Book excerpt: This book is the result of one person's spiritual odyssey after a lifelong dedication to the quest for truth. Within it Ivan Kovacs shares his insights with the reader with ever deepening realisations about what esotericists understand as spirituality. He explores those states of consciousness that are higher than that of the personality. He points out how we can reach out to ever deepening levels of consciousness - the divine birth right of every human being who makes a concerted effort to set his or her foot upon the spiritual path. In this book there are a variety of topics under discussion such as the Energy of Love, The Kundalini Syndrome, Christianity Judged from an Esoteric Perspective, and many more. The crowning achievement of the anthology is The Path to Higher States of Consciousness, in which an in-depth discussion traces the odyssey of consciousness from the personality to that of the soul, and from the soul to the Spiritual Triad, and then to the Monad, or that exalted level of consciousness known as Pure Being.