Deep in the New Mexico desert, three miles from the Mexican border is a scaled-down replica of the Tomb of Meher Baba, an Indian spiritual master who was the center of a large spiritual movement in the 20th century. Baba’s following numbered in the hundreds of thousands—though some estimate it was in the millions—and largely concentrated in India, but with pockets in the United States, Europe and Australia. In his teachings, Baba described the observable world as illusory, and proposed an idea of the universe as imagination. Upon discovering the works…
