To help penetrate the all-pervading mists of the illusion,
one must first acknowledge that consciousness is not the accidental and
purposeless by-product of the human condition. The perceived world that we
appear to be locked inside, like the silver ball in a pinball machine, is
wholly a construct of consciousness. The pinball constructs the machine around
itself. Whilst a testing notion for even the most elastic of modern
philosophical minds, it has been known for aeons by the ancient mystical
traditions and experienced directly by the indigenous shamanic cultures of
every continent. Now, it is being evoked again as a progressive scientific
theory in quantum physics. It is not new information we are bringing to mind,
not by any means. It is better described as a remembrance.
