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Meher Baba \"manifested His Glory\" to Max in 1971. Since then Max has gone on pilgrimage to Baba 's Samadhi in India several times, and lived for 8 years in the vicinity of the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In 2013 Max published Journey from Here to HERE, a book of poems for Meher Baba which is available for purchase on the Lulu.com website. In 2016, Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master and the Difficult Journey Toward Discipleship, a book of Max's autobiographical prose stories, was published by The Mindful Word and is available from Amazon.com in many countries. Also in 2016 Max's CD of Baba songs, The Wake-Up Man, came out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe and his wife Barbara have been married 14 years, and are both grateful to Baba for bringing them together and Blessing their marriage and their home. \"Some of us keep writing like we keep breathing. By now it has become a habit, a second-nature way of communing with the Beloved in time of abundance and in times of drought. Putting a book together becomes a kind of harvest. Here are some of the recent crop.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MeherBabaBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32321075183754,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0331\/5315\/5210\/products\/Well_At_Worlds_End_F.jpg?v=1582312308"},{"product_id":"whistling-past-the-tavern-poetry-by-jaeger-and-wolverton","title":"Whistling Past The Tavern, Poetry by Jaeger and Wolverton","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 130 pages. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoems by Jeff Wolverton and Bob Jaeger. 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