Adi Da Samraj wrote this book out of compassion for humanity's current plight.
Not-Two Is Peace contains Adi Da's vital wisdom on the root of human conflict: the limits and errors of conventional religion and politics. He points to the necessity of re-establishing human civilization based on principles of mutual trust, cooperation, tolerance, 'prior unity', and the limitless participation of all humankind in transforming its own destiny.
Also included is Adi Da's 'radical' argument for transcending egoity along with his urgent call to found the Global Cooperative Forum a new type of human order. This forum will allow humankind to become conscious of itself as one great coherent force the only force capable of requiring and implementing systemic changes the world needs.
This third edition is essential study for anyone concerned about the state of global affairs.
He writes: "The old moral, social, and political 'order' of humankind is now dead. A new and true and right order of humankind is, now, and forever hereafter, necessary. This Free Declaration is the Seed-Utterance of that new and necessary true and right (and truly globally, totally, and universally cooperative) order."
Read chapters full of extraordinary wisdom and instruction such as:
--Humankind Is Literally One Family
--On The Dangers of The Old 'Tribalisms', and The Necessity For A Global Cooperative Forum Based On The Prior Unity of Humankind
--Reality-Politics For Ordinary Men and Women
--Wash All The Flags (and Leave All Name-Tags and Placards At The Door)
--To Take Moral Responsibility Is To Make Reactivity Harmless
--Everybody-All-At-Once
--The Three Great Principles of All Truth
--I Am Here To Awaken A Bright New Age of Global Humankind
New in this enlarged and updated edition:
Final Word, added just before going to press, was spoken by Adi Da hours before he suddenly departed from the body, on November 27, 2008.
Part One, new to this edition, contains seven sets of 'Principles', or summary points, formulated by Adi Da. These Principles are Adi Da's summary of many crucial points regarding the current state of the world and the characteristics of the Global Cooperative Forum he describes.
Part Two consists of essays, many of which are new, in which Adi Da elaborates on and further contextualizes points made in the Principles.
Part Three is devoted to essays (mostly new) on the root-nature of Reality, and, thus, on the ultimate meaning and significance of 'prior unity' and 'Not-Two'.
Praise for Not-Two Is Peace
Profound wisdom on the root of human conflict, and the path away from a grim destiny. An astonishing gift.
--Professor Jonathan Lynch, Pennsylvania State University
Not-Two Is Peace is essential reading for all people who understand the absolutely critical nature of the times we live in, and want to do something about it. This book offers a vision of global change that is a foundation for linking the best of current efforts with the deep-seated 'prior unity' of humankind. What is that, exactly? Read the book. Feel the potential. We can change the disastrous pattern of our times.
--Julie Koler, Cultural Resource Manager, King County, Washington
In a world beset with innumerable challenges, Not-Two Is Peace offers a new vision for the future. Adi Da emphasizes 'prior unity' as the basis for our decisions and actions. If we proceed with putting the interests of the whole humanity first, then there is the possibility of growth and development for the nearly seven billion people on the planet, not just a privileged minority. Such wisdom cannot be ignored.
--Sam Pitroda, Chairman, National Knowledge Commission of India
Adi Da, the World-Friend (1939 - 2008)
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".
