The waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states and the fourth that underlies them all

Every night, without exception, you disappear completely and come back. What actually happens in between?

This episode takes the most ordinary thing you do every single day and turns it into one of the most precise philosophical investigations available to a human being. Drawing on the Mandukya Upanishad - the shortest of the principal Upanishads at just twelve verses, and one of the most rigorously argued texts in the entire Vedantic tradition - Nicky walks through the teaching of Avastha Traya: the investigation of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, and what remains present through all three.

You'll be guided through each state in turn - the world you take to be obviously real, the dream world your own mind constructs and then c ...