No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism

by Chris Niebauer

No matter your choice in how to play, my hope is that by reading this book and becoming familiar with the left-brain interpreter and how it works, you can start to take it a little less seriously. Doing so will most certainly lessen your suffering. You may even stop trying so hard to change certain things in your life, or to become this or that in the future, because you begin to notice that the problems you are trying to overcome are mostly creations of the left-brain interpreter and you see how once they are overcome the left-brain interpreter will simply create new ones. This can also be true even for those pursuing a strict spiritual path, as indicated by the words of former Harvard professor Richard Alpert (now known as Ram Dass) when he said, “All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”