The contemplative traditions did not arrive at their central practice through shared communication. They arrived at it through independent investigation of the same territory — reality itself — from different starting points, in different centuries, with different vocabularies.
What they converged on is not a cultural artifact. It is a structural feature of what it means to be a creature standing on a ground that infinitely exceeds it. This book provides what the traditions have always pointed toward — the logical and scientific framework beneath the practice itself.