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Title: Divine Distraction: A Guide to the Guru-Devotee Relationship, the Supreme Means of God-Realization, As Fully Revealed for the First Time by the Divi by Thomas E. Ahlburn, James B. Steinberg ISBN: 0-918801-34-6 Publisher: Dawn Horse Press Pub. Date: January, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: or "How to Avoid Your Feelings of Paternal Abandonment"
Comment: A book for chumps who can't find the internal authority of their own. Now don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being a sensitive person but, one needs to seek permission to be so from within one's self rather than looking to "daddy", boss, or guru to make it O.K. You'd do better to grow the backbone to trust your essential nature. Be your own guru. And as for Da? Good for him! He figured out how to capitalize on a deep psychological need of many and, he got his own island out of it! Way to go Da! (or whatever you call yourself now.)

Rating: 5
Summary: The relationship of devotees and genuine Spiritual Masters
Comment: This is a well-written book that is both moving and detailed, providing all the essentials of the Guru-devotee relationship. We often think of great Spiritual Masters and the religious traditions that formed around them in terms of teachings, rituals, and disciplines. This book makes crystal clear that, in fact, the heart of the relationship between the disciple and master has always been the reception by the disciple of a tangible, ego-dissolving Spiritual Transmission from the Master. Words alone (and even merely human charisma) could not account for fisherman walking away from their families and professions to follow a man who said only, "Come, follow me." Nor could the merely visible account for the gopi women instantly leaving their cattle to follow Krishna. No! These ordinary people were overwhelmed and utterly distracted by tangible Spiritual love. The possibility of such a genuine Spiritual Master being alive today - the primary communication of this remarkable book - is enough to make one's hair stand on end!

Sadly, the materialistic cult of our time tends not only to rob us of such opportunities, but to make taboo even the very conception of such possibilities. When the very existence of God is denied, obviously a Spiritual Master can only be interpreted as a charlatan (as suggested by the earlier, misinformed comment). . . religions can only be viewed as having merely social benefit . . . and spiritual books can only be read for new, ego-stimulating information (a kind of spiritual pornography, dismissed if not sufficiently new and stimulating), rather than as a guidebook for real practice of the Way of God Realization (not self-realization = ego-realization) that never changes.

Were Jesus to return today, He would not be crucified. He would either be ignored (unable to stand out sufficiently in the crowd of New Age "spiritual" offerings with which He would have to compete); or, He would be "nailed" by lawsuits or by character defamation as a "cult leader", triggered by His unusual behavior (e.g., forming a religion around Himself, whipping merchants in temples, having close relationships with whores, suggesting His own Divinity, instigating anti-government activities, etc.) The only thing saving the historical Jesus from this fate right now is the fact that we are a historically (and nominally) Christian culture.

May all of us who intuit the existence of the Divine, and who respect the work of the great Spiritual Masters as Agents of the Divine, actively counter all mean-spirited attempts to perpetuate the centuries-old taboo against Spiritual Masters!

Rating: 1
Summary: dangerous distraction from realization
Comment: Master Da is an exploitative sort-of cult leader who promotes service to an "enlightened guru" as the only path to self-realization.His works might be well-intentioned, but they are certainly wrong. He is another Bhagwan Rajneesh waiting to happen. This book is just a promotion of his teachings created by his disciples; Da hasn't had any new ideas in a decade, at least not since he changed his name yet again.