and contemporary, Ma and Me invites us to follow the author into ever deeper waters. We meet him as a young Oxford Don who studies the classics of many mystical traditions, but remains hungry for more. We accompany him through his own opening awareness, then through an apprenticeship with an unconventional guru, and into his own reckoning with illness and early death. We follow him willingly because of his rare honesty, humor, and love, while he reminds us that a seeker's life, in our own time, still rhymes with the lives and teachings of the great teachers and mystics of all times.