When quantum physicists such as Neils Bohr began issuing the same challenge a decade later, they discovered that James had prepared the way. And as the first modern-trained scientist to affirm the prime reality of non-dual experience, James prepared the way for Westerners today who seek to comprehend mainstream Eastern spiritual teachings such as advaita, yoga, taoism, and zen, or the mystic sidestreams of our own culture such as Parmenides, Plotinus, and Eckhart. So aligned, in fact, was James's thought to the East, that renowned Japanese philosopher, Kitaro Nishida, used James to explain Zen to the Japanese themselves.

This volume features Jonathan Bricklin's critically acclaimed essay Sciousness and Consciousness,William James and the Prime Reality of Non-Dual Experience, along with James's seminal essays: Does Consciousness Exist, The Notion of Consciousness, A World of Pure Experience, excerpts, a commentary by James's colleague the eminent psychologist, Theodore Flournoy, as well as the Third Zen Patriarch Sosan's treatise, On Believing in Mind. Together they form a manifesto of non-dualism from the 7th century to the 21st.

This is the inaugural publication of Eirini Press, whose mission is to explore reawakenings to wholeness.