Above is a photo of my sister Vicki poised to touch me while I am in a blissful trance. Is she mocking me? Am I mad and deluded to believe I own God-Realization? Should I pick up a gun and Bible and hunker down in my end of the world bunker, instead?
We are on the brink of disaster. If Romney and Ryan take the White House it will be the end of caring for the poor around the world, and the beginning of an evil crusade against Islam.
Meher Baba came to join all religions together in harmony. As the Rose of the World, I took up his cause in 1968. Masts (sadhus) are the God-Intoxicated Ones that many say are just the mad and homeless. In their evil plan to create a have and have not America, the Christian-right will create thousands of sadhus that will flock to the malls and supermarkets with their bowls and blankets. The greedy and vain will have to walk over them as they gleefully buy more stuff to make their friends jealous of them.
In the Christmas scene in Tommy we see my drunken father the Leo who had to be the center of attention, and getting drunk with his family was a way to keep the focus on him. I escaped inward, and my art toured the world in a Red Cross show while in school. Two books and a screen play were written by authors who tried to make my late sister a Art Martyr in her family. They failed. This attempt is incredibly telling. Christine Rosamond was just as damaged by the abuse of our parents, she suffering from mental illness most of her life. Yet, she would go into a trance in order to capture her Beautiful Rosamond Women. Is there a spiritual connection?
The truth is just a touch away. Repent!
In this photo we see a blonde off to the left. This is Vicki’s childhood freind, Pip, who died of accute alcoholism, as did Karen, Vicki’s freind since she was six. Vicki took care of them as they died, she at their side whn they passed. We talked about my little sister’s pain before Icame to Bullhead City to help unite my sober family. We thought it was all over, but, then come that devil, Bill Cornwell, with a bottle of beer in his hand, he born on Vic’s birthday, he hell-bent on getting all the attention – starting with my grandson, Tyler Hunt.
For those who suffer the life-threatening disease of alcoholism, I bid you to take the vow of the Nazarite, and emerse yourself in water.
Jon the Nazarite
Before terminating the seclusion, the fast and the extensive tours for contacting masts, Baba declared that He would touch 7,000 sadhus. This decision did not come as a surprise to some of Baba’s old disciples, as some twenty years ago, while traveling in the Nilgiri hills, Baba had said that He would once contact 7,000 sadhus.
The quaint town of Mattura seems in harmony with ancient pastoral times. As we approached the place along the river where Krishna played with His “gopis,” a youngish man wearing what is called a fool’s cap sat on the steps playing his flute. So sweetly he played that one was attracted to this “court jester,” and the ancient “song of Krishna” which he was rendering is one of the most beautiful in India…. The moment this man noticed Baba, he stopped his playing and in a voice loud enough for those with Baba to hear said, “Here comes the Flute Player,” which is the other name for Krishna.
All the time we went about the small town, this mendicant followed Baba or ran ahead. How he smiled at Baba! Just around the bend of the street we would hear his flute sounds. It was like a haunting melody. He didn’t want money, he didn’t want anything and when he passed several people smiled, thinking him to be a “fool” with his dancing steps and flute. Towards the end he seemed to become almost ecstatic and our guide, thinking he was annoying us, tried to drive him away with a stick. Upon this, Baba immediately protected him and gave the guide to understand He liked it. Baba told us that this was the man for whom He had come. There are “fools of God” who often take this guise so the world will pass them by, in order to accomplish freely their own work.
Baba embraced him and stroked his cheek and gave him two coins. Just before returning to the bus, extraordinary greetings or signals went on between Baba and this mendicant…. As Baba drove off in the bus, we saw him dancing on tip-toe, like the Pied Piper of Hamlin and waving his flute in a most rapturous manner. Some old hard-faced priests standing near the temple looked at him scornfully and then the contagion of joy was so great that even they too smiled.
Who is a Mast?
Masts are God-intoxicated souls. They are intoxicated by Divine Love. Their external behaviour often is like that of an insane or mad person. The glimpses of divinity that they get are accompanied by a joy that breaks through any type of sordid composure. One state of unbalanced exaltation is replaced by another state of unbalanced exaltation. A mast may be on any plane of consciousness. Some masts get stuck on the inner planes. They are over powered by the onflow of grace and love, and get into a state of divine stupor. They are entirely absorbed in the “beautific vision.”
The principal sensation of a mast is this permanent enjoyment of divine intoxication. The creation is full of bliss and the mast enjoys this bliss and thereby becomes intoxicated to an almost unlimited extent, virtually consuming him and absorbing him and thereby making the world around him vanish. Absorbed in God, such a person is continually absorbed in thinking about God, and with that comes like a bolt of pure love consuming him further in a state of divine intoxication.
Masts do not suffer from what may be called a disease. They are in a state of mental disorder because their minds are overcome by such intense spiritual energies that are far too much for them, forcing them to lose contact with the world, shed normal human habits and customs, and civilized society and live in a state of spiritual splendour but physical squalor.
How does it happen that some men and women become masts?
There are those who have become masts whose minds have become unbalanced through unceasing dwelling upon thoughts of God so that they neglect all normal human requirements. There are those whose minds have become unbalanced by sudden contact with a highly advanced spiritual being. There are those who have sought spiritual experience and have met a crisis from which they do not recover. What characterizes all masts is their concentration upon the love of God. (pp 2031 Lord Meher Vol. 6)
Significance of Baba’s mast-contact:
Baba, by His contact with masts, gives effective guidance and a spiritual push. He initiates masts into a greater clarity and lucidity of consciousness, into a deeper ecstasy, a purer and more expansive love, and into a truer stronger creativity of response. Baba draws them out of the “self-sufficiency state” of being absorbed in the Divine Love to a state of rendering true service to others who are in need of spiritual help. A mast can therefore be a more effective agent for spiritual work than the most able persons of the gross world. The mast mind is also often used directly by Baba as medium for sending his spiritual help to different parts of the world.
The 1933[1][2] and 1946[2] Draconids had Zenithal Hourly Rates of thousands of meteors visible per hour, among the most impressive meteor storms of the 20th century.
Jesus of Nazareth was first aired on British television on the ITV network on March 27, 1977 and premiered in the United States on the NBC network on April 3, 1977. It is generally well-praised, but it was not without controversy. Bob Jones III of Bob Jones University, who had not seen the film, immediately denounced it as blasphemous due in part to Zeffirelli’s stated intent to portray Jesus as equally human and divine; “…an ordinary man — gentle, fragile, simple”.[2] In 1987, TV Guide called it “the best mini-series of all time” and “unparalleled television”.
On December 23, at 7:26 A.M. I found this essay that says Joachem and Anna, the parents of Mary, are the Parthian Prince Nakeb Adiabene, and his wife, Parthian Princess Grapte Kharax. They pray to the God of the Jews for a child, for Grapte’s womb has been shut. This is the Nazarite birth of Hanah and Elizabeth. Did this royal coupl eof Adiabene take the vow of the Nazarite, as did Queen Helena of Adiabene. Has the hidden truth been reborn this day?
“A Jewish merchant named Ananias, from whom the couple had bought much jewelry—among other wares—convinced the royal couple to convert to Judaism, and to pray to the god of the Jews (Yahweh, Jehovah), “who will surely bless them with an offspring.” The persuasion was successful, and Prince Adiabene is given the name Joachim in the Jewish religion, and his wife becomes Anna.”
Above is a photograph of Bennett Rosamond the Grand Master of the Orange Order in Canada. Bennett is with members of Lodge 389 in Lanark, or, Almonte. The image on the banner is that of William of Orange who is carried in Orange Parades. That is Bennett on the far right, looking like Gandalf, or, a Levite Prophet.
According to the History of the Rosemond Family by Leland Rosemond, the Rosamond family were members of the Orange Order in Leitrim Ireland, and fled to Canada after a Rosamond son killed a Catholic lad who was invading the Rosamond home with a gang bent on doing my kindred harm.Meher Baba had a home in the Ojai Valley where Mary Magdalene’s sister, Eutrophia, and her brother, Conrad Wiekeke, lived. Krishnamurti came here. Baba found the true cave of Saint Francis in Italy.
Jon Presco
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iatpg/Julien/MtCalvary/Mt.Calvary-StFrancisNunsOld.html
On September 18, 1930, the college, named Briar Cliff after the hill on which it is located, was dedicated. Four days later, 25 women started classes in Heelan Hall, the only building on campus at the time. In 1937, the university’s two-yeongregation with Motherhouse at St. Francis’s Convent, Dubuque, Iowa. Founded in 1876 by Mother Xaveria Termehr and Sisters from the House of Bethlehem, Herford, Germany, who, on account of the infamous “May laws”, were compelled to leave Germany. Sisters, 399; novices, 34; postulants, 20; orphan asyluSisters of St. Francis (Dubuque, Iowa)
Congregation with Motherhouse at St. Francis’s Convent, Dubuque, Iowa. Founded in 1876 by Mother Xaveria Termehr and Sisters from the House of Bethlehem, Herford, Germany, who, on account of the infamous “May laws”, were compelled to leave Germany. Sisters, 399; novices, 34; postulants, 20; orphan asyluSisters of St. Francis (Dubuque, Iowa)
mms, 2; industrial school, 1; academy, 1; home for aged, 1; schools, 43; pupils, 6829.
In March 1929, Mother Mary Dominica Wieneke, Major Superior of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Dubuque, along with the Most Rev. Edmond Heelan, Bishop of the Sioux City Diocese, co-founded Briar Cliff College after meeting with members of the Sioux City community, who committed to ar program was extended to four years. Fifty-five men were admitted to Briar Cliff in 1965 and co-education was formalized in 1966 with the admission of 150 full-time male students.
Our congregation originated in Herford, Germany where the plight of many homeless and hungry children touched the heart of the young woman we know as our foundress, Mother Xavier Termehr. Soon other young women asked to join her in this work of compassion and our congregation was born in November 1864. From its beginning, the congregation has been committed to serving human needs and are not limited to one apostolate. The sisters cared for the orphans at Haus Bethlehem and also nursed the elderly in their homes. A destitute elderly couple was cared for in the orphanage until their death.
When the call came for nurses on the battlefields of the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars the sisters responded, earning the Iron Cross from Empress Augusta and Emperor Wilhelm in 1872 for their service. Two sisters died of infection while nursing the soldiers.
Political changes resulted in the passage of laws in 1875 which called for religious communities to either disband or go into exile unless they were strictly nursing orders. The entire community of 18 professed sisters, seven novices and four postulants chose exile. But where to go? A nephew of the elderly couple mentioned above, a pastor in Iowa City, had visited the sisters to express his gratitude for their kindness. On learning of their choice to emigrate he offered them refuge in Iowa City. On September 8, 1875 they arrived in their new home.
In Iowa City the sisters opened the first Catholic orphanage in the state and nursed the sick, much as they had in Herford. A new apostolate opened for them as they were requested to take charge of parochial schools. Within a year of their arrival in Iowa, the congregation began to accept postulants.
Archbishop Hennessy of Dubuque, Iowa requested that the congregation move to Dubuque to open and staff an orphanage in that city. They arrived in Dubuque in December 1878, lodging at first in an abandoned stone church. The orphanage opened in fall of the next year. (The sisters staffed it until it closed in 1968.) As in Iowa City, the sisters were also called upon to staff and often to establish Catholic schools.
New apostolates were added as the years progressed including the domestic department of the local seminary, a home for the aged, a second orphanage (in Sioux City, IA), a home for working girls in Dubuque, hospitals, the only Catholic college (now University) in the Sioux City, IA diocese and a mission in China.
Our commitment to community and ministry among those in need is still vibrant. We have ministered in Chile, Guatemala, and El Salvador, in Tanzania and Zimbabwe and currently in Honduras and the island of St. Lucia. With fewer sisters in classroom teaching, we also educate though ESL classes and after-school tutoring programs. We are pastoral associates, chaplains, spiritual directors and social workers, workers in health care and alternate health therapies, and volunteers in many organizations. We partner with other religious congregations and civic organizations to respond to those whose needs are greatest in this country and abroad.
Though we speak a different language and dress in different attire from that of Mother Xavier and the founding sisters, we are truly their daughters in faith and in commitment.
Our strength, our hope and our joy flow from our commitment to prayer, to each other, and to the people God calls us to serve in love. We believe the words of Mother Xavier “God is with us still.”
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ia/county/linn/news/wienfamreunion.htm
The first Wieneke reunion was held at the home of Mary M. and Margaret Schmitz, Sunday, June 26, 1927, at Urbana. The former is a daughter of the late Margaret Wieneke Ernst, whose parents came to Iowa as pioneers and settled west of Cedar Rapids on the farm now owned by Henry Stark.
The crowd began to gather at 10:00 o’clock from all directions until there was over 200 present. A big basket dinner was served cafeteria style from a very long table in the yard at noon which was enjoyed by all. The afternoon was spent in a social time and a program consisting of letters read by Rev. John C. Wieneke of Cedar Falls from the following persons: Leon F. Lucas, Ontario, Cal., Mary M. Rosamond, Ventura, Cal., C. F. Wieneke, Ventura, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caldwell, Chino, Cal., and Mrs. Herman Wieneke and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wieneke from Adrian, Minn.; F. E. Augustine Jr., and Alfred Augustine, Chicago; Frances Rebasch(?) Vermillion, S. Dak.; Sister M. Perinet-Zwingle(?), Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schallau, Sutherland, Ia.; Mr. and Chas. Schallau, Grinnell. These letters were all very much enjoyed by the crowd and short talks were given by different ones. It was voted on and carried to have a reunion every year. Officers elected were John Stark, Sr., of Fairfax, P! res.; Mrs. Theo. Stark, Sec. And Treasurer. Committee appointed for the place were Henry Stark of Cedar Rapids, Ione(?) Wieneke, Marion, Fred Schrunk(?), Atkins. They met at once and decided ___ place for next year. Reunion to be held at Henry Stark, west of Cedar Rapids, the last Sunday in June. Before they began to leave for their homes ice cream, strawberriesand cake were served.
Name: Mrs. Ann Wieneke
Name: C. F. Wieneke
Occupation: farmer
Address: 4 1/2 mi. W of Ojai on Ojai-Ventura highway
Name: Conrad Wieneke
Age: 10 yrs
Name: Margaret Wieneke
Age: 4 yrs
Name: Marianne Wieneke
Age: 8 yrs
Frank Paul Wieneke, son 1886 – 1962 Bernard Wieneke Anna Wieneke 1851 – 1935 1870 – 1950 Gerhard A Wieneke
Meher Mount is a spiritual center in Ojai, California that is dedicated to Meher Baba.
It consists of 170 acres (69 ha) of dense woodland and open fields on Sulphur Mountain in Ojai, California, about 80 miles (130 km) north of Los Angeles. At 2,600 feet (790 m) above the Pacific Ocean, it enjoys a 360-degree view, including the nearby peak of Topatopa Bluff, the Channel Islands, Los Padres National Forest, and the Ojai Valley.
Meher Mount is a center left in trust to the Meher Mount Corporation by Agnes Baron, who was one of the original people to find the property in 1946 at the request of Meher Baba. He visited Meher Mount on August 2, 1956. Today, it is a universal center open to all for inspiration, education, and work programs in agriculture, ecology, and humanitarian service.[1] There are opportunities for day visits, group events, and individual retreats as well as resident work programs.
[edit] Nature
Meher Mount provides opportunities for viewing birds and wildlife. Deer, bobcat and fox can be seen regularly, roaming freely in their natural habitat. On occasion, coyote, mule deer, mountain lion and bear have also been sighted.[2] When Avatar Meher Baba visited Meher Mount, he remarked, “Go out and see the view and try to love God through nature.”[3]
A third commented on the lovely fragrance. Filis Frederick [who wrote the account of Meher Baba’s trip in her publication The Awakener] said, “It reminds me of the hills of Assisi [in Italy where St. Francis lived].” Jeanne Shaw [a follower of Meher Baba] agreed, “It has instant appeal.” Meher Baba nodded and added, “This land is very old, I have been here before.”
He never explained what He meant by that statement. Later Meher Baba remarked, “I will come here again.”
Meher Baba first planned to first visit Meher Mount in June 1952 for a 10-day stay. But during the cross-country drive from Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Meher Mount in Ojai, California, Meher Baba was in an automobile accident near Prague, Oklahoma. After the accident, he recuperated in Prague and then returned to Myrtle Beach, not visiting Meher Mount until 1956.
In 1956, Avatar Meher Baba visited Southern California for three days from July 31 through August 2. The first two days were spent in Hollywood, and on the third day Meher Baba went to Meher Mount in Ojai.
The Draconid meteor shower might be fantastic in 2011 on the nights of October 7 and 8. Or the shower might be a washout.
The next two major meteor showers are coming up in October 2011, and there’s possible exciting news this year about the October Draconid meteor shower. That is, earlier in 2011, an astronomer predicted that the Draconids might produce a spurt of 1,000 meteors per hour for a brief time, for some lucky observers on Earth. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the moon is in the way. Still, don’t let the moon stop you. Would you want to be that guy sitting indoors watching TV while everyone is oo-ing and ah-ing over a great meteor shower going on outside – even if it is happening in moonlight? I wouldn’t either. Check the skies frequently on the nights of October 7 and 8. Better yet, go camping on those nights, and sit outside under clear dark country skies.
In 1776, colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi on the site
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