Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-157).

Personal journey -- From archabbey to astrophysics -- Launching a career -- Age of discovery -- Return of the astronomer-priest -- Asking fundamental questions -- The God theory and creation -- The God theory, karma, and the golden rule -- The God theory and reductionism -- Explaining creation -- Creation by subtraction -- Polarity -- The God theory and consciousness -- Reductionism and a spiritual worldview -- Superstrings and the supernatural -- A spiritual worldview -- No need for intelligent design -- Explaining consciousness -- Three views of consciousness -- Consciousness and physiology -- The brain as filter -- The primacy of consciousness -- Opposite perspectives -- "There can be no evidence for something that is false" -- The random, unconscious, "just-right" universe -- Inflation theory -- The zero-point field -- The Casimir force -- Zeroing in on the zero-point field -- Into the void -- Deriving Newton's postulate -- Inertia -- Inertial reaction -- Defending the theory -- A boost from NASA -- Following the light -- The light of creation -- Kabbalah -- The big bang -- God and the theory of everything -- A God beyond matter -- The manifest God -- Asking God -- Ayin -- Creation as a timeless process -- Atomic stability and the universal timekeeper -- An infinite number of universes -- A universe of consciousness -- Many worlds and quantum mechanics -- A purposeful universe -- Exoteric and esoteric knowledge -- The God theory, Christianity, and humanism -- Final thoughts.