The Fundamental Unity of Consciousness, Mysticism and Existence

By Brendan D. Murphy
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

In general, we mere mortals tend to perceive from the perspective of the serializing intellect, in that we identify things as being discrete, separate, and distinct from one another. We notice the differences between things and classify and categorize them. Our perspective is one of fragmentation and apparent separation. We usually tend to consider that the most important aspects are the ones at the unique and individual end of the spectrum [i] — the things that allow the analytical mind to discern between one thing and the next.

In his compelling book The Medium, the Mystic and the Physicist (first published in 1974), Lawrence LeShan highlights the similarities between the worldviews and philosophies of these three diverse groups, demonstrating that they are all essentially describing the same interconnected, harmonious conception of reality as one another, while having arrived at these perspectives via very different paths.