The spiritual doorway in the brain: a neurologist's search for the God experience

Prologue: At the foot of the bed

Pt. 1: The architecture. What is a spiritual experience? : From fear, to pinball, to fields of daisies ; The three states of consciousness : and where spiritual arousal happens ; The fragmented self : how we become our own false witness

Pt. 2: At the doorway. The varieties of near-death experience : telling stories ; The brain at death's portal : light and blood ; The ancient metronome : the tempo from fear to spiritual bliss ; The borderland of dreams and death : what may come?

Pt. 3: The other side. The beauty and terror of oneness : deep within the mystic's brain

Epilogue: A new birth of wisdom.