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Our Authors
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David
Almquist — David Almquist has been a professional
writer for over 20 years. He earned a B.A. in English
from Yale and an M.A. in East Asian Regional Studies
from Harvard. Prior to 1982, David taught secondary
school English, served as program director for a settlement
house in Albany, NY, and ran a community school program
in Cambridge, MA. In Peace Corps Malaysia, he was a
teacher and public health overseer. In 1982, David established
David
Almquist Communications, offering marketing communications
consulting and related services to over 250 small businesses
in the Boston area, including a number of insurance
and CPA firms as well as attorneys, management consultants,
high tech firms, and a variety of service businesses.
For several years he also taught a seminar and course
in The Advertising and Marketing of Services for entrepreneurs
and marketing professionals at Bentley College in Waltham,
Massachusetts. His larger clients have included Compaq,
Autodesk, Lycos, Wells Fargo Bank, and The Kennedy School
of Government. David has been a devotee of Adi Da Samraj
for nearly two decades.
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Stuart
Camps — Stuart Camps, a devotee of the Spiritual
Master Adi Da Samraj, has been the director of Fear-No-More
Zoo since 1993. Serving the animals of Fear-No-More
Zoo under Adi Da's guidance and instruction, and developing
an ever deepening understanding of Adi Da's Vision of
Fear-No-More, Stuart also writes papers and articles
about the Contemplative life of the non-humans, the
environment, conservation, and the sacred relationship
that humans may develop with everything else.
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Anthony
Costabile — Michael Anthony Costabile has been
a devotee of Avatar Adi Da since 1975, and has served
as writer, educator, speaker, and cultural leader within
Adidam. He now travels internationally, speaking about
Avatar Adi Da to a variety of audiences.
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Angelo
Druda — Angelo has been a devotee of Avatar Adi
Da Samraj since 1975. He is a senior minister in Mate
Moce, the Ministry founded by Avatara Adi Da to educate
people about the death process and to serve those who
are dying. Angelo is a practitioner of Traditional Chinese
Medicine, a member of the Australian Natural Therapist
Association, and the founder of Traditional
Botanical Medicine. His seminars have been offered
in the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
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Robert
Hirsch — Robert Hirsch is a licensed clinical social
worker with a private practice in Seattle. He has been
a formal devotee of Avatar Adi Da since 1990.
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Carolyn
Lee — Dr. Carolyn Lee graduated in 1970 from Sydney
University with a Bachelor of Arts (first class honours
and the university medal in Music). After being awarded
the Sydney Moss Travelling Scholarship, she undertook
graduate studies at London University in musicology,
focusing in medieval and Renaissance music. Carolyn
was awarded her Ph.D. for a dissertation on secular
polyphonic music in Spain, 1450-1530. She was subsequently
appointed St Leonard's Research Fellow at the University
of St. Andrews, Scotland, and senior lecturer in Music
in the National University of Ireland (University College,
Cork). Since 1985 she has been involved in an esoteric
spiritual practice under the guidance of the contemporary
Spiritual Master, Adi Da Samraj. In 1994, she took up
residence on the island of Naitauba, Fiji, the principal
hermitage of Adi Da Samraj. From that time, she has
lived in the immediate circle around Adi Da Samraj,
where she has been serving the publication of his teaching
and chronicling his life and work. Carolyn is presently
in Australia in association with the publication of
her biography of Adi Da Samraj: The
Avatar of What Is (The Dawn Horse Press, Clearlake,
California, 2007).
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William
Stranger — William Stranger has been a devotee
of Avatar Adi Da Samraj since October 1973. Under the
great Spiritual Master's tutelage, he received a comprehensive
education in humanity's wisdom-traditions. During these
years, William has served Adi Da in a broad range of
capacities, including groundskeeper, minister, missionary,
educator, public speaker, writer, administrator, multi-media
producer/director, and diplomat. He has represented
Avatar Adi Da at a variety of public forums, including
the Bay Area Interfaith Council (of which he was a co-founder),
the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics, the Parliament
of the World's Religions, the 1999 Hague Appeal for
Peace, the Synthesis Conference hosted by His Holiness,
the Dalai Lama, in Dharmasala, India, in 1999, and both
the Paradigm Conference and the State-of-the-World Forum
of the Gorbachev Foundation, which were held in 2000.
William is also the director of DharmaCafe,
a free, attentive web space in which Beethoven will
live alongside John Coltrane, and all areas of experience
and knowledge are open to evaluation and discussion.
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James
Steinberg — Religious scholar James Steinberg is
a sought-after speaker and on-air guest, and the acclaimed
author of two books, Divine
Distraction: A Guide to the Guru-Devotee Relationship
and Love
of the God-Man. He has been a devotee of the spiritual
teacher Adi Da Samraj for more than 30 years, and has
held diplomatic meetings with spiritual luminaries worldwide.
An interview with James was recently included in the
collection, Dialogues
With Emerging Spiritual Teachers.
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Chris
Tong — Chris Tong, Ph.D., is the founder of The
Practical Spirituality Press (which publishes his
"Practical Spirituality" book series), and the director
of The
Institute for Real God, The
COTEDA Institute for Global Accord, and FIRM
(The Foundation against Intolerance of Religious Minorities).
He received his BA summa cum laude from Columbia
University in 1978, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University
in 1988. From 1984 to 1994, Chris was a professor of
computer science at Rutgers University, a world-renowned
researcher in Artificial Intelligence, recipient of
major government research grants, and co-editor of a
state-of-the-art series
of books about his field. After leaving academia
in 1994, his successful entrepreneurship (including
the creation of several web service companies) led to
his receiving the NRCC's 2002 National Leadership Award
and being appointed special advisor to the NRCC's Business
Advisory Council. Chris has been a devotee of Adi Da
Samraj for nearly twenty years. He accompanied Adi Da
in His world travels during 1995-96, and has served
in many positions within Adidam, including co-director
of the Adidam Mission, production manager of the Dawn
Horse Press, head of the Lay Renunciate Order, co-chair
of the Samrajya Board, creator of Adidam's original,
award-winning website in 1994, and composer and musical
director for the performance of Adi Da Samraj's Mummery
Book in Fiji, 1995.
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