10K subscribers! A Q&A with Bernardo Kastrup

We've hit 10K subscribers to our channel, thanks so much! As a small thank you, in this video we discuss your questions with the director of Essentia Foundation, Bernardo Kastrup. It gets pretty wild as the conversation will range from the consciousness of bacteria, to our minds being 'time traveling machines,' to Hans asking Bernardo if Eve performed the first quantum measurement when she ate the apple. Also: why is meditation, literally speaking, an egoistic thing to do? Did Job suffer more than Jesus? And, this one is personal for Bernardo: what is the real danger of idealism if life hits you really hard?
We've added plenty of chapter marks so you can find the stuff you like. Thanks so much for watching and subscribing and the next stop is 100k!
00:00 Start
00:34 Introduction
01:54 Bernardo Kastrup on his work as a philosopher and as director of the Essentia Foundation
02:33 Essentia's mission statement
04:34 Hans Busstra on his position
05:02 What about Bernardo's Daimon?
06:04 How does the Daimon go about?
09:39 How does Bernardo's philosophy handle the Schrödingers cat scenario?
15:58 Can we know mind at large?
18:36 Near death experiences impair dissociation
19:19 Bernardo on being stuck in his hard head
21:40 Mind at large from a pan-psychist point of view
23:20 Can you 'feel' idealism as being real?
23:48 Panpsychism says your fist is conscious
26:13 Is the Amazon river conscious?
27:40 Isn't panpsychism a form of dualism?
31:17 Is the quantum field mind at large?
31:54 No one has ever seen an electron?
33:03 Science operates on convenient fictions
35:19 What is meta-cognition and why is it dependent on brains and more broadly on metabolism?
38:33 Could a table or the sun be meta cognitive?
41:14 Are stars conscious?
43:15 Can the universe 'build' on its own dreams or nightmares?
49:31 Can the universe become metacognitive?
50:08 How is human memory stored in the universe?
53:58 How worms when you cut off their head can still remember stuff
57:52 Could memory be stored in electromagnetic fields?
1:00:12 All physical states in nature are present states
1:01:23 Do we literally bring the past into presence when we recall a memory?
1:04:05 The Alan Watts metaphor that explains the problem of our thinking in terms of causality
1:07:04 Can our minds literally travel back in time?
1:07:27 Why memories are not reliable
1:09:21 Spacetime is doomed
1:10:49 If the brain were a computer could it store all our memories?
1:13:06 How to account for precognition?
1:15:52 Scientific studies indicating forms of precognition
1:17:02 On the phenomenon of retro causation
1:18:14 On the story of Genesis
1:22:18 God is not metacognitive
1:22:59 Metacognition lets you access worlds in your own mind
1:23:52 Do you apply morality to the Genesis story?
1:25:01 Did Eve perform the first quantum measurement by eating the apple?
1:28:09 Our longing back to Eden, the state before we became metacognitive...
1:29:46 On our non-heroic suffering as humans...
1:31:58 Who suffered more, Job or Christ?
1:32:57 Job put a mirror in front of God
1:34:41 How through Christianity the notion of sacrifice enters Western thinking
1:36:39 Why you will suffer less if you know how to suffer
1:38:10 Bernardo talks openly about the 30 minutes in which he wanted to end his life.
1:40:11 The danger of idealism
1:41:53 How suffering from tinnitus led Bernardo to become the director the Essentia Foundation
1:47:03 What are you proud of, now Essentia is three years old?
1:47:56 What are the two major breakthroughs we will see in the next two decades?
1:52:40 Are bacteria conscious?
1:59:22 We hide bullshit behind complexity
2:01:26 We may never have the capabilities to simulate a single bacterium from first principles
2:04:33 Becoming metacognitive is to fall from Eden
2:05:57 Why monkeys didn't start domesticating and riding goats to then chase the bad guys
2:07:38 Does nature have a sense of being?
2:09:09 The benefit and price of metaconsciousness
2:10:52 The race between egotism and the realization that life is sacrificial determines the future of humanity
2:12:19 On the popular resurgence of Stoicism and the meaning of life
2:14:18 The 10K subscriber cake!
Copyright © 2023 by Essentia Foundation. All rights reserved.

[@spiritfilled5758]

I've come from a Christian worldview. When I lost my son last year, I could no longer accept belief based upon words from a book. There was a disconnect. I have spent much time seeking a knowing thru my own experience, allowing life to teach me, not seeking outside of myself. Under Idealisum, I've learned how my experience is my teacher, not words from others or a book. Life is a gift that when I'm in touch with my experience, I can and have learned much. Thank you for the work done. I will do my part to share this work with my community.❤ much love

[@gkannon77]

This was beautiful, thank you for posting it. I come from a similar situation, with regard to Christianity. I have not lost someone extremely close to me like you have yet, but I am thankful that I found idealism prior to that. The suffering that losing a son could impart would likely crush me, without the intrinsic meaning I have found through this philosophical understanding.

[@krishnapartha]

Thank you for sharing. ❤ bless you.

[@GiedriusMisiukas]

Similar experience for me

[@jeannazario2996]

Thanks for sharing. Plese look fo the Bigelow Institute of Comscioussness Essays. Bernardo has an essay there too.

[@madcyril4135]

Hello from u.k. My dad was a journeyman bricklayer, born in 1909 and passed 1993. He lost his first wife to cancer when he was 21 she was 10 yrs older than him. What faith he had he lost, when she passed he ziggzagged the u.k. Working, then met mum in 1950. He spent time off on his travels in local libraries, instead of bars. Never mentioned religion or politics at home ever not even once! I’m 66 now, and never think about religion, and the only reason I look into politics is because we are in a mess globally! Just goes how your parents can influence you. I was in my early 20s, reading a weighty tome almost Certain it was Nietzsche . And dad said, what are you reading son? I told him and he said, ok but what are you going to do with it? Take care from U.k.

[@Hermetic7]

Trust me when I say, your channel needs 10 million subscribers!

[@Autobotmatt428]

i agree

[@essentiafoundation]

Wow, great to hear! Let's aim for the stars together with all of you!

[@footballfactory8797]

Agreed!

[@ceciliagarcia1307]

Actually, 8 billion ...

[@dueldab2117]

no no no those of us that understand and crave this are lucky. it's our job to spread the evangelicalism.

[@danielaquacinella1567]

I love Bernardo Kastrup's mind and how he thinks and articulates his thinking... the language he uses and his philosophical and scientific radical and inspiring insights. But in this interview I was really touched by his wisdom and sensitivity. His reflection on the notion of sacrifice and the egoistic attempt of humans of wanting to be free of suffering is spot on. It's so liberating to know it's not my aim and up to me to end my personal suffering...how not accepting life and suffering as part of life creates more suffering. I'm really grateful he shared such a vulnerable personal story to talk about his shift in narrative around personal suffering and renewed peace ❤btw...The Cure is my favourite band!!😊

[@shroomedup]

Bonus points for The Cure shirt!

[@essentiafoundation]

Rookie mistake not asking Bernardo about this during the conversation:) But he did ask me: should I keep it on. 'Yes! , I said, because Idealism is The Cure.💫

[@MichaelEhling]

​@@essentiafoundationShow me show me show me how you do that trick, the one that makes more sense of the world...🎶

[@danielaquacinella1567]

I thought the same!!😂❤❤❤

[@SolvingCollapse]

I discovered Bernardo's work several months ago, and it has deeply changed my way to see the world and my way to treat myself and the others. I'm here at 10k subscribers and I'll be here at 10M subscribers,

[@heinzgassner1057]

It‘s not only the Tinnitus that brings me very much in tune with Bernardo. My natural science socialization, disturbed by ‘annoyingly disturbing and blissful experiences’ that came from ‘nowhere’ and which I only learned over the years to understand and integrate into my life. This made me tumble through eastern traditions, tumble into Plotinus and Spinoza - all in search to find safety belts helping me to explain what I experienced. Bernardo is a big help to satisfy my rational approaches, while Rupert Spira puzzles me with his unbelievable clarity. Thank you and bless you guys.

[@samrowbotham8914]

It was only eight or nine years ago when I asked Bernardo if he would do a podcast with Evita Ochell so he's come a long way in a short time and people are now beginning to take idealism seriously. I tell friends who are interested to read Dreamed Up Reality First as I feel it's a gentle introduction to Idealism. I hope everything continues to grow it's always been obvious to me that Materialism is taking us down to a dead end. I remember telling Bernardo about a video on here called 'Digital Physics Argument for God's Existence' is very good as its conclusion is we are all immersed in the Mind at Large. I do hope one day BK writes a book about Bishop George Berkley and of course, the news that physicists were awarded the Nobel Prize last year for showing that the universe is not locally real supports Idealism. Well done to Bernardo, Fred and everyone working at Essentia I hope the next eight years will be as exciting and encourage everyone to support it in any way they can.

[@cassidylhd]

I really relate to Bernardo's struggles with meditation and attainment of altered states without any intermediary factors. His "hard-headedness", as he puts it, is what has made his work so accessible to me. So although I know it must frustrate you endlessly, thank you for being this way, Bernardo!

[@crimsonguy723]

It's why I love his discussions with Rupert Spira. Rupert is coming from the exact opposite perspective (religion, art, etc). After watching some of them on YT, I read Ruperts' Nature of Consciousness and it resonated with my more than any other spiritual book that I've read. I love that they are besties and hang out, lol, that thought makes me happy.

[@yifuxero9745]

Struggles with meditation diminish with the proper methods. Access "Mahamritunjaya mantra - Sacred Sounds Choir" Listen to it for 2 min per day for at least two weeks. In due time you will transcend the mind altogether; at first for a short period of time that lengthens with more practice. (until nonduality is continuous).

[@yifuxero9745]

This method will be helpful: Access "Mahamritunjaya mantra - Sacred Sounds Choir". Listen to it for 2 min per day for at least two weeks. In due time you will transcend thought and enter into the non-dual state of Pure Consciousness.

[@alexjan108]

I get a sort of ecstasy hearing Bernardo sharing his deep insights on so many different subjects we have often only rudimentary knowledge. He is so enriching our lives taking us on the hand and guiding us in his beautiful garden of thoughts. Beautiful soul!

[@matswessling6600]

yes. But that doesnt mean he is right.

[@eviechris1]

This was the very best interview; and I have listened to quite a number of talks with Bernardo; a man I truly admire! A sincere thank you to the Essentia Foundation for having recognized the greatness of this one individual mind and soul, and for sharing his greatness with ALL! Thank you, Bernardo; your gifts to us are priceless!

[@deborahbreen69]

I’m glad you are here. Your work has enriched my life.

[@Jay_Teacher]

Me too.

[@stevenmccarthy112]

I'm sitting here yelling YES YES every few minutes for the pure joy of hearing this awesome stuff, especially about memory which is something of great interest to me.

[@matswessling6600]

yes. the lure of cognitive bias...

[@footballfactory8797]

Keep doing what your doing guys!! Love you Bernardo, can’t wait to get your newest book, still need to get through the two I have of yours already, heavy reading but so fascinating!

[@hugothales4902]

I love this Q&A format. Wonderful topics. So enlightening. More of this please 🙏

[@dazlemwithlovelight]

"YES" we made it . . ! ! Doing a little happy dance inside as I listen. Thank you for all you share, I think I speak for most here. Cheers from a digga down under.

[@laika5757]

I love people who have seen both sides of life.... agony that makes them suisidal, and the resurrection that makes them Godlike. Bernado and Eckhart Tolle are 2 such people. Their contribution to the Human endeavour is fantastic..🙏

[@JanneWolterbeek]

I do not regret discovering this channel! ❤

[@AviAdir]

Congratulations! Thanks so much for your work!

[@ultmiddle4991]

My tinnitus, after 5 decades, it really does blend into the background sometimes and I have learned to fall asleep by giving it competition from blizzards, crackling fires, thunderstorms, and all nights train rides, thanks to the internet. I’d rather have that then constant migraines like some of my friends experience. ❤

[@elyalainlevy]

Bedankt! Goed gesprek, kijk uit naar meer!

[@gkannon77]

This was awesome, your channel needs more of this to counterbalance the great scientific con tent. Looking forward to what your channel has in the future.

[@behnaz5097]

Just pure delight,wow..what a conversation, that you so much for sharing it with us🙏💚

[@realcygnus]

Congrats ! TBH it ought to be 10M but these things take time. We should celebrate every added zero, at least.

[@aidanhall6679]

Congrats on the 10k! 🥳 I see it ticking over 11k already! P.S. I can only hope to have a conversation with Dr Kastrup one day 🙏🏻

[@melaniebruce3923]

Good to hear from Bernardo ..

[@terradoflorescer]

Thank you so much for this video and for all the amazing work! It's been a delightful journey to listen and to learn so much. ❤🧡💙

[@Krisach]

I love to hear Kastrup explore these concepts. I keep hearing him describe psychedelics as reducing or impairing brain activity. Is Bernardo familiar with Selen Atasoy and her research on connectome harmonics and LSD? It suggests that the vocabulary of connectome harmonics (geometrical standing wave patterns across the brain's connectome) increases significantly, akin to how a jazz musician improvises in a variety of spontaneous, yet not arbitrary ways. The interconnectedness of these brain cymatics in regions of the brain that usually do not connect as often seem to go against the notion of psychedelics working "only" through reducing the brain's perceptual filtering or activity 🤔 Would love to hear his take on this more musical perspective on brain activity, it is quite ground breaking ✨

[@renatabianchi6453]

Thank you so much …with a growing feeling of gratitude🙏😊

[@Meditation409]

Wow that was really great! Im so darn glad Isubbed. Absolutely great content!!! ❤ 💯

[@vartanvartanian4412]

This was good. Down to earth. High level. 😊

[@carlt570]

Wonderful conversation. Love that the cat made a walk on appearance 🙂

[@ultmiddle4991]

Appreciate this format of my enthusiastic eavesdropping on a rich, skillfully conducted gathering of ideas and impressions shared between two individuals with obvious chemistry onscreen. Thank you

[@ideacastilluminate]

Once again, Floki contributes to the matters at hand. Thanks for the dialogue!

[@josejrtuti]

great interview. thank!

[@crux101]

Thiank you for such a clear voice. I have been following you for about a year and have found your words explain many of the important decisions I've made in life because I listened to that nameless ~push~; I came to know it was important to listen and I am so glad in my 75 years that (for the most part) I did. I have had an interesting and full time on this MudBall!

[@sheric123]

Great conversation 🎉 Congratulations and thanks 🙏

[@NTRSN-Archive]

Heel fascinerend wat De heer Bernardo Kastrup weet te vertellen.

[@N0r8]

More of this please.

[@HighCountryStudio]

Thank you for this informal ramble. Very enjoyable and informative.🤞that you will have many more subscribers. It can’t be too soon.Congratulations on your success so far!

[@monicat160]

Que entrevista maravilhosa! Bernardo, muito obrigada por existir e trazer tanto sentido!

[@franswa529]

The best explanation of the Daemon! Thank you 🙏

[@samrowbotham8914]

You will annoy Anthony Peake by claiming that.

[@slymaceo9124]

Thank you so much!

[@jericosha2842]

Beautiful conversation. Keep thinking about it afterwards.

[@lousialb8962]

Thank you so much! This discussion was very beneficial, despite none of the content being new to me. Upon reflecting upon why I felt so struck, I realized that it is the absence of animosity and arrogance. During years of puzzling, I have stitched together a patchwork of understanding, seemingly from disparate cloths, each asserting their definitive wholeness or perfection, despite gaping holes or flaws being apparent. So my experience has been painstaking, laborious, full of humble doubt and frustration. A seeming imperative to endlessly educate myself sufficiently in vastly different domains before I'm adequately equipped to accept and integrate whatever may be valid from that domain and to confidently leave on the cutting floor where it has veered off from reality because of some fundamental error that replicates exponentially. So many conversations seem like battles to destroy or capture the other, to convert them. Or like a guru/disciple in which the guru is assumed infallible, with the disciple gullibly submitting to the guru's words notwithstanding that they obviously are not (perhaps not yet) the disciple's actual experience. So I very much appreciated the cooperative and collaborative tone of this dialogue. Because there were no sides, my mind was not provoked into picking sides as I listened. That made it very easy to cooperate and collaborate too. And many things I KNEW but could not claim to feel genuinely took root. So very grateful! There is no physical person currently in my life with whom I can cooperate and collaborate to explore these questions. So I'm grateful for these virtual realities where I feel at home.

[@cashglobe]

Let’s go! Next stop, 100k!

[@krishnapartha]

My prayers and well wishes to you Bernardo and team at Essentia. May you all live long and keep spreading this timeless wisdom of the ancients with scientific rigor. :-) 🙏🏾❤️🔥

[@renateuwe9033]

Knowing now the story of your suffering and your surrendering to that suffering, I am deeply touched by the blessing expressed in this anniversary >10K and in your wealth of wisdom through your books, Essential Foundation and your huge amount of other YT videos, you have brought into the world/to awareness🙏🏽💫✨mil parabéns para você!! 🌹🌹🌹😘

[@TheYellowshuttle]

Excellent interview. We need more.❤️ More questions for BK: If we fold metacognition upon itself, can it cause a temporary untangle (or cessation of metacognition) to reveal a glimpse of the underlying substrate in a more basic form? The motivation for thinking thus is that metacognition is itself a product of super convolution or layering of underlying substrate.

[@AriRuuska]

Comment about suffering (relates to discussion starting around 1:34:40). In my experience suffering end didn't mean the end of metacognition. I have chronic pain (rheumatic) and I have suffered a lot because of infections and pain. Then something happened. I call it perspective change. Now I'm all the time aware of "that which knows" and I'm watching life from there. After that, the pain has been a teacher, and I have learned so much from that. I have still pain but now it's like a dear friend of mine and even more. I'm grateful that I have had an opportunity to "spend time with the teacher". Also, pain doesn't touch my happiness in any way. I'm happy now with this painful situation. So, I don't think that the end of suffering ends anything beneficial for nature. It's the opposite I think. 😊

[@madamefeemy]

Bernardo, I don’t mean to sound hyperbolic, but you are a Job/Christ-like figured for me and undoubtedly countless others. I can only begin to convey how drastically your intellectual framing of idealism has transformed every facet of my life and perspective. I can only offer a pale reflection of your intellect, but I’ve begun to share your insights with others; I have no doubt many others are doing the same. Because of you, I sense the Truth is spreading-and it is all the grace of the suffering that led you to become the head of the Essentia Foundation and produce a mountain of invaluable content. Thank you for your sacrifice. I hope one day I have a chance to thank you in person.

[@javadhashtroudian5740]

Thank you both very much for another great video. I love the Alan Watts cat metaphor. I remember it always but had forgotten where I first read it.

[@doodlus]

Congratulations!

[@Sebastian_S_Azar]

How was the cake? You never commented that. I love your work and really hope you get extremely much more attention. This is a breakthrough and Bernardo has personally un-brainwashed me from materialism. Thank you(me)(us)(god) for the sacrifice.

[@essentiafoundation]

The cake was delicious and left us wanting more:) I feel honored to be able to make these videos and just want to keep on exploring and sharing!! So good to hear we are making impact!

[@AzarPhilosophy]

​@@essentiafoundation Hi! Please do respond. I have a channel dedicated to idealism and philosophy mostly, and would really like to interview bernardo or anyone of your team since i have a lot of questions i think have not been asked before with regard to analytical idealism. Mind at large in dissociation is asking you. 🐂

[@Sebastian_S_Azar]

@@essentiafoundation why do my questions get deleted?

[@QDoppio]

This should be as mainstream default mode of reasoning as we can get now

[@texelle]

Just discovered your channel. Thanks to algorithms. Thanks guys. Fascinating & interesting exchange. ;o-))

[@walvarad777]

Love your shirt Bernardo!

[@afterceasetoexist]

love your shirt bernardo

[@kgrandchamp]

Hey Hans and Bernardo! I must agree with Hans that I don't really understand all of Bernardo's thinking! Even though I have quite a bit in common with Bernardo in that I lived in Rio for my first 17 years of life, have quite severe tinnitus, and worked in IT support (not at his level) for most of my working life! haha! My "natural" perception of nature inhibits my understanding of Analytical Idealism. Somehow, the sharp, real, solid, easily manipulated world of "materialism", becomes somewhat unreal, ephemeral, when I imagine stars, chemicals, rocks and tools as objects created within consciousness or fields of subjectivity! Am I missing something here? Thanks for your great work guys! 🌿

[@altrs9215]

I was excited late last night, when I was reading over an article on agents that combat cardio toxicity and, about a third of the way into the article, in a table that enumerated the different agents, was bottle brush! Bottle brush is a tree that produces wonderful vibrant red flowers with amazing fiber optic like "petals" arranged in a brush form. By chance a bottle brush is located just below the steps that descend to our bungalow. Exited by the data I harvested the leaves and threw them into my dehydrator after washing them throughly and now eagerly await the dry time so I can I give the stuff a go.

[@damianclifford9693]

Would be interesting to hear a long detailed discussion between Bernardo and Iain McGilchrist 🙏

[@laurakelly631]

As always, such a great presentation! Thank you so much! A question: How is an insight (learned by us in our disassociated state and released into nature when we die) experienced as an insight or 'is a knowing' by nature if nature is not metaconscious? Or, how does 'Nature' know? How is that insight held by Nature once we have un-disassociated? (died)

[@40JoCharles]

Congratulations on the 10k. Looking forward to watching you both and the channel grow. 🙂🙏🏼🤍

[@craigbowers4016]

OH! Seriously you are the most beautiful person alive. Not to be creepy, you're on my list of people to hug before I die!

[@youtubecanal]

1. Is context the creation of possibilities or, in othrr words, experiences and concepts in the screen of perception? 2. Does each rise of a different context creates different perceptions or realities? 3. Because of the rise of metacognition context, I am the size of what I see, and not of my physical tall. 4. Is the dissociation process the fundamental context to create meta cognition? 5. Causality and time: the analogy of Alan Watts is very usefull.

[@artursknope8927]

Thank you, for your meta cognitive work! Just yesterday found your channel. It would be really great to talk to you, and if I can propose a challenge it would be even more meaningful to sit in silence. I think you are doing meditation, it is just active. Highly recommend Vipassana meditation for you. Hope your dimon sees this. Have a great day!

[@oliviergoethals4137]

Inevitibility of growth towards Truth.

[@patricksee10]

interesting discussion about sacrifice gentlemen. The concept of sacrifice is too often ignored in modern philosophical discourse. Thanks for raising it.

[@theophrastusbomblastus821]

Absolutely Outstanding Q&A! And finally someone clearly explaining quantum field fluctuations as particles! Freaking physicists use quantum fields as some kind of "barrier to entry"... And kudos on all the microbio discussion, can't wait to see Hans' new Doc! Given a sufficiently complex microbial community could metacognition emerge? When you add electrogenics and magnetotactics into the mix the syntrophy becomes much more than just chemical interaction and it is known that any and all biofilms use electric potentials to communicate with themselves. Perhaps a plastic or naked consciousness, an almost "alien" form of metacog? The disassociative boundary weakens greatly without a dedicated perceptual system, internal modeling system and cultural lens. Thus "naked" consciousness, not dissimilar from the "afterlife" hehe My hypothesis is that an advanced form of consciousness could have evolved long before multicellularity given a sufficiently exotic biofilm makeup and equally exotic environment. Ancient primordial consciousness(s) such as this might account for what most refer to as the "paranormal". Any thoughts? Wouldn't it be fascinating if our first contact with non-human intelligence had been here all along, the true custodians of this planet?

[@ceciliagarcia1307]

I've been thinking, if every person who watched this video also subscribed to the Essentia Foundation they would have 14,882K instead of 11.4k in 8 days, wouldn't that be a step forward? And this video was made to celebrate 10K, congrats!!!! If that were the case, we'll be watching the 100K celebration video with Bernardo Kastrup quicker than we imagine. Hopefully.

[@essentiafoundation]

That absolutely is the holy grail on KZbin, that every viewer becomes a subscriber! I guess it is up to us to make the content so engaging that that actually happens:)

[@innerlight617]

Thanks for having Bernardo, a philosopher i consider as a real gem for western culture. I wish a day he will meet for a public discussion Eckhart Tolle.ॐ ❤ 🙏

[@koldourrutia]

Plus SadhGuru plus Michael Levin

[@renateuwe9033]

🌹muchissimos geacias, Bernardo🙏🏽😘I follow your posts (in Germany )with the greatest interest and inner resonance!🥰 # Precognition: When I was 18, I dreamed of a close 20-years old friend's fatal swimming accident the night before! At first I didn't attach much importance to this dream, but in the evening, when Friedemann had succumbed to his hypoxia, my mother reminded me of the dream that I had told her in the morning... simply because it was so crazy...

[@90days90]

oh man i want to hear more about that cliffhanger!!!!!!!!!

[@ianbaez1998]

Seriously! I've heard Bernardo foreshadow about aliens and other cryptid paranormal phenomena, but I wonder how it connects to idealism.

[@shanosantwanos3908]

The fact materialism is bankrupt is finally being realized by some people...good start..a return to the German idealism and romanticism philosophy would be fantastic, even if it is the entry level or 'lite' version.

[@n33k0]

My favorite part is while he’s talking about Analytic Idealism, he’s wearing a shirt that says THE CURE

[@johnstarrett7754]

The experience of satori can certainly give you additional and surprising connection to the mind at large.

[@user-mm8pm7ol3r]

That's what Advaita Vedanta is about. I've been watching lectures by Swami Sarvapriyananda and it is exactly what Bernardo has been teaching, only it's been discovered two thousand years ago.

[@barbharwood3834]

2:15:25 I would love to see you give your explanation of what's happening when somebody comes along and greatly upsets you, pushes your buttons. In terms of memory, patterns, morphic fields overlapping between people, and how change happens as a result.

[@GiedriusMisiukas]

Nice interview. 56:35 :) 1:04:05 Alan Watts 1:26:40 on the book "More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief" by Bernardo Kastrup 1:48:00 and 1:51:43

[@hcellix]

Ok, 10,001. Let's get it to 1million.

[@skemsen]

I wish I had known that this would happen and that I could have contributed with questions of my own.

[@essentiafoundation]

Don't worry, we will do this again, I will announce it on our community page on KZbin

[@Juanc09051]

@@essentiafoundationan email newsletter would be great to remain up to date 😁

[@glitchyatheist]

Saved to 'watch when high'

[@detodounpoco37]

A powerful way to expand our experience of Mind at Large

[@paddydiddles4415]

I think the reason we don’t have such easy access to the future compared to the past, is because the future hasn’t happened, while as the past has

[@KR-jq3mj]

Brilliant 👏 would love to hear BK chat with Michael Levin ....

[@koldourrutia]

And with SadhGuru

[@S.G.Wallner]

Congratulations from a dualist!

[@Tirsogonzales]

Greetings from Lima, Perú. Please, try to put spanish subtitles to your youtube videos. The spanish speaking world (Latin America, Spain) is not necessarily bilingual. South america alone has a population of 440 million individuals. I wish I would had had time in my last August visit to the Netherlands. Time was short. Congrats for all the good work. Tirso Gonzales👍👏

[@JOSELUIS1964]

Se puede configurar para traducción automática al español, u otro idioma, oprimiendo el icono de "ruedita" o "engranaje" que aparece sobre el vídeo.

[@Tirsogonzales]

@@JOSELUIS1964 . Es cierto lo que dices. Sin embargo, la traducción es muy pobre. Dada la importancia de la narrativa de Bernardo, se arriesga y pierde mucho en confiar en una traducción pobre y automática. Saludos. Tirso

[@Uri1000x1]

What appears as a particle appears conscious since it is influenced by information only. This is based on the propositin that information is forces and fields and system energy levels, whatever influences a system, that is.

[@MisterNashT]

Bernardo is my guru.

[@zenadastra]

Hi, thanks for creating such interesting videos. Is there any where I can view your content besides KZbin? As I'm getting adverts seemingly every 5 minutes on my device and begrudge paying for KZbin Premium. Many thanks.

[@Autobotmatt428]

Sir Arthur Eddington also wrote in philosophy of science. In his book The Nature of the Physical World he argued that materialism had been conclusively overthrown with the development of relativity and, even more importantly, quantum physics, and that the only viable alternative was a form of idealism.

[@laika5757]

Bernado is fantastic..👍

[@user-ci7ls5wt5q]

The difficulty of analytical idealism is that it is quite counterintuitive. I was about to end listening to its explanation when its beauty hit me and it dawned on me. Thats why it will probably be a long road especially because of the incredible intellectual laziness these days.

[@whoaitstiger]

The fact that Bernado can make peace with tinnitus, which is one of my greatest fears, gives me courage to face the difficult parts of life. I don't know if I would take my life if it happened to me, I would definitely consider it but I hope I'd be able to endure the suffering and find peace with it as he has.

[@MadMallory]

Tinnitus can be caused by caffeine!

[@ultmiddle4991]

Could there please be a series of children’s books about such things so this granny can have an easy beginning understanding?.I’ve had a long life of accepting indoctrinations since my first breath.

[@johnnytass2111]

Bernardo, are you familiar with or read any of the early Church Fathers, for example St. Maximus, etc, the book The Philokalia, and even a later Saint such as St Gregory of Palamas?

[@Oskar-S-]

Yeah

[@StephenPaulKing]

I need a theory of interaction between Minds that have separated Identities.

[@JOSELUIS1964]

As More people becomes curious and eager to find truth, the number of suscriptors rises.

[@kennyhaughan9605]

I’ll watch out for the new definitions of materialism and matter, though it’s probable that most people won’t realise the implications and continue as normal.

[@ibodhidogma]

As a kind of panpsychist myself, I see matter as just an expression of Consciousness ("matter is light, trapped"). They are one in the same-to varying degrees and always in flux.

[@gkannon77]

Regarding Schrodinger's cat. I feel like there was a bit of a dodge there. A question that arose during their discussion was, regardless of whether the chemical was pink or blue, as interpreted by a disassociated conscious alter, does that chemical have a definitive state prior to a conscious alter observing/measuring it? I understand pink and blue are only dials on a dashboard, but does reality "carry on" without a conscious altar to observe it? And if not, who's keeping track of hypothetical changes?

[@stevenpham6734]

Of course it has. As you said it yourself, pink and blue is perception, not the perceived. The perceived is there regardless of it being perceived or not. As to who's keeping track of hypothetical changes. The "hypothetical " is only in the mind of the perceiver as he/ she has not yet observed/ made a measurement. And yes, everything is (in) mind, whose mind is that, it's the cosmic mind. In the cosmic mind, the state is not hypothetical, because it's already perceived (shift in perspectives, from pov of alters to mind at large's).

[@gkannon77]

He agrees that there is a seemingly fundamental limit to our ability to know the states of nonliving matter. But the word seemingly suggests this is only due to our inability to see the world as it is. So it seems, he could say that nonliving matter is not in really, in a super position, only a super position to us, alters. Which means that the idea of superposition itself is not actual reality, but only perceived reality.

[@MikeRandall-tt8ku]

The you for this conversation.. Bernardo may have explained why or what has got him to believe non human intelligence will be a catalyst to our near futures experience but I have missed such. Has Bernardo had first person communication with nhi?

[@essentiafoundation]

Hi Mike, I think Bernardo is not referring to first person experience but to growing evidence, for instance the recent congressional hearing of David Grusch. If you are interested in Bernardo's views on this I also can recommend his book 'Meaning in Asburdity'. Best, Hans