The universe is vast. Consciousness exists. What follows from those facts, and what does not? On a dark rooftop at nineteen, Shubham Mahendrakar looked at a sky without city lights and met a question that would not leave him: why is there someone here to notice any of this at all? The Ocean Beyond the Glass explores consciousness, death, selfhood, cosmology, religion, and the limits of human knowledge through lived experience, Plato, Kant, Spinoza, Buddhist thought, neuroscience, and modern physics. It keeps a careful line between evidence, live disagreement, and philosophical interpretation. This is not a claim that science has proved a hidden reality, or that any tradition has solved the mind. It is for readers of accessible philosophy, consciousness studies, and reflective nonfiction who want to take the biggest questions seriously without pretending to certainty.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - One night, lying on a rooftop under a sky full of more stars than he'd ever accounted for, the author realized he understood almost nothing about the reality he was standing in.This book is the record of what happened next.The Ocean Beyond the Glass is not a philosophy textbook, and it doesn't pretend to have settled the questions it asks. It's the honest, first-person account of one person's attempt to actually think through the biggest questions a human being can ask - what survives death, whether consciousness can ever fully explain itself, why the universe seems built to be understood at all, and what it means to live meaningfully inside mysteries that may never fully resolve.Along the way, it draws on Plato and Kant, the Upanishads and Nagarjuna, Einstein and quantum mechanics, Viktor Frankl and the Fermi Paradox - not as a survey to get through, but as fellow travelers up the same mountain, each offering a different vantage point on a summit nobody has actually reached.This book doesn't argue you into a conclusion. It's built to sit with a question rather than rush past it - and it takes seriously the strongest objections to its own ideas along the way, including the case that some of these questions might not have answers at all.If you've ever stood somewhere quiet, looked up, and felt the specific vertigo of realizing how much you don't know - this book was written for that exact feeling.What you'll find inside: A personal, plainly-written journey through consciousness, cosmology, death, and meaningHistorical philosophy and contemporary science treated as one continuous conversation, not separate subjectsThe honest admission of where certainty actually runs out - and why that's not a failure. Seller Inventory # 9798187604210
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One night, lying on a rooftop under a sky full of more stars than he'd ever accounted for, the author realized he understood almost nothing about the reality he was standing in.This book is the record of what happened next.The Ocean Beyond the Glass is not a philosophy textbook, and it doesn't pretend to have settled the questions it asks. It's the honest, first-person account of one person's attempt to actually think through the biggest questions a human being can ask - what survives death, whether consciousness can ever fully explain itself, why the universe seems built to be understood at all, and what it means to live meaningfully inside mysteries that may never fully resolve.Along the way, it draws on Plato and Kant, the Upanishads and Nagarjuna, Einstein and quantum mechanics, Viktor Frankl and the Fermi Paradox - not as a survey to get through, but as fellow travelers up the same mountain, each offering a different vantage point on a summit nobody has actually reached.This book doesn't argue you into a conclusion. It's built to sit with a question rather than rush past it - and it takes seriously the strongest objections to its own ideas along the way, including the case that some of these questions might not have answers at all.If you've ever stood somewhere quiet, looked up, and felt the specific vertigo of realizing how much you don't know - this book was written for that exact feeling.What you'll find inside: A personal, plainly-written journey through consciousness, cosmology, death, and meaningHistorical philosophy and contemporary science treated as one continuous conversation, not separate subjectsThe honest admission of where certainty actually runs out - and why that's not a failure This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798187604210
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