' Mere Ideation '...

Mentalism, the teaching that this is a mental universe, is too hard to believe for the ordinary man yet too hard to disbelieve for the illumined man.

This is because to the first it is only a theory, but to the second it is a personal experience.

The ordinary man's consciousness is kept captive by his senses, each of which reports a world of matter outside him.

The illumined man's consciousness is free to be itself, to report its own reality and to reveal the senses and their world to be mere ideation.


- Paul Brunton