What Meher Baba Really Taught and Why It Matters

This is a redo of Part 1 of a series titled "What Meher Baba Really Taught." The original was long and overly autobiographical. Thus I have replaced it with this shorter Part 1. You can still watch the original if you like here: https://rumble.com/v2fb3du-what-meher-baba-really-taught-part-1.html To see this full series go to https://rumble.com/c/c-4551012 Visit my web hub at https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub

Conclusion with summation. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

Answering questions of cause. What are the First, Last, and Efficient causes of the Evolution of Perception? Also, I said I would link in the show notes to a video where scientists discuss the probability problems in Darwin's theory as described. They are Behe, Lennox, and Meyer and they are talking about the Evidence for a Creator. That video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXexaVsvhCM The point of sharing this video is not to promote the concept of intelligent design espoused by the academics present, but to highlight the probabilistic problems in Darwin's theory of natural selection. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

Reincarnation. Here we discuss the unique nature of Baba's sense of reincarnation and the central role it plays in his overall cosmology and theme. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

Answering questions of cause. What are the First, Last, and Efficient causes of the Evolution of Perception? Also, I said I would link in the show notes to a video where scientists discuss the probability problems in Darwin's theory of evolution. It is Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator. That video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXexaVsvhCM The point in my sharing this video is not to promote the concept of intelligent design espoused by the academics present, but to highlight the probabilistic problems in Darwin's theory of natural selection that they bring up. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

How the concept of the evolution of perception opens a window to understanding the meaning of some of the most difficult mystical expressions of Meher Baba, as well as other mystics of the ages. Download the notes for this post. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uXAquqRBRkfSmZTnGkiJbJFIUSoiS9AW/view?usp=sharing All of my essays, books, and sites. https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub/home?authuser=1 Charts of EOP by Chris Ott: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Christopher+Jonathan+Ott&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image

Why Meher Baba may be of interest to philosophers soon. The mind-body problem explained. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

Meher Baba's prophesy given next to his tomb in India on February 17, 1958: "Seventy years after I drop my body, this place will turn into a place of pilgrimage, where lovers of God, philosophers and celebrities will come to pay homage." – Meher Baba LM p. 4269" Talking about this quote. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

What I mean by my phrase "evolution of perception." My first book is titled "The Evolution of Perception & the Cosmology of Substance" and my second is titled "Evolution of Perception Re-explained." For the first go here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RXyA9zScPdNDhe63JF7rLcrkl6mWdixm/view?usp=drive_web The second is only $5.00 on Amazon. Go here: https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Perception-Re-Explained-Radical-Reality/dp/B08XLD3NNP/ This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

Reassessing what Meher Baba really taught. Did Meher Baba actually give two teachings, one for the present, and another for the future? My edition of the original Intelligence Notebooks (free to download): https://sites.google.com/view/intelligencematerials/home Messages by Meher Baba online at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Website: https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org/messages/ My writing hub: https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub/home

On good and evil. The Discourses of Meher Baba downloadable file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NtSJjcZkyJ8aX0lcRoPM1y83Mna8ZpRv/view This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

In this longer-than-usual, harder-to-understand, video, I explain that a common culprit behind many of the misinterpretations of Baba's teaching is the human habit of reifying things that are not things. I cover 7 of these in this video. 1. The "External world" 14:10 2. Souls 15:39 3. God 25:26 4. Planes, States of consciousness, Dimensions 28:34 5. Om point (Reified as a physical location in physical space, yet just on mathematical level, a point in 3-D space can’t be described without reference to three pre-existing points) 58:15 6. Baba after he dropped his body 1:05:26 7. The illusory universe 1:09:02

Baba's teaching on life on other planets. A talk by Chris Ott given at the Avatar Meher Baba Circle Center in Myrtle Beach, SC, USA on 9/19/2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxiehygTI3A&t=15s Meher Baba was a 20th century spiritual master who, in his main books, wrote about the theme and purpose of Creation. Here we cover his statements about ‘other worlds’ as they relate to our Earth in that cosmology. My compilation of Meher Baba’s statements on other planets used in this video is from my blog: https://meherbabathoughts.blogspot.co... (All references to "Lord Meher" are from the original print edition.) Part of the material discussed in this talk is from "Shri Meher Baba, His Philosophy and Teachings" by Ramjoo Abdulla, 1933. The material from the book was later republished serially in The Awakener Magazine, Volume 15 Numbers 1 and 2 © 1954, 1955 Link to "The Awakener Magazine" http://www.theawakenermagazine.org/avol15/av15n01-02/av15n01-02preface.htm#Previous%20Page (This link takes you to the first page, from which you move forward, but due to it coming out serially you may need to go to other issues to continue)

A summary of the previous 11 videos. 1. It is not true that Baba he had no teachings. He plainly did have teachings. In fact all Baba left us was his teaching. 2. Baba did not teach people to not try to understand him. Far from Baba discouraging people from attempting to understand his teachings, there are many quotes where he showed an importance for understanding. “The gift of understanding is more precious than any other attribute of Love — be it expressed in service or sacrifice. Love can be blind, selfish, greedy, ignorant, but love with understanding can be none of these things. It is the Divine fruit of Pure Love, the rare fruit or flower of the Universe.” (Meher Baba, From "The Ocean of Love," by Delia DeLeon, p. 85) “[I]t is helpful for my lovers to come together and think and talk about me, to discuss my teachings and messages, compare notes with each other and cooperatively try to come closer to me in understanding and spirit.” (Lord Meher, 1st USA ed, vol. 15 & 16, p. 5604) (Meher Baba, From "The Early History of the Ahmednagar Center," by Ward Parks, Meherana Messenger, 1995:2 p3) 3. Baba did not give an ascended master teaching where the world is governed by disembodied masters. “Not a single spiritual Master ever required any vehicle save his own physical body.” – The Silent Word, p262-263. Necromancy is a method of divination through invocation of the dead. Baba teaches that the Avatar goes to State B of the 10 States of God. There he has experience of reality, but not of the illusion. "When a Master dies he takes no further interest in the affairs of the gross world—not even a Christ. Hence those who imagine that a 'dead' Master is responding to their prayers or watching them, are wrong.” (Meher Baba, From "Glow International," Summer 2012, p. 8) 4. Baba does not teach monotheism, but rather theistic monism. There is only God. “Even to say, There is one God is wrong. God is so infinitely One that He cannot even be called One. One may only say, One IS.” and “God is that 'One' playing innumerable roles.” (Meher Baba From "The Everything and the Nothing," p. 91) 5. Baba does not teach that God created the world. Baba said it was created by our imagination. “Who says God has created the world? We have created it by our imagination. . . When we say He has created this illusion, we lower Him and his infinity. He is beyond all this.” (Meher Baba, From "Lord Meher," 1986 print edition, p. 4097) The world is a by-product of the evolution of consciousness. (Meher Baba, "God Speaks," 1973 2nd edition, pp. xxxi) 6. Baba did not teach the Big Bang or a “Big Ooz.” The Om Point corresponds to the Place and Moment of the Big Bang. The Om Point is not a place. It is the point of perception from which the illusion of places (and all other illusory qualities) falsely appear to arise. 7. Baba did not teach Darwinian evolution, which is a physical theory that relies on chance and lucky accidents. Baba’s Advancing Stream of Life corresponds to Darwinian evolution, and they are compatible. Baba’s evolution is an evolution of consciousness only. The illusory evolution of biological forms is its byproduct. 8. That the world is an illusion is not a mere magical claim that relies on faith. It can be thought through and grasped by the human mind. In fact it is the theoretical ‘real world’ that requires faith. It still remains a scandal to philosophy . . . that the existence of things outside of us . . . must be accepted merely on faith, and that, if anyone thinks good to doubt their existence, we are unable to counter his doubts by any satisfactory proof. (Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781) 9. Baba did not teach that God is consciousness. God has the capacity for consciousness. Consciousness is not even conceivable in the most original 1st State of the 10 States of God, according to Baba. 10. Baba did not teach transmigration of the soul. Reincarnation as Baba teaches it has nothing to do with transmigration of the soul, which Baba’s biographer C.B. Purdom said is a crude fantasy. (The God-Man, p. 422) 11. Baba did not teach that people need a personal relationship with a master after he dies. To give the opportunity for such a relationship with God is the purpose of the Avatar taking flesh. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

Why it matters

Explaining Berkeleys "Immaterialism" and why it didn't work to solve the mind-body problem that Baba's system of sanskaras resolves handily. George Berkeley (1685–1753) wrote "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision," "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge," and "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous." Although today Berkeley is described as an "idealist," he likely died without ever hearing this term in connection with himself. The term comes from the German word "idealisme" and was popularized after Berkeley's death. Berkeley, California was named after George Berkeley. His name was, however, pronounced "bark-lee." This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

The origin of necromancy, and how the practice got adopted by Baba's followers in spite of Baba making it clear this was not an aspect of his teaching.

Individual soul thought of as a kind of ghost. And the Over-soul (God) also conceived erroneously this way. This mistake is the cause of much confusion. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

Things that aren't real The world does not exist. It's psychogenic. Dr. Thomas Cowan on the virus: https://www.bitchute.com/video/h9hGqrOv7eFB/ The Contagion Myth: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30753233342

My own contribution to Baba's project is a plausible theory for how the world could in fact rise out of sanskaras only, and why it is logically necessary. Opening the Overton window. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

There is only One Soul. The influence of the sanskaras. The Parisian café. Escaping the mind-body problem. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

Showing that Meher Baba does indeed give teachings, and encourages those who care about him to work together to try to understand his teaching. Discuss the unique concept of God that Baba gives, by first comparing it to a progression of others from the past. I capture his meaning with my own phrase, "There is no God; there's ONLY God." This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

What qualifies me to correct people's understanding of Baba's teaching. This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.

How my father taught me Baba's teaching about the Creation of the world and why I think it was effective. The source of the story I tell cab be found in "Stay With God, A Statement in Illusion on Reality," by Francis Brabazon, New Humanity Books, 1990 Third edition, p. 71. The book that this chart comes from is "God Speaks, The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose," by Meher Baba, all editions after the first edition (1973, 1975, 1997, 2010). This 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023.