How Idealism Simplifies Metaphysics

What about paranormal phenomena, which this author probably dismisses? There is a great relative simplicity in explaining via dualism much of the paranormal empirical data, including veridical NDE out of body experiences, and past life memories of inhabiting different bodies, coming in to different bodies, etc., all as an immaterial mobile center of consciousness distinct and fundamentally separate from the physical. All these examples and more are greatly more simply explained just assuming two fundamentally different kinds of basic substances - physical and spiritual. 

Idealism has yet to explain and must explain in detail why and how and by whom a very complicated array of perfectly accomplished illusions are being perpetrated by the "powers that be" to completely pull the wool over our eyes so as to totally convince us that our mind "stuff" and consciousness are fundamentally totally different from the material. This situation for idealism is a classic case of the unnecessary multiplication of explanatory mechanisms which constitutes going against the good old principle of parsimony or Ockham's principle.

Dualism needs to explain how two fundamentally different kinds of basic substances can even interact at all. For me, this is a rather massive problem that is impossible to solve, except by a more fundamental unifying principle that allows for the interaction, at which point we are back solidly at a Monism of some kind, one which certainly cannot be of the Materialist variety.

To my thinking, influenced by Taoist philosophical principles, Dualism cannot be the basis of Reality. It must be a Monism or Non-Dualism of some kind. A singular substance capable of infinite forms of manifestation. Of what we conceive of as Dualism. Dualism out of Monism and / or Non-Dualism.

My form of Idealism is that of an Awareness is truly fundamental, and comes with it the power to imagine and choose to Be. Or even not-Be, which is still paradoxically, from down-here logic, a form of Being. This Awareness is something so abstracted from anything and everything we comprehend or understand so as to be entirely and completely inscrutable and ineffable. Something so primal that there it is not possible to ever really conceive of, except in very incomplete and fragmented ways.