Tag Archives: Baba Lover Stories
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A Fortunate Responsibility
“This place is not a retreat for me,” Joe Dunn says of Meher Center. Every workday, Joe drives to the Center, parks his truck, walks to the maintenance shop, and begins his constant meticulous work of tending and repairing and rebuilding. Joe grew up in Myrtle Beach and spent time “running around the Center” ever…
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Sam Cohen and His Beloved Baba
Sam Cohen was thirty-one when he met Meher Baba at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel on a spring evening in 1932. Once Baba grasped Sam’s hand, he became entirely devoted to Meher Baba. When Meher Baba left California, Sam gravitated north to the town of Oceano, where in the coastal dunes, he found an eclectic group…
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An Extraordinary Pilgrimage
First visits to the Center are always memorable. Whether they elicit awe, surprise, tears, or a deep sense of returning home, there definitely is a subtle string of magic that runs through these visits. And yet each story is different. Inimitable. One of my favorite parts of working at the Center is to witness and…
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Doing His Best
If you’ve been to Meher Center in the last 16 years, you may well have met Peter Goodman. He’s quickly recognizable by his big heart, his endless enthusiasm, and his willingness to stop and chat (and often ask after your friends and relatives by name), no matter how much he has going on. Peter first…
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Divine Love in Action
It is unlikely that one has stayed at Meher Center and not met Jeff Wolverton. It is more unlikely that one has met him and forgotten him. For so many, Jeff Wolverton has been and continues to be an essential and noteworthy figure at the Center. Like countless children in the Baba world, I remember…
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Dancing Together
In the winter of 1988, Beverly Smith asked Meher Center staff if she could call a square dance at the Center’s then-small New Year’s Eve program. They told her to wait while they asked Kitty Davy, one of Baba’s close Mandali who was then 97, whether she thought it was appropriate. “Yes,” she said, “As…
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“Baba waited for me”
“I was never a seeker. Baba came to get me,” said Judi Schoeck when we started talking about her life with Baba. Judi has been working at the Center Gateway for close to two decades and has been with Baba since the early seventies. So how does one end up working at God’s front gate…
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The Inward Journey
“External journeys are from place to place … the real journey is the inward journey.” -Meher Baba at the East-West Gathering, quoted by Darwin Shaw Diving into the lives of Baba’s close ones is like diving into the deep seas to find treasure. It is not always easy but is always rewarding. Where does one…
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Waiting for the Christ
In 1952, when Baba first traveled to His home in the West, He asked that only a few close disciples meet Him in New York and take the train with Him to South Carolina. However, when He arrived at Penn Station on the evening of April 20, high above Him on the uppermost balcony, two…
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Giving and Giving
When I think about Ann Conlon now, I think about giving. It starts with her Baba story: she was a young journalist in New York who had grown up Catholic but who, when she heard about Baba and was told He was the Christ, found herself saying simply, “that’s right, He is.” Nevertheless, despite her…