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→The Indian tradition is comparatively free of problems of this kind. Although the teachings o Buddhism and Advaita are embedded in more or less conventional religions, they contai empirical insights about the nature of consciousness that do not depend upon faith. One ca practice most techniques of Buddhist meditation or the method of self-inquiry of Advaita an experience the advertised changes in one’s consciousness without ever believing in the law o karma or in the miracles attributed to Indian mystics. To get started as a Christian, however one must first accept a dozen implausible things about the life of Jesus and the origins of th Bible—and the same can be said, minus a few unimportant details, about Judaism and Islam. I one should happen to discover that the sense of being an individual soul is an illusion, one wil be guilty of blasphemy everywhere west of the Indus.

→Authors who attempt to build a bridge between science and spirituality tend to make one of tw mistakes: Scientists generally start with an impoverished view of spiritual experience assuming that it must be a grandiose way of describing ordinary states of mind—parental love artistic inspiration, awe at the beauty of the night sky. In this vein, one finds Einstein’ amazement at the intelligibility of Nature’s laws described as though it were a kind of mystica insight.