This book relates DNA and the genetic code toconsciousness as the universal principle of life. This is done through perception of seven pattern germsfrom DNA which are girdled into an archetypal model called the 'tree of life.' The symbols of the tree modelare logically related to the self, spirit, soul, psyche and body. How this new approach helps to understand the phenomenon of life in its integrated wholeness and cosmic totality is explained in this book.