It is the story of Peter Russell´s lifelong exploration into the nature of consciousness - how he went from being a convinced atheist, studying mathematics and physics, to realizing a profound personal synthesis of the mysitcal and scientific. Russell blends his own tale of curiosity and exploration with physics, psychology and philosophy to reach a new worldview in which consciusness is a fundamental quality of creation. He shows how all ingredients for this worldview are are in place; nothing new needs to be discovered.

Russell takes us from the lecture halls of Cambridge, where he studied with Stephen Hawking, to an ashram in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas