High Priests, Quantum Genes is a wideranging journey through religious experience, astrophysics, spiritualism, molecular biology, ancient wisdom, quantum physics and history. Mike Hayes traces uncanny common elements in all of these areas, and draws them together in a captivating narrative. The same numerical patterns appear in ancient philosophies and belief systems as run through all of the established religions, and on through the latest discoveries of supposedly ground-breaking science. Maybe science is only rediscovering through empirical research what the ancients understood intuitively…

The ordering principles of the universe appear to be mirrored in the structure of this numerical pattern and – perhaps most intriguing and uncanny of all – in the structure of music. Our notions of what is harmonious in music may therefore not simply spring from an abstract aesthetic sense but as a response to and an intuition of more fundamental harmonies, those which govern the universe from the cosmic scale right down to the sub-atomic. Mike Hayes has a spellbinding tale to tell. You may be convinced of all of it, some of it or none of it, but the journey is never less than compelling.

Publishing date, May 27th. 2004. Price £9.95. Advanced orders:

'The basic structures of subatomic quanta and of DNA have one thing in common - they can be explained in terms of the rules of music. The same is true of the belief systems of the world's great religions. Is music therefore the invisible bridge between science and religion?' In this original and thought provoking study, Michael Hayes proposes that all the world's major religions and esoteric doctrines share a common scientific origin. This underlying science is none other than music itself: the structures of music are the foundation for both science and theology. Particle physics and molecular biology both obey a single law of proportions that corresponds to the rules of music. This same law is expressed in the symbolism of religions, as Hayes demonstrates with examples from sources as diverse as the I-Ching and Christ's Passion. Further, Hayes believes that the underlying musical pattern in DNA may mean that evolution is not a matter of chance but follows a predetermined path.

• The Infinite Harmony is currently out of print. Watch this space for details of the new paperback edition.