Suzanne Segal was living a secular life in France when she experienced an abrupt shift out of ordinary consciousness and into a state of no-self.  Though six years prior to this event she had studied extensively with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, she did not understand what had happened to her until she found her experience described in a Buddhist text well over a decade later.

Segal’s book is fascinating both as an intimate description of what it feels like to live without identification with a sense of “I,” and also as a compelling example of just how profoundly our beliefs affect our experience and interpretation of that experience.  According to the modern psychiatry Segal sought help from for years, she was experiencing a serious personality disorder.  But according to long-standing Advaita and Buddhist traditions, she had achieved a state that people struggle towards for lifetimes.  Being able to view her experience from both perspectives is enlightening in more ways than one.   

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