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Donald Trump’s Indian Astrological Inauguration Chart
This is the event chart for DT’s presidential inauguration: January 20, 2017 at 12:00 pm at Washington D.C. The chart for DT’s inauguration is a chart that would apply to anyone inaugurated at this time and place. It happens to … Continue reading
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Quadruple Nullity
What is so shocking is the great number of intelligent people who have subscribed to the meme that the “Russians hacked the election”. This is a double and even a triple and quadruple nullity. The proof that this was a … Continue reading
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Hannibal Lecters
The Hannibal Lecters declined to savage the election of the neofascist Baby Trump. Who is to blame for this rabid indifference? Democracy’s snarling assassins are legion, and slink everywhere. Who placed Baby Trump on his gold potty to reign as … Continue reading
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Donald Trump- reign of the carny huckster
The virtual reality president elect is as sharp as P.T. Barnum, who observed that a sucker is born every moment. The cruel truth is that this not only describes America of the hoary past, but also of the recent past, … Continue reading
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Sufism Reoriented not a spiritual lineage, but a priestly lineage. (Not my circus, not my monkey.)
Ivy Duce was confirmed by Meher Baba in 1952 as the murshida of Sufism Reoriented, an order derived from Inayat Khan’s Sufi Movement in America. He told her that he would help her and her students spiritually on the basis … Continue reading
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The Problem Before Us
This election cycle has thrown confused America into bold relief like never before. The cool face of Neoliberalism is being vigorously challenged, but most still don’t know what the problem is all about. Obama’s suave eight years will give … Continue reading
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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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