Pink Lotus

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Walter Herzog was born in a small town outside of Frankfurt to an emotionally detached mother and a Nazi-sympathizing stepfather at the tail end of World War II. Teenage Walter and his pals come to school drunk and oversexed; eventually, they skip classes altogether to make out with girls and earn drinking money. Over the years, restless Walter finds himself loving numerous women. He gets drafted into the German military and relinquishes his service by claiming pacifism. Later, he discovers marijuana and finally settles with a beautiful girl, Hilde. But a stable relationship isn’t enough to stave off Walter’s mounting depression and intense desire to find meaning. When he and a friend visit the United States in the late 1960s, he falls in love with an unlikely place—Oklahoma City.

Manfred Mitze

I was born in West Germany and, following my confirmation at the age of fourteen, bought my first typewriter and began writing. I have lived in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia and published my first book in 1977. Moved by destiny and passion, I sat with three living spiritual masters to study causes of self-inflicted human suffering and discover the keys to end it.