"Brains and Realities" by Jay Alfred (Repost)

Can 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?

Contents
Prologue
PART I
1 Right vs. Left Brain
2 Intuitive versus Discriminating (Rational) Mind
3 The Intelligent, Intuitive ‘Unconscious’
4 Complementary Thinking & Feeling
5 Split Reality
PART II
6 The Brain & Mystical Experiences
7 Deactivating the Brain
8 Virtual Reality
9 Quantum-Holographic Theory of Perception
10 The Insubstantial Universe
PART III
11 The Really Astonishing Hypothesis
12 Superposition in the Full-Void
13 Cancellation in the Empty Void
14 Meditation & the Brain
PART IV
15 Meta-Neurology
16 Universal Brain-Mind
17 Full-Time Mystic, Part-Time Scientist
Epilogue
References