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MBCNC draws a line in the pharaonic sand.
Hurray, Meher Baba Center of Northern California drew a line in the pharaonic sand! At a meeting last night of the board of directors and interested membership, the board passed a motion to address the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public … Continue reading
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How competent is AMBPPCT?
Current events raise the question (once again), how competent is the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust? The Trust is canvassing public opinion in an entirely symbolic manner by planning four focus group events in England, Australia, South Carolina … Continue reading
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Are Baba’s “Last Warning” and Eruch’s “Bell of Warning” passé?
The recent and ongoing fracas concerning rogue members of Meher Baba Center of No. Cal. and certain trustees of Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust giving Sufism Reoriented of Walnut Creek a wink and a nod to usurp the … Continue reading
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America Is Cracking Up
The American identity is cracking up. The Trump presidency is proving, like the antipodal ice masses, that the American consensual reality is fracturing, shifting, splitting apart and dissolving like never before. Of course, this meltdown has been going on for … Continue reading
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Sufism Reoriented Kool Aid
The singularly fantastic pretension of Sufism Reoriented is the steadfast delusion that Avatar Meher Baba promised Ivy Duce and her sufi order that he would provide a continuous lineage of 6th plane saints guiding the order for the next 700 … Continue reading
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Announcement of deletion of old post, “Trust Malfeasance…”
I am deleting from my website in 7 days the post “Trust Malfeasance…“, dated 4/02/2012, as I no longer have confidence in some of the assertions I made therein. I got caught up in the rumor mill, and I now … Continue reading
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Top Five Ironic Proofs That Meher Baba Is the God-Man
1.”God Speaks”, the most significant modern cosmological and metaphysical treatise of our time, was published in 1955, but remains virtually unknown to both cognoscenti and layman alike. Only the God-Man could so effectively suppress what is the new “Bible” for … Continue reading
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The Selling Of Meherabad And The Corruption Of AMBPPCT
I have blogged before on “The Selling of Meherabad”, here, here and here, but this post supersedes previous posts. This story is not going away, despite countless Baba lovers having buried their heads in sand regarding it. This is a complex story, … Continue reading
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Saudi Arabian and Israeli Thanatos
“The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totaling more than $100bn, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of Donald Trump’s planned visit to Riyadh. The official, who spoke … Continue reading
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Trump the fall guy for our broken democracy
How long do we have to retch over the Baby Trump presidency, over our broken democracy? He has fired his FBI baby sitter, the feckless Comey, so he can sling shit with yet greater abandon. What’s new? Congress could not care … Continue reading
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