They began as particularly vivid dreams, or so he thought at first, but they grew increasingly intense and insistent, ultimately propelling him on twelve fantastic journeys across time and space. Over the next three years, his journeys proved to be far more important than mere reason could explain. Eventually, Dr. Wesselman became convinced that he'd been granted a visionary encounter with what tribal people call the "spirit world."During his epic travels, Dr. Wesselman met shape-shifting entities, spirit helpers, and guardians and found himself traversing a mental, physical, and spiritual landscape on a path intersecting that of a fellow traveler, a Hawaiian kahuna mystic named Nainoa.Without abandoning his scientific objectivity, Dr. Wesselman abandoned himself to the mystical, sometimes frightening, yet always luminous experiences that took him beyond the boundaries of ordinary consciousness. The result is a fascinating and suspenseful adventure, an exciting and important discovery, and the story of how a hardheaded scientific realist may have stumbled on another important piece of the puzzle of human evolution. Read Less