This collection of essays, many of which were published in Parabola over the past fifteen years, are the author's attempt to understand the connection between the ideas of G.I. Gurdjieff and modern science.  The essays provide a fresh look at the age-old question of the relationship between the inner world of consciousness and the outer world of phenomena.  Dr. Wertenbaker has been a practicing physician forty years with postgraduate training in ophthalmology, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, and neurophysiology.