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ETERNITY HAS ALREADY BEGUN

As is evident, it is not possible for man to transcend his senses
and break free of them. In this respect, a man's soul can be subject-
ed to all kinds of representations, although it has no physical body
and no material existence and there are no material surroundings. It
is not possible for a person to realize this because he assumes these
perfectly three-dimensional images to be real and is absolutely cer-
tain of their existence, because everybody depends on the percep-
tions stemming from his sensory organs.
The famous British philosopher David Hume expressed his
thoughts on this point:
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I
always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or
cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can
catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can ob-
serve any thing but the perception. 10

Formation of Perceptions in the Brain is not
Philosophy, but Scientific Fact
Materialists claim that what we have stated here is a philosophi-
cal view. But the plain scientific fact is we cannot interact with the
original of the "external world." This is not a matter of philosophy.
All medical schools teach in detail how images and feelings form in
the brain. Facts proven by twentieth-century science, and by physics
in particular, clearly show that we can never reach the originals of
physical matter; and that in a sense, everyone is watching the "mon-
itor" in his brain.
Everyone who believes in science, be he an atheist, Buddhist, or

of any other belief, must accept this fact. Even the materialist who
denies the existence of Allah cannot deny scientific reality.
That Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Georges Politzer and others
were never able to comprehend such a simple, evident fact is still
startling, even though their level of scientific understanding was

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