The Ego Tunnel

There is nobody to despise or rebel against—not even ourselves.

But cognitive neuroscience is now telling us that this very engagement may well be the product of a self-less, bottom-up process generated by our brains.

Consciousness is what binds things together into a comprehensive, simultaneous whole. If we have this whole, then a world appears to us.

We know that our beliefs about consciousness can subtly change what we perceive, influencing the very contents and functional profile of subjective experience itself.

Our theories about phenomena change, but the phenomena stay the same.

that life is not worth living.

Nobody will ever live this conscious life again.

Neuroscientist Michael Persinger, at Laurentian University in Ontario, received worldwide media attention in the late 1990s by using electromagnetic fields to stimulate the brains of his subjects in successful attempts to create supposed religious experiences—that is, the subjective impression that an invisible person was present.

What is a human being? And what should a human being become?

More than 80 percent of the human beings on this planet, especially those in poorer countries with growing populations, are still firmly rooted in prescientific cultures.