About the book: year / In Goswami’s book, the existence of “external”, real, objective reality is questioned. It is argued that the universe is self-aware and it is consciousness itself that creates the physical world and explains how a single consciousness appears to be so many separate consciousnesses. Goswami's book is an attempt to bridge the eternal gap between science and spirituality through monistic idealism, resolving the paradoxes of quantum physics. The author of the book is a physicist , Professor, Institute of Theoretical Sciences, University of Oregon.