The Harmon Retreat has the distinction of being the very first place in the United States where Meher Baba stayed. It is also one of the few places in America where Meher Baba spent an extended period of time physically. Future generations will no doubt wish to preserve and honor this historic, holy site.
Malcolm wrote to many of his friends and associates:
My thoughts have gone out to you very often in this last month or so, for in that time there has come to Jean and myself and to those friends with whom we have been able to share it, the most profound experience of our lives. It is an experience that we have wished to share with all our friends, and shall share in such measure as we can transmit the grace and beauty of it through our own life expressions ... It is difficult to put these things into words, as you know, and yet aside from what we are enabled to convey to others by our own radiance, it is the only way we have to present of sharing what we have experienced.
I will tell you a few things about Shri Meher Baba, and his relationship with us, simply to share with you the beauty that has come to us through that relationship, and you, I know, will be able to read so much more than the words themselves convey because of your deep understanding.
Through a series of incidents, which apparently began last spring and which seem nothing short of miraculous in their nature, Jean and I became the hosts for a month to Shri Sadguru Meher Baba, known throughout the East as a Perfect Master, and looked upon by many, both in the East and in the West, as the Avatar of the new dispensation ...
From the moment that Shri Meher Baba set foot in the house at Harmon, there flowed from him continuously a love which can only be called divine, which spread through us and everyone he contacted like a beautiful contagion. [It was an] extraordinary, indescribable, divine love which penetrates to the very essence everything which comes in contact with it and transforms it into its own beautiful likeness. It is like the central flame which is the source of all light and life.
We who lived with him began to understand as we had never understood before what the love-feasts of the early Christians must have been like.