Excerpts from Beyond the Illusion by Antonia Vidor

Enjoy text excerpts from Beyond the Illusion, and exclusive video of Toni telling stories not included in the book.

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Non-Humans and Adi Da Samraj

These videos are stories or ‘leelas’ that were edited out of the final book, Beyond the Illusion. Non-Human Healing Adi Da’s Love Relationship with Non-Humans (Birds!) For more information about Adi Da’s love for, and play, with non-humans, visit Fear-No-More Zoo.

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Toni as Healer

Excerpt from Chp. 29, “Healing Bhagavan” One day on the beach I read a text by Swami Muktananda, a member of Bhagavan’s lineage of gurus. After reading some of Muktananda’s book, I decided to do what Muktananda described he had done in relation to his guru. He described a practice of “installing the guru”—in his […]

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First Meeting with Adi Da Samraj

Excerpt from Chp. 9, “Meeting Adi Da Samraj” “Coming into the presence of a true master typically does not happen as one might expect. In the esoteric traditions, the seriousness of aspiring devotees was usually tested before they were allowed into the rarified space of the “ashram,” which, in the traditional meaning of the word […]

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My Life with King Vidor

Excerpt from Chp. 3, “Making Room for Daddy” “These years included King sometimes taking Linnie and me to sets of movies he was directing, his big post-war movies Duel in the Sun and The Fountainhead. I saw how movies were made, and I met Jennifer Jones and Gary Cooper. On special occasions like birthdays, I went […]

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Search for the Mercury Bead in India

Excerpt from Chp. 25, “The Search for Kaya Kalpa”…   I went down to Madras in Southern India and learned about making medicinal powders from mercury and gold. The state of Tamil Nadu is like another country, with a different language (Tamil rather than Hindi), and an ancient system of healing practices that are said […]

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WR Hearst and San Simeon

Excerpt from Chapert 1, End of the Fairytale… After my parents’ marriage suddenly ended, Linnie and I saw less of our dad and we ended up seeing more of WR Hearst and Marion Davies, my mother’s best friend. Marion invited Eleanor to their San Simeon estate often, to get her away from the divorce suit […]

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