Author's note
Prologue
Book I: From cradle to muse. Heresies
Leap of faith
Doubt
Seeds of doubt
Creator takes shape
Author takes shape
Rise of the voice
Mind wandering
Fear
Book II: Laws of nature. View from a microbe
Parable of a rock star
Enter a physicist
A funny thing happened on the way to a platinum record
God
Pandemic
Nature's call-and-response
Book III: Neurology, physiology, personality, chronology, and (the new) geography. The brain
The eyes have it
Personality
The coach and the diamond head
Age
Two short war stories: One muse
Vocabulary: Four C's
Book IV: Salvation. The secret ingredient
Don't quit your day job
Todd
Book V: Creativity in the time of chaos. Two steps forward
The new Jerusalem
Inspired.