# Anyone here follow Meher Baba? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 2, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-follow-meher-baba/608197 "2012-01-02T23:26:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-follow-meher-baba/608197/1 "2012-01-02T23:26:40Z")
I read his books a while back and liked them. I think he was a lot more popular in the 60s. I just visited his spiritual center in Myrtle Beach, SC. It’s really odd that a 500 acre forest and spiritual retreat is smack in the middle of a giant beach resort town. > **[Meher Baba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meher_Baba)** > > Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 February 1894  – 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or God in human form, of the age. A major spiritual figure of the 20th century, he had a following of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in India, but with a significant number in the United States, Europe and Australia. > Meher Baba's map of consciousness has been described as "a unique amalgam of Sufi, Vedic, and Yogic terminology". He taught that the goa... Some people may have heard of him via Pete Townshend who is a Baba follower. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-follow-meher-baba/608197/2 "2012-01-03T00:13:27Z")
Yep. There is a center of Meher Baba stuff in Lafayette, CA, near where I live. The followers are a bunch of gentle, nutty, souls. Except for the ones who aren’t gentle. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-follow-meher-baba/608197/3 "2012-01-03T02:45:53Z")
Only to the extent that I love Pete Townshend’s Baba-inspired music. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-follow-meher-baba/608197/4 "2012-01-03T23:17:08Z")
Townshend put out a few albums on his own around 1970 just for Baba followers. The albums quickly got bootlegged so he put out a commercial album of some of that music, Who Came First. The CD version of Who Came First has more of the Meher Baba songs.