateful for his words, which have shown my heart a freedom and understanding that I have always known on some level.

5 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate Divine Spiritual Wisdom - INCREDIBLE!, February 3, 2001

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"functioningkid" (Kew, Victoria, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Seven Stages of Life: Transcending the Six Stages of Egoic Life, and Realizing the Ego-Transcending Seventh Stage of Life, in the Divine Way of ... Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse) (Paperback)

What an astounding book! The Happiness and Radiance flowing from these pages is mind-stopping. Truly, I recommend anyone to read this book and be challenged and sublimed by the Realization of the author Avatar Adi Da - this is no ordinary book, and yet it can be read by anyone who is interested in the truth, the spiritual history of this world and what it really is to be Enlightened or genuinely "on the path".

"The Seven Stages of Life" is a book that no-one could ever forget, having read it. It is a book that one must own and refer to forever, for it speaks directly to the heart, and the heart of our human situation here, alltogether.

The spiritual path herein described through the seven possible stages of progress and development has never been do fully and clearly and unambiguously stated. I am very grateful to own this book and know it will serve as a wondrous guide to my heart forever.