Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

Very important perspective on #Europe's loan to #Ukraine. Watch until the end. This is different and deeper than what you've been seeing in the media.
https://youtu.be/BiTNUZ2zONY?si=NC14K...

3 days ago | [YT] | 11

Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

In this superbly written essay, psychoanalyst Jamey Hecht engages in a virtual trialogue with philosophers John Searle and Thomas Nagel. He cogently argues, without any appeal to religious thinking and through a rigorous analysis of Searle’s and Nagel’s philosophical viewpoints, that naturalism is intrinsically inadequate to account for the totality of human experience, and that Dualism, too, must remain on the table as a reasonable hypothesis.
www.essentiafoundation.org/a-rational-non-religiou…

3 days ago | [YT] | 95

Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

Mystics worldwide and across time have attested that love is a fundamental property of existence.

So this week as part of With Reality in Mind we asked Bernardo Kastrup, can this be defended from an analytic idealist perspective?

Strictly speaking, no. There is no technical reason to elevate love above any other experience.

But there are many ideas that aren't necessary under analytic idealism but are compatible with it. Bernardo takes anecdotal evidence seriously when it is consistent, such as reports of love being fundamental from non-dual 5-meo DMT experiences, Near Death Experiences and the revelations of mystics across traditions.

Consider an old-fashioned amplitude modulated radio station. The broadcast is done via a carrier wave of a certain frequency, for example, 800 kilohertz. That's what you tune into to hear a the station. The music, the voices of that radio station are the excitations on top of that carrier wave.

So it's coherent to speculate that nature's frequency is never at complete rest, and whilst the fabric of reality could manifest in many forms, love might be the underlying tone that carries these experiences and is present even when other experiences subside. It might not be fundamental to it's being, but could be fundamental to how it is known.

It is one of the great privileges of these meetings that Bernardo is willing to discuss his more private intuitions. Whilst careful to delineate exactly where analysis ends and speculation begins, in this session he shares both.

- Is love fundamental?
- What is the nature of prayer?
- Does creation have a plan?

Hope to see you in a future meeting -
Amir

www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-is-love-fundam…

5 days ago | [YT] | 171

Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

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6 days ago | [YT] | 31

Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

The gaming of the European asylum systems is by far the single greatest hook that destructive demagogues, who only criticise but bring nothing constructive to the table, have on the voting population. If the political spectrum in its totality (right, center, and left) embrace an effective solution to it, maybe sanity can return to our politics. Take away people's biggest grievance and they will vote rationally again.
https://youtu.be/W2b5z1FJTs8?si=ZcZHR...

1 week ago | [YT] | 8

Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

This really is glaringly obvious to any thinking being paying attention, but sometimes stating--and helping amplify--the obvious is crucially important!
https://youtu.be/CFi-4T-ra8c?si=azi87...

1 week ago | [YT] | 11

Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

In this conversation with Natalia Vorontsova, Francis Lucille explains that Advaita Vedanta is grounded in a single axiom: there is only one reality, which he equates with consciousness. The apparent multiplicity of selves, worlds, bodies, and minds is an appearance arising within this one consciousness. An important value of Advaita Vedanta, in the myriad of idealist spiritual traditions, is that it focuses not so much on achieving altered states of consciousness, but rather offers a method to recognize that consciousness is the single, universal reality.
https://youtu.be/ocOO0cdSnJ0

1 week ago | [YT] | 58

Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

Brilliantly written article. It makes me look a lot better as a person than I actually am... But at the end, it's about #Euclyd!
ioplus.nl/en/posts/how-a-european-dream-could-coll…

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 103

Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

Every now and then something of stunning beauty and sensitivity appears on the Internet. A mad world it is, one in which such beauty gets less than four thousand views... #JulieGautier
https://youtu.be/gLpjV3drv1I?si=e0X9f...

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 12

Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

This short and powerful essay argues that the widespread dismissal of the Hard Problem of Consciousness is an unintended consequence of science education itself. Our pedagogy first encourages us to project the language of intention onto mindless processes, cheapening the concept; then, it swiftly debunks that intention as a mere metaphor. After years of this training, we reflexively apply the same logic to ourselves, trivializing the one form of interiority that is undeniably real, argues Brian Fang.
www.essentiafoundation.org/unlearning-experience-h…

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 69