Tim Garvin
Tim Garvin studied philosophy in college, became dissatisfied with its emptiness, and began to prowl the library for books about the inner world. Eventually he discovered the work of Aurobindo Ghose. A year later, in 1969, he was introduced to Meher Baba. He traveled to India more than a dozen times to visit Meher Baba’s tombsite and speak with his mandali, those who lived their entire lives under his direction. Everything Makes Sense is a distillation of 50 years of thought and living, and is, in a sense, a letter to the youth he was when he began his search for Truth.
He has written several books of fiction. One of them, Bhajan, is the tale of five characters in a traveling zoo who encounter a tiger that was raised in India by a mast, one of the God-intoxicated. The tiger, Bhajan, purrs, and the purr has the mysterious property of awakening the inner being of each character, even of the nearly mad antagonist, JJ. The novel is a fictional development of the themes presented in Everything Makes Sense.
A last note: this work is not scholarship, that is, not a looking through the thought-lens of other thinkers. Tim is widely read in philosophy, science, and spiritual traditions, but the thinking of Everything Makes Sense, when unattributed, is the product of introspection. It’s hardly conceivable that at this stage in human development there are any new ideas, but where his coincide with previous thought, he leaves for others to consider.
For those interested, he has invented an absorbing card game, Caravan, based on the folktale, The Rose Caravan, that ends this book. The sixteen characters of the tale will be illustrated by the artist Girish Adannavar. The game and a tutorial explaining the rules will be available soon (perhaps now) at timgarvin.com.
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