This book consists of papers read at a seminar held at the Ramakrishna Institute of Culture in 2006. The event's purpose was to bring together yoga practitioners and scholars from different scientific disciplines and discus the nature of consciousness.

What is consciousness? How does a material brain produce our immaterial but vital sense of awareness?

In response to this and other questions on the nature of consciousness,we hear from a Chaos theorist from UC Santa Cruz, a Catholic and Buddhist monk, two professors of physics,etc.