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Conversations about Meher Baba

Conversations about Meher Baba

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Different hosts, different topics, sometimes featured guests: but always about loving Meher Baba in the present tense.

Conversations are held live on Baba Zoom at various times. If you want to join the conversation, visit babazoom.net for more information: the calendar of events, and login information is available under the ”Virtual Meetings” page.

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  • Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton: E&G: ”Opening to Divine Grace” June 30, 2026, live Baba Zoom

    Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton: E&G: ”Opening to Divine Grace” June 30, 2026, live Baba Zoom
    Jul 8 2026
    Dear folks of Baba, Baba has said that His grace “is flowing sufficiently all the time to fill one and all receptacles everywhere,” but “there is rarely a vessel which is not filled with other things. A vessel must first be emptied before it can be filled by the flow of my grace. It is also my grace which helps a vessel to become completely emptied in the first place.” And He added, “The flow of my grace to you depends upon the intensity of your love, for it is love which attracts my grace to you.” In the meetings at the home of Darwin and Jeanne Shaw in the early 1970s, Darwin emphasized emptying out the heart of what Baba called “strangers” to make room for Him and His grace to live in us. Prior to meeting the Shaws, from time to time it was my practice to share my mental and emotional struggles with Baba, but only when they would come up and were too overwhelming for me. In his usual unassuming way, Darwin would recommend to those of us who were new to Baba to be proactive in giving our interior to Him. Darwin would say, “The deeper the feeling, the deeper the healing.” So, with his encouragement, I began proactively to dredge up my emotional complexes and mental conflicts within and imagine them flowing energetically to Baba before me. I became obsessed with emptying “the vessel” -- the heart. In the process, I felt His intimate companionship working with me in my efforts. I experienced that Baba was actually precipitating this inner work, and with this came some measure of His grace flowing into me. Not overnight but after decades, the emotions, desires and feelings in me were gradually being replaced by the divine qualities of “truth, love, purity and beauty” (and all the variations of these qualities such as empathy, forgiveness, humor, patience and kindness). Basically, this is a major way Baba enters our lives and eventually, as the mandali expressed it, “He takes over” -- often very subtly and unostentatiously, so as to avoid awakening the ego! I find that Baba lovers all have their own unique versions of this work and companionship in their lives with Him. It culminates after many years, even lifetimes, in a gradual merging of oneself with Baba, with others and all of life. In Darwin’s experience, it resulted eventually in what he described as “living in and through everyone and everything.” This is the experience that he once privately shared with me. I’m reminded of something Rumi once wrote, “If the door of your Soul were to open for an instant, you would see that the heart of every existent thing is your intimate friend.” To my way of thinking, Eruch described the culmination of the path of self-effacement in Baba in these words, “There has been no Eruch for years. Through His grace, I have become the perfect witness.” This, I feel, is where we are all ultimately heading with Baba. As we go on emptying ourselves, a point is reached where it becomes Baba, our deepest love within, who lives what was formerly our life, and we witness this from a place of pure awareness. I am always disposed to favor simplicity when I think of how Baba and His Grace manifest in my life—it is His One Love flowing into me and into this world. If His love flowing into my life moves me to make efforts to be more loving, I call it His inspiration. If His love flowing into my life helps me in making the difficult decisions in my life, I call it His guidance. If it flows into my heart’s longing for closeness, I call it His companionship. If it flows into my life causing me to expand in being, I call it His unlimitedness. If it flows into my restless spirit causing me to move toward peace and harmony, I call it His Being. If it flows into my depleted body and mind, awakening my vitality and lifting my spirits, I call it His power. If it flows into my depressed and despairing heart, the dark periods of my life, I call it His light. If it flows into me, causing me to make an extra effort to express love beyond my normal capacity, I call it His grace. Yet to me, it is all His same never-failing love flowing into me, and it only seems different depending on which situation in my life it manifests. If I were to choose an expression to encompass all the above manifestations of Baba in my life, I would simply call it His Divine Grace. What is Baba’s grace for you and how do you experience it in your life? It is not by chance that the word grace and gratitude both come from the same root. Gratitude is our human response to Divine Grace. Have you found that the feeling of gratefulness has deepened over the years in your life with Baba? In His love, Jeff We are continuing on page 113. This event was recorded live. To be first to be notified of a new video on this channel, please hit the red subscribe button, then the notifications bell. To join future live events, see www.babazoom.net. Please join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/...
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    1 Std. und 15 Min.
  • Irwin Luck’s Story: the Internment and the 1969 Great Darshan, July 12, 2026, live on Baba Zoom

    Irwin Luck’s Story: the Internment and the 1969 Great Darshan, July 12, 2026, live on Baba Zoom
    Jul 13 2026

    Irwin Luck's Story: Meher Baba's Internment and the Great Darshan in 1969

    Irwin Luck was one of the fortunate few westerners to be present at Meher Baba's Internment in the Samadhi on February 7, 1969. Along with others, Irwin had the honor of putting handfulls of earth on Baba's burial box before it was covered. He continued to stay in India along with his brother Eddie until the Darshan began in April. He will tell his remarkable story this morning.

    Hosted by Betty Lowman in CA

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    1 Std. und 59 Min.
  • Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton: E&G: ”The Journey of Consciousness” July 13, 2026, on Baba Zoom

    Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton: E&G: ”The Journey of Consciousness” July 13, 2026, on Baba Zoom
    Jul 14 2026
    The Journey of Consciousness Culminating in Divine Love The spiritual journey of consciousness, lovingly guided personally by Baba, proceeds through lifetimes from the head down to the heart, and from the heart ultimately into the soul, the “realm of the spirit” as Darwin refers to it. The base of operations for most people is located in the head, the mind, the realm of thoughts, beliefs and theories. Life is seen through the lens of right and wrong, good and bad, spiritual and unspiritual, loving and not so loving. Sooner or later, we become painfully aware of our cramped and limited mental world of time and space as well as the frustrating tension of the opposites. We’ve habitually turned to the mind to tell us what to do and what is important in life, and we find ourselves harassed by thoughts all day long. Eventually, Baba brings home to us the limitations of seeing and reacting to life through the narrow lens of the mind, and coaxes our inner awareness down to the realm of the heart, inspired by His love. Unfortunately, much of this awakening comes through experiences of heartbreak and disappointment. Nevertheless, we gradually find ourselves in a much more expansive place. We are in the realm of emotions, desires, and the deeper feelings, initially a cauldron of powerful forces and impulses that are overwhelmingly difficult to control. Yet compared to the mind, which one might think of as three-dimensional, our base of operations in the heart is multi-dimensional. As the Sufi poet, Hafiz, once wrote, “The mind cannot occupy the throne in the palace of the heart. It can only be its doorkeeper.” In the heart, there is more substance, it is more spacious, and we enjoy flashes of timelessness and, as Baba has said, “fleeting moments of union with God.” Intuition begins to replace the mind as the arbiter of what we do. In one part of the heart, the superficial layer, resides the negative emotions such as anger, jealousy, greed, envy, fear, resentment, sadness, and hurt. And there are also deep-rooted desires and multifarious wants. In all of these, we feel a narrowing down of life. We feel small. Now begins our inner work, and it requires tremendous tolerance to remain consciously in the heart and not continually retreat up into the mind. As Rumi says, we become “a wound without a shield.” But with our persistent and painstaking efforts, Baba begins to transmute these lower selfish reactions to life into loving responses, the divine qualities such as: anger into patience, greed into generosity, desires into purity, resentment into forgiveness, entitlement into gratitude, self-centeredness into empathy and compassion. After many years of inner focus, however, we are astounded to find that even the heart itself is too small! The heart, in its greatest depths, has this profound limitation: it divides life into me and other, me and nature, me and Baba—it splits creation into two. In the mind, the soul is stuck living in a veritable shack. In the heart, it lives in a great mansion, spacious and with windows that can look out on the timelessness of life. But eventually the soul can no longer breathe in this limited, divided space of the heart. It feels suffocated, and longs for oneness. This is when Baba, who provides all the necessary inspiration, begins to draw our consciousness directly into the soul itself. If living at the level of the heart is compared to residing on the rugged terrain of the earth, rising to the level of the soul is like viewing the earth from above, from a transcendent place of oneness, in a most loving place within that still maintains its compassionate participation in the ups and downs of life. The soul has an intimate view of our heart interacting with others and the world. It experiences life as a glorious loving whole; it dissolves our separateness into a supreme completeness. As Rumi, the great Sufi mystic once said, “If the door of your soul were to open for an instant, you would see that the heart of every existent thing is your intimate friend.” At first, as Baba has said, our experiences of the soul are fleeting, a brief and yet sometimes overwhelming experience. As years goes on, we are able to spend more and more time in the soul where we merge for longer periods with Baba and experience His magnificent sweet love. We begin, as Darwin has said, to change our address from the heart to the soul, from living in a mansion, so to speak, to being in the boundless expanse of all creation. From the world of form and space, we dissolve in what Rumi calls “the spaceless.” From living in the world divided into myriad forms, we inherit a glorious unified vision. At last, we fall back into Baba’s loving all-embracing arms, whole and complete. Rumi says it beautifully, “The roads are different, but the destination is one. All those who yelled at each other along the way, ‘You hypocrite! You infidel!’ in the end, drink from the ...
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    1 Std. und 28 Min.
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