Jan Olof Bengtsson

Franklin Jones, now known as Adi Da Samraj, is perhaps not really one of my  vartma-pradarshaka gurus but rather one of the figures I noticed when I had already found the path, and because I had found it. I came across his book The Enlightenment of the Whole Body in the late 1970s. By that time, he was known as Bubba Free John. This name was derived from the meaning of the name Franklin and the fact that Jones is derived from John; Bubba, which Jones said he was called from

There are some characteristic and predictable onesidednesses (if I may use that word), superficialities and omissions in Tolle's...