Miracle

"See Right Visions"

by Stuart Camps -- adapted from the original article published in 1995

A thousand years ago the inland plains of North America were home to immense herds of bison. Each year they would undertake their great migrations across the unfenced vastness of what today is called the United States of America. For centuries the lives of the people depended upon the movements of these animals. The large, woolly bison were the life-blood of the plains Indians. They were a great resource of material and spiritual abundance and were worshipped as Spirit-beings.

A centuries-old sacred legend of the Lakota Sioux tells of two young hunters from the region we now call Dakota. They were out on a hunting trip. During their journey they encountered a pure white buffalo calf who shape-shifted into a beautiful woman, the legendary White Buffalo Calf Woman. She gave the young men instruction about how the Sioux should live, and prophesied her eventual return in the form of a white female buffalo calf. The reappearance of the White Buffalo Calf Woman was long expected by the Sioux, and other tribes, to initiate the restoration of their culture and that of all mankind to the Great Divine Spirit.

"Miracle" is the name given to a tiny bison calf born on a small farm in Janesville, Wisconsin, on August 20, 1994. Miracle was female, and pure white.

To the Native Americans, the appearance of Miracle was the Divine manifestation they had been waiting for. Word of her birth spread rapidly and the pilgrimages began. Native Americans traveled to Janesville from all over the United States to pay homage to this buffalo calf. They brought gifts with them -- dream-catchers, medicine wheels, sweet grass, turquoise, cedar berries, alabaster. They came to perform ceremonies and offer prayers and gifts.

On the other side of the world, in Fiji, Avatar Adi Da Samraj came to hear of the birth of Miracle. Immediately prior to receiving news about the calf's birth Adi Da had been looking at some books and videos about Native American culture (including the White Buffalo Calf prophecy). Then after hearing about the birth of Miracle He asked a question about the prophecy.

Avatar Adi Da Samraj: As I remember, the source of the legend of the White Buffalo Woman is the tradition of the sacred pipe described by Black Elk. I have the impression that the return of this Spirit is regarded to be a sign of the end of the world and of the restoration of Native Americans to their integrity, which inherently has something to do with their lands. The prophecy contains both suggestions. What are they actually presuming? Does the appearance of this white buffalo signal the restoration of the Native Americans, or is it associated with the end of the world--a judgment day, a holocaust, or some such event? (November 8, 1994)

Miracle at birth with mother

Since the Sioux are the keepers of the Sacred Pipe of the prophecy of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, I contacted two men of the Lakota Sioux Nation in Rapid City, South Dakota: Joseph Chasing Horse, one of the Sioux leaders, and Floyd Hand, a shaman of high degree. Both men were receptive to our inquiry.

In phone conversations with them I learned that the Sioux regarded the white calf as a sign of the purification of the Nations of Native Americans and of the world, and that, with Miracle's birth, they predict the regeneration of humanity through an ordeal of difficulty, suffering, and hardship. This ordeal will bring people back to their roots, to the source of the Great Mystery. The Sioux regard the prophecy about the "end of the world" as a signal of the completion of the so-called white man's present civilization, thereby simultaneously initiating the restoration of spiritual integrity for all people.

Both Joseph Chasing Horse and Floyd Hand asked me to give respective messages to Adi Da. Joseph Chasing Horse wanted Adi Da to know about a large gathering of Native Americans at Big Mountain, Arizona, in June of 1995. The purpose of this four-day ceremony was to inspire the Native American people to return to their roots, to the "Buffalo". With the state of the world as it is Native American leaders feel urgent that all cultures return to their roots, to the spiritual source of existence.

Floyd Hand spoke to me about visions he had received in relation to the white calf prophecy. He mentioned that during the predicted period of restoration, many white animals would be born, the sign of the reappearance of purity and goodness. He also said that many black animals would be born, the sign of the ending of old ways. As my conversation with Floyd Hand was about to end, he asked me to pass on a message to Adi Da Samraj about a vision he experienced while we were talking on the phone.

Floyd said, "Tell Him to watch the left side of his body and his left hand, for a serpent is crawling, and the serpent is not a snake. He goes to a small hill, with trees, where he meditates. A person will approach him from his left side, and it will be a female. Tell him to watch, to be careful."

When I asked Floyd to explain the vision to me he said I did not need to know anything about it. He said that Adi Da would know what the vision means and that I should just pass on the message.

Avatar Adi Da received a report of these conversations and the personal messages from the two men the next morning.

On only a handful of occasions has Adi Da hand-written a letter to someone. On the morning of November 16, 1994, Avatar Adi Da sat at His desk in His house in Fiji and wrote a brief reply to Floyd Hand's verbal message. This letter was placed in Adi Da's Blessing Temple, the "Sukra Kendra" for a time, and was then passed on for us to communicate it to Floyd Hand.

The letter is a confession to Floyd Hand, to all Native Americans and to men and women everywhere, of Adi Da's Intimacy with all beings and of His Divine Purpose in the world. He also invited Floyd Hand to a fuller understanding of the vision he had received, which Adi Da said was an authentic one. Floyd Hand is a traditional shaman of the Lakota Sioux. He had never heard of Adi Da until our phone conversation.

Avatar Adi Da's letter (excerpted, November 16, 1994): If you see right visions, then See Who I Am. I Am Adi Da, the Expected One, Named John by Birth. The Woman you see on My left Is Not here to do harm. I have Husbanded Her, So That the coming events May Be Made "Bright". She Is the One you see Appearing As the White Animals, but She Is Only My Own "Bright" Spirit-Power. What you see as the serpent of harm Is Only the Rising of My Own Spiritual Energy, to Purify and Control the earth and the ego. The white tribes, and every tribe, of every color, must be Purified at heart, or all will suffer. I Am the Sun of the Heart. I Stand At the right-hand side of every one. Therefore, do not meditate on harm, or on what you see to the left. Keep your eye to the right, and only meditate on Me. Every one must meditate only on Me, for the Sake of "Brightness". Ask Her, and She will also Tell you This of Me. (end of letter)

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Adi Da Samraj, 2007

Below, from James Steinberg, is a brief explanation of the esoteric meanings in Adi Da's letter to Floyd Hand.

When Adi Da points to His Name, "John by Birth", He is referring to auspicious Native American prophecies of the appearance of a white-skinned God-Man named "John" who would come for the spiritual benefit of the world. At birth, Adi Da's given name was "Franklin Jones", and for many years during His Teaching Work He was known as "Bubba (or 'Da') Free John". "Free John" is a rendering of "Franklin Jones", which means literally "a free man (Franklin) through whom God is Gracious (Jones is a variation of John)".

The "Woman" on the left whom Adi Da says He has Husbanded is the Divine Goddess, or the very force of cosmic nature and all conditional manifestation. When the Goddess is un-Husbanded and independent, she is out of control, birthing and deathing living beings indiscriminately. In the Hindu Tantric traditions, the woman on a man's right is independent, un-husbanded, therefore randomly available to others. When a woman submits to be husbanded by a man, she stands on the man's left and he stands at her right. Thus He says that the Great Woman Stands at His left, which is what Floyd saw in the vision.

The "serpent" in Floyd's vision indicates, in traditional imagery, Adi Da's Divine Spirit-Power. In the Yogic traditions of the East, the spiritual energy, or "Kundalini", that is said to rise in the body-mind is likened to a serpent. Thus, Floyd Hand rightly saw the "serpent" of Adi Da's Divine Spiritual Energy.

The cultures of mankind in all times have contained prophecies expressing the hopes of all humans for a Divine Intervention to restore the world to Happiness. Such is the prayer expressed by Native Americans in their prophecy of "John" and in the legend of the white buffalo.

Avatar Adi Da concludes His letter by speaking to Floyd Hand, a shaman who is in touch with greater energies and powers that the ordinary man is not normally available to... He invites Floyd to, "Ask Her, and She will also Tell you This of Me."

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It was early in the evening of November 16th in South Dakota when Floyd Hand was reached by telephone. The letter from Adi Da was read to him by Crane Kirkbride.

Sioux elders are typically well considered in their speech, saying only what is useful or necessary for the moment. Floyd Hand listened quietly to Adi Da's communication to him. He was quiet for a while. Then he said, "This is a good letter. This is a letter for the whole world to hear."

(Postscript: Floyd Hand is a Lakota Sioux medicine man. His tribal name is "Looks For Buffalo". Floyd is not a devotee of Adi Da's. He lives his traditional ways within his ancient traditional culture, and within its changing context in the modern world.)

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