The Physics point of view by Peter Russell, who at Cambridge University (UK) studied mathematics and theoretical physics. Then, as he became increasingly fascinated by the mysteries of the human mind he changed to experimental psychology. Pursuing this interest, he traveled to India to study meditation and eastern philosophy, and on his return took up the first research post ever offered in Britain on the psychology of meditation.

"My decision to study theoretical physics along with experimental psychology was most fortuitous. Theoretical physics took me closer to the ultimate truths of the physical world, while my pursuit of experimental psychology was a first step towards uncovering truth in the inner world of consciousness. Moreover, the deeper I went in these two fields, the closer the truths of the inner and outer worlds became."

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Is Reality All in the Mind?

All our experiences—all our perceptions, sensations, dreams, thoughts and feelings—are forms appearing in consciousness . . .

Everything we know, perceive, and imagine, every color, sound, sensation, every thought and every feeling, is a form appearing in the mind. It is all an in-forming of consciousness . . .

What we touch and sense as solid matter comprise 99.9999999% empty space. i.e. "Matter is mostly ghostly empty space."

The Vedantic philosophers of ancient India spoke of this "delusion" (a false belief about the world) as maya.

In fact the brain constructs its picture of reality.
" I suffer a delusion when I believe the images in my mind are the external world. I deceive myself when I think that the tree I see is the tree itself. "

Seeing What Isn’t There

The image of the world that appears in the mind is very different from the actual physical world, and in two complimentary ways.

On the one hand, our image of reality is more than physical reality in so far as it contains many qualities not present in the latter. Take my experience of the color green, for example. There may be light of various frequencies, but the light itself is not green. Nor are the electrical impulses that are transmitted from the eye to the brain. There is no color there. The green I see is a quality created in consciousness. It exists only as a subjective experience in the mind.