Administrators

I'll keep this post quite general. Suffice to say that I volunteered to help a certain organisation with tasks that could be completely remotely. After an initial online screening by a member of the organisation, I was contacted by two other organisation members but after more than two months I've heard nothing more.

My feeling is that someone has viewed my Alternative Media blog and not liked some of the content. I may be wrong. It could be that the organisation is simply inefficient which is a defining characteristic of most organisations. The problem with most organisations lies with the administrators who are seemingly a breed apart from the rest of humanity.

During my early career as a psychiatric nurse and my later career as a teacher, it was mainly the administrators who caused problems. Organisations are empty shells with positions available to aspiring administrators who have an aversion to the day-to-day activities that the organisation is involved with.

I remember from my teaching days one particular "aspiring administrator" who began life as a classroom teacher but aspired to something higher. Opportunities were seized as they arose and this particular individual rose rapidly through the ranks. He remains highly placed to this day. He was not a particularly likable guy but his personality was well-suited to administration.

Not surprisingly, psychopaths are attracted to these positions of power where they can lord it over those who simply enjoy what they are doing, whether it be teaching or nursing or whatever. Naturally they cause no end of mischief because their allegiance is to themselves and not the organisations which they supposedly serve.

Some administrators are simply incompetent, thrust into their positions by force of circumstances and then failing miserably as the Peter Principle plays itself out. On larger stages, some of those elevated to positions of authority are promoted simply because they can be relied upon to do what they're told. In some cases, there is incriminating information about them that can be used to ensure their cooperation.

Whether in teaching, nursing, government organisations, charities, private enterprise, NGOs or whatever, administrators are at the helm for better or worse but usually the latter. Getting back to my recent brush with administrators, it's probable that a judgment was made that my views on certain matters were not compatible with the ethos of the organisation. I set myself up for that by making contact with the organisation in the first place.

The lesson to be learned is not to involve myself with organisations and the administrators who infest them. Having retired, I have no need to and I need to remember that.

Meher Baba Archives

Yesterday, January 31st 2023, marked the 54th anniversary of Meher Baba's passing. On that date in 1969, I was 19 years old and oblivious of the fact. However, Meher Baba's name was already stored in my subconscious and awaiting activation some 11 years later.

On the subject of death, I rediscovered a website that I'd already made a note of but hadn't visited in a long while: Life Eternal. To quote from the site:

LIFE ETERNAL is a collection of spiritual teachings of Meher Baba, arranged by subject, in the order in which he gave them.

The collection is divided into four sections:

INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE

BOOK TWO

INCARNATIONS OF THE AVATAR

The site is well organised and a great resource. One of the topics covered in BOOK ONE is Death which was my initial entry point into the site.

I also came across Beloved Archives which states that:

Soon after Silence Day — July 10, 2019 — slightly above average temperatures were recorded in New Jersey — a perfect time to initiate the creation of the “new” Beloved Archives, Museum and Archival Annex (also known as the Meeting Room) at Hamilton. In August warmer-than- average conditions across the East preceded torrential rain. The rainwaters gradually receded as the entire construction crew of Meher Baba followers came from Myrtle Beach to lay the foundation and eventually build the Annex — a major milestone to continue preserving for posterity the personal artifacts, documents, photographs, and films documenting the Avataric Advent.

This is not the organisation to which I volunteered my help. That organisation is called MAC, Meher Archive Collective, and is physically located in North Carolina. The two locations are quite separate geographically:

I was contacted by three different people from MAC but so far nothing has come of it. While it's good to know that two different archival sites are being set up beyond the Meher Baba Centre in South Carolina, it is a little confusing in its apparent redundancy.