The concept of “filtered reality,” he knew, was a recurring theme in ancient scripture. The Hindu Vedanta, which had inspired the great quantum physicists like Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger, described the physical mind as a “limiting factor” that could perceive only a fraction of the universal consciousness known as Brahman. The Sufis defined “mind” as a veil that disguised the light of divine consciousness. The Kabbalists described the mind’s klipot as obscuring most of God’s light. And the Buddhists warned that the ego was a limiting lens that made us feel separate from the
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