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The Art of Praise as a Path to God: Session Four
Ward Parks’ 4th session on Francis Brabazon’s poetry is called “Cultural Critique and Eschatology in The Word at World’s End.” Ward describes the first half as being a “torrent of images depicting modern life…cold and empty, hammering relentlessness…of those who have forgotten God,” but the second half is conversely full of praise. The last 20 minutes includes a musical version of Francis’ poem “Hymn To God The Man,” by Sam Saunders and The Wineshop Singers. Francis read The World at World’s End to Baba every morning and He was full of big grins and chuckles.
Video, 1:41:50
Meeting Place, Meher Spiritual Center
October 18, 2025
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Uploaded June 12, 2026
“Baba plans this whole thing for you and He’s there for you all the time”
In this frank and humorous talk, Tiina Coffin shares her international story which begins in Finland and at various times passes through Morocco, Europe, Maine, India and ends up in Myrtle Beach. As a young child in Finland, she felt she was followed by a loving presence, despite being raised without a sense of spirituality. As she grew older, she was looking for that presence and as a teen was drawn to India and books on Eastern philosophies. When she first learned about Meher Baba, she says, she “finally had a name for that feeling in my heart.” And that’s just the beginning!
Video, 56:24
Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Center
March 7, 2026
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Uploaded June 12, 2026
The Art of Praise as a Path to God: Session Three
In this third session, Ward Parks explores the writing styles Francis Brabazon used in The East-West Gathering, his poetic chronicle of the great 1962 darshan at Guruprasad. Ward examines the many unique, strange and exceptional analogies and metaphors Francis used in describing the extraordinary gathering. Meher Baba referred to it as “…. the most important meeting of this incarnation.”
Video, 1:42:36
Meeting Place, Meher Spiritual Center
October 18, 2025
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Uploaded June 5, 2026
“The spark inside my heart starts to glow and burst into flame”
Mark Trichka and Lisa Brande have been entertaining Baba lovers for decades with their uplifting bluegrass music. In this lively video, the couple tells how they each came to Baba despite not being drawn to religion when young. They also share some remarkable experiences. In Meherazad, Mani dubbed Mark the “Mandolin Walla” after he played for Mehera. At one point, Baba came to Lisa in a dream and said, “I am not this body.” They have spent the last 40 years living in Florida and Vermont and traveling around sharing their inspiring, foot-tapping music.
Video, 1:02:15
Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Center
November 15, 2025
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded June 5, 2026
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
“Baba’s face is actually very beautiful and very clear”
In this touching and intimate audio, Mehera talks about taking care of Baba’s room as well as some of her times there and at other places with Him. They include stories about the chair Harry Kenmore gave to Baba, His love for His dog Mastan, and how she found Baba’s face in a collection of His hair at a time that she greatly missed Him.
Audio, 11:21
Meherazad, India
December 11, 1976
Courtesy of Mandali Hall Talks
Uploaded May 22, 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
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded 5/15/2026
“I thought Baba was a spiritual genius, and He is!”
Musician and raconteur Jamie Newell has a Baba story rich with coincidences and early skepticism. It starts with a harrowing childhood injury that led to his becoming a musician. His first sight of Baba was years later on a “Don’t Worry Be Happy” poster in the bathroom of a fellow musician. Jamie loved the saying, which he thought sounded like it came from a yogi, but he wondered why it was paired “with this smiling Italian pizza maker.” Thus began a search for the poster, that eventually led him to the Discourses, and his first recognition of Baba. Upon seeing Baba’s picture in the third volume, Jamie says “It was like an electrical shock. I said, ‘Wait a minute. This is the pizza guy!’” And that is just the beginning of Jamie’s Baba story.
Video, 1:00:49
Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Spiritual Center
February 28, 2026
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded 5/15/2026