This is a glorious takedown of unquestioned dualism in the sciences that, naturally, has to fall back on the experience of meditation to make its point:

[C]onsider that in certain intense states of absorption ��� during meditation, dance or highly skilled performances ��� the subject-object structure can drop away, and we are left with a sense of sheer felt presence. How is such phenomenal presence possible in a physical world? Science is silent on this question. And yet, without such phenom...