Author Archives: bill gannett

My chasmic mind…

Posted on February 3, 2016 by bill gannett

I took a moment to look inside my chasmic mind, and I found this thought: why is it so extraordinarily difficult to fathom the fact that Nature always sets the limits? Never has man so willfully ignored common sense as … Continue reading →

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The utter exhaustion of the metaphor “jihad”…

Posted on January 15, 2016 by bill gannett

The Prophet defined jihad as preeminently the struggle against the “nafs”- the ego; it is only secondarily (but importantly) a reference to the struggle of  the early Muslim community to secure itself against militant opposition. Now, 1,400 years after the … Continue reading →

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The White Horse Avatar

Posted on January 13, 2016 by bill gannett

The White Horse Avatar comes, travels from afar to kick, neigh and prance for a day, for love’s hour.

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Sun rises and Sun sets but heart always

Posted on December 15, 2015 by bill gannett

Sun rises and Sun sets but heart always repeats the pure name of Meher with praise. All life and love clap and leap to behold the rosy dawn of Meher the world enfold. A silver moon sank and golden Sun … Continue reading →

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The fall from grace that is a shooting star

Posted on December 8, 2015 by bill gannett

The fall from grace that is a shooting star recalls the highest heaven from afar; O the Lord and Master has taken birth to bless man and creature and holy earth!

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Power-Grabs in the Meher Baba World

Posted on November 19, 2015 by bill gannett

The Baba world is witnessing once again what has become a powerful theme in Avatar Meher Baba’s Advent. The first Chairman of the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Kutumb Shastri, proved to be an embezzler, and in league … Continue reading →

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My father is lightning

Posted on November 3, 2015 by bill gannett

My father is lightning and my mother sweet rain; her womb the dark, rich earth and my birth joyous pain!

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Let us go then, you and I, and surrender our fear

Posted on November 1, 2015 by bill gannett

Let us go then, you and I, and surrender our fear at the feet of the one whose courage has no peer. Let us go and resolve that the coin of our doubt has left us bamboozled, swindled and corrupt. … Continue reading →

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Darvish Talks to Nosh Anzar, Part 3

Posted on October 16, 2015 by bill gannett

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Wikidpedia: an encyclopedia of Babadumb. Eternal marble clad Petrol Domes

Posted on October 13, 2015 by bill gannett

  The new Sufism re-Reoriented marble clad Petrol Domes of $40,000,000 schmaltz are emerging from their tremendous excavation in Walmart Creek. It is in these subterranean halls of power that the future spirituality of America will be contrived with a … Continue reading →

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