called demons. At a minimum, Plato contributed to Hellenistic conceptions of the dualistic nature of the universe (divided into the material, changing world accessible to sense perceptions, and the ideal, unchanging world accessible to the intellect), the body-soul dichotomy, mystical meditation, and the belief in spirits. Stoicism contributed the idea of the cosmopolis, the “global village” so to speak, where all people are brothers and sisters. This ideal was imperfectly fulfilled in Hellenistic