No scientist will ever deny that what we are experiencing is in our own minds. You see, put tare the outside. Yet they may or may not be, that's a different question. But what is outside? You are not experiencing it. You are experiencing something in your own mind. What you are always seeing is the map. There isn't even the concept of inside. Outside is in your mind. So that is now the mind itself. Second stage, every bit of it is appearing only because youare consciousness. It is thing but consciousness. The awareness is uniform, non dual, pure, perfect, changeless. That which is you appears as the other. Experiencing
Inspired by the 15th chapter of the Ashtavakra Gita, Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a discourse on the nature of the Self.