Introduction

Abstract

This book is about some really wild ideas and why a group of sober, professional, extremely intelligent people think there is a chance of these ideas being true.

The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn, not the material of my every-day existence, but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice