About five years ago I published a book called Critical Revelations in the Realm of Contemporary Spirituality. It provides an answer to what you are addressing here.

I also wrote a critique of the first chapter of John Horgan's book, Mind-Body Problems, called "Spaceship Consciousness: What Drives Us?"

Horgan provided his email address and I sent him a note about it.

His response: Wow, I love your essay, it may be my favorite response to Mind-Body Problems. Your writing has this charged, dreamy quality. You take the mind-body problem very, very seriously, as I do, as we all should.