Inspired: understanding creativity: a journey through art, science, and the soul

Author's note --

Prologue --

Book I: From cradle to muse. Heresies --

Leap of faith --

Doubt --

Seeds of doubt --

Creator takes shape --

Author takes shape --

Rise of the voice --

Mind wandering --

Fear --

Book II: Laws of nature. View from a microbe --

Parable of a rock star --

Enter a physicist --

A funny thing happened on the way to a platinum record --

God --

Pandemic --

Nature's call-and-response --

Book III: Neurology, physiology, personality, chronology, and (the new) geography. The brain --

The eyes have it --

Personality --

The coach and the diamond head --

Age --

Two short war stories: One muse --

Vocabulary: Four C's --

Book IV: Salvation. The secret ingredient --

Don't quit your day job --

Todd --

Book V: Creativity in the time of chaos. Two steps forward --

The new Jerusalem --

Inspired.