The Awakener of Myrtle Beach

Meher Baba ‘The Awakener’ has two homes in the Land of the Free, one in South Carolina, and the other in Ojai California. In 1971 I went to visit Baba’s home in South Carolina with Dottie Witherspoon, who is kin to the Signer, John Wiherspoon, and Reese Witherspoon. I asked to sit in Baba’s chair seen on this site:

http://www.meherbabatravels.com/location-gallery/usa/myrtle-beach-sc-usa/

Baba predicted world chaos was coming due to religious strife, the kind we see smoldering in the Republican party.

“All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What had to happen has happened; and what has to happen will happen. There was and is no way out except through my coming in your midst. I had to come, and I have come. I am the Ancient One.”

John Witherspoon (February 15, 1723 – November 15, 1794) was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey. As president of the College of New Jersey (1768–94; now Princeton University), he trained many leaders of the early nation and was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration.[1] John Witherspoon is an ancestor of actress Reese Witherspoon.[2][3][4][5]

I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.
Throughout eternity I have laid down principles and precepts, but mankind has ignored them. Man’s inability to live God’s words makes the Avatar’s teaching a mockery. Instead of practicing the compassion He taught, man has waged crusades in His name. Instead of living the humility, purity and truth of his words, man has given way to hatred, greed and violence.
Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present Avataric form I observe Silence. You have asked for and been given enough words — it is now time to live them.
All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What had to happen has happened; and what has to happen will happen. There was and is no way out except through my coming in your midst. I had to come, and I have come. I am the Ancient One.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry spoke like a preacher from his pulpit to an evangelical crowd today, telling them that if they support his presidential campaign, together they can bring about the world’s “next great awakening.”
“It is time for people of faith to take this country back. The greatness of America stems from the humble act of mortal men recognizing a higher power, proclaiming our rights that emanate from that great creator and not from government,” Perry told the crowd at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Debate Kickoff.
“Don’t let the voices of secularism in government silence your voices. Together we can build more than just a winning campaign. We can bring about the next great awakening in this world, and we can make America more than just the freest and the most prosperous nation on the earth, but as Ronald Reagan said, we can again make it that shining city on the hill.”
Perry, who lost the backing of a group of religious leaders and social conservatives to Rick Santorum over the weekend, warned of the decline in spirituality due to an uptick in “political correctness” in this country.