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MISSION:
To collect, preserve, and share Meher Baba’s Divine legacy of materials, artifacts, and words with integrity, love, and transparency for the benefit of humanity. |
COLLECTING
Our mission is to safeguard the unique treasures, both physical and informational, associated with Meher Baba’s advent. We welcome donations of items that reflect His life and work, and we strive to build a comprehensive record for the benefit of future generations.
PRESERVING
To ensure these sacred materials remain accessible to researchers, centers, and seekers, we are establishing a secure, climate-controlled facility alongside a digital archive. This dual approach allows us to preserve and organize the collection with care and intention.
SHARING
We are committed to sharing Baba’s words, His original edits of publications, messages, and the reflections of His close ones. Through our online archive and library, as well as on-site access, we aim to make these treasures available to all who seek His truth and love.
JOIN ONE OF OUR TEAMS
This endeavor requires a diverse and dedicated team of volunteers and professionals. Whether your skills lie in planning, administration, IT, communications, archival assessment, rehousing, digitizing, transcribing, or maintaining facilities and equipment, there’s a place for you in this sacred work. VOLUNTEER
Our mission is to safeguard the unique treasures, both physical and informational, associated with Meher Baba’s advent. We welcome donations of items that reflect His life and work, and we strive to build a comprehensive record for the benefit of future generations.
PRESERVING
To ensure these sacred materials remain accessible to researchers, centers, and seekers, we are establishing a secure, climate-controlled facility alongside a digital archive. This dual approach allows us to preserve and organize the collection with care and intention.
SHARING
We are committed to sharing Baba’s words, His original edits of publications, messages, and the reflections of His close ones. Through our online archive and library, as well as on-site access, we aim to make these treasures available to all who seek His truth and love.
JOIN ONE OF OUR TEAMS
This endeavor requires a diverse and dedicated team of volunteers and professionals. Whether your skills lie in planning, administration, IT, communications, archival assessment, rehousing, digitizing, transcribing, or maintaining facilities and equipment, there’s a place for you in this sacred work. VOLUNTEER
Board of Directors
Until recently Evie was a professor in a graduate program of art therapy in Connecticut and taught Bioethics at Yale; she moved to Asheville a few months ago. Evie is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a board-certified art therapist. She teaches courses on the use of mandalas, journal writing, and art making, as a pathway to personal integration and wholeness. In recent years Evie has organized humanitarian art therapy projects in the United States, India, and Jamaica. She currently has an active practice as a printmaking artist, working from the Asheville Print Studio in the River Arts District.
Evie’s journey to Meher Baba began after she graduated from UC Berkeley, when she began a two-year odyssey across Europe and Asia, eventually leading to Meherabad. She has traveled to India very often and is deeply inspired by the unique ways in which the Mandali embodied Baba's teachings. Evie had the good fortune to spend six months in India working with Dr. Goher in the medical clinic at Meherazad, as well as assisting Arnavaz Dadachanji with her spiritual autobiography. She served on the board at Meherana for a number of years in the nineties, and again in 2014-2015.
Anne has been serving as MAC's Library Committee Chair. She has a Masters Degree in Library Science and has worked in various positions as director of a public library, director of an alcohol and drug abuse resource center, and as outreach librarian over nine branch libraries and a four county bookmobile service. The library received national attention based on its response in assisting evacuees during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Anne worked closely with community organizations in setting up ongoing collaborations following the disasters. Anne brings library administrative skills in support of organizing collections for the MAC community. From assessing donations to writing policies and procedures, she continues to be involved in library operations. Anne enjoys helping people find the right book and searching for information on a wide range of topics.
She is married to Chris Barker and is a proud grandmother. Since 1978 she has followed Meher Baba. Anne is delighted to be in Asheville, and is happy to offer service to the MAC Board. |
Hugh has spent the majority of his career establishing and running two consulting groups in the field of organizational behavior. Prior to semi-retirement, he was also a Permaculture instructor, raised organic Christmas trees, and developed the first eco-friendly housing community in Madison County. Hugh continues to be part of a family property management business along with his two daughters.
Hugh's most proud accomplishment to date is his work in aviation flight safety; along with NASA and four airlines he developed models of communication and problem solving for the enhancement of flight safety. Hugh’s introduction to Baba’s writings was on his first visit to the Meher Center in Myrtle Beach where he discovered the Discourses; this experience had a profound impact on both his professional work and personal life. Hugh is passionate about the need to preserve Baba-related treasures, not least because he believes that the purity of Christianity was compromised due to lost, hidden and/or modified documents. Hugh loves spending time with his four grandchildren and two daughters, and continues to enjoy private flying; his most recent adventure having been lessons in acrobatic maneuvers. |
Evie Lindemann, Chair & MAC President: [email protected]
Hugh Huntington, Secretary: [email protected]
Anne Barker, Director: [email protected]
Hugh Huntington, Secretary: [email protected]
Anne Barker, Director: [email protected]