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

The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought Routledge, 1997 Amazon.com Back cover: “The time is ripe for the big picture to be presented, and Clarke acquits himself admirably of this formidable task.” Graham Parkes, Harvard University “Finally a book at the level of maturity required in our globalizing age. It should be strongly recommended reading for citizens in the emerging global village.” Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame “A major new contribution to the field