Tess Heder, son Sam aka Sambu, his friend Josh Drew, on a Lake in New Hampshire in 1980

Tess Heder of Cambridge, MA with son Sam Miller aka Sambu and his
buddy Josh Drew in New Hampshire in 1980. Playing the tabla daily
for five years while rearing Sam was not just a wonderful pass time
[crea] but helped us both prepare for the dashed
hopes that have followed the psychedelic years. Hallelujah.

Remembering a few people Swami Ganesh Baba touched 1971-1975, the 4Ps and about the "Esoteric" transcriber.

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Long time personal assistant to Ganesh Baba Thrysten Reed from Sydney Australia at Swayambhu March 1975

Long time personal assistant to Ganesh Baba from 1972 thru 1976 who was with him at hill stations, in Bareilly, at Hardwar, at Melas and in Varanasi, the Australian Thrysten Reed pictured here at Swayambhu, Nepal, March 1975.

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Postcard from Thrysten Reed with Ganesh Baba in Bareilly postmark November 1973

Postcard from Thrysten Reed with Ganesh Baba in Bareilly text.

Postcard front and back from Thrysten Reed with Ganesh Baba in Bareilly to Tess in Varanasi November 1973

Two other devotees attending to Baba during this era come to mind - Joachim Wolff aka Lupo, who arranged for quality insulin and needles to be sent from Germany and who sent Baba hard earned money for years. Also in Nainital with Baba during the 1974 winter and later, was the very capable devotee Greg McAvoy, a hearty vegan trekker from Canada who, upon meeting Baba, stopped in his tracks to join the care team [ cooking, correspondence, travel, personal care] often working alone when everyone else had flown the coop!.





Tess with her son Sammy in Varanasi Dec 1973

Tess Heder with son Sam Heder Miller in Varanasi Dec 1973. Tess typed "Esoteric" from Baba's manuscript during the 1974 winter at Assi Ghat Benares Varanasi where Ganesh Baba proofread it, Tess put it online in 2005. in Spring 1974 Tess and infant Sam met up again with Ganesh Baba in Nainital where during a few weeks she typed a very early draft of "Sadhana" which Baba dictated word by word in English either from memory or created on the spot, or [possibly] from a [Sanskrit] manuscript.


Ganesh Baba figures prominently in David Ryan's novel "Looking for Kathmandu." David has put up online records of his extensive meetings up with Ganesh Baba in Kathmandu and in Rajgir during the late 1960's. He writes that "most details are as they happened" which, based on my meetings up with Baba in Varanasi, Darjeeling and Nainital in the early 70's, is surely true. It's a marvellous read, the ambiance and unfolding layers of drama are totally authentic and inevitably the conversational text is loaded with vintage Baba. Check it out

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