Is the world an illusion?  Are we part of a computer simulated reality as in the Matrix movie?  Are we actually brains in a vat dreaming of an external world?  Was the world created by a devil when God was not looking, as Bertrand Russell thought was plausible?  Was the world created in error by a lesser deity as in the Gnostic scripts?  

Or, as in the allegory of Plato’s cave, is there one true reality that underlies all and everything?

This episode explores the concept of nonduality from three different ages: a major school of Hindu thought, German Idealism, and a modern New Age tome.  And some clear correspond is found between them. 

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