Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963November 11, 1963My dear John:The last three weeks have shown a number of incidents that look like a dramatic novel andsuggest my seeing you perhaps late next month. It is certain, as you can read, that willy-nilly all myeggs are in one basket now, which can be called “The Garden of Allah” project.In 1947 I was compelled to move from the house in Fairfax by a combination of concocted lies,a term I may safely use as the persons who have accepted those unsubstantiated lies have, eitheropenly or tacitly, admitted that they should have listened to me before compelling me to leave myhome. The situation was complicated because while I had no funds to support my case, it wouldhave meant prison terms for those involved, and this would have accomplished little.Mrs. Ivy Duce either willingly or unwillingly took it into her hands not only to compel me toleave Fairfax, but having been my one and only confidante was able to block all my plans in everydirection. Without going into the nature of these plans, life—or maybe something more than life—lead to the establishment of friendships with her husband’s associates one by one and this momentfinds me not only on excellent terms with them but Mr. Duce himself has asked how I was gettingalong with projects to turn deserts into arable lands.I had already submitted two plans for this purpose and another program which also can beassimilated into the “The Garden of Allah” project as above. I now also have a growing amount ofmaterial for my “How California Can Help Asia” and am on excellent terms with all those scientistswhom I have contacted, and even with one or two industrialists.The Directors of the American Friends of the Middle East, of which Mr. Duce is Vice-President,are now giving serious attention to these projects, which also involve the employment of some ofCalifornia’s top soil scientists. But by a number of circumstances, I am now able to interest personsand governments in several parts of the world. The officials of AFME have come up, one and all,with no more speeches and more actions of a practical nature. The denouement of this can onlycome after writing, conferences, etc. but I feel quite exuberant today. My physical health and mentalvigor are in top form, and I am beginning, very slowly it is true, to be listened to.Major M. Sadiq, my closest associate in Pakistan, expects to be here next month. He has nowin mind the same projects. Originally he was interested to come and show his spiritual healing andmystical philosophy but he now wishes to study California Agriculture, all phases.