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Synopsis
For millennia, the sages of the east have claimed that the world is "illusion" (Maya). Is it possible to make sense of this notion? Drawing on theories of sensory perception from physics, psychology and biology, the author shows that all products of perception are artifacts. The most dramatic of these is the familiar notion of being an individual, a separate self. In spiritual growth the power of this artifact is diluted. "Enlightenment" is an event or process in which the artifact of the self is completely shattered. This book demonstrates that is is possible to relate these mystical teachings in precise scientific terms.