This exploration of spiritual growth is grounded in both an intellectual/philosophical and more popular understanding of the subject. Using the poetry of the 13th-century mystic, Rumi, the authors provide a philosophical framework for the personal transformation that begins to unfold when an individual delves into mysticism. In this work that isprescriptive as well as descriptive and diagnostic, Breton and Largent integrate complex ideas into an informal, readable and comprehensible argument.