The Human Brain

The thing that sets us above most animals and other species is our powerful, intellectual, and adaptable, human brain.

Yet it is the very thing that holds us in an illusory version of reality and prevents us from seeing the Universe the way it is!

Our brain loves to ‘learn’, and we get through our everyday existence because we have learned so much: walking, talking, reading, writing, driving, and so on.

There is nothing wrong with learning, but the very way that the brain processes also holds us in a fantasy world.

Neuroscience is uncovering what ancient yogis and spiritual teachers have taught for centuries, which is that we are living in an illusory world designed by our brains.

We don’t encounter reality ‘as it is’ at all. What we experience as reality is a projection from our brain founded on experience:

“we generally think of ‘seeing’ as the result of processing information that comes through our eyes, but the truth is that several times more of what we “see” consists of information produced within the brain. All of us carry around internal models that the brain uses to construct, from endless perceptual fragments, what we call reality. In other words, much of what we experience of reality is, in Eagleman’s words, a ‘beautifully rendered simulation’”.

- “The Cosmos Inside Your Head: Neuroscientist David Eagleman Tells The Story Of The Brain On PBS”, Forbes.com