Description
The Wayfarers is the only book of its kind. Dr. Donkin records with meticulous detail, Meher Baba’s work with masts, or God-intoxicated souls, which was a major part of Meher Baba’s work during his lifetime: contacting hundreds of those who are called masts in the East, spiritually advanced souls so enthralled with their yearning for union with God that they lose touch with the ordinary world.
Includes Baba’s explanation of the mast state, a separate full-color map of India, and a black-and-white map showing the routes Baba traveled to locate the masts.
The author, Dr. William Donkin, British medical officer and world-class adventurer, met Meher Baba in London in 1933. Immediately after becoming a doctor in 1939, Donkin joined Baba on His whirlwind mast tours across India. Baba called these souls His children, advanced souls who became so enchanted by the intensity of love in the inner worlds that, to most people, they appear insane. Baba insisted on contacting every mast He possibly could,and set His disciples the task of finding them in the remote villages throughout India.
Meher Baba makes an immense contribution to both psychology and metaphysics in His descriptions of altered states of consciousness. He clarifies distinctions between “insanity” and “God-intoxication” never before understood in the Western world. These explanations should prove invaluable to psychiatrists, psychologists and others who must learn to differentiate psychopathology from genuine experiences of transcendent awareness.
This book includes two large, full-color fold-out maps (suitable for framing), plotting the path of Baba’s trek in search of masts throughout India from 1922 to 1949. Every incredible contact in this period with masts, with the mad, with the poor, with spiritual aspirants and saints is carefully recorded in this tome for the ages.
The Wayfarers is especially enhanced by the fact that Meher Baba Himself read and corrected the final manuscript.
Originally Published 1948
Paperback 576 pages
