This book offers what I hope you will find to be a
refreshingly plain and lucid theory of consciousness—one
that satisfies the rational scientific impulse yet
accords with the most profound and ancient spiritual
intuitions. It is not an attempt to persuade you
toward or dissuade you from any particular view of
the divine cosmic order. Nevertheless, the scope of
this theory is vast—as
it must be, considering the immensity of the subject
matter.
