"I was in my mid-thirties, sitting on my bed in New York City, lost in the mundane scroll of a digital sale on the Xbox store. I wasn’t seeking a portal to the fifth dimension; I was seeking a discount on a cozy game.

And then, it hit.

It wasn't a thought. It was a physical surge of electrical sparks—imagine a Tesla coil firing off inside your ribcage. I gripped that plastic controller until my knuckles turned white, and a primal roar erupted in my mind: 'I am too big for this body!'

It was the howl of a lion in a birdcage. It was the realization that my human form was a fragile, tiny vessel trying to hold a sun. This wasn't a metaphor; it was the beginning of a biological and spiritual 'reset' that would change everything—starting with the fact that I could no longer look at a spreadsheet without seeing the vibrating molecules of the universe behind the ROI."

For decades, I lived two lives.

In one life, I was the daughter of an oppressive Eastern European regime, a student of logic, and a woman with a degree in psychology. I was trained to look for patterns, to value the empirical, and to trust only what could be measured, categorized, and filed away. In that life, "gliding above the carpet" as a child was a trick of the mind. Visions were glitches in the neurocircuitry. The "quiet parts" were simply things to be ignored for the sake of sanity and social standing.

… here is where the science of intuition gets interesting. The body often registers information before the conscious mind does. Studies in neuroscience of spiritual experiences show that the heart and the gut often respond to stimuli seconds before the brain processes it.

Albert Einstein hated this. He famously called it "spooky action at a distance" because it violated his understanding of how the universe should work. He wanted the world to be local and logical.

If you feel like your logical brain is at war with your intuition, take comfort in the company you keep. Here are three giants of history who used their immense intellect to explore physics and the spiritual realm.

This perspective opens the door to consciousness after death theories and suggests that what we call "death" might just be the destruction of the radio, not the signal itself.