COMPANION COLLECTION
Introduction
The recordings in this Collection were donated by the Meher Baba Center of Northern California. The MBCNC is located at El Cerrito, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. The recordings were made from March 1970 to May 1998, span of over 28 years. The talks feature 51 different speakers and, with 2 or 3 exceptions, by those who physically met Meher Baba. The recordings are arranged alphabetically (A - Z) by speaker’s first name. For example, the first listed recording is from “Adele Wolkin” and the last listing is “Ursula Van Buskirk”.
The talks given over the years in Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito–in the San Francisco Bay Area–and a few other places, are mostly “How I Came to Baba” talks; they are auto biographical accounts charged with great significance to the speakers. They have a natural attraction in that they convey enthusiasm, delight, earnestness, and self-discovery. The talks can be very moving. One example is Eleanor Smith’s recounting her life changing experience of meeting and being with Baba. She was Lud Dimpfl’s sister and she met Baba in 1956 in San Francisco and again in 1958 at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. A few talks were recorded at Meherazad and Meherabad, India.
The deep love and devotion evidenced by these speakers bears witness to the heart touching quality of the talks. You will find many remarkable hours listening to these speakers coming into the love orbit of Meher Baba, the Avatar of the Age.
Notes: Please also note that dates are displayed in conventional USA format, e.g. month-day-year. For example, 09-01-78 = September 1, 1978. Running time of talks is displayed in the “hours:minutes:seconds format, for example: 01:30:42 = one hour, thirty minutes, forty-two seconds. Preparation of summary descriptions and/or verbatim transcripts for these talks is in the works.
Individual talks in the COLLECTION can be downloaded as mp3 files by clicking the “DOWNLOAD” button displayed in the Audio file column.
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NC-011: Bhau
Le Page House, Bay Area, CA; August 8, 1988; 44:00
Bhau Kalchuri
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NC-012: Bhau
El Cerrito, CA; August 23, 1985; 1:20:54
Bhau Kalchuri
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NC-013: Bhau
Methodist Church; Albany, CA; May 1, 1993; 49:18
Bhau Kalchuri
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NC-014A: Bhau
Midwest Gathering, May 30, 1998; 1:10:55
Bhau Kalchuri
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NC-015: Bhau
Midwest Gathering, May 31, 1998; 58:21
Bhau Kalchuri
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NC-016: Bhau
El Cerrito, CA; October 29, 1986; 35:01
Bhau Kalchuri
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NC-017: Bhau
Trust Office, Ahmednagar, India, September 1, 1988; 20:09
Bhau Kalchuri
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NC-018: LePage
El Cerrito, CA; June 20, 1976; 44:19
Bill LePage
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NC-019: LePage
El Cerrito, CA; June 23, 1976; 2:10:33
Bill LePage
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NC-020, Living with the Women Mandali at Meherazad
El Cerrito, CA, June 20, 1986; 1:19:33
Kacy Cook
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NC-021: Surrender
El Cerrito, CA; August 19, 1988; 1:00:51
Charles Haynes
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NC-022: “Pendu and Baba’s Family”
El Cerrito, CA; March 7, 1987; 1:05:19
Charles Haynes
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NC-023: Darwin & Jean
El Cerrito, CA; October 18, 1986; 1:05:04
Darwin and Jean Shaw
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NC-024: Darwin
El Cerrito, CA; July 3, 1976; 1:30:51
Darwin Shaw
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NC-025: Bhau Kalchuri
Le Page House, Bay Area, CA; August 8, 1988; 01:31
Bhau Kalchuri
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NC-026: Darwin
Sufism Reoriented, San Francisco, CA; August 1967; 1:04:29
Darwin Shaw
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