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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 program, Dennis went to His beloved, Meher Baba. The next…
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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 The patient, with a huge belly, was laid out on…
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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 had lovingly given her 800 acres [2] by the ocean…
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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 children to reporters from local news outlets. It has always…
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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 minds.” [1] Going to the movies with Meher Baba was…
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“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 the weekend of the Spring Cleaning Sahavas. As I walk…
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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 the same thing: that this was our spiritual home, the…
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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 for a ride. “They’d never been out in a boat…
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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. I am tired of this illusion game!’ And during these…
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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 visit to the Center, and at that time he’d also…