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Conversations about Meher Baba

Conversations about Meher Baba

De: Angela Lee Chen - Baba Zoom
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Different hosts, different topics, sometimes featured guests: but always about loving Meher Baba in the present tense.

Conversations are held live on Baba Zoom at various times. If you want to join the conversation, visit babazoom.net for more information: the calendar of events, and login information is available under the ”Virtual Meetings” page.

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  • Late Night Chat with JeffWolverton: E&G: ”Overcoming Worry,” Mar 2, 2026, live BabaZoom

    Late Night Chat with JeffWolverton: E&G: ”Overcoming Worry,” Mar 2, 2026, live BabaZoom
    Mar 3 2026
    Dear folks of Baba, Overcoming worry, which Baba repeatedly urged us to do, is an ongoing challenge of a lifetime. By comparison to many other weaknesses in ourselves, worry appears relatively harmless with few real consequences; we think of it as mainly our own problem, a minor botheration perhaps, and on the surface doesn’t seem to seriously affect others. For this reason, we often don’t treat it as a critical impediment in our inner life with Baba. Nothing could be further from the truth! Baba has said that there are few things that drain our psychic energy more than worry. He stated, “It substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.” I was always amazed at how worry seemed to be absent from Darwin’s consciousness; he had a supreme trust and faith in Baba that I was unable to achieve myself. It was something to witness. He would quote Baba, “Don’t worry. Let Me do the worrying. I enjoy working things out. There is no need for both you and I worrying. If you are going to worry, then I won’t worry.” When we worry, Baba is saying, we are robbing Him of something He “enjoys”—"working things out.” There are things that Baba has said that aid us in overcoming worry, and the mandali with their many years of experience with Baba have also shared what has worked for them. Darwin has said that worry is actually one of the many manifestations of fear, but rather than facing our raw fear directly, we usually think of how we can protect ourselves by worrying rather than giving the fear in the moment to Baba. This approach is like clipping off the tops of weeds without digging down and eliminating the roots. The weeds will only grow back. Few people think to fully give the raw fear directly to Baba in the moment and let Him help us dissolve it at its source. When we experience fear, we are being given a rare opportunity with Baba to tackle the root cause of worry itself. Adding to the problem of worry, when faced with an unnerving situation, we often instantly view it within the perspective of time and space. How can we get out of the uncomfortable present and escape to somewhere else? We go to the past (memory) to see what we’ve done before to look for a solution, and we then go to imagination (the future) to implement what the past tells us to do. That is, we leave the present, the Now, where Baba and intuition are accessible with their creative, sometimes unprecedented and spontaneous solutions. If we look back on our life, there are many terrible things we thought would happen that never came to pass. Rarely do we hold our minds accountable, which is a serious mistake. We move on. We are not inclined to look back, but if we don’t, we tend to indulge in similar worries in the future. We are programing our subconscious minds to avoid dealing with negative situations. Therefore, we must strive to unfailingly hold our mind accountable for its misleading assertions, otherwise our worrisome mental patterns will only continue. From Darwin, we learned to discipline our subconscious to hold our mind accountable in all cases, large and small. As long as worry preoccupies our mind, the ego takes center stage and our focus on Baba is pushed to the background. But when Baba is in the foreground, when we return to Him again and again in thought, worries gradually dissolve in His loving presence. In remembering Baba in this moment, we are less vulnerable to being pulled down into a state of worry. Darwin said that “the antidote to worry is faith and trust in God … Counteracting worry through building our faith and trust opens up a vast new area of possibilities for self-improvement within and in our outer life.” A situation that causes us extreme worry can have a positive effect if it causes us to get down on our knees and ask Baba for help. It can link us up with Him. There is a quote that Mani, Baba’s sister, used to share, “I prayed to You for strength to carry out Your work. You gave me weakness so I would depend on You.” Eradicating worry is one of the last hurdles to be crossed in gaining control of the mind. It requires us not to make so much of the outer events of life so that they become secondary compared to the inner life; we have to become more profoundly aware of the deluding power of imagination. Mark Twain, the American humorist, once said, “I’ve been through many trials and tribulations in this life, and most of them … never happened!” Whatever you do, though, don’t worry about worrying. I once asked Meherjee Karkaria, one of Baba’s intimate mandali, what method he had for overcoming worry. He gestured with his hands circling around his head, as if besieged by thoughts, “Around Baba, I was always worrying!” Yet he didn’t worry about worrying! “Love will control the future, so why worry? Do not think: feel My love.” Meher Baba In His love, Jeff
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    1 h y 25 m
  • Late Night Chat with JeffWolverton: E&G: ”reprogramming our experience,” Feb 23, 2026, live BabaZoom

    Late Night Chat with JeffWolverton: E&G: ”reprogramming our experience,” Feb 23, 2026, live BabaZoom
    Feb 24 2026
    "Through unconscious programming—stocking our subconscious with limiting beliefs—we have schooled our minds in limitations, and our minds have become tyrannical. Because of this, we put conditions on Baba’s ability to bring about changes in us, and we also place limitations on our own ability. All these limitations we believe to be real are entirely self-programmed.” Darwin Shaw In the above quote, Darwin encapsulates a profound insight into one of our major impediments to an expansive and harmonious life. In what he gathered from Baba, Darwin often spoke in-depth about how we have been programmed to live with countless limitations, many of which we imbibed and bought into in early childhood before we were fully aware and mature. To give a few examples: we imbibed the belief that we are separate beings, and others and the world are outside of us. We were often told that what we are looking for in life is in the future, and that the present moment is just a stepping stone to some future existence. We may have taken on the belief that God disapproves of us if our behavior fails to follow a prescribed set of values and standards. We may have been made to feel that if we don’t work hard, we will never amount to anything. There are countless false beliefs that limit the fullness of our lives. Sometimes the overall hidden impact of such beliefs that we have absorbed in growing up is that there is something wrong with us, we are insufficient, not enough, forever incomplete. Darwin stressed emphatically that we need to re-program ourselves in the light of the highest truths, the spiritual values that come from deeper within us, which are eternally available in this moment. Darwin encouraged us to take seriously Baba’s words: “Whatever you want to be, that you become.” That is, what we envision ourselves to be will come to pass, and so it is important to ponder deeply what we want to become. Darwin came from the tradition known as “the power of positive thinking." Darwin asserts unequivocally that our soul is intimately linked not only to Baba’s love, but to His omnipotence, to the Universal Mind as well as to His immediate personal Presence, and we can draw upon this eternal Source (sometimes called First Cause) to help change our experience from being one of continual limitation into the expansiveness and inclusiveness of the Divine. There are many speakers who advocate using this tremendous divine power to “manifest” abundance for themselves: wealth, position, a house, a lucrative job and the like. And it can work. But Darwin insisted that with Baba and this divine power in our hands, rather than being tempted to use it for selfish purposes, we can, through Baba’s grace, access it for fostering a more loving life dedicated to Him. We can let go of our narrow programming in favor of His unlimited programming. Baba has encouraged us to break up our old patterns and “insist on creating something new by our own inner vision.” We can actually be active participants in becoming more universally loving rather than using this divine power to be more successful in the world. In Darwin’s presence, it was clear that he was not only radiating Baba’s love, but he was also asserting from within Baba’s omnipotence which lifted him above the limiting and narrow conditions of this world. It was something to behold! Darwin insisted that if we approach Baba with how we would like to be, bringing Him our deepest longing and intention, the tremendous divine loving power, which is ever-present, will bring this about. We are bypassing our lower limitations and worldly conditions (our usual karmic timetable) and appealing to Baba’s omnipotence and the higher part of ourselves. There is nothing selfish in doing this. We are drawing not just on our love for Baba, but on our faith and conviction in His transformative power to intervene in our life. At a practical level, we can even bring the power of this supreme intention down into our everyday life. Through actively asserting Baba’s omnipotence within us and staying keenly aware, we can convert in the moment our negative reactions into loving responses to life, our better angels. Thus, our anger can be sublimated through loving intention into patience and tolerance, its opposite as Baba has said. Greed can be sublimated into generosity, its opposite, lust into purity, retaliation into forgiveness, and disinterest into empathy. Darwin said, “The truth is that we are unlimited spirit and one with God, so if we take our stand on the truth, this will manifest and become our experience…By thinking of Baba as God the Infinite (or Universal Mind), we are plugging into both the personal and impersonal avenues of power, energy, truth and reality.” Baba has said, ‘I am in you, and the Universal Mind can give anything, to anyone, at any time.” In His love, Jeff
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    1 h y 19 m
  • Baba’s Birthday Quotes sharing meeting, Feb 25, 2026, live on Baba Zoom

    Baba’s Birthday Quotes sharing meeting, Feb 25, 2026, live on Baba Zoom
    Feb 25 2026

    Participants are invited to bring their Baba's Birthday Quotes to share, out loud!

    Personalized Quotes are sent out via email to anyone who is listed in the Baba Zoom Community Directory.

    If you did not receive one, feel free to bring any favorite Baba quote to share!

    Tech host Betty Lowman in CA

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    1 h y 26 m
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