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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

lusion, a phantom. Everything we see—the bright world in front of
us, our friends, the people around us and even our own bodies—
are part of this dream. What we imagine to be the source of all
these, their originals in the external world, must always remain un-
known to us.
This “shadow world” includes our workplaces, homes, the
people around us, our cars, the food we eat, the films we watch; in
short, everything in our lives. When we return home, we feel that
we are entering our real abode. The fact is, however, that we are ob-
serving an identical copy of our real home, one that we do not even
consider could possibly be an image. Again, everything we en-
counter in our homes, we observe in our minds. All our lives take
place inside a tiny area in the brain.
So far, most neurologists and psychologists who have investi-
gated this subject have easily come to this conclusion. Yet they gen-
erally avoid answering the question of “Who does the perceiving?”
They look for tiny imaginary figures inside the brain and seek a
material entity that perceives all these things. They debate these
questions in books, articles and conferences, cite other scientists
who have also been unable to resolve the issue and claim that they

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