A photo of Meher Baba at the Meher Heartland Memorial on Baba's birthday 2026

“Love is essentially self-communicative, those who do not have it catch it from those that have it. Those that receive love cannot be its recipients without giving a response that, in itself, is in the nature of love. True love is unconquerable and irresistible, it goes on gathering power and spreading itself until eventually it transforms everyone it touches."

- Meher Baba

Baba turns the key...again!

Meher Baba has been full of surprises for the Heartland Center. And now He has one more in store!

Last year we got a call out of the blue offering us the opportunity to buy the accident site property, which is now the Meher Heartland Memorial. At around the same time, we also unexpectedly lost the limited access we had to Meher Baba’s room in the Prague hospital where He and the mandali were treated and recuperated for twelve days.

By His Grace, we will soon not only regain access to Baba’s hospital room, but for it to be permanent and private!

A rainbow over the Emergency entrance of the Prague Regional Memorial Hospital

Here’s how it came about. Two years ago, the Heartland Center purchased a corner lot on the same block as the hospital and our two beautifully restored homes. The goal was that someday we'd be able to expand the Heartland Center to the entire block, including the hospital. We were hopeful that could eventually happen because the city, which owns the hospital, had planned to move the hospital to a new, larger facility nearby. 

Now, due to some unexpected bureaucratic restrictions, the hospital is unable to relocate but it still needs more space. So the city asked if they could buy the corner lot we recently purchased. The goal in the short term is to construct a new clinic adjacent to the current hospital buildings, which include the original clinic built by Dr. Burleson who treated Baba and the mandali, and an addition that was added some years later.

In the longterm, though, the city plans to build a brand new hospital in the parking lot across the street. When that happens, they also plan to move out of Dr. Burleson's original clinic.

We agreed to sell the city the corner lot, but with two conditions: the Heartland Center be given permanent and private access to Baba’s room in the original portion of the hospital now; and, when the original clinic goes up for sale, that we have the right of first refusal to purchase it.

According to Prague’s City Manager, Jim Greff, the City Council unanimously gave preliminary approval to these terms. A front page article in The Prague Times-Herald calls the deal a "win-win arrangement" for the City of Prague and the Heartland Center.

Permanent and private access to Baba’s room!

First in line to buy the original clinic when once the new hospital is built!

Since 2002, when the Heartland Center was first formed, we have always imagined that one day the Center would have full access to the accident site and Baba’s hospital room.

“Our long-held vision of having complete access to both of Baba’s sacred sites is about to become a reality," says board member Sharon Phillips. "We are astounded by His love, mercy, and timing! Truly, Baba gives with both hands.”

The transformation continues…

Work continues apace at the Meher Heartland Memorial as it’s being transformed into a place of world pilgrimage for Meher Baba. 

Volunteers and others have been busy preparing the property’s infrastructure. Some of the buildings that were not present in 1952, the year of Meher Baba’s accident, have been removed. Others that were there at the time have been shored up and one has even been moved and repurposed.

Some of our wonderful volunteers and workers at the site.

A trace of a rainbow over the property one recent evening.

A memorial garden will be planted next to the accident site and within a semicircle of trees where the former house and garages stood.

“It's just amazing how the vista has opened up with those structures gone,” says our caretaker Jane. “The site sits at the top of a rise and then the land falls, and then rises again in the distance to a ridge on the horizon. It's just an amazing view.”

Right now, there’s a crew of carpenters, electricians, and plumbers who are turning an old shed into a multi-purpose utility building. It will have two bathrooms and a large closet that will house basic utilities, WiFi, and a sink.

“It will be a space where people can get water, make tea, prepare refreshments

The multi-purpose building in process....

until the permanent welcome center is built,” says Jane.

Finally, we’re also waiting for the electric company to bury the electric lines and take down the existing pole which currently sits in the middle of what will become the memorial garden.

Is there a glimmer of a growing Baba family on Prague's horizon?

Ron Lansing and Miriam Rose, caretakers at the Heartland Center from 2008 to 2011, have just purchased a lovely home only a block away from the Burleson and Morrison houses. Ron also volunteered earlier this year and worked at the accident site as it is being transformed into the Meher Heartland Memorial.

Ron Lansing, Miriam Rose, Meher Baba, and Tory

“We are so excited to see the memorial site moving forward and would like to be part of a growing Baba community in Prague,” says Ron. 

With our current caretaker, Jane, we now have three full-time Baba lovers within a few blocks of the Center. The extended Oklahoma Baba community is also growing, with a number more living in nearby Meeker, Stroud, Shawnee, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City.

This feels like the beginning of an exciting new trend. Of course, it is all completely in His hands. As more people experience the strength of Baba’s love and the importance of His work there, we trust many more will want to be a part of the unfolding story of the Heartland Center!

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Baba truly seems to be stirring up energy here in the heart of America.

Please know how enormously grateful we are to everyone who has donated, helped, and is helping to make this future site of world pilgrimage a reality!

With much love from the Heartland Center Board of Directors,

Pamela Butler-Stone, Jane Montgomery, Sharon Phillips, and Daniel Stone

The Heartland Center is sustained by the continuing presence 

of Meher Baba and is maintained 

through the loving contributions of all who support it.

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1319 N BARTA AVENUE, 7804 NBU, PRAGUE, OK 74864

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