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Autobiographical notes…
I was born in Trieste, Italy. The hour I was born, according to my older brother Lewis, a US warship, the USS Renegade, shot off its cannons in my honor due to the fact that my father was the US … Continue reading
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The utter exhaustion of the metaphor “jihad”…
The Prophet defined jihad as preeminently the struggle against the “nafs”- the ego; it is only secondarily (but importantly) a reference to the struggle of the early Muslim community to secure itself against militant opposition. Now, 1,400 years after the … Continue reading
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Power-Grabs in the Meher Baba World
The Baba world is witnessing once again what has become a powerful theme in Avatar Meher Baba’s Advent. The first Chairman of the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Kutumb Shastri, proved to be an embezzler, and in league … Continue reading
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Thoughts of a Baba lover on sufi and spiritual healing
Followers (lovers) of Avatar Meher Baba have the incalculable spiritual blessing of having established a connection with the Highest of the High. The Avatar is the same as the Buddha, the Christ, the Prophet and the innumerable incarnations of God … Continue reading
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A Short, Speedy History of American Racism
America’s considerable problem with racism goes back to its beginning with the genocide of the Native American. Unlike the Black African, the First American was not useful as a slave and was thus better off dead or out of sight … Continue reading
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Why Sufism Reoriented of Walnut Creek is a cult
Sufism Reoriented became a cult the moment Ivy Duce appointed Jim Mackie as her “spiritual chargeman” in 1979. She was not empowered by the Sufi Charter of 1952 to take this action. In fact, in as early as 1948 in … Continue reading
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Day 2 of MBCNC’s “Bell of Warning” program
The second day of MBCNC’s program reviewing Eruch Jessawalla’s ringing the “Bell of Warning” in 1980 began with a review by Alisa Genovese of the previous day’s program. She also observed that members of Sufism Reoriented have always been welcome … Continue reading
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Day 1 of MBCNC’s “Bell of Warning” re Sufism re-Reoriented
The program went brilliantly. It began with the film O Parvardegar which established the the day’s most important theme: the incomparable glory of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba. Alisa Genovese then gave a warm and polished welcome address … Continue reading
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A synopsis of Sufism re-Reoriented (Updated 3/11/15)
Eruch Jessawalla rang the “Bell of Warning” in 1980 after having received an inner directive from Avatar Meher Baba to do so. (Meher Baba had “dropped the body” 11 years earlier in 1969.) He wrote a letter to the worldwide … Continue reading
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An Interpretation of The Ten States of God as explained in God Speaks, by Meher Baba.
1) God in the Beyond Beyond State: God’s Essence- the infinite Divine Vacuum, about which nothing can be said that is not at once refuted. 2) God in the Beyond State: God could not help himself in his infinitely tranquil … Continue reading
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