{"product_id":"avatar","title":"Avatar","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Life Story of the Perfect Master Avatar Meher Baba\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Jean Adriel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eInto the late 1960’s, \u003ci\u003eAvatar\u003c\/i\u003e by Jean Adriel, published in 1947, was one of only two biographies available about Meher Baba, the other being \u003ci\u003eThe God-Man\u003c\/i\u003e by Charles Purdom. \u003ci\u003eAvatar\u003c\/i\u003e was unique, both a colorful, highly personal first-person account of the author’s spiritual preparation for her meeting with Meher Baba in 1931, and an intimate biography of Meher Baba using sources available to her in the mid-1940s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eAvatar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e vividly reveals the inner challenges in one’s relationship with Meher Baba, describing many events from ‘behind the scenes’ which capture the gamut of emotions experienced by Baba’s close followers in daily life with Him. Jean’s deep background in Western Metaphysics and Depth Psychology informs the spirit of Avatar. Like her close friend Princess Norina Matchabelli, Jean had numerous spiritual experiences before meeting Baba. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eAnd now, some 40 years after Jean’s passing, Meher Baba Books of Los Angeles has made \u003ci\u003eAvatar\u003c\/i\u003e available in print once again. They have reproduced \u003ci\u003eAvatar\u003c\/i\u003e in its original form, taking care to preserve the flow of the book and Jean’s original prose\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\"\u003ePaperback | 410 pages | 4th edition, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Searchlight Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43479930110015,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1287\/4293\/files\/bk-Avatar_ce264069-d824-4ccb-bf9f-bf91ae0ed293.png?v=1782973283","url":"https:\/\/searchlightbooks.org\/products\/avatar","provider":"Searchlight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}