Some spiritual traditions regard the ultimate reality as the Self. Others regard the Self as an illusion. The correctness of each view is self-evident.
This sentence contradicts itself—or rather—well, no, actually it doesn’t!
— Douglas Hofstadter (1985, 7)
Are you familiar with Douglas Harding’s *On Having No Head*? http://www.headless.org/on-having-no-head.htm