The First and Last Belief

A theory of Liberation in the age of neuroscience

De: Monica Khosla

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The First and Last Belief offers a lucid and grounded account of what many traditions call liberation or awakening—stripped of mystique yet retaining its depth. Drawing from her own unexpected and irreversible experience, Monica Khosla explores how the deeply ingrained sense of being a separate “I” can dissolve, revealing life as immediate, unowned, and whole.

Interwoven with personal narrative is a theory that bridges ancient insight with modern neuroscience. Khosla examines how the brain constructs the felt sense of self, and how recent understandings of memory reconsolidation, brain networks, and perceptual processing might explain the sudden disappearance of that sense. Along the way, she illuminates the fears, habits, and emotional learnings that bind us to our most fundamental assumption—the First Belief—and how its dissolution changes nothing in reality, yet transforms everything in experience.

Clear, precise, and deeply human, The First and Last Belief stands apart in its ability to describe both the inner landscape of liberation and the possible neurological underpinnings that make it possible. For readers interested in awakening, consciousness, or the meeting point of science and direct experience, it offers not instructions or promises, but an invitation to see what may already be here.