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Book Review: Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age—Ed. Christopher Patrick Miller, Michael Reading, and Jeffery D. Long Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2020

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  1. Undated letter, published in Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education 53 (February 2001): 72.

  2. The Mother, Questions and answers 1957–1958 (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2004), 151.

  3. Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher, online edition, 5317, https://www.lordmeher.org/rev/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&nextPage=5317; and Meher Baba, “The New Humanity,” Discourses I (Ahmednagar, India: Sheriar Foundation, 2007), 12.

  4. I borrow this term from my Sufi teacher, Murshida Carol Weyland Conner. See https://www.sufismreoriented.org/murshida-carol-conner and scroll to the video “Descendant Spirituality and the New Consciousness;” accessed 6.2.22.

  5. The Mother, On thoughts and aphorisms, (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 2001), 164–5.

  6. Swami Nikhilananda, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1992), 506.

  7. Meher Baba, Listen, Humanity, ed. D.E. Stevens (Denver, Co: In Company With Meher Baba, 1985), 143.

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Beldio, P.M. Book Review: Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age—Ed. Christopher Patrick Miller, Michael Reading, and Jeffery D. Long Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2020. DHARM 5, 191–196 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-022-00131-8

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