Single and alone, Byron is settling into the complacency of his late thirties when a brief, seemingly meaningless encounter sends his life spinning off course. He abruptly leaves his job and home in Baltimore and travels west to a strange spiritual community in Colorado known simply as Beyond, founded by a famous and perplexing self-help guru. From there, he is compelled to leave everything behind, including his own identity, as he proceeds past the limits of the physical human experience. Byron does eventually return, however, to experience life on Earth again-an identical time frame of 38...