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ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

All we see in our lives is formed in a part of our brain called the "center of vi-
sion" which lies at the back of our brain, and occupies only a few cubic cen-
timeters. Both the image of a small room and the boundless landscape you
see when you gaze at the horizon fit into this tiny space. Therefore, we see ob-
jects not in their actual sizes existing outside, but in the sizes perceived by
our brain.

inal body, either; you have always seen a copy of it formed inside
your brain.
The same applies to all other perceptions. When you believe
you're hearing the sound of the television in the next room, for in-
stance, actually you are experiencing those sounds inside your
brain. The noises you think are coming from meters away and the
conversation of the person right beside you—both are perceived in
the auditory center in your brain, only a few cubic centimeters in
size. Apart from this center of perception, no concepts such as right,
left, front or behind exist. That is, sound does not come to you from
the right, from the left, or from above; there is no direction from
which sound "really" comes.
Similarly, none of the smells you perceive reach you from any
distance away. You suppose that the scents perceived in your center
of smell are the real ones of outside objects. However, just as the im-
age of a rose exists in your visual center, so its scent is located in

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