The prevalent sensation ofas a separateenclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination which accords neither with Westernnor with the experimental - of the East — in particular the central and germinalphilosophy of . This hallucination underlies the misuse offor the violent subjugation of man's natural environment and, consequently, its eventual destruction. We are therefore in urgent need of a sense of our own existence which is in accord with the physical facts and which overcomes our feeling of alienation from the .