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Meher Baba

GAVCO — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:31:31 GMT

Anybody read any of the Meher Baba biography? There's twenty volumes - I've read the first five and they were/are awesome.

I tend to read guru bios. Autobiography of a Yogi started me off aeons ago. Anything that takes me back to antiquated India, Nepal, Tibet I can sit with for days and days ...

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The Garry Davis Story

jsnmatson2005 — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:07:11 GMT

I am currently working on a feature biography about the life of Garry Davis, founder of the World Citizen movement in 1948. It's a fascinating story about a man that Albert Einstein once refered to as a genius.

I recommend reading his book, "My Country Is The World" or "Dear World - a Global Odessy".

Here's a review letter about the book from Hollywood Producer, Arthur Kanegis about the book:

"Dear Garry:

Well, I just finished reading your terrific letter to humanity: Dear World. I must say that this is the most inspiring profile in courage I have ever read. It is an uplifting story of the rise of the human spirit. I cried with some of the victims of persecution who found courage and identity in your passports. My heart swelled with pride as you and Robin joined the human beings tearing down the Berlin Wall! And I laughed until my sides ached at the poor bureaucrats helplessly grasping for a way to deal with an intruder from the real world who steps beyond the reach of their silly games (I'm reminded of the scene in Life is Beautiful in which the Gestapo SS officer rants and raves while Roberto translates the ravings into a children's game).
As the Berlin Wall came crashing down, and people across the planet found themselves discovering by fire that their own unarmed people power is more powerful than even the world's mightiest armies, you have been that beacon of light, showing them through the smoldering rubble of the crashed, oppressive dictatorships a bright beam toward a better way. You have, by your actions, shown all of us that we have it within ourselves to say "Here I stand; I am a citizen of the world!"
Dear World breaks out of the rigid structural approach that infects even so many of us who are concerned about creating a democratic world, and aligns itself with the evolving flow of humanity on this tiny blue marble - reaching that higher plane where there is no one to fight, nothing to struggle against, only a place to stand in the future which draws forth those trapped in the past. It is truly a love letter to planet Earth."

His books can be found at his own publishing agency called World Government House at http://worldgovernmenthouse.com/.

Also see this listing on Tribe about World Citizenship at http://sandiego.tribe.net/listing/318819cd-feb4-4851-9cc3-4226825b78d0?r=10358.

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Recently read

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:47:53 GMT

Hey :) I just joined so that means that I get to play catch up :) Off the top of my head, here are some things that I've read recently:

David Hajdu - Positively 4th street ( a snapshot of bob dylan, joan and mimi baez, and richard farina from about the time that folk broke to about the time that farina died )

martha tod dudman - augusta Gone ( a mothers memoir of her daughter's rebellion )

Kathy Dobie - the only girl in the car ( a daughter's take on how things can spin out of control )

Janna Levin - How the universe got its spots ( ok, sure, this is equal parts cosmology and biography, but try to tease the parts out... )

Karl Sabbagh - A rum affair: the true story of botanical fraud ( John Heslop Harrison was a bad bad...er....botanist? )

Chandler Burr - The Emporor of Scent ( about a funky scientist with a prodigal sense of smell and a keen interest in perfum and the science of smell )

Dobie, Levin, and Burr were really engrossing. The rest were fun, butnot quite as good.

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Anyone still out there?

Suse — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:41:20 GMT

I just joined, and I see no one has posted for a long time.

I hope someone is sitll interested.

I enjoy biographies a lot, my favourite ones tend to be Johnb Adams & Teddy Roosevelt, but I read lots more.

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Currently...

Fri, 03 Oct 2003 23:14:39 GMT

I am reading the autobiography of artist Rockwell Kent called 'Its Me, O Lord' I read it a long time ago and found it at the library again.

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