I'll try to explain why this is my experience. As long as there's an object of meditation, such as the breath or a mantra, there's the subject-object separation and therefore there's the illusion of the separate self. But when you follow the pointers of Advaita and meditatively enquire into the subject itself, the subject-object separation disappears at thus the separate self disappears. Since it's observed to disappear, it becomes self-evident that the true self, the observer, can not be the separate self. For me it wasn't Mooji but James Swartz's book "How to attain enlightenment" that first opened my eyes to this simple truth that I had somehow managed to overlook in all my years of meditation.
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