We've all read the accounts of mystics who lived hundreds of years ago in some distant culture. M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen lived in the 1970s and 1980s in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Every word he spoke, every action was observed and recorded by a group of educated western students. What emerges in this incredibly detailed and relentlessly literate volume is perhaps the most close-up examination of an authentic mystic ever written.

Many claim to be mystics, very few really are. The best thing about this book is that there is enough evidence that you can make up your own mind whether Bawa Muhaiyddeen was the genuine thing or not. If what he is and says resonates within you there is plenty of faithful teaching in this book to spend a lifetime absorbing and learning.