This extraordinary book is concerned with the question: does the presence of sensate awareness, cognitive awareness and self-awareness or all of them combined assure that consciousness is active? Are these attributes of consciousness? Are they signifiers of consciousness? What is the nature of consciousness; do we have free will; what are the differences between mind and brain, energy and physical objects and the body and the soul? Eva Herr is seeking answers to the intriguing questions most of us know little about. Each person Eva interviews reveals the importance, as well as the necessity, of paying attention to our subjective, inner experiences in order to more effectively relate and interact with the present world in which we live. Every one of the scholars interviewed by Eva offer us a new understanding, as well as a more hopeful understanding of human and cosmic reality at its most fundamental level .