Introduction -- The hand on the mirror -- Family matters -- Max -- The valley of the shadow of death -- Strange events unfold -- The journey begins -- A pattern emerges -- Is Max trying to reach me? -- Milestones -- Lessons from a rocket scientist -- Can we travel outside our bodies? -- Ghosts: real or imagined? -- Magic carpets -- Am I going nuts? -- I'm not nuts -- A spiritual awakening -- Near-death experience: evidence of an afterlife -- What's worse than losing your spouse? -- Mediums: real or fiction? -- Challenging the scientific community -- Challenging the media -- Finding my mother -- Reaching out to the other side -- Finding myself -- Afterword.