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The Institute for Real God

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THE INSTITUTE FOR REAL GOD is an educational organization devoted to making genuine spirituality and spiritual practice accessible to as many people as possible. The Institute was founded in 2000 by Dr. Chris Tong, and is based on the wisdom of (and opportunity represented by) the great, living Spiritual Master, Adi Da Samraj.

The phrase "Real God" is our way of emphasizing the Institute's focus on "God experience" (and more precisely, our emphasis on the "present-time Revelation of God") over and against "God ideas" or belief systems. Indeed, because the word, "God", in our Western cultural context, has certain particular associations we do not intend, we could just as well say our focus in on experience (and Revelation) of the "Greater-Than-Material Reality" — and we explore just what exactly That is in much greater depth, through our courses.

The education provided by THE INSTITUTE FOR REAL GOD is very differently oriented than, say, the offerings of a typical university comparative religion department. We are oriented toward people who are interested in actual spiritual practice and its spiritual fruits. Thus we are geared toward making meaningful discriminations among different traditions and viewpoints, based on studying the actual spiritual "fruits" each is capable of bearing. Unlike, say, a typical "comparative religion" programme, we have no overt or covert belief in a principle such as "all spiritual paths are equal". In fact, quite to the contrary, we are very interested in understanding the differences between spiritual paths, particularly in their potential spiritual Realizations, because these differences are precisely what is of most interest to anyone who might be interested in taking up a spiritual practice. (Of course, to anyone who is interested in "spiritual traditions" or "religions" as mere lifelong intellectual study, they are all "equal" in the trivial sense that they are all just and only that for such people: mere intellectual curiosities, rather than life and spirit-transforming opportunities, study of which is being done with the ultimate aim of choosing one and transforming one's life and being.)