Introduction:
Who Are You? 4 1. What We Know 11
So Much for the Enlightenment 14
…Anything is Possible! 20
Zero 21 2. From Square One 26
Seminary Ghost Hunters? 28
Out on My Ear 34
‘The Haunter’ and ‘The Children in the Corner’ 35
Finding Schroedinger’s Cat 40
Turning on the Lights 49
The Case of the Almost Suicide 51
West Virginia Outreach 62
The Paranormal Pooch 66
Ghosts as Teachers 67 3. In the Image and Likeness of Man 70
Belief 71
Ye of Simple Faith 73
Unbelief 74
City Mouse, Country Mouse 75
Mother is Never Forgotten 77
Do All Religions Worship the Same God? 79
Toward the Dawning of the Dawn 80 4. The Quest for the One 83
Meet the Paradox 85
Seeing and Not Seeing 86
The ‘New Age’ 88
Meet the Fractal 89
Mitochondrial Eve 90
Who Shattered God? 93
Voices from the Dawn of Time 94
Father and Mother 97 5. Enemies: Divide and Conquer 83
The Parasite Factor 102
The Prussian Parasite 109
The God Connection 111
The Bell Witch 114
The Art of the Fall 116 6. Neutrals: The Wrong One 118
From Unlikely Sources 119
The Genes that Shouldn’t Be There 122
What Happened? 124
Multiversal Tourists? 125
The Elohim Enigma 127
“In the Image and Likeness of God”? 130
Wars of the Gods 134
The Lawgivers 136
In the Shadow of Mothman 140
Is There a Devil? 141 7. Friends: Guides and Guardians 143
More Angels than Parasites 145
The Sacred Tetragrammaton 146
Maryam’s Encounter 148
The Message is in the Miracles 150
Volunteers from Beyond 151
Unexpected Neighbors 152
Garden of Ehden/Eden Revisited? 153
Ancestors and Loved Ones 154 8. Death and Life 158
Is There Really No Death? 161
‘And a Little Child Shall Lead Them....’ 162
All for One, One for All 166
The Death of Death 169
What Happens When We Die? 171
Why the Death Experience at All? 173 9. Finding God 174
Say the Word! 175
Religion, Right or Wrong? 176
God as Cosmic Teddy Bear 180
Our Missing Mother 181
Is God Green or Gray? 182
Is God Just Us? 184
Is God All-Natural? 184
In Our Own Way 186
Destiny Calls 188
Moving to Square Two 189
I Shall Be 189 10. Connecting the Dots 191
A Very Long Memory 192
Step One: Accept 194
Step Two: Believe 198
Step Three: Act 199
Shaking the Multiverse 204
Final Thoughts 206
Acknowledgments 209
Bibliography 210
Index 216
The Author 229