Andrew Harvey has written a poetic and poignant book about his nine-year journey of spiritual transformation. At age 25, he gave up a career at Oxford and returned to India where he was born. After a series encounters with teachers, he becomes devoted to a seventeen-year-old woman named Meera. Through dreams, trances, visions, and inexplicable happenings, the author comes to believe that she is an incarnation of the Divine Mother. (In his later books, Harvey repudiates this assessment of Meera.)
The quintessential spiritual quester, Harvey relates his struggles to set aside desire, pride, reason, and intellect. This volume is an extraordinary account of spiritual transformation.