Science confines its inquiry to phenomena that are tangible and empirically verifiable, whereas spirituality is concerned exclusively with inner, experiential realities. Nonetheless, a profound relationship exists between the two, and the evolution of each is, in many respects, contingent upon the other. This interdependence has, until now, remained largely unarticulated.

At times, a writer or thinker envisions a concept century in advance. This vision arises in their consciousness spontaneously. When they articulate it before the world, it is often met with ridicule; some dismiss it outright as the fantasy of a deluded mind. Yet centuries later, when a scientist materializes that very concept, the world is struck with astonishment. Not only that, but the originator of the idea begins to be celebrated. Why is this so? Why is the one who conceives the original thought unable to render it into material form himself? The capacity to generate the initial vision lies with a person dwelling in a distant corner of the world in a bygone age. Space and time—miles and centuries—are these actual realities, or are they merely constructs, illusions devoid of substantive essence?

In sleep, within the domain of dreams, a person walks, sits, eats, works—activities indistinguishable from those performed in waking life. What, then, is the essential difference? Even in the absence of any environmental stimuli, why does an unrelated thought or long-forgotten individual suddenly come to mind—despite the passage of centuries?

All such phenomena unfold within a framework of natural laws that remain, as yet, unexplored. This modest book, concerned with an entirely novel and unfamiliar subject, is akin to a pebble cast into a body of water; but when its ripples reach the shore, they may awaken contemplation in the mind of a scholar, scientist, or thinker—and thereby initiate a deeper engagement with its contents.

Qalandar Hassan Ukhrah Muhammad Azeem Barkhiya