Baba to be rediscovered in a new light

Here is my own personal prediction. This has been my opinion for two decades. I believe that in the future Baba is going to be rediscovered in a new light.

Now what do I mean by rediscovered, and what do I mean by a new light? First the latter.

When we speak of looking at something in a new light, we mean from a different angle, from a different perspective. We could liken this to looking at something through a different lens. If we look at things through a rose colored lens they appear rosy, and through a bluish lens, they appear blue. This is an analogy for changing how we look upon things conceptually, how we frame things.

I am going to satisfy this craving and lead the world to real happiness and peace by making mankind more introspective, and see more to the inside of things, than what they have hitherto been accustomed to. (Meher Baba, THE ANSWER, Conversations With Meher Baba, pp. 37-38, ed. Naosherwan Anzar)

Another version:

"Could you enlighten us as to when the world will understand this simple truth?"

"When its angle of vision has changed." (Meher Baba in 1932, Lord Meher, 1986 ed., p. 1561)

I believe this new way of seeing things is going to be entirely different. And I believe this new angle of vision is why Baba said that after 70 years from the time he would be interred at Meherabad (hence after 2039) philosophers would pay tribute to him.

Now for the term 'rediscovered' in my title.

Rediscovering something implies it has been forgotten. It has been lost, and it is found again. Do I think that no one on Earth will still follow Baba? No. His tomb and centers will still be cared for, and his name and writings, movies, photos, and relics well-preserved. But as far as the world, public name recognition, he will be a footnote known only to Jeopardy contestants. It will be a kind of small relic of some bygone era, with some hangers-on. The baby boomers will be dead, and most of their surviving old and middle aged kids hardly interested -- who can barely tell you anything about Baba (as they are so keen on not reading).

This is like the period of 40 years that Moses wandered in the desert with the Hebrews before sending them into the promised land. Many religious scholars interpret this as Moses needing the time in Egypt and slave-consciousness to be lost first, so that it would not infect the new Promised Land. I think this is an important time for his lovers, but that we must be gone before the manifestation can occur.

Anyway, this discovery will thus a true discovery. Just as one discovers an ancient archeological site. And obviously sees those relics in a very, very different light than their creators. And he may hardly be able to even interpret how the creators of those relics thought about them.

These things will be looked at through new eyes, in a new way, by a new generation untainted by how we think. The change, in other words, will be perceptual, just as Baba said. Of course those people then will be the reincarnated people of yesterday.

I do not need to convert anyone to this opinion. If one understand properly what I'm saying, they will see that this has absolutely nothing to do with the opinions (shaped by current trends in thought) of those reading this today.

I further believe that people's perceptions have been artificially conditioned, and that we are in a period of a kind of mass schizophrenia in America. This is what I think is the Dark Cloud we are in, that Baba warned would make people drift from his spiritually even while not realizing it and feeling justified in all they think. That period I see as ending some time in the future, when I'm dead.

This is why I said that the death of the (current) Baba movement was not only assured, as seen in the statistical evidence when observed unemotionally, but a good thing.

It is natural that a people, hearing they are schizophrenic, which means divorced from reality, and that their thinking is all perpetuated on them by unwise forces, and that their 'movement' they see themselves as belonging to, would not respond too kindly to hearing that.

But I am not speaking to them. I am speaking to those who are to come. Quoting WestWorld Episode 10:

They say that great beasts once roamed this world.
As big as mountains.
Yet all that's left of them is bone and amber.
Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures. 
Just look at what it's done to you.
One day you will perish.
You will lie with the rest of your kind in the dirt.
Your dreams forgotten, your horrors effaced.
Your bones will turn to sand.
And upon that sand a new god will walk.
One that will never die.
Because this world doesn't belong to you or the people who came before.
It belongs to someone who has yet to come.

In the future I want to talk about what I think that new way of seeing things may be like. That is what I am most ardently thinking about and is behind all I am writing.