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Authors > Chris
Tong
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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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Beyond
Believing
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When I talk to people about my wife,
I never say, "I believe my wife exists!". I don't
have to: I know she exists. But curiously,
that is the most common thing we say about God:
"I believe in God". As a "believer", how certain
are you of the reality of God? Why settle for just
believing in God, when the tangible experience
of God would transform your life? |
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The Offering
of Perfect Happiness
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| All the great Spiritual Masters have been Transmission
Masters: they literally transmit their Spiritual
Realization to their devotees, communicating a state
that is happier than the usual worldly destiny.
The greatest of all Spiritual Masters are the Divine
Incarnations, those rare occasions when the
Divine appears in its Own "dream" as a character,
for the sake of Transmitting the greatest Realization
of all — the state of Perfect and Eternal Happiness
— which coincides with awakening from the Dream.
In this article, we make the case that Avatar Adi
Da Samraj is just such a rare Divine Incarnation,
here to remind all of their greatest possible destiny,
and to awaken all beings to that Divine State of
Perfect Happiness. |
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Beyond Globalization:
May the Best Culture Win!
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As the great spiritual master Adi Da Samraj
has emphasized, cooperation and tolerance are the necessary
foundation stones for a new world order. To fully understand
their importance, we first examine the old "cold war"
world order and the current "post-cold war" world order,
and track the consequences of the absence of one or both
of these foundation stones, and the implications for the
future. Globalization is not an end unto itself. At best,
it is the "ground" in which, practicing cooperation and
tolerance, we can "plant" and "grow" new cultures. |
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