The Master’s Programmer

Dennis McCabe never missed a weekend program. He never took vacation but a handful of times in the decades that he ran the programs at the Center. It happened to be a Friday night, April 25th, 2025, when instead of being at his treasured weekend... Read more

The Alligator Club

It is a little known fact, but during Meher Baba’s 1958 visit to the Meher Spiritual Center, an emergency surgery was performed in the Barn by three Viennese doctors. One’s name has been lost to history, the other two were Dr. Pfunster and Dr. Schmaltz.1... Read more

The Story of the Mound

Donned in green jungle boots and fired by a sense of “spiritual as well as physical adventure,” [1] a small group of devoted Baba lovers traipsed through the virgin woods nine miles north of Myrtle Beach. It was June, 1944, soon after Elizabeth Patterson’s father... Read more

Just to Serve Him

Karyl Tych has been a tour guide on Center for decades. Her tours have always been warm, welcoming and informative while being efficient and articulate. Over all the years, she has had the ability to connect and engage with any tour participant ranging from young... Read more

Cinema Stories

In June,1934, while in London, Meher Baba said, “When I work collectively, which is generally at plays, movies and sporting events — wherever people collect and concentrate on a particular object — it is easy for me to have my spiritual effect collectively on their... Read more

“Everything is an experience of Him”

It is Spring! A new life has sprung upon the natural habitat that is the Center. Flowers are starting to bud, the air is laden with impending humidity, the lake sparkles and spring rain clouds linger at a distance near the ocean. It is also... Read more

Shelving Sanskaras

It must have been sometime in the late seventies or early eighties. I was at Meherazad sitting outside the Mandali Hall with Eruch and other fellow pilgrims when Eruch asked, “what attracts you all to keep coming back to Meherazad?” All our answers amounted to... Read more

The Gondola: Meher Baba’s Boat Part Three

When Bhau Kalchuri came to the Center, he wanted to go out in the gondola under a full moon. During Aloba’s visit, he was determined to see an alligator from the Venetian vessel. And the twins, Rustom and Sohrab Irani, they just wanted to go... Read more

Meher Baba’s Crucifixion

On January 30th, 1969, Meher Baba remarked, “This is my crucifixion! Christ was crucified once, but I am being crucified every moment.”[1] Meher Baba had hinted at His impending dropping of the body in many ways. In August 1968, Baba had remarked, “’Coming, coming, came.... Read more

The Gondola: Meher Baba’s Boat Part Two

When Daniel Montague first saw the gondola at the Center in 1974, it was rotting, peeling paint and leaky, a victim of South Carolina’s humidity, heat and rainy weather.[1] “I thought it was a goner,” he said, in a recent interview. It was Daniel’s first... Read more