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INTRODUCTION This book is a collection of some of my favorite stories about strange events I’ve witnessed in the past 18 years. Most of these stories are about the living Yoga Christ named Herakhan Baba, known to devotees throughout the world simply as Babaji. Essentially, these events all defy what is called reason and logical explanation within rational, objective reality. Like other books and stories about Babaji, these stories may be regarded by people who don’t already have a personal spiritual connection with Babaji as deluded statements of a blinded worshiper who wants to believe that Babaji performed miracles. Told by anyone else, these stories might be dismissed as silly and unbelievable, merely coincidences or even total misrepresentations of reality, akin to hypnotic suggestions or hallucinations. But I am generally regarded as a level-headed, objective scientist—well-trained at a top university and with a high professional standing during almost fifty years of teaching and research in the fields of psychology and physiology. Furthermore, my own personal relationship with Babaji during several visits in India was based on entirely different attitudes, at least initially. I was totally dispassionate and free of any prior convictions that I was visiting a Divinity. I went to India primarily because it was an airline stop between Thailand and Egypt, two of the countries I was visiting during a sabbatical leave from my college teaching. And I went to visit Babaji mainly because I met a dozen people I know from California who were in India at that time, on their way to visit Babaji. Indeed, it was mainly because of the events described in this book that my natural skepticism lessened and my antipathy to anything resembling worship and belief disappeared. By now, I’m more than willing to call these extraordinary, amazing, wonderful, illogical events by the term, miracles, especially when they involve ordinary people like me. I delight in telling these stories about events I can’t explain except by resorting to metaphysics. Some of these happenings took place in Babaji’s main ashram in Herakhan (also spelled "Haidakhan" or "Hardakhan") located up the Gautama Ganga branch of the Ganges River, above the city of Kathgodam, in the district of Nainital in Uttar Pradesh. Others occurred in several different cities in India as well as in California. Most of these stories are about simple, innocent events, not especially earth-shattering. Some stories concern other people, all of whom themselves had some connection with Babaji, primarily through their involvement with the New Age healing technique called Rebirthing. Rebirthing is a breathing exercise in which the inhale and exhale are connected without pause. It permits the recollection of old events in a manner that allows old negative beliefs to be reviewed and revised to positive views. (For more information, please write or phone me.) Their stories are included primarily to show that even ordinary people often experience magic in their lives. Out of respect, I have capitalized pronouns referring to Babaji and other gurus. I leave it up to you to decide on His divinity. I hope that you, the reader of these stories, will regard them with respect and appreciation. And I further hope that you will draw inspiration from thinking about these events. I want you to feel a closeness to the miraculous—best personified by someone as Divine as Babaji, but also revealed by ordinary people like the ones involved in the other stories that follow. I feel very privileged to have had these experiences, and even more privileged to be telling about them. I consider myself most fortunate to have met and seen and heard and touched and loved "my" Babaji. These happenings puzzled, amazed, and delighted me at the time they took place. I hope reading these stories of magic provides great pleasure to you, too. In Truth, Simplicity, and Love, Eve 140 South Norton Avenue
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