Modern man has sought answers to life's deepest questions through an increasingly detailed analysis of the matter. Yet results proved elusive, pointing as much, if not more, to the importance of the seekerês own mind as to matter itself.

Mystics, on the other hand, have sought answers to the same mysteries through an inverse process: a •turning withinê, studying mind and consciousness through specific meditational practices.

But both have reached the same conclusion: that mind and matter, energy and consciousness are too intimately entwined to be separately understood.