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The Mummery Book The Parable of Divine Tragedy, Told By Means of a Self-Illuminated Illustration Of The Totality Of Mind Book One of The “First Room” Trilogy By Adi Da Samraj
The Mummery Book is a work of astonishing poetry and deeply evocative archetypal drama. It is not conventional drama, but transformative theatre of the Sacred. It is a deeply moving, heart-opening, archetypal story that is exquisitely poetic, truly humorous, wildly erotic, piercingly satirical, and devastatingly tragic. Finally, it is also the Illuminated restoration of Raymond Darling to his Divine Condition. By definition, a mummery is a "hypocritical, or pretentious ceremony or performance". This, according to Adi Da Samraj, is what human life amounts to without the Divine. The Mummery Book tells the story of Raymond Darling, his birth, his growth to manhood, his finding and losing of his beloved (Quandra), and his ultimate resolution of the heart-breaking "problem" of mortality. He goes through an extraordinary series of adventures and ordeals to penetrate every level of the world of "unenlightened existence", or all the crises necessary to re-Awaken to his own Divine Nature.
The Mummery Book is groundbreaking Literature and theatre. It is a potent exploration, by means of allegory, of the actual process of Divine Enlightenment. This process, by the very nature of Reality Itself, awaits only our participation to begin. Whenever you watch The Mummery Book enacted, that process is initiated and intensified. Anyone who has already participated in a past enactment will tell you that The Mummery Book is not something that you can simply sit back and enjoy as you would a conventional play, as a merely passive observer. In a very real way, your emotional and psychic participation is part and parcel of the show.
Ultimately, The Mummery Book is a demonstration of the Inherent Unity of all that arises, as it works from the inside out, awakening new sensitivity to your own real condition by use of universal metaphor and an utter restructuring of language as we know it.
To whatever degree you participate in this enactment, your life is transformed. From Enlightenment to total human heartbreak and back again, without ever leaving the "one and only room"—this is the paradoxical journey you're invited to take in The Mummery Book.
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Sapta Na Adi Da Samraj
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Member Since: 16/03/2007
Band Website: www.mummerybook.org
Sounds Like: If Dylan Thomas and Buddha shared a soul, The Mummery Book is what I would expect from such a joining. The book transports the reader across an enlightened domain at the periphery of the rational, linear mind.... —ROBERT BOLDMAN Author, The Alchemy of Love and Sacred Life, Holy Death: Seven Stages of Crossing the Divide

This book pierces the mind with strange elation. The terrible beauty of the writing is stark and urgent. It confounds the ordinary mind while breaching the passes to something deeper.... —GEOFFREY GUNTHER, PH.D. Author, Shakespeare as Traditional Artist

The Mummery Book is brilliant in all its aspects. It would be hard to express my happiness at the way it breaks and exposes the heart of the world. Living and working as a writer for many decades, I have not encountered a book like this, that mysteriously and unselfconsciously conveys so much of the Unspeakable Reality. —ROBERT LAX Poet, author, Love Had a Compass and (with Thomas Merton) A Catch of Anti-Letters

A remarkable and profound allegory of the ultimate journey a human being might take. Certainly ranks with Faust, Siddhartha, the Bhagavad Gita and other amazing masterworks, which chronicle the awakening of the individual soul to its true Self. But, most amazing, it has been written in our own era! —RON SOSSI Artistic Director, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles, California

Adi Da’s Mummery Book is a most extraordinary novel indeed. While contemporary postmodern fiction claims to have assimilated the most daring philosophical experiments of the twentieth century, too many contemporary authors have forgotten the spiritual substance of these experiments.... —FREDERICK M. DOLAN, PH.D. Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

The Mummery Book is the epic saga of a Self-Radiant psyche on its journey to self-Transcending Realization. See It. Hear It. Consume It again and again.... —THOMAS (SIDNEY) LANIER Co-founder, The Foundation for Conscious Evolution Co-Founder, the off-Broadway American Place Theatre

The Mummery Book as a theatrical enactment is an absolute delight for the senses: the visual, aural, emotional and intellectual challenges are constant. In essence, this is a theatrical experience of accomplished beauty. With love/light/bliss as its core message, it truly resonates in the heart and reverberates in the mind in a theatrically unique manner. A stunningly brilliant mise-en-scene that has imprinted itself upon my consciousness for days, if not forever. –TONY CURIEL Member, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (NYC), Associate Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego, Princess Grace Theatre Fellow
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