Scientific, theoretical, theological, metaphysical, and fanciful perspectives relating to our place in the cosmos.

This volume squarely addresses a number of straight-forward questions, while offering only elusively vague answers. Instead of closure, its real value is to stimulate further inquiry. When each chapter is studied though the magnifying and clarifying lens of sincere investigation, if we think ourselves full, read ourselves clear, pray ourselves hot, and let ourselves go, nature will caper. We can expect to receive insight, intuition, discernment, inspiration, and revelation pertaining to their subjects.

I hope each chapter in this and its companion volume will become a springboard for your own personal enlightenment, as you probe the mind of God, which is, after all, the final frontier of exploration. May you be introduced to the wonders of exciting new dimensions of experience, as you seek out new relationships and new ways of looking at life, as you catch a glimpse of eternity, and as you visualize yourself living among the stars. May you boldly go into that far country where few have gone before. For your own part, through the ministrations of the Spirit, may you better understand its realm, which is the abode of the Gods.