Tag Archives: About Meher Center
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Youth Sahavas over the Generations
One of the great joys for Center staff is to watch pilgrims return to the Center. Over the years, newcomers become old timers, their love and relationship with Baba and the Center grows, and somewhere in there, they bring their families. Most naturally, as is Baba’s way many a time, they become part of the…
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Those Eyes!: Lagoon Cabin Stories
When Meher Baba visited Meher Center, He often met with individuals and small groups in the little intimate cabin that would become known as the Lagoon Cabin. While each person’s first meeting with Meher Baba in 1952 was unique, a common pattern emerges from the written and recorded experiences of those who were there: many instantly…
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The Truman Moore Touch
If you stay on the main paths of Meher Spiritual Center, you will never find yourself far from a building that was built by Truman Moore and Moore Construction. Truman Ellinwood Moore, a native of Shelby, NC, was born in 1901. He left his southern roots to attend the Chicago Institute of Art and graduated…
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Gratitude on Gratitude
On the morning of the last day of the Spring Cleaning Sahavas, all the participants sat in a circle in the Meeting Place. Melissa Collins, the coordinator of the Cabin Crew who also coordinated the Sahavas cleaning, spoke to the group. “I am overwhelmed at the amount of work that got done here,” she said…
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Behind the Beauty
Meher Center’s whispering trees and and sun-grazed lakes have always felt sacred to me. But while many people look to nature for an experience of God, I don’t know of many times when Baba explicitly associated nature with spirituality. In fact, in 1937, He once chastised a Western lover for ending a pilgrimage early due…
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He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Love and music filled the air of the 1958 Sahavas held at Meher Center in Myrtle Beach from May 19th – May 30th. Two hundred and twenty five people gathered who had been invited and had agreed to Meher Baba’s two main conditions: to love and to obey Him. Baba often called for music; live…
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Life at the Center
After seven years of immense and loving effort, Elizabeth Patterson wrote Baba in the fall of 1951 that His Center in Myrtle Beach was ready, that all His conditions for visiting the West had been met, and that she hoped He would come soon. He cabled back, “Absolutely happy EliNorina [Baba’s nickname for Elizabeth Patterson…
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Mercy within Change
A lot can happen while waiting for Baba’s lovers to return to the Center. When the Center first closed for guests, Dean Mendoza was working on Maintenance. At first, his job continued approximately as usual: each building still had to be carefully tended, and work even ramped up as the crew started focusing on projects…
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The House of the Gatekeepers
When Meher Baba visited the Center for the first time in 1952, Elizabeth Patterson asked Him if He wanted her to move onto the Center property that she had spent so many years preparing for Him. “No,” He replied, “Not until I tell you to.”[i] Baba specified that, when the time came, Elizabeth should build…
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Companionship with the God-Man
Meher Baba’s time at the Center is reflective of the perfect union of His Godhood and Manhood. From its inception when He sent two women to hunt for a treasure that He had already planted to His turning the key of grace in being able to acquire the property dedicated to Him and given from…