tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84084488167046044122012-02-11T16:28:48.653-06:00"My words will be so sacred even they will work wonders!" - Meher Baba<br><br> Posts on Meher Baba's words on metaphysics, mysticism, the paranormal, strange animals, evolution, video clips, and mini biographies of celebrities associated with Baba.Chris Otthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16883570461241174233noreply@blogger.comBlogger791100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408448816704604412.post-17623669931990988172012-01-05T14:30:00.047-06:002012-01-30T09:33:47.928-06:00

Today there is a very popular crisis called "sustainability." The thought is that earth is our only home, and as people gobble up the resources of their planet, their "species" will be lost. Let us see what Baba says about our "only home, Earth." "In what is called space, numberless universes are continuously created, sustained and destroyed. This procession of creation continues so long as God

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Here is what Baba had to say about "so-called messages" people say they receive from him. "Do not... be deceived into thinking that Baba is sending his messages through any of you. This seeking of so-called messages leads a sincere aspirant astray, and grossly endangers his spiritual progress... So do not seek various messages through various mediums or channels." (Meher Baba,

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What Are Ascended Masters? Today, there is a popular idea of ascended masters (sometimes also called “hidden masters”). I take the following from Wikipedia to give a brief picture of what this means. Preparing a medium to channel "Rah" It is believed that Ascended Masters are individuals who were formerly embodied on the Earth and learned the lessons of life during their incarnations. They

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I'm told some of Baba's lovers say that Baba's words given in his lifetime were for his time only, or for a hypothetical future time, or only meant for some types, and even that God Speaks is only "general guidelines," rather than, as Eruch described it to Mark Riney in 1999, "the Supreme Vision of Reality." In truth Meher Baba took great pains to assure the availability of his words after his

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The version of Meher Baba’s principle book God Speaks used in these footnotes is the 1997 printing, which is the same as the online version. It will be abbreviated as “GS.” ................................. Can Meher Baba talk to people now that he has dropped his physical body? Can Meher Baba, now that he has left his physical body as he did in 1969, talk to his lovers or his mandali

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It is a matter of published record that Meher Baba made the following statements about people migrating (by reincarnation) to earth from other planets. The reader is free to accept these statements as true or not, in accordance with his or her personal intuition concerning Meher Baba’s claim of divinity. Of special interest amidst these quotes is that there are, according to Meher Baba,

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Hollywood "Fogger" darkening a set "The dark cloud is approaching very fast. Only a few will hold on to me. Those who are near me, not in space but in love. The rest will leave me. The age-old experience will be repeated. In this incarnation, I have a large following, but again I shall be left with a few. It is as if around me there are many beautiful buildings. It took years to build them,

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Below is a list of some of this site's more entertaining posts. For all 72 see the right column. For new ones see top. 2012Amazing DatesAre Doors Mystical Symbols?Einstein's BrainGod Speaks Released in 1958?Hu and HumaMeher Baba on Flying SaucersMeher Baba on the First Life FormMeher Baba on the Shroud of TurinMeher Baba on the Topic of SpiritsMeher Baba on World War IIMold of the

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An eerie ending to another great film by the inspired auteur Frank Capra. Robert Conway returns to Shangri-la, the hidden lamasery in Tibet, in "Lost Horizon" (1937). Based on James Hilton’s highly popular 1933 novel by the same name. Here is what Baba said about Shambhala, the original Buddhist term that James Hilton based his Shangri-la on. Garrett Fort: Is there

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It has been said that Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) was Meher Baba's favorite movie. I also heard Baba said it was an example of what a film could be. Meher Baba's Message to Hollywood 1932I was particularly glad to come to California because of the opportunity which it afforded to contact those who made or appeared in motion pictures, and I am delighted that this gathering

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One of the oldest forms of western mysticism is called Emanationism. Emanationists such as Pythagoras, Plotinus, and others argued that complex patterns in nature were a natural consequence of procession from the One (Hen, Absolute). According to Emanationism, the Absolute, its nature and its activity must be inseparably one thing only, namely will, such that the nature and activity of the

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Meher Baba & Charles Purdom, London 1932 Charles Purdom was an economist, drama critic, author, and a close early follower of Meher Baba, having met him at Devonshire in England in 1931. He was also his first major biographer, writing "The Perfect Master: The Early Life of Meher Baba" (1937), and "The God Man" (1964). In addition he wrote one of the earliest versions of the discourses of Meher

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Quentin Tod (sometimes credited "Todd") was a British dancer, choreographer, and actor who was a close follower of Baba from the time of meeting him in London in 1931 until his death in 1947. Tod was instrumental in making many of the Hollywood arrangements for Baba as he had numerous connections in the entertainment industry both in England and America.Tod was also an early pioneer of television

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Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Garrett Fort was a close follower of Meher Baba's. Fort was the script writer on the original 1931 screen adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff, who incidentally also met Meher Baba in 1932. In 1937 Fort traveled to India to work on a screenplay for Baba and wound up living there and traveling around India by Meher Baba's direction -

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The editor of Meher Baba Journal (1938-1943), and the co-founder of the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, was Norina Matchabelli. Born Norina Gilli in Florence, Italy, she was a famous actress of the European silent screen who's stage name was Maria Carmi. After a marriage with Karl Vollmöller (see image right), writer of The Miracle (an extremely famous pantamime spectacle play) and

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Shroud of Turin The Shroud of Turin is believed by some to be the burial shroud of Jesus. By others it is believed to be a painting. In 1988, a Carbon 14 test dated the shroud to the 14th century (1300's). This seemed to confirm the long-held view of skeptics, and for some the issue of the Shroud's authenticity ceased to be relevant. Somewhat humorously, one rumor that caught on and is widely

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The Beloved's Face Ever since I saw the Beloved's face, its lines have etched themselves on my heart. I still nurse the wound of separation within me — it has left me broken. Flowing tresses may be a snare and a net: those are pagan tresses whose lure, like the bulbul, has sprung from the head, bogged in the heart. When ego is erased, duality disappears: God's lover is himself God. This is the

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As corny as it may seem to some today, one of Baba's favorite songs was "Welcome to My World" by Jim Reeves. Baba used to pantamime the words to the song as it played on the wind-up record player. But Meher Baba's favorite song by Jim Reeves was "There's a Heartache Following Me." I recently heard something amazing from Jay Schauer. "Mani told me that during MB's stays at Guruprasad when

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The song Begin the Beguine had special meaning to Meher Baba which he never explained.(LM 5424) By his earlier request, when he dropped his body the song was played several times at his samadhi on a hand-cranked phonograph. It must have been a strange sight, the ambulance at the top of Meherabad Hill, with strains of Begin the Beguine wafting from the tomb. This is the Artie Shaw version of the

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The evolution of gross forms is but a by-product in the universalfactory of evolution of consciousness. (Meher Baba, GS p. 23 online version)The physical form that acts as the medium for experiencing the opposites of Creation is shown to be an increasingly complex by-product of this will of God to know Himself consciously. The very force of evolution of form becomes, not a random selection of

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Copied from WikiversityMeher Baba said repeatedly that he did not wish to establish a new cult or religion, but rather to revitalize the great religions of the world.I have not come to establish anything; I have come to put life into the old.I have come not to establish any cult, society or organization - nor to establish a new religion. The Religion I shall give teaches the knowledge of the One

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British occultist Meridith Starr asks Meher Baba questions at 88 Grove Street in New York City, in 1932. Lifted from out-takes from an unreleased Movietone newsreel.https://sites.google.com/site/mysticmeher/waiting-for-things-that-already-happened

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"When you don't respect my words, how can you respect me?" (LM 522) "You love your own feelings and personal fancies more than the worth of my words." (LM 709) "If you don't find my words to your liking, it is better you do leave!" (LM 612) "My words will be so sacred even they will work wonders!" (LM 925) "To pay attention to what I say and desire is real meditation. What better

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Today is being spread the feast for the tavern-keeper's son.1— HafizMeher Baba's father, Sheriar, was born in Khūzestān Province, Iran in 1853 to a poor Zoroastrian family. When he was 13 years old he left home and became a wandering dervish. After many years a voice in the desert told him he would find what he sought through a son. Sheriar then traveled to India where he joined the Parsi

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I was surprised at the similarity between Sufi (top) and Hindu (bottom) aesetic mendicants. The first are known as fakirs, the latter as sadhus. Each means the same thing. Clicking on photos takes you to a larger image. At the age of 12, Baba's father Sheriar left home and became a wandering dervish, a fakir. Years later he settled down and eventually married Baba's mother Shireen.

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Notice the photographer's assistant peaking under the blanket on the bottom right.

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Baba (Merwan Irani) is on the far left. Sitting next to him is not his father as one might expect. It is his father's brother Khodadad. Baba is 19 in this photo, in his second year of college. The portrait is taken in early 1913 very shortly before his first contact with Hazrat Babajan in May of that year.L-R: Merwan (Meher Baba), Behram (brother), Khodadad (paternal uncle), Jal (brother,

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Meher Baba is on the left in the sailor suit (age 5). The little boy on the right is his older brother Jamshed. The baby girl is Baba's little sister Freiny. Freiny died in 1902 of the plague when she was 6 years old. In addition to Freiny, Baba had two brothers who also died, one named Shirmund (7 months) and another named Jehangir (2 years). Baba had 8 siblings in all.

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Flying saucer From Life Eternal, Teachings of Meher Baba, Book One Ivy Duce wrote that she visited the Museum of Natural History in New York with Meher Baba in 1952, while he was recovering from a car accident: "As Mehera guided Baba's wheelchair, I trotted along beside her, and during a lonely stretch of corridor, I leaned over and asked him, "Have any of the people asked you about flying

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It is forty years this week since the music festival that took place just over six months after Meher Baba dropped his body. Melanie Safka was one of the performers. It was drizzling rain and people lit candles while she performed. The event inspired her later to write Candles in the Rain. If you listen carefully to her introduction you will hear her say Meher Baba's name. She had a very loving

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Meher Baba was silent and used sign language. His sign for Albert Einstein was to hold his hands out from his head, which Eruch said was his sign for "Big Brain."It turns out that Albert Einstein's brain was fortuitously, but rather macabrely, kept after his death. The portion of Einstein's brain that commands speech was slow to develop, and Einstein could not speak until he was three years old.

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Meher Baba's book God Speaks is dedicated:To the Universe— the Illusion that sustains Reality.Here's my best understanding of this - using my own words.In The Evolution of Perception & the Cosmology of Substance, I explain everything away as a mere perceptual illusion, except the act of perception itself. The act of perception, I argue, is necessarily real. Everything else is an illusion

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"Circumstances compel me to do things which I do not like to do. I am obliged to eat all sorts of things that I have no taste for and keep myself dressed in clothes I have no desire to wear. Oh God! What entanglements! What sort of bondage is this!" (Meher Baba, in a letter to his brother, 1915)The photo of Meher Baba and the quote by him are from the same time. Although Baba had already been

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From Wikipedia Mysticism (from the Greek μυστικός – mystikos, an initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries; μυστήρια – mysteria meaning "initiation") is the pursuit of achieving communion, identity with, or conscious awareness of ultimate reality, the divinity, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight. Traditions may include a belief in the literal existence of

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Film clips from the documentary by Aryana Farshad, Mystic Iran: The Unseen World. Mystic Iran the Unseen World won the Audience Award at the 2008 Noor Film Festival... One of the first and most popular documentary films about SPIRITUALITY, Mystic Iran was shot entirely in locations in Iran. Nine months in production and two years in post production, Mystic Iran takes the audience into the

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Meher Baba saw The Great Dictator in a cinema in Delhi in February, 1941, one week before his 47th birthday. He said it was the only film he would have liked to have watched seven times. The Great Dictator was the great silent auteur Charlie Chaplin's first speaking film. In the film a Jewish barber is mistaken for the Dictator of Tomainia. Chaplin speaks very few words in the film, and only

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Mold Ever wonder why gangsters look like gangsters? Or why your lawyer looks like a lawyer? Meher Baba says that the body is moulded from the impressions you bring into this life to exhaust. In other words the impressions gathered in your previous life act as a kind of matrix to produce the media or form that is perfectly suitable for the expression of those impressions. Following are quotes

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All quotes are by Meher Baba."My coming to the West is not with the object of establishing new creeds and spiritual societies and organizations." (LM 1554)"Societies and organizations have never succeeded in bringing Truth nearer." (LM 1616)"I do not intend to found any religion, cult, creed or society. There are already far too many of these organizations." (LM 1626)"I need no religious

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In my last post I said that The Parvardigar Prayer is a prayer in which humanity beseeches God the Preserver and Sustainer to protect it and offers praise to God. Baba asked his lovers around the world to recite the prayer each day, along with the Prayer of Repentence, starting in late January 1968 and continuing until the end of July of that year. This period coincided with a period of deep

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Meher Baba wrote the Parvardigar Prayer in Dehradun in August 1953 and made it public on September 13th of that year. In 1968, almost exactly a year before he dropped his body, in a circular Baba asked his lovers round the world to recite the Parvardigar Prayer and The Prayer of Repentance once a day for six months. The following is a short commentary on the Parvardigar Prayer - blue and red font

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Once, in Scarsdale, Baba revealed to his lovers an upcoming catastrophe in which many would die. Fred Winterfeldt mentioned someone who, in order to protect his family and himself from the destruction Baba had foretold, wanted to establish a home high in the mountains and stock it with provisions. Baba interrupted, stating emphatically, "No place will be safe, not even the top of the Himalayas!

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Those who follow this blog know my love of dates. I haven't been able to help noticing that Meher Baba seems to enjoy applying the word "after" to his hints of coming events. Is this like my mother saying to me as a child, "Soon dear, soon."?"You signed the agreement before witnesses. I promise to stick to my end. Exactly after one year I will give you the powers you want." (LM 2164)"After one

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Is this merely a simple joke, or also a riddle?"Will we experience the Light or not?" Ghani asked. Baba jokingly replied, "Look at the ways of your Avatar! Though I stay in Ahmednagar, I go all the way to Pimpalgaon for the night. If you can grasp this, you will get the Light!" (LM 3252)Is the following a possible half-answer about the purpose of Baba's mysterious actions?"Krishna was either

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A wonderful devotional prayer/sermon by S. M. Lockridge that reminds me of the Parvardigar Prayer.

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The following is an excerpt from a letter by Eruch Jessawala on February 1st, 1963, conveying Baba's reply to questions about how to conduct worship at a Meher Baba Center being opened in India. [from LM 6075-6]Baba often stressed that he has come again as the Avatar of this Age to cut clean through the thongs which restrict the voice of true worship to God to the point of strangulation.Beloved

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Vanna White Okay, I'm going out on a limb here. A friend once pointed out to me that Vanna White, who was the silent model for years on the TV game show Wheel of Fortune, wrote a book called Vanna Speaks, mirroring the title of the silent master Meher Baba's book God Speaks. Just in case this wasn't strange enough, the town of North Myrtle Beach erected a sign in the 1980s that read, "Welcome

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On May 24th, 2009, the anniversary of Meher Baba's 1952 auto accident in Prague, Oklahoma, at about 1:30pm, police pulled over an ambulance taking a patient to the hospital and throttled the attending paramedic as the patient lingered. The ambulance was on its way to the Prague Hospital where Baba was taken 57 years earlier to the day and was driving on the same road, Hwy 62, where Baba's auto

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“To Conway, seeing it first, it might have been a vision. It was indeed a strange and incredible sight. A group of colored pavilions clung to the mountainside with the chance delicacy of flower-petals impaled upon a crag. It was superb and exquisite. An austere emotion carried the eye upward from milk-blue roofs to the gray rock bastion above. Beyond that, in a dazzling pyramid, soared the snow

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I've always had a thing for old doors. My first animated movie was of Meher Baba walking through a door into a sunlit field. My second animated film, "Where is My Master's Workshop?" began and ended with the passing through a door. It turns out that the door is a Sufi symbol.Gar andar amad avval ham bidar shudAgar cih dar ma’ad az dar bidar shud. “He returns to the door from which he first came

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How many symbols are in this image?

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Probably nothing. But do I see a movie plot coming on?

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George Harrison, rooftop concert 1969 Meher Baba was born on February 25, 1894. Baba's mother Shireen died on February 25, 1943. George Harrison was born on February 25, 1943. In other words the same day Baba's mother died (and Baba said she was liberated) George Harrison was born. And it was Baba's birthday. It was Harrison who brought the Beatles, and the attention of the world, to India in

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In Mehera-Meher, Mehera Irani tells that Meher Baba told her in 1963 that John F. Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald acting on his own.Watch this whole video.

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I can't find it now, but somewhere I remember reading that Baba said that our Moon was once an Earth. I did find this quote:"The earth is getting cooler and will eventually turn into a moon." (LM 1140)If Baba said the Moon was once an Earth, it goes against modern theory, though that doesn't bother me.What I always wondered was, if the Earth will one day be a moon, will it be small like the moon.

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Eruch did not believe in ghosts, and although Baba had explained to him many times about disembodied spirits, he found the whole thing hard to conceive of. That night, as Eruch was sleeping, he woke up and felt some pressure heavy on his chest – although he could see no one. He struggled to free himself from the invisible intruder, but was overpowered and could not utter a sound. He tossed and

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This recently released photograph of Meher Baba was taken by PauI Brunton in India in 1930. Click to enlarge.

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"Higher spirits are actually agents of God – with powers and certain duties. They have physical forms in order to work in the world according to the directives issued by the Perfect Masters. "Lower spirits are those beings without physical forms whose sanskaras remain to be wiped out. They cannot progress after death until their unfinished sanskaras are worked out; as a consequence, they wander

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To those who are closest to Meher Baba, he says he takes everything away. But there are some that are just near enough who he shines a different light upon.In 1967 the Dutch documentary filmmaker Louis van Gasteren filmed Baba in Meherazad, India. Baba came out of his seclusion for one day to wash lepers and Louis had made prior arrangements to be there with a small crew to film Baba on the event

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An account in Lord Meher one might have called "impossible" and "apocryphal" turns out is both possible and likely as anyone can now see. When Merwan was eleven months old, one day Shireen left him outside in a cradle underneath a tree while she went back to the kitchen to cook. When she returned, a dreadful sight nearly made her faint. A deadly black cobra had crawled into the cradle and had

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There are two kinds of information in this world. The first is the kind that sounds great when you first hear it, and then upon closer inspection it falls apart. The second type is the kind of information that sounds specious when you first hear it, and then upon deep and very prolonged inquiry starts to smell like a rose. Meher Baba is information of the second sort.A first blush reading of "The

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Photo by Bhanu, 2006 Youth Sahavas, Meherabad, IndiaI think I may be becoming the new Art Bell of the Meher Baba world. I got more feedback about my spirit article than any other I ever wrote. So I'm adding more images.Here's one taken by my daughter on the ghost tour in the famously haunted Crescent Hotel not far from our home.What are these bright globes? Are they spirits the eye can't see? Are

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Oklahuma is a very interesting video artist. These are some recent favorites.Oklahuma on YouTube.

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I used to feel that Baba's major book God Speaks was somehow tainted by the fact that not every word is by Baba. For instance, first Eruch Jessawala and later Don Stevens and Lud Dimpfl worked to turn Baba's roughhewn points into readable English sentences and paragraphs. Next, chapter nine was written by Eruch from a chart designed by Baba. The conclusion was written entirely by Eruch. The

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Meher Baba contracted Romanian film producer Gabriel Pascal to direct his movie idea illustrating the Divine Theme.Pascal at the funeral of George Bernard Shaw, November 1950Meher Baba called Gabriel Pascal his Phoenix, and sometimes his Black Panther. Both are symbols for rebirth. Baba said his connection with Pascal was ancient, extending over many advents.

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"...a great war will break out and rage between the western countries Russia, America, England, Italy, Germany and others. There will be such chaos and confusion throughout the world that not one leader will understand what to do." (Meher Baba, June 1930. LM 1315)The Nazis seized power over Weimar Germany in January, 1933. World War II began in September, 1939. Meher Baba correctly named all five

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People keep telling me something is about to happen. I hear it everywhere. It's definitely not just Baba lovers. It's not just Christians. It's ubiquitous in the media. Glenn Beck just dedicated a show to it, and Steven Colbert just dedicated a show to Glenn Beck's show. The History Channel, of all places, features more shows on Nostradamus than Napoleon, more documentaries on how the world might

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"The missing link is a creature exactly like a gorilla but with a short tail. And whereas the gorilla uses its hands while walking, the missing link walks on its feet. His face is like a chimpanzee's, and his figure and gait of walking are like the gorilla's. After this missing link, the first human form evolves. Scientists may find signs of this so-called missing link in Java, Sumatra or the

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Those were the words my scholarly friend in Indonesia, Frank Landsman, used when he sent me this link to Michael Files' blog. Many of us have seen the above image from the New York Times. Follow the link below and scroll down to see additional Meher Baba photos at the Mumbai terrorist attack location. http://www.vicablog.com/2008/12/back-to-mumbai-baby.htmlClick photo to improve quality.

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One of Meher Baba's most dynamic mandali was Princess Norina Matchabelli. Here are some hardly known facts about her and her husband's perfume company, and a rare image of her husband.Prince Matchabelli Perfumes was created by Prince Georges V. Matchabelli who was not only a previous Georgian Prince and ambassador to Italy, but also was an amateur chemist who began creating perfumes for his

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"Now men are planning to go to the Moon. And the first to get there will plant his nation's flag on it, and that nation will declare: 'It is mine.' But another nation will dispute the claim, and they will fight here on this Earth for possession of that Moon. And whoever goes there, what will he find? Nothing but himself. And if people go on to Venus, they will still find nothing but themselves.

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Lord Meher p. 6087 – At this time, a yogi named Satya Saibaba was becoming famous in South India, as he would materialize ash in his palm, jewels and other items for his devotees. In a letter dated March 2nd, 1963, a devotee had written describing Satya's powers.Baba commented, "These are the powers of a tantric." On another occasion, Ivy Duce wrote inquiring if Satya Saibaba was on the fourth

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Nostradamus I have never been one to put much credence in Nostradamus. But there is one quatrain that jumped out at me when I read it, just days before the 50th anniversary of Meher Baba's accident in Prague, Oklahoma. Meher Baba On May 24, 1952, en route from the Meher Spiritual Center to Meher Mount in Ojai, California, the car Baba was being driven in was struck head-on just outside

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I first read Baba's comments on odd evolutionary links in 1986 from a set of xeroxes that a friend brought me from India. They now appear in Lord Meher page 1874.When I first read these comments I thought they were very odd. I was disappointed at how scientifically naive Baba sounded. I wanted Baba to be right. I looked up facts and tried to justify what he had said, but I couldn't help feeling

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"The ocean was very warm and still, and due to the presence of gas and air in the water, it became rusty. Algae was formed from this rust, then gradually seaweed. The algae used to sink below from above. When it reached the bottom of the ocean, it became seaweed. From the original algae came seaweed, and from seaweed, vegetation." (LM 1871)When I first read this I was really disappointed. It

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