Meher Baba Visits Locarno, Switzerland
This moving video by Michael LePage starts out like a travelogue and then moves to an intimate description of Baba’s time at the basilica of Madonna Del Sasso. By the end, one is left with the feeling of what it may have been like to be there with Baba and the mandali. The film was researched and narrated by Donata Mazzoli. Just a note, in 1952 Meher Baba returned to Locarno as He was recuperating from His accident. He stayed in the home of Ronco Dei Fiori, which is just down the street from where narrator Donata grew up.
Video, 9:34
Courtesy of Michael LePage
Uploaded May 29, 2026
The Art of Praise as a Path to God: Part Two
In the second part of his series “The Art of Praise,” Baba scholar Ward Parks presents “The Art of the Ghazal.” In this session, he analyzes the patterns, crafty structures and poetic elements of Francis Brabazon’s beloved ghazals and songs. Some of the work Ward explores are: the structures of the Italian Sonnets, Shakespearean sonnets, and Persian ghazals. Meher Baba throughly enjoyed the ghazals of Hafez and Rumi, and He urged Francis Brabazon to write his own lover-to-Beloved ghazals, even though, at the time, Francis was not interested in this style.
Video, 1:37:05
Meeting Place, Meher Spiritual Center
October 17, 2025
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Uploaded May 22, 2026
Session Seventeen — Meher Baba’s New Life — “Review and Summary”
Session Seventeen of Ward Parks’ presentation on Meher Baba’s New Life.
“Review and Summary”
Streamed May 17, 2026
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Uploaded 5/18/2026
The Art of Praise – Session 1: A Presentation by Ward Parks
Baba scholar Ward Parks guides us through the first of a six-part series on The Art of Praise as a Path to God. He focuses on how poetry can and has become a path to the Divine. He examines how Francis Brabazon, resident mandali & poet to Meher Baba, used his sonnets and ghazals to give praise to His Beloved. Meher Baba, in turn, hailed Brabazon’s epic devotional Stay with God as second in importance only to God Speaks.
Ward explores the concept of praise and complaint as a spiritual dialogue, wherein the lover suffers the pangs of separation from the Beloved. Ward then reviews different styles of poetry, including examples from Shakespeare, and then wraps up the presentation with a scholarly and spiritual explanation of Brabazon’s Australian Arti.
Video, 1:35:15
Meeting Place, Meher Spiritual Center
October 17, 2025
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Uploaded 5/15/2026
Session Sixteen — Meher Baba’s New Life — “The Free Life”
Session Sixteen of Ward Parks’ presentation on Meher Baba’s New Life.
“The Free Life” February 1952 – April 1953
Streamed May 3, 2026
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Uploaded 5/8/2026
Session Fifteen – Meher Baba’s New Life – “The Culmination of Manonash”
Session Fifteen of Ward Parks’ presentation on Meher Baba’s New Life.
“The Culmination of Manonash” 8th November 1951- 6th February 1952”
Streamed April 19, 2026
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Uploaded 4/27/2026
Session Fourteen – Meher Baba’s New Life – The Inauguration of Manonash
Session Fourteen of Ward Parks’ presentation on Meher Baba’s New Life.
“The Inauguration of Manonash July – November 1951”
Streamed April 5, 2026
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Uploaded 4/10/2026
Session Thirteen – Meher Baba’s New Life – “The Meeting at Hyderabad”
Session Thirteen of Ward Parks’ presentation on Meher Baba’s New Life.
Streamed March 15, 2026
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Session Eleven—Meher Baba’s New Life – “The Meeting at Mahabaleshwar and The Work with Masts and the Poor”
Session Eleven of Ward Parks’ presentation on Meher Baba’s New Life.
Streamed February 15, 2026
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The 100th Anniversary of Meher Baba’s Table House
The year 1925 was a “big” one for Meher Baba, according to scholar Jamie Newell. Not only did Baba begin His silence in the small cabin known as the Jhopdi at Lower Meherabad, but He also had the Table House built and the Dhuni fire lit for the first time. In addition, that’s the year Baba began writing His “mysterious book.” In this detailed talk, Jamie gives the history not only of the Table House, but also of the Dhuni and the Jhopdi. Jamie contends the three sites at Lower Meherabad form a kind of a “triangle of work tied to Baba’s silence and to his mysterious book.” Moving between the historical facts and Jamie’s own reflections, the talk gives a glimpse of what it must have been like to be with Baba during that momentous year.
Video, 40:27
Meeting Place, Meher Center
November 29, 2025
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