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Jay Alfred – Brains and RealitiesCan human beings perceive reality directly? Can we enter into a mode where space and time are meaningless but which feels more real than anything you’ve ever experienced? 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? ProloguePART I1 Right vs. Left Brain2 Intuitive versus Discriminating (Rational) Mind3 The Intelligent, Intuitive ‘Unconscious’4 Complementary Thinking & Feeling5 Split RealityPART II6 The Brain & Mystical Experiences7 Deactivating the Brain8 Virtual Reality9 Quantum-Holographic Theory of Perception10 The Insubstantial UniversePART III11 The Really Astonishing Hypothesis12 Superposition in the Full-Void13 Cancellation in the Empty Void14 Meditation & the BrainPART IV15 meta-Neurology16 Universal Brain-Mind17 Full-Time Mystic, Part-Time ScientistEpilogueReferences