# Adidam · The Cult Dossier · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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The Cult Dossier · No. 113 · Eastern-Derived
Adidam
Free Daist Communion; the Dawn Horse Communion
1972 – present · California; Fiji (Naitauba)
XII. THE WIDER FIELD — CONCISE ENTRIES
Fully religious
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1972 Founded in Los Angeles.
- 1973–1983 The crazy-wisdom years, including the period he called the Garbage and the Goddess.
- 1983 He moves to NAITAUBA, a Fijian island bought by a wealthy follower from the actor Raymond Burr. It is his main home until his death; he becomes a Fijian citizen in 1993.
- 1985 Two lawsuits and a wave of press coverage. One is dismissed in 1986; the other is settled with payments and confidentiality agreements. NO LEGAL WRONGDOING IS ESTABLISHED.
- 27 NOVEMBER 2008 Adi Da dies at Naitauba, in the Lau Islands of Fiji, AGED 69.
- 2008–present HE HAD LEFT EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS AND THEY DID NOT NAME A PERSON. Authority passes to the RUCHIRA SANNYASIN ORDER — devotees consecrated to him — as senior cultural authority ‘in perpetuity’, with a LAY RENUNCIATE ORDER as its working arm. Membership stays small; the communities and the publishing continue.
### Its people
### Adi Da Samraj
Franklin Albert Jones; Bubba Free John; Da Free John
Founder, Adidam · 3 November 1939 – 27 November 2008 · active 1972–2008
Before the law. Never criminally charged; the 1985 civil suits were settled or dropped.
Where things stand. Deceased 2008. Adidam continues, very small.
- 1972 Founds the group in Los Angeles.
- 1974 The Garbage and the Goddess period.
- 1985 Multiple lawsuits and a national press storm; relocation to Naitauba, Fiji.
- 27 November 2008 Dies in Fiji.
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