The Enlightened Perspective


We are programmed from birth to believe that our existence is an unsolvable riddle, but if we make an honest effort, we discover that mystery itself is the riddle. Not just what is the big mystery, but why is there any mystery at all? And what if there isn’t? What if the Mysterium Tremendum is just an internal belief without any external counterpart? What if the answers to life’s biggest questions were all hidden in plain sight?

“If man will strike, strike through the mask!
How can the prisoner reach outside except
by thrusting through the wall?” -Herman Melville

Those interested in striking through the mask will welcome a theory of everything that makes sense, doesn’t rely on religious or scientific chicanery, and can be easily understood — and those familiar with Jed McKenna will know that it’s not just a theory.


Contents

That Which Cannot Be Simpler
Here We Go Again
This Thing You’re Reading
The King of Pointland
Hammocky Ponderings
Chinatown
Consciousness Defined
Mysterium Non Tremendum
The Story of Markandeya
The No-Paradox Paradox
Mountains & Rabbit-Holes
The Evil Demon
Agrippa’s Trilemma
The Difference Between Us
Moonlight Sonata
Science: Our Blind Torchbearers
Religion: The Magic Turtle
Philo West
Philo East
Philosophical Zombies
The Great Objection
Song of Childhood
Theory & Practice
Meaning & Belief
The Veil of Perception
Speculation & Make-Believe
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Truman Show
The Enlightened Perspective
The Last Religion


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I do not expect any popular approval, or indeed any wide audience. On the contrary I would not urge anyone to read this book except those who are able and willing to meditate seriously with me, and to withdraw their minds from the senses and from all preconceived opinions. Such readers, as I well know, are few and far between. Those who do not bother to grasp the proper order of my arguments and the connection between them, but merely try to carp at individual sentences, as is the fashion, will not get much benefit from reading this book. They may well find an opportunity to quibble in many places, but it will not be easy for them to produce objections which are telling or worth replying to.
René Descarte

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