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Max Reif

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Autobiographical Short Stories, Spiritual Development, Poetry

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Meher Baba

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Here are the basics: born on Riverside Drive in Manhattan, family moved to St. Louis in '51 and I grew up there, mostly in University City, a suburb. Left home at 18 to attend Northwestern University. But it was the '60s. Plus I had "stuff" from my childhood, and it's possible also that my parents adored me too much. PLENTY TO WRITE ABOUT!

Anyway, I got on the psychedelic roulette wheel, and, well, I didn't do very well. But in 1971 I had a spiritual awakening in relation to a man named Meher Baba. The rest is history. No, actually, it's been a hard slog since then, too, with some incredible periods of inspiration here and there!

The complexities of all this are the subject of my just-published book, Toward an Interior Sun:Awakening by a Mast ...more

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TOWARD AN INTERIOR SUN: Synopsis and Frontpiece Quotes

"Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey Toward Discipleship" (Stories by Max Reif) has been out for a month now. Here is the summary that appeared in The Mindful Word, the online journal that published first the 11 stories, and now the book:

Martin is a young man with no conscious spiritual yearning and a dim sense of something wrong deep inside. He almost destroys Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 13, 2016 15:05 • Tags: buddhism, enlightenment, meher-baba, mysticism, new-age, spiritual-path, spirituality, sufism

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Max Reif said: " It was interesting: I had gone to the library the day before and come out with three books on CD. While driving that day, I put on the 1st disc of each...and none kindled in me a passion to know what happens!

The next day I perused the book-on-CD shel ...more "

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