This is a collection of reflective essays that were published in the journal EXPLORE: Journal of Science and Healing between 2015 and 2019. They set out the author's search for meaning in the Universe from a purely scientific perspective, because of a perceived failure of Science to provide leadership in the understanding of the role of Consciousness in, well, everything. It turns out that the New Road is none other than the Old Road in the shape of the Perennial Philosophy (A. Huxley 1945), A Course in Miracles (H. Schulman 2007) or What God Said: The Core Thousand Words (N.D. Walsch, 2013) but directly derived from a Science that is prepared to look at all the data, which it must. It happens that these data are now firm enough to qualify fully.

Of course, the theoretical background is still inadequate but progress is being made, with a little help from a surprising source of friends. Such an outcome feels very comfortable for a lifetime seeker, but must be more widely understood and acted upon urgently at a very perilous crossroad for humanity. These five chapters used a deliberately naïve post-materialist science solely to help the writer 'make sense' of the topic. It was unexpected that each turned out to be acceptable for publication, as always helped by peer review and editorial correction. But the real surprise was their logical sequence of sorts, as there was no prior intention of a planned series. They seemed to have followed serendipitous reading, then an urge to write (his trade as a science researcher), on a subject he had a passion but no real qualification for (sometimes this is an advantage). Although he pressed the buttons, he did not know what actually guided them.