THE AVATAR MEHER BABA CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWSLETTER & CALENDAR FOR WINTER 1989
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Come join us under the Love Street Lamp Post. Like us, you have been drawn w this lane aI. the end ofthe world by events and experiences you did not always understand; by the inviting glances ofyour companions-w-be; and by the delical.e scent ofa most irresistabk wine. Come. The Master's wines/lOp is but around the comer. He has 1IOl yet thrown open its doors for the evening, so we are passing the time here in happy, aimkss anticipaJion. Come. Join us. The Love Street Lamp Post is the newsletter of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California. We are blessed here witb a large and active Baba community, and we bope to reflect its vibrant life in tbese pages. Although our reportage of activities and events will be focussed on items of immediate interest to tbe Soutbern California Baba community, we solicit stories of contemporary life with Meber Baba from the entire readership. We also enthusiastically solicit artwork, poetry, and letters. We hope all will be well pleased with tbis newsletter, and that you will come to consider it your own. Please share your experiences of Meher Baba witb all of us.
I belong to no religion. Every religion belongs to Me. My own personal religion is of my being the Ancient Infinite One, and the religion I teach to all is of love for God. MeherBaba
Meherabad Medicine Bob Street, familiar W Western pilgrilns to Meherabad, practices homeopaJhic medicinefuU time. He works five days a week aI. the Meher Heal1h Center in Arangaon and one day a week aI. Dr. Goher's clinic aI. Meherazad. He also dispenses remedies from his own room aI. Meherahad next W the room ofMohammed the Mast. In the following interview Bob discusses homeopaJhy and other "na/ural' medicinesfrom a medical perspective he has gained in the basecamp oftire Aval.ar. Post: How did you become interested in homeopathy? Bob: In 1974 I came to Ahmednagar with the intention of spending the last eigbt months of my travel visa there and then returning to my job in Amercia working for James Cox. During this period Adi had a heart attack and became bedridden. He asked me to look after the work at tbe office, registering pilgrims, attending to their flight, bus, and train reservations, telegrams, and so on. I ended up doing that for three and a half years, beginning in 1974. It was a very high stress job, and I developed severe migraine headaches. Maybe three of four times in the period of a year I got headaches tbat would run two or three days. During a particularly difficult night in one of these periods woke up in excruciating pain. It was 2:30 am and it would be at least four hours before I could possibly see any doctor. I was taking Baba's name over and over,