Author John Dobson was a monk at our center in San Francisco for many years, but in a few twists of fate, he left the quiet of a monastery to tour the world and become known as the barker of the stars. He was featured in the PBS documentary The Astronomers and in,” Smithsonian” Magazine, and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, himself an avid astronomer. Dobson’s views of the universe are unorthodox, but interesting with some amazing tie-ins to Vedanta. We learn about how we’re genetically programmed to see the unreal for the real. From the non-dualist view, we learn that we live in an apparitional universe.