You Are Not A Divine Spark Trapped In Matter:

Here JLL looks at the origin of the ancient Vedic proposition that the human self/identity is divine and identical with God, the Divine Self (citing Ramana Maharshi). And he goes from there to an investigation of the notion of the “divine spark” in the kabbalah.

Correction: 40m. HAL, “simulation, virtual reality,” is a Coptic word, not a Sanskrit word. Curiously, there is no precise equivalent to HAL in Hindu/Vedic metaphysics. There is, rather, the term Maya which does not mean illusion, as often claimed, but apparition, or the emergent activity of multi-dimensional reality. The material world is not an illusion. It is a completely real and solid, a sensorial and living apparition like a movie in which you are an actor (cinematic metaphor). Hindu Tantra describes in detail the event of cosmic projection, Parinama, which I compare to a movie that is being filmed and projected at the same time.