This twelfth volume of AutoRicerca (the first to be also published in English) contains a single monographic text, written in dialogical form by Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi. Thanks to the author's availability, this particular text, full of useful information for anyone promoting a path of self-research and self-development, becomes now available to a wider readership.

In volume 7 (2014) of the journal, the author already invited us to an interesting Socratic dialogue between a teacher and a student, on the themes of science, reality and consciousness. That of reality remains a central theme of the present meeting, which portrays a fictional conversation between the mentor part of the author and his pupil part, to explore some fundamental questions, such as:

What is reality?
What is it made of?
What is our relationship with reality?
What can be done to make it better?
What is suffering?
What is its purpose?
Why do we often feel impotent?
Are we really?
What is science?
Why do even scientists suffer?
What is the being?
What distinguishes it from the consciousness?
What is our next evolutionary step?
How can we reach it? 

… and many more.