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Contemplate upon an object. Intensify the process. More. Still more. There- you have conjured up an image just as 'real' as the original...

If...all phenomenon is really 'empty'...then...all external objects in the world AND the perceiving individual...are just illusory projections. Of what? The universal mind.

This consciousness stores our illusions, and in turn these fantasies create our false perception of the individual ego and the external world-each feeds the other.

Ecstatic states enable us to see the situation- the object/subject distinction breaks down, objective reality fades into the mists of