The claim that we can experience consciousness without a conventional sense of self—that there is no rider on the horse—seems to be on firm ground neurologically. Whatever causes the brain to produce the false notion that there is a thinker living somewhere inside the head, it makes sense that it could stop doing this. And once it does, our inner

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By its nature, identity fractures our sense of self and conceals the whole Self that exists at our core. Identity, or your sense of self, is who you know yourself to be at any given moment. It’s created by a thought that tends to be so deceptively simple that it’s often overlooked, but the implications are quite significant: identity shapes one’s... See more