9902 Sulphur Mountain Road
Ojai, CA 93023-9375
Phone: 805-640-0000
Email: info@mehermount.org
Wednesday-Sunday: Noon to 5:00 p.m.
Monday & Tuesday: Closed
Buzz & Ginger Glasky
Sam Ervin, Preident
Ron Holsey, Vice President
Ursula Reinhart, Treasurer
Jim Whitson, Director
Richard Mannis, Director
Margaret Magnus, Secretary
Anecdotes, activities and stories about Meher Mount - past, present and future.
The first Young Adult Sahavas (for ages 18-35) was held August 7-9, 1998 at Meher Mount.
Organizers pulled the Sahavas together in three weeks after close-Meher-Baba-disciple Bhau Kalchuri told them, “Enough talk, talk, talk – it is time to do, do, do!”
Read MoreIn honor of "Get Caught Reading" month in May 2015, Meher Mount asked for reading recommendations related to Avatar Meher Baba. Wayne Myers chose The Awakener: A Journal Devoted to Meher Baba.
Although long out-of-print, every issue of the The Awakener Magazine: A Journal Devoted to Meher Baba is available online in its original format.
Published from 1953 to 1986, The Awakener is a treasure source of Meher Baba’s direct messages and aspects of His work during the last two decades of His physical lifetime.
Read MorePhotos from the early days of Meher Mount are few and precious. This is the story of the 2014 discovery of photos from November 1956, just months after Meher Baba's August 2, 1956 visit.
Read MoreJust as the October 2014 board meeting at Meher Mount was winding up, contributing writer for The Ojai Valley Visitors Guide Perry Van Houten arrived to find out more about Baba’s Tree for an article he was writing. Board President Sam Ervin took him on a tour and provided background information along with a number of photos.
What follows is the section about Baba’s Tree from the article “Ojai’s Trees” by Perry Van Houten published in the Winter 2014 edition of the The Ojai Valley Visitors Guide and used with permission from the publisher, Ojai Valley News.
Read MoreSeveral times before Avatar Meher Baba dropped His body on January 31, 1969, He asked his close disciples, mandali, to have "Begin the Beguine" played when He did leave His physical form.
Read MoreOn January 31, 1969, Avatar Meher Baba dropped His physical body. His close disciple and night watchman at the time, Bhau Kalchuri, shared the following.
Read MoreAgnes Baron (1907-1994) is remembered because of her dedication to Avatar Meher Baba, for her role as a founder and lifetime caretaker of Meher Mount, for her fiery nature and no-holds barred approach to life, for her selfless service, and for the many lives she touched.
Read MoreA humorous story wherein Margaret Magnus and Sam Ervin attempt to get a new car for Agnes Baron at Meher Mount sometime in the late 1970s/early 1980s..
Read MoreThis quote from Meher Baba was in large print in a glass frame in Agnes Baron's living room in her house at Meher Mount.
Read More"I have only love to give, and all I want is love." - Avatar Meher Baba
Read MorePeople often ask, "When is a good time to visit Meher Mount?" I always say the wintertime. It is is my favorite time of year.
The weather is crisp, but generally not too cold. The air is clear - the fog of summer is gone. The skies are bright blue. And there is a special "winter" light on the land.
Read MoreMeher Mount is important to me because of its long association with Avatar Meher Baba. That Meher Baba blessed Meher Mount with His visit in 1956 has profound significance for me.
What makes Meher Mount extra special are its natural qualities and beautiful setting – something increasingly rare and precious in Southern California.
Read More“Immortality of the individualised soul is rendered possible by the fact that the individualised soul is not the same as the physical body.
“The individualised soul continues to exist with all its sanskaras [impressions] in the inner worlds through the medium of its mental and subtle bodies, even after it has discarded its gross body at the time of death.
Manzil-e-Meem was the Bombay residence Meher Baba used for His work with His close disciples (mandali) for about 10 months from 1992 to 1923. Generally translated, the term Manzil-e-Meem means "the House of the Master."
Taking inspiration from Meher Baba's gutta at Manzil-e-Meem, Fred Stankus has for years hosted a "Gutta Breakfast" in different venues.
Read MorePeople "...particularly ask me what was it like to be with Meher Baba, what did I experience, what were His qualities?
"First and foremost, Meher Baba had a Presence, a Presence so complete and so overwhelming that one found no difficulty in being conscious only of Him.
Read MoreMeher Baba continually stressed a cheerful attitude and asked His followers not to be "garlic faced."
There is an interview with Meher Baba on happiness in Not We But One: Meher Baba on Life, Living and Love, a collection of stories and messages from the life of Meher Baba by Bill Le Page.
The idea for the patio first came about when the Board was planning for the Workshop. An early concept called for a workshop/garage built into the side of the hill with a rooftop patio in view of the Bluffs.
That concept proved to be too expensive, but the idea of a patio with a view of the mountains stuck.
Read MoreMy wife Ginger and I recently attended the artist's opening of the exhibit "We Are Spiritual Machines" at the Porch Gallery in downtown Ojai.
We went on May 10, 2014, because we had met the artist Mike Saijo when he visited Meher Mount to do his research, and we were eager to see the results.
Read MoreIf you spend anytime at Meher Mount, you discover there is an unseen pull of destiny that seems to draw visitors to Meher Mount by sheer happenstance. That pull of destiny also draws those who choose to be Manager/Caretakers at Meher Mount.
Read MoreIn the mid-1960s, my then husband Mik Hamilton and I traveled around the world in an attempt to meet Meher Baba. On March 7, 1966, we met Him in Meherazad, India.
When we returned to the US, we lived in Santa Barbara, California – about a 50-minute drive from Meher Mount. We continued to correspond with Meher Baba. One topic of our letters was helping Agnes Baron at Meher Mount.
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