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PART I. Mysticism Unmasked
The Mind’s Distorted Projections of the Cosmic Order. Vedanta. Upanishad. Buddhism. Taoism and Zen. Yoga and Tantra.
Research Institute of Implicative Coherence Sub-Quantum Energy-Information Fields (IC-SEIF), Hollywood, Florida USA
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Prologue — The Signal and the Mirror.
Across every continent and every age, human beings have looked up at the night sky, down into meditative silence, or inward towards the architecture of feeling and returned with the same report: that the universe has a face, a moral order, an intention, and a self.
A close examination of any mystical teaching reveals that it does not provide us with new facts about reality but only shows how the human mind defends, desires, and fears itself.
Mysticism is not a window open to the true reality; it is a distorted mirror in which we see our mysterious minds.
Eastern and Western mystical doctrines are projections of human subjectivity onto objective reality. This subjectivity is expressed in concepts that make up the framework for all…
