"Adi Da created ""The Basket of Tolerance"" in order to help all come to a right and full understanding of the collective Great Tradition ofühuman kind and in order to provide a context in which to understand hisüoffering. At the present time this work-in-progress holds over 6000 books and 110 essays.üThis booklet contains eight Essays on a wide range of topics related to sexuality in religious and spiritual practice from the Basket ofüTolerance. In these Adi Da writes with the great clarity and wisdom about the following topics: üThe need for tolerance in religious and sexual practices. üThe right use and lawful choice of yogic sexual practice in theübeginning stages of religious and spiritual practice. üThe need for truly motiveless celibacy for the most advanced stages of spiritual practice.üThe universally necessary foundation struggle with theüemotional-sexual character. üThe nature of true kundalini shakti. üü""I regard the work of Adi Da and his devotees as one of the mostüpenetrating spiritual and social experiments happening on the planet inüour era.""üJEFFREY MISHLOVE, PH.D, host, PBS television series, Thinking Allowed, üauthor, The Roots of Consciousnessüüü""Adi Da's Teachings have tremendous significance for humanity. . . . Heürepresents a foundation and a structure for sanity."" ROBERT K. HALL,üM.D. psychiatrist; author, Out of Nowhere;, co-founder, The Lomi Schoolüand The Lomi Clinicüü""I’ve been inspired by Adi Da’s writings for many years. He is aücontemporary spiritual Hero, offering his transcendental gifts to aüculture without a tradition for or even “taste” for Avatars . . . yetühe bears the burdens of sagehood with persistence and love.""üAlex Grey, Artist and author, Sacred Mirrors and The Mission of Art"