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Meher Baba’s Two Pathways Spiritual Transformation by Randall Overdorff, Gainesville, Georgia, 2005-2008
Each time God takes the form of a human being He shows us a Way, a pathway to God. The spiritual presence, life, work and written word of Meher Baba are opening two major pathways of spiritual growth, personal spiritual transformation and collective spiritual transformation. These are simultaneous aspects of the continual freshness of God’s revelation. The first is intensely personal, available intimately, for each seeker; the other is God’s revelation in history and the affairs of mankind, pathway for humanity.
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Transformation Daily, Meher Baba provides a pathway for me, personally, to get closer to God.
This is His way of personal spiritual transformation. Baba is also providing a spiritual pathway for all humanity, a pathway —if we take it—which will help us out of the current terrible mess we are in collectively. As long as I can remember I have loved Jesus. I always sought a relationship with the living Christ that exists here and now, and believed that the vastness and mystery of God could not be encapsulated in one book or creed. I came to believe that God’s compassion was so great that He would not leave out any of us. It made sense that God’s love is so faithful and our stubborn ignorance so pervasive, that God would take birth as a human being again and
again to redeem each and every soul. In time we all would once again become one with God. I rejected the exclusiveness of Christian dogma, which too often focuses on the differences among humanity, and the specialness the chosen ones versus the eternally damned state of those on the outside. It seemed to me that Satan had been elevated to a status of God, as if there was not one all powerful, all inclusive God, but two Gods, with too much focus on the evil God. With such an obsession with divisions, us versus them, good guys versus the damned bad guys, and the division by an emphasis on the historical Jesus and dogma versus a relationship with the living God in the present moment, how could we ever implement the Gos-
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