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Here is a summary of his story, reposted with his permission.
This prodigal son of man was born in the Far West of the United States, in 1941, when very powerful warlords who ruled Germany and Japan were threatening to conquer and rule the whole world by force of arms.
Despite the wars in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, as a child, youth and young man, "Joseph," lived what many would call a charmed life. Even though he was born into a family of very modest means, he had what he needed and nearly everything he really wanted.
As a child and youth he suffered from shyness, but he began to gradually overcome it as he became a young man. And, since he was well liked, musically talented and athletic, he enjoyed a lot of successes and accomplishments, socially. But, as an academic student in elementary and high school, he tended to be, as they say, slothful and lazy. And his first experience at college was unproductive, impeded by his desire to socialize and be a lover.
At age 23 he "married up" in 1964. In 1966, he learned how to play the guitar, to accompany himself singing, which pleased most who heard him sing. He even sang in a number of clubs and restaurants. And by 1969 at age 28 he had everything most men dream of. He had a beautiful wife, and, thanks to his wife's money from her father, he had a nice home, a summer vacation cabin, a boat, and nearly everything else he wanted. By that time he was a senior in college with a 3.4 grade point average, having finally applied himself in his studies, with plans to be a music teacher.
But, he felt that romantic love had let him down (even though he was mostly at fault for that). He was also attracted to the Hippie lifestyle, and he dreamed of greener pastures, not only romantically and sexually, but also in the sense that he wanted to live more simply and more close to nature. So, he foolishly threw everything away to pursue his dreams, one of which was to sing for a lot of people, and another was to live simply, on a houseboat.
In 1971, when Joseph was thirty years old, his life changed profoundly. He fortuitously realized the nature of divine, universal love. That revelation had triggered the opening of seven "seals" of greater revelations and the seven chakras, which culminated in his being carried away in spirit to that high and holy place where God inhabits eternity, into the Divine Light of God, where the "Book of Life" was opened to him.
He had been drawn up in spirit, out of his body, right into the "Light at the end of the tunnel." But Joseph found the "tunnel" to be more like a funnel, through which you start from the bottom, small end, and then go up, spiraling and expanding in spiritual consciousness to the widest point, where you go right into the Eternal Divine Light-Energy-Source-Essence of our existence, which is God by any other name. And he then understood what the primordial vibration or "Word" of God is, and that it is made flesh in all of us. It is what gives life and consciousness to every fiber of our being.
Following that, he started out on a path of learning and examining the world's religions and spiritual teachings, to try to fathom what he had witnessed and been given. His studies eventually and ultimately confirmed that the same eternal, essential, universal truths are common to all of them, and it confirmed how and why all the greatest spiritual teachers throughout history were in tune with the same Divine Light, the same Great Spirit and Supreme Consciousness of eternal, universal truth and divine love that Joseph had directly witnessed, felt, absorbed, and savored - which many people also call the Lord God, Jehovah, Yahweh, Brahman, The Absolute Tao, Ahura Mazda, Allah, Wakan Tanka, among many other names.
It was a time when the seeds of the coming New Reformation were planted, when a good many young Americans were learning about the universal truths that are at the core of every religion. So, during the first few years following Joseph's spiritual rebirth, he started studying the spiritual and religious works of man to try to comprehend what had happened to him. He knew that he had witnessed God, and he knew that he had even become one with God for a few moments that seemed like eternity. But, when he returned to his body and came back down to earth just a little bit, he realized that what he had absorbed emotionally and spiritually was far too overwhelming to grasp intellectually. That is why he set out on a path of learning.
But, the more he grew in his knowledge of religions, religious traditions and esoteric spiritual teachings, the more he came to think that he could not learn very much about God from them. He felt that all he could learn from men was what they thought of God, and he already knew what God is. He also could see that most people who claim to know God and have God on their lips, do not know God at all. But, he mistakenly thought he didn't need more education and some guidance to avoid pitfalls. He thought he was totally free and continually blessed, but in the spiritual reality he became foolish and unwittingly covetous and willful in the sight of God.
Between 1971 and 1974, he sang in a number of clubs, and he enjoyed the rewards of his talent, especially from women. In fact, he reveled in the free love atmosphere. He kept performing sporadically for small audiences as he was finishing college, and after he graduated and earned a teaching credential he started working professionally in 1972 as an educator. But even though he had so much going for him, materially and physically, it was not enough.
In 1974, he left his job and his family and his friends, and he set out on a spiritual pilgrimage. He went to Mexico for awhile, where he had a very profound vision (which he didn't understand until several years later), and then came back to his home town and just lived in his old VW van. He was, as they say, a free spirit. And then he thought he found his true love, a beautiful younger woman with soulful, adoring eyes and a heart of gold.
In 1975, four years after he had witnessed God, he began to think that God had called and chosen him to be a great leader. So, at age thirty-four, he briefly tried to become the most powerful political leader in the world. But, of course, he failed. He also lost his young lover, because his head was still in the clouds. Even though a psychologist friend of his had told him in 1973 that he had become "enamored by enlightenment," he was oblivious. He was in his own world, and had not really come back "down to earth" yet.
He then became a homeless ascetic, and began wandering rather aimlessly on foot. Without realizing it, he was searching for what he had already found, but he did learn a lot during his travels. For example, he learned much about people, many different kinds of people. And he learned that the poor, who have the least, are the most willing to share what they have.
Then, in July 1977, two years after he had become homeless by choice, he was stricken and afflicted with a disabling disease and confined to a wheelchair. But, even after such a hard landing, it took about seven more years for him to really become a somewhat normal human being, mentally, and it took longer than that for him to really come back down to earth.
Fortunately, he was given a lot of help when he got out of the hospital in December 1977, and he was able to get a cheap old utility vehicle to travel and live in. He floundered around for awhile, went out on the desert and car-camped along the Colorado River to fast for long while. There, all of a sudden, for the first time in his life, he was able to write his own songs. Even though he had lost the use of his legs, he had gained something he had wanted for a long time.
Then he traveled here and there from the coast to the mountains trying this and that to try to fit in somewhere. An old girl friend took him in for a few months and helped him get a little more organized and helped him get a small disability pension. She also gave him a portable typewriter and encouraged him to write and develop his music. Then he found a place near a remote little lake about a hundred miles north-west of his home town, and went through a long period of seclusion, meditation, and more intense study.
It was there, early in 1979, when through truly divine and rather miraculous guidance, Joseph was shown and began to learn and understand the prophecies of Isaiah and Jesus, and he began to understand why he was stricken, afflicted, and physically disabled.
That prompted him to began his studies that also led him to learn how and why Judaic "Old Testament" scriptures in the Bible confirm that "God is not a man, nor a son of man," that "God lives in Light," that "God is Light," and that "besides God there is no Savior." And he was shown that the Christ Jesus said to his disciples: "You have not seen God's shape at any time." That confirmed what Joseph already knew, because God was not made in our image. We are all made in God's image, as children of the Eternal Divine Light-Energy Source of our existence, the Supreme Consciousness, and the primordial vibration or "Word" which is made flesh in all of us.
At the same time in 1979 he was given a clear, unmistakable, miraculous sign from God, a giant star, shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow, which confirmed what he was being shown in the Bible. As he wrote in his memoirs, the night he began to receive miraculous guidance to key prophecies in the Bible, he happened to glance out the window and saw a gigantic five-pointed star, shimmering brightly with all the colors of the rainbow. It was so incredibly huge that at first he thought it must have somehow been an immense man-made structure. He also thought it must have been man-made because it seemed to be sort of linear, sort of like when you draw a five-pointed star with a continuous line. To his surprise, however, when he went outside to see it more clearly, he saw that it was actually a giant star in the sky and not supported by anything. It was a heavenly body. It was so immense that he didn't believe it could possibly be a star, but it was twinkling just like the regular stars, and he could see that some of them were also shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow in the same way (as can be seen sometimes on very cold, clear nights). So he just watched it for about an hour, and it moved across the sky just like all the other stars. It was there the next night too, only a little smaller, and after a few more nights it had gradually diminished to the same size as all the other stars.
But, as was his bent, all that went to his head" and he thought he was going to be a great guru, with many devotees and gopis (women lovers). After all, since 1971 he had been drawn to and recognized more truth in esoteric and eastern spiritual teachings, which more obviously speak of the Divine Reality.
Of course, no one saw him as a guru. They only saw a man who had been stricken, "smitten of God," and afflicted, just as the prophet Isaiah foresaw.
A few months later he moved from his home state to a place further North, in the Pacific Northwest, and he went into a kind of exile. Fortunately, a good woman took him in and loved him in spite of himself, and he's been with her since 1979. He is very fortunate, in that she is wise, good-hearted, loyal, understanding, and very forgiving. (She is also a very hard-headed woman, which is what he needed, but it's taken him 30 years to realize that.)
For awhile, thanks to a small disability pension of $297 per month and his wife's $400 per month wages, he was able to work on getting stronger. His upper body strength began to come back, and he was able to crawl around in the garden, work more on his music, and study and write.
Unfortunately, he stopped working on his music in 1984, because his heart wasn't in it any more. He began to detest how so many people were being treated by their employers and their government, and he was incensed by what was happening to America. He saw that much of the progress that was made in the 1960s and '70s toward more freedom, equal rights and fairness was being reversed by those who claimed to cherish freedom and fairness, but were actually pushing us backward in the opposite direction.
Joseph was incensed that the right-wing political and "religious" climate (which Joseph calls Reaganism, which later expanded into Bushism in 2000) was so pervasive, and he was amazed that most Americans couldn't see that the wool was being pulled over their eyes. Too many people were duped by all the flag waving, bible thumping and sword rattling by Reagan and his political and "religious" cohorts, who appealed to the emotions, prejudices and egotism of proud and militant right-wing nationalists and religious bigots who were extremely intolerant of anyone who had differing beliefs regarding politics and religion. So, Joseph began to concentrate on getting his message down in writing to try to expose such unfairness, bigotry and hypocrisy.
Still, it took many years for him to fully understand and finally accept the responsibility of his mission. He was often filled with self-doubt for long periods of time, so it took a long for him to fully accept that he was to serve God and humanity as the messenger for the Spirit of truth, the "son of man" and the "witness and servant of God," who anonymously delivers the message of judgment, guiding you unto truth, showing you things to come, and glorifying the Holy One in heaven. And he didn't realize until 2002 that he could deliver the message electronically over the World Wide Web and Internet so it can be seen in a flash, like "lightening seen from one part under heaven to all others," as Jesus said it would be.
He didn't realize that part of the prophecy, however, until recently, and he wasn't able to even start learning how to operate a computer until 1990 when he went to work in a human services office and began to learn word-processing software. Then for more than a decade he tried to have a book containing the earliest version of the message published, but was rejected. Then in 2002 he finally was able to self-publish his earliest work in his first book and on his first web site, even though he knew he would be rejected by his generation and suffer many more things.
Indeed, Joseph has had to overcome many things, and he has suffered many more things in addition to being confined to a wheelchair, the worst and most life-threatening of which are coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure. In fact, he suffers many other things, as Jesus said he would. However, his life has been prolonged by much good medicine, both prescribed and alternative, and also by seven surgeries (so far), much modern medical treatment, and a heart pacemaker. His suffering has not only brought him back down to earth. The weight he's carrying has pushed him down, and in the words of the prophet Isaiah, he has suffered and is still increasingly suffering greatly for the "transgressions of his people," because it breaks his heart and he grieves heavily.
But, even so, he feels he deserves his lot. It is, in large part, karmic justice, because he has not only been a covetous and willful fool, but many years ago he was a slothful and undisciplined student. At times he has been a miserable excuse of a man (and still is on bad days). And, unlike many people, he cannot say he has no regrets. He regrets all the times he was thoughtless and inconsiderate of others' feelings, said things he should not have said, done things he should not have done, and failed to do things he should have done. He regrets his failures and mistakes even those he committed unwittingly, or naively and even though he knows God understands and forgives him, he is nevertheless deeply sorry for the impact his failures and mistakes had on others.
However, Joseph's suffering has made him contrite and grateful most of the time, even though he is too often incensed at all the greed, corruption, bigotry, hypocrisy and conflict in the world, and all the suffering caused by it. Nevertheless, he is very grateful because he has far more than he deserves. Even though he left his first love, and even though he has been a fool, he is now seen as a prodigal son of man by God, who particularly loves and welcomes all those who are humbled and contrite. And all of this was foreseen and foretold by the prophets Isaiah and Jesus.
He has been learning much and developing the message for 31 years now, and in the message, Joseph explains what he has learned from God's Spirit of truth, from men, and especially from women.
Joseph has had to overcome much in order to fulfill his mission. But the most difficult and biggest barrier he had to overcome was to accept that it was not his ego that was impelling him to deliver the message, and that he was not simply being self-important, self-righteous, and judgmental. He realized he must deliver the message even though it was taking a terrible toll on his body, but he more fully realized how and why he has been and is actually guided by God and the Spirit of truth, and he finally fully realized why Jesus said, "Of myself I do nothing."
That helped him realize that his egocentric fear of failure or error is merely the flip side of his egocentric notion that he has done something great. Both sides are part of the illusion of duality, and neither one is real for a true servant of God. He realized it is vain folly to allow his ego to take credit for the good news, or let his conscience blame him for judging bigots, hypocrites and wrongdoers. He tries to let go of his egotism and its idea of success or failure or judgmental self-righteousness, and let God guide him in ways that often amaze him and make him very grateful to be of service.
Joseph explains why there have been few individuals actually chosen by God as servant-messengers, even though many are called. That is because, unfortunately, most who are called by God start off on a spiritual path but they get off track and go astray because they think they are becoming "holier than thou," or they think they are simply above it all and live without caring, with their head in the clouds, as Joseph did before he realized and accepted what his mission is.
At the end of every age God chooses one servant as messenger, even though thousands may have been called, to bring humanity into remembrance of the eternal, universal truths that have been lost or ignored or forgotten or misunderstood.
The Christ Jesus was such a chosen one, and Jesus and Isaiah predicted the coming of the next one chosen, who serves in the name of Israel and Jesse and Jacob and David and Jesus and Yeshua and Jehoshuah, as well as the Buddha, the Avatar and all other expected ones, and writes under the pen name of Joseph James Adamson.
But Joseph considers himself merely as a messenger. He is a Nobody who knows we are One Body of Humanity. He is not God, but is God's witness and chosen servant. He is not the Light, but bears witness to the Divine Light which is God. And he is not the Ancient One, not the Christ or Avatar or Buddha, but bears the testimony of the Ancient One-Christ-Avatar-Buddha-Saoshyant, Mahdi, etc. who is within and in heaven above us all.
You see, we all know the truth deep in our heart of hearts, but the human ego is very practiced and proficient at making us think we are good judges, and more wise than others. Joseph is the one chosen to bring you into remembrance of the truth. He is the one who issues the prophesied judgment, which is particularly appropriate and needed at this time, since false prophets and false shepherds are dividing humanity and leading their blind flocks so far astray.
Only God is the Holy One and Savior, and Joseph's mission is to serve God and explain God's Will and Intent. And he is able to do so only because he realizes the fallibility of man, including himself, and fully acknowledges the infallibility and supremacy of God and the Ancient One in heaven. He is a genuine witness and faithful servant of God.
Finally, after having his written work rejected for so long, in the Spring of 2008 he finally realized that he must do his "first works." That is, perform and record his songs. So he tweaked and updated the lyrics to reflect his current thinking, arranged and practiced his songs, and managed to record ten of them, even though it was very difficult. After all, he had not sung or played the guitar in 25 years, and his worsening congestive heart failure caused him to be short of breath and fatigued. Also, he had to record on a little portable 4-track tape recorder in his home, where many of recording attempts were spoiled by the noise of dogs in the house or vehicles outside.
Still, after nine months of hard work, in December 2008, he was able to produce his first CD. It contains ten of his songs, on which he sang with two-part vocal harmony, accompanying himself with 6 string and 12 string guitars, clarinet, and other instrument sounds (such as bass, organ and drums) produced on an electric piano.
As a singer, though his first name is David, his middle name is after his namesake, Jehoshuah, and his last name (Nunson) is the modern way of saying Son of Nun. (In scriptures, Nun was the minister to Moses and the father of Joshua. In Hebrew, Nun is the 13th letter of the alphabet, symbolized by the fish. It also means fish in Aramaic, Phoenician and Arabic. And, in mythology, Nun is the ethereal waters or ocean from which all life has come. That is the real reason why it is symbolized by the fish.) And he is a singer to fulfill prophecy.
"Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth." David=s Psalm 33:3-4
"And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not. And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them." Ezekiel 33:32-33
Joseph-David wasn't satisfied with it, though, because it had a few slight recording flaws, and on one song the guitar was not quite in sync with the drums in a few places. (It was an up-beat song and he was just too fatigued.) Even so, he settled for the recording as it was because he felt he didn't have long to live, and he had 500 CDs replicated. But, since then, thanks to a pacemaker adjustment, he has been able to produce an improved second recording of those ten songs. On it he re-mixed most of the songs and re-recorded a few of them, and it is identified as the second recording.
His health is precarious, but if his life is further prolonged and he is still able, he will produce a second CD containing the rest of his songs. He may also release some songs he recorded in 1982 but had forgotten about until his wife recently discovered the old tape. He was astonished when he listened to it after all these years, and he wants you to hear what a singer he was then, when he was still young and strong and his heart was so full of love and great expectations (that turned out to be very premature). It's just him, singing and playing the guitar, before his heart was broken by sorrow and grief over the increasing suffering in the world.
However, he rises above that when he sings, and he hopes that you enjoy his songs, and that they give you hope, courage, and faith.
2002 - 2009 Joseph J. Adamson. Reposted from A Prodigal Son of Man
