*La Science de la première personne* presents Douglas Harding's attempt to place spiritual insight within a modern Western framework. The book argues that the aim traditionally called awakening or liberation can be examined through direct first-person experience rather than only through inherited doctrine. Harding treats modern science as valuable within its proper limits, while suggesting that older wisdom becomes more accessible when separated from sectarian language, ritual ornament, and sacred terminology. The work is both philosophical and practical. It invites readers to test claims about consciousness and selfhood against immediate experience, using simple observations and reflective exercises. By framing these inquiries as a “science of the first person,” the book contrasts inward observation with third-person scientific methods and asks how the two perspectives might relate. Its concerns include consciousness, the nature of the self, and the relationship between philosophy, science, and spiritual traditions.

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