Caroline Myss’ Remarkable Encounters with Sai Baba

Caroline Myss

Caroline Myss was kind enough to write the Foreword for my book, Sixty Seconds: One Moment Changes Everything, as well as tell me a knock-your-socks-off story for it. Here’s an excerpt:

The first time I called on Sai Baba was more than ten years ago during a health scare I had when I was in northern Scotland. You have to understand that I’m in the middle of nowhere and nobody but my friends know I’m there. I said, Baba, I don’t even know why I’m praying to you. But if you’re there and if you’re listening, I think I’d like some of that vibhuti (holy ash that Sai Baba reportedly materializes at will). Now why would I ask for vibhuti? I’ve never asked for that in my life. Holy water, yeah. Holy oil, uh-huh. Holy ash, no. “Ash” to me is Ash Wednesday. Ash has its own sacred place in the Christian tradition. But in India, ash is the sacred element.

So the next day—the very next day!—this little tube the size of a 35mm film canister arrives filled with vibhuti with a note that reads, “To Caroline Myss from Sai Baba.” This was within twelve hours of my prayer and I’m up where Christ lost his shoe in the Highlands of Scotland! The package had come via someone I had met many years earlier who had come to three of my lectures in Copenhagen. I didn’t even know this man! Do you know how many thousands of people I meet? Do you think I would give this man my address, much less my social schedule, plus call him up and tell him I’m going to see a few friends in northern Scotland in case he needs to reach me? Do you understand how ridiculous that is? That’s why getting that package impressed me so much. I mean, if I had gotten a call from a very close friend who said, “Hey, I just got you some vibhuti,” that would have been impressive enough. But to actually have a package arrive, delivered by someone I didn’t even know, was way, way beyond impressive. And where did he mail it? To where I was visiting friends in a remote part of Scotland! A stalker couldn’t do a better job!

From that point on, Baba had my attention. And I started to experience connections with him on a fairly regular basis. For example, when my older brother Joe was critically ill and my younger brother Eddie was dealing with some very stressful circumstances, my mother said to me, “Can’t you do something? Can’t you write Sai Baba?” I said, “What do you think I should do, Mom? Address an envelope to Sai Baba in care of India? I have no idea where he lives.” I woke up the next morning to find that his address had been faxed to me from somebody in Australia!

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