What happens when a scientist trained to question everything encounters experiences that science neither can easily explain nor rule out?

A Mystical Journey of a Sincere Scientist is the deeply personal memoir of astrophysicist Subinoy Das—a journey from a childhood filled with wonder in rural Bengal to the world of theoretical physics, Columbia University, New York, Vancouver, and eventually back to India.

Along the way, something unexpected begins to happen. Experiences of extraordinary silence, timelessness, peace, and an expanded sense of awareness challenge his familiar understanding of himself and reality. The scientist in him does not disappear; he continues to question, doubt, observe, and search.

This is neither a religious doctrine nor an attempt to prove spirituality through science. It is the story of a scientist trying to remain faithful to two things at once: the rigor of reason and the honesty of direct experience.

Moving between science and meditation, humour and loss, relationships and solitude, the book explores some of humanity’s oldest questions: What is consciousness? What does it really mean to know something? Is our familiar sense of self the whole of who we are? And can an experience be real even when we do not yet know how to explain it?

At once intimate, questioning, and hopeful, this is a memoir about an outward search for the mysteries of the universe that gradually becomes an inward journey into the mystery of being.

It does not ask the reader to believe.

It invites the reader to wonder.