A closer look

Some mystics talk your ear off, but Meher Baba weaponized the silent treatment. From 1925 until his death in 1969, he didn't utter a single word, claiming his silence would spiritually awaken the world. Instead of speaking, he used an alphabet board to dictate massive, complex volumes of cosmology and spiritual hierarchy. It takes a special level of mystical hubris to claim you are the Avatar of the age while forcing everyone else to read your pointings letter by letter.