VOTED NO.1 in NON-FICTION and OVERALL previously, this book will change your notion of reality! It is a common theme in religious theory, particularly in the East, that the reality we perceive in our everyday waking consciousness is an illusion - much as a stick in water appears "broken" because of the refracting light. Most of us would dismiss this suggestion, except for the fact that Science is beginning to say the same. Modern physics clearly points out that we live in a multi-dimensional multiverse; and that space and time are stubborn illusions - to quote Albert Einstein himself. The intriguing question is: How did mystics who lived more than 2,000 years ago come to the same conclusions without the aid of scientific instruments or advanced mathematics? Can we enter directly into a reality unbounded by space or time? Is this familiar 3d universe only a transient virtual reality?
PAR T I
1 Right vs. Left Brain 1
2 Intuitive versus Discriminating (Rational) Mind 11
3 The Intelligent, Intuitive ‘Unconscious’ 19
4 Complementary Thinking & Feeling 28
5 Split Reality 37
PAR T II
6 The Brain & Mystical Experiences 46
7 Deactivating the Brain . 53
8 Virtual Reality . 64
9 Quantum-Holographic Theory of Perception . 74
10 The Insubstantial Universe . 84
PAR T III
11 The Really Astonishing Hypothesis . 91
12 Superposition in the Full-Void 98
13 Cancellation in the Empty Void . 108
14 Meditation & the Brain . 122
PAR T IV
15 Meta-Neurology 132
16 Universal Brain-Mind 144
17 Full-Time Mystic, Part-Time Scientist 167
Epilogue . 174
References 176
