There is a profound connection between discovery of the universe and self-knowledge. That most rewarding connection is made in this book, which relates the amazing complexity of life to the eternal essence at the centre of everything. Barry Long opens our minds to that enlightening reality and accounts for life, death, and the whole of existence in a grand mythic design, revealing our part in the evolution of consciousness. This book is the account of a spiritual enquiry into evolution, civilisation, our place in the universe and the structure of reality itself. It is a cosmology which relates to present science but takes us beyond the Big Bang. Charting the evolutionary work of consciousness on earth, it takes us back through man’s psyche to our original state in eternity or God’s mind. This is an extraordinary work that brings self-discovery to the exploration of the universe — an enlightening fusion of knowledge in which every reader can share, since the story of existence is the story of us all.