Self and experience …

… Maverick Philosopher: Sam Harris on Rational Mysticism and Whether the Self is an Illusion.

It seems to me, however, that the nonexistence of what I fail to find does not logically follow from my failing to find it. 

It may be that the self is the sort of thing that cannot turn up as an object of experience precisely because it is the subject of experience.

Here is my own analogy: The self is like light, which itself is invisible, but by means of which we see what is visible. This analogy also may be applied to God. It works both ways because it is by virtue of having a self that we may be said to be made in the image and likeness of God.