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.
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