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seems as if this science is struggling to find its center, a safe mooring place from which to receive steadiness and strength—and tickling isn’t what’s needed.)
I’ve come to see that the Western behavioral sciences represent a young spiritual movement, which has not yet realized its true identity. Its investigators, therapists and clients seem to be spiritual aspirants searching for truth but still unaware of the reality of God—or even of their own souls. The rapid growth of so many seemingly opposing and divergent attitudes and techniques speaks of the lack of a unifying underlying principle. This young science seems to sense the darkness and to be crying out for its own spiritual awakening much as in the vision of W. B. Yeats in his poem “The Second Coming”:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
Such a coming will occur in the behavioral sciences when it awakens to the central importance of God, devotion and the soul. And Baba has come for this purpose—to teach us through love, by love and for love, how to dwell in the paradise of divine love forever.
In February of l977, soon after Mahashivarathri, a holy day dedicated to Lord Shiva and to winning a transcendental vision of unity, I accompanied two American psychiatrists to see Baba. He said, “I’ll see you soon,” and then kept us waiting. It is surprising how quickly Baba can get to the mind through the behind. Patience, patience— sitting, sitting—and within two days these respectable psychiatrists were reduced to a grumble. It was then that Baba invited us in for an interview, showing us another example of his impeccable timing.
Looking at us with a gentle smile he said: “Psychiatry doesn’t know the way to God-realization; it only studies the mind. But there