Filmmaker Zappy Zapolin sets out to map the different roads people use to reach altered states of consciousness, from meditation and prayer to psychedelic plant medicine. He interviews a wide range of teachers and public figures, including Bruce Lipton, Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass, Marianne Williamson, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and Foster Gamble, asking each how they define reality and what practice gets them there. The film moves between locations chosen for their spiritual associations: the beaches of Maui, the Amazon in Peru, the streets of Rome, and Fairfield, Iowa, home to a large transcendental meditation community. Judeo-Christian prayer, Vedic tradition, and shamanistic ritual all get screen time alongside brain-scan research on meditators, with scientists explaining what modern instruments can and cannot measure about these states. Zapolin stays on camera as an interviewer rather than a narrator, letting his subjects disagree about whether any single method has an edge. The film's throughline is a question rather than an answer: what, if anything, do these practices from unrelated cultures actually have in common?