The NEW Worldview to explain it all | Q&A with Bernardo Kastrup

[@Mr00000111]

The next generations will remember Bernardo as one of the great truth seekers in history.

[@pantherstealth1645]

Totally. And John Vervaeke!

[@johannakunze3300]

I had one mystical and one profound religious experience listening to the man.

[@cameronhuff5170]

​@@johannakunze3300What happened???

[@HigoWapsico]

Totally. He completely untangled my life in so many ways. I used to be a militant atheist, who had multiple inexplicable experiences (psychedelics), and I knew that death isn’t the end. Thanks to Bernardo’s work, my life makes sense to me. Or should I say, I now have a coherent explanation and understanding of the different facets of my life/experiences. I owe him so much (he doesn’t even realize it 😂).

[@green_light_8806]

Research dr.steven greer

[@SebastianGonzaaa]

This is incredible, I want to be a part of this change of the truth. Bernardo would bring to society.

[@dhammaboy1203]

I am studying philosophy and Kastrup is truly one of the most interesting modern philosophers out there. A truly unique mind!

[@MariaPeredaPhD]

This interview is so sensational that I watch it again, in its entirety. The interviewer is excellent, and Bernardo is absolutely brilliant from every angle of his thinking and knowledge. It's great that we have a philosopher of science who has reached such an expanded gradient. I thank you immensely for the channel and the video.

[@lytroo9776]

This interview was great! I am a physicist whose OBE experiences began more than 40 years ago. Since then, I have studied these phenomena extensively. I have had many UAP experiences and I can say that Bernardo is correct in his assessments of these phenomena. My research has led me towards a hypotheses that what we call reality is a type mental experience. There is no physical world in the form people believe it to be. Everyone needs to understand that they are not part of this reality. They are only interfacing with it. We are not physical beings.

[@standsguadalajara]

VERY INTERESTING Post,thanks for sharing!… Any books or webpages you could recommend

[@ssoffshore5111]

I've pondered just this for years. It's certainly a possibility.

[@deathbatxtat]

@@standsguadalajara I’d start by watching/listening to anything from Donald Hoffman. He’s been doing a ton of podcasts the last few years proposing consciousness is fundamental, rather than spacetime, and we wear a type of “VR spacetime headset”. On that note, good luck getting out of that rabbit hole lol

[@sentinaludo1489]

Great insight, " We are not physical beings". However one describes it, we are spiritual beings experiencing a physical age. Elohims I like to call one's like me, part of two realms of existence. The unseen realm is the one that takes mercy and grace and love to bring out visions and messages from it. There is a purpose for everyone in the grander narrative of the Kingdom of God, and some are the reapers or archangels of El-Elyon to bring balance back into this nursery of souls on earth. Religions attempt to help seekers on this journey of ascension in the spirit, but wolves and malevolent beings corrupt the message.

[@EP_1990]

A lot of people are coming up with the hypothesis that brain is just a filter and our thoughts and feelings are generated somewhere else. Do you agree with that?

[@julieanncollie9290]

Ah so! I understand that C. G. Jung was studying the interaction between yin & yang in the "afternoon" of his life. Mr. Kastrup has done an admirable job of putting two superficially opposite ideas together. Unity always reigns. Bravo!!

[@jupiterthesun3217]

As Mr Kastrup said , lately I feel that I’m not getting it right about almost everything and anything and going to bed with that painful spiritual dissatisfaction with my wasted days is like living a hellish reality that can physically affect me, but hearing that I’m not the only one with those jarring and deeply painful feelings made me feel a lot better and so many great insights I’ve learned just now by listening to Mr Kastrup , the same will that makes a tree to grow is also present in us and it’s probably the only force there is and trying to confront it would be like trying to confront all that is happening all over the physical universe and the metaphysical reality, we can receive more insights by reducing the size of our egos and that’s the only way and it can be a painful process but it is the only way.

[@timmyturner7494]

I’m right there with you, friend.

[@frialsharefabdo7715]

💚🙏

[@darrylkassle361]

This really hit something. I feel you have expressed a notion we all feel and know at some level.

[@laisa.]

I read this before the interview and aeven more looking forward to it now. As a woman at 46yo I can say it's just menopause, but... no, it isn't. There's been an intense energy in me since childhood, and this hit me. The past 3 years Bernardo has sort of helped satisfy this energy. Thank you!

[@hellomate639]

It teaches us to listen to that higher self. God is making Himself apparent to the larger world once again, after this period of materialism post enlightenment.

[@KT-sl4js]

Bernardo is my hero. I love this man for all he has blessed me and others in insights and virtue. May he receive all the Goodness the Universe has to offer ❤

[@greenthumb8266]

I see it that way as well, and may the Universe bring you all the Goodness you can enjoy.

[@laisa.]

Love Bernardo's work! Can we say music is a fractal of the symmetry of the "universe" And we resonate because we are also made of it.. we are it. Everything is made of the same, only put together in different ways ❤

[@greenthumb8266]

Your comment is music to my ears.

[@VperVendetta1992]

One of the best interviews of Bernardo ever. I love that he finally got deep into UFOs, as they are for sure an important aspect of reality that will significantly contribute to take our modern civilization out of the local minimum in culture, technology, morality and philosophy.

[@matrixmatico695]

A hypnotherapist in Colombia has a whole story on encounters with beings from other dimensions. Another in Argentina and Spain and all the stories are about the same beings pulling the strings of humanity.

[@jupiterthesun3217]

Yes , we can see the whole reality of humanity like that, but the very fact that we can perceive the notion of some other invisible entity pulling the strings in itself can be very revelatory because other sentient beings on this planet can not have that kind of understanding because they’re not as self aware as we are and if some superior entity is Controling us then we can be rest assured that we have a superior spiritual ability that can be cognisant of that entity and its control over us and hence we can get a very profound insight into the realms that is hidden to us and that’ll be a leapfrog jump in our spiritual evolution.

[@VperVendetta1992]

@@matrixmatico695 Yes I believe that's the case, there are for sure "spiritual" beings that are not apparent to us but nevertheless are aware of our existence and are constantly interacting with us to steer our actions in one direction or another. The term "spiritual" is simply a temporary label due to lack of scientific understanding of the dimensions where they operate, but I'm sure that more research would enable us to understand the mechanism of their reality without leaving too much ambiguity. And I also believe that improving this understanding will lead us to be freer and freer from them, and maybe even let us turn from puppets to puppeteers.

[@jenniferarnold-delgado3489]

FINALLY < a man says we have lost fifty percent of human intelligence . Probably the first man on earth that I have ever heard say that so simply and clearly . Thank you .

[@kennythelenny6819]

Really curious to know how women live reality.

[@tracik1277]

@@kennythelenny6819have you tried asking one? 😊

[@Archeidos-Arcana]

For those interested in the UAP topic, I highly recommend "Passport to Magonia" by Jacques Vallee. He was perhaps the first individual to realize that the same motifs of folklore can be observed in modern UFO/UAP anecdotes/reports, and the book goes into detail about this.

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

I bought Dimensions instead since many reviewers said it is almost identical to Passport and it was a a bit cheaper in paperback format (prefer print books). ~ 1/3 way through reading it. p. 67 "They [the NHIs] also volunteered information about space travel. Our astronauts would not be successful, they said, because their bodies would not adapt to space conditions." {it's true that there are a lot of health problems associated with prolonged microgravity & radiation exposure} ~ p. 72 "In those days, too, they were called the Good People and, in Scotland, the Good Neighbors, the _Sleagh Maith_. What did they say, then? 'We are far superior to you.' 'We could cut off half the human race.' ~ I'm glad Vallee has such a good sense of humor, because otherwise the book would be a bit too creepy & depressing. Abduction stories have always left me with the disquieting impression of an abusive relationship - much like child abuse with humans as children. So far the book has added to that impression. ~ I'll probably buy the Kindle version of Passport since it is only $9.99; I will be able to compare the contents to Dimensions and also have a searchable version. The only disappointment I have with Vallee's work is that he does not provide references or an index. I hope someday a publisher decides to make critical (i.e., scholarly) editions of his most important works. His insights on the nature of the phenomenon (and reality itself) are brilliant.

[@Braun09tv]

How about reading the granted patent by the Navy and inventor Salvatore Pais?

[@dnoordink]

Bernardo talks about that in "10 Essential Reads" on the channel.

[@pathfinderwellcare]

Interesting. Thank you for the recommendation.

[@dagon99]

"Gods of eden" is another great read

[@mlife952]

Thanks for your conversation and for Hans' openess and Bernardo's life brilliance.

[@Hermetic7]

These conversations are phenomenal! And they just keep getting better. I keep getting deeper and better insights. What you are providing to humanity is invaluable. Thank you!

[@waynzwhirled6181]

I'm late to the party, but this is a fantastic discussion. Thank you. It includes the only best discussion I have ever heard regarding free will. I love it! In my opinion, Bernardo is right on the mark. It has always annoyed me that some people claim we have free will, but they never define what they mean by free will, and could not define it if they had to. There are choices, but there is no such thing as free will.

[@oliviergoethals4137]

First book I read of Kastrup dealt about this topic in a beautiful way. "Meaning in Absurdity" one of his best!

[@timmyturner7494]

Would love to know how much Dr. Kastrup has seen of Alan Watts. As someone who took Watts seriously for the past 20 years, I think Dr. Kastrup is the next iteration of Alan. Thank you to everyone who putting this channel together. .

[@LFIREOFFICIAL]

I was thinking the same thing, many many similarities

[@greenthumb8266]

Ooh, I like your analogy.

[@trevorcarterva]

Bernardo understands the phenomenon as well as anyone. I've studied UFOs and parapsychological phenomena for thirty years. He's on the right track.

[@tomthumb2062]

I’ve been waiting for Bernardo’s thoughts on this since his teasing comment on a previous video, much love to you all at the foundation…

[@hook-x6f]

me 2

[@JM-zt8vq]

Love Bernardo he is really onto something that has been gnawing at the edge of my mind for decades

[@mamavscience2977]

I think our mania for music is one of the strongest arguments for a Mind-first reality. It is the most abstract experience we can have while still in a body.

[@pantherstealth1645]

Man. This might be the best video on this current stuff.

[@aynua.amazonas]

Thank you. Deeply appreciate these perspectives. There is something inherently unifying and hopeful for humanity here. We often see debates between religion and atheism. What Bernardo and others, like Donald Hoffman and Robert Spira, are presenting, is an true optimistic 3rd way. Thank you so much for the video uploads on KZbin.

[@hellomate639]

The death of atheism is upon us. God is merely becoming socially acceptable once again. These things are nothing new, but because we've reached a point in our age of reason where we can describe them in the language of reason, we act as though we're discovering something new. I wish people knew the extent to which these things are reflected in religion, particularly in the teachings of Jesus. Does it not blow your mind that the second of the greatest commandments is "Love your neighbor as yourself," as if the distinction between loving yourself and loving your neighbor is not real, in the context of this conversation? I believe that free will is like a fractal reflection of our nature being a reflection of God - being made in God's image. That voice he speaks of, at the end of the day, regretting how we acted... That is a reflection of how we acted with our free will. It requires us to listen, and perpetually get better at listening. In case you were wondering what the saints were up to. And, Boethius's solution to the problem of free will and predestination... That God exists outside of time. We're at the end of the enlightenment. What's next is going to be an absolutely wild ride.

[@theupstart5623]

Thanks a ton Bernardo for choosing to start ESSENTIA 😇

[@livinginaccordwiththesky]

Appreciating your response to the query about women and their absence in the philosophical literature. I actually cracked up as I find so often in spiritual philosophical and psychological writings and talks that so much of what is stated seems obvious. I have a passion for truth hence read voraciously and love new understandings to expand my world view but have come to realize everyone has their own ideas and world views and how information is changed by each consciousness that comes across it. Women's Way I believe is more direct knowing~~which includes but is deeper than intuition. We somehow have stayed closer to the Ground of Being by not needing to metaphorically climb Mt. Everest. As Camille Paglia stated there are more male geniuses but there are also more male destroyers or psychopaths. Hmmm....To sum up is it not obvious if we are to evolve as a species we must open the unique pathways of both sexes, both sides of the brain, using both our outer and latent inner senses....as Ken Wilber stated men need to become more sensitive/compassionate and women more independent. Hmmm.

[@discordlexia2429]

I (transgender woman) used to intuitively understand a lot of things too, and still do. However, my masculine upbringing taught me first and foremost to scorn and smash that intuition. I learned to hate and despise myself as an irrational being clinging to the comfort of intuition to try and flee from the hard truth that we live in a dead, empty world atop the corpse of a rotting Earth... It turns out I have intuited like, half the things Bernardo said in the past, then scorned myself for daring to "meddle in unscientific woo". I actually developed the concept of "We are all Alters of the universe" in January, then spent the next 3 months gaslighting myself out of it. I even used to intuit things like math. In Primary school if I was given an equation I could tell you the correct answer every time, but I couldn't do working out. It'd just come to me. I was always marked down for not showing my working. Eventually I lost the ability because I gaslit that away too. I'm now learning to intuit again but it's hard to overcome two decades of programming like that.

[@mrnessss]

It's always a great day when a new Bernardo video pops up on YT! Hans is the perfect conversation partner!

[@josephgrace4725]

These are some of the most fascinating conversations happening in our times.

[@VanEazy]

Completely agree!!!

[@maryammajdiyazdi2344]

I always love Bernardo’s point of view. I totally resonate with the hallmarks of impersonal movement based on my own experience. Thank you🙏

[@VanEazy]

Bernardo is one of those people who I want to know his views of literally everything! Love to hear his points!

[@zak2659]

@@VanEazy haha I feel exactly the same, I really wish he started a podcast

[@francesco5581]

ive listened a lot from Neil Turok lately and he said that the universe is the total opposite of chaos, the universe is simple and elegant at the start and as a whole, with a lot of complexity in between.

[@patriciooyarzun7076]

Amazing!!!.I am a biotec researcher (in Chile) and just got to Bernardo's ideas, which in my own path I had also approached (i.e. IIT - Jung`s theory, cognitive neurosciences, etc). I will be following other videos and certainly looking for books. Really nice to find these topics all together!.

[@mateocardo8382]

I love this Q&A!! 💜 Thank you so much. 🙏✨

[@anadrummond7058]

A tree is a tree because that's what it wanted to me most. Expressing 'tree' is what it does best. There is no 'choice' because that would be completely absurd! I love that BK spoke about his partner and how females (occasionally) don't consider philosophical explanations, or equations or long form explanations..we just 'know', like Jung, we don't need to 'believe' we just 'know', it is just who we are. I am also excited that language can lead to the most profound places, despite the diversions, we arrive at the same place. Wise women should be more visible and their meta language, or better still 'silence' should be experienced and hopefully understood. I am loving how so many deeply clever men, most importantly from scientific backgrounds are finding the subtle language to revolutionise what was once a very dry male field. I agree that we have lost a huge canon of female voices, but how wonderful that we have these conversations - to challenge stagnant thinking- connecting male/female, real/dream, good/bad. All meaningless unless we individually harness the personal meaning for each of us. I am both 'Me' and my 'Father' was profound. The silent voice in all of us is usually the most insightful . The loud one more often than not drowns this out. BK is my hero. A voice for any gender.

[@youmanet]

I do have an objection to the idea of determinism and free will as being the same. What Bernardo says, is that in the absolute, determinism and free will are the same, but they are not. Absolute determinism means that all choices are "pre-made", which yields a universe where time flows infinitely fast, as there is no hesitation. It's like falling straight into a black hole, with infinite acceleration, or in other words, instant realization of "self". Absolute freedom means all choices are equivalent, which yields to paralysis, or time standing still. You make no choice because all choices are "equal". That is what true absolute freedom means, because the moment a choice is "better" than another, you are not free. You are pushed to make the choice that is "better". This is like orbiting a black hole in a perfect stationary orbit, never actually being drawn in the black hole. Time is frozen. When you MIX the two, you are falling into the black hole spiralling down. Free will, is the mix between these two absolutes, and it enables one to fall into a black hole (into oneself), but with a CONTROLLED fall, a bit like a surfer on his surf board. He is not COMPLETELY free, because he could fall off his board, but he does have a certain margin of manoeuvre, surfing a big faster, slower, going up or down on the wave. Bernardo is brilliant, but I find that he doesn't completely grasp the difference between the realm of the absolute, where all concepts collapse into one another, and the relative, where you have a savant mix of contradictory concepts, deployed within a relative experience.

[@ShiverHinge]

What a lovely room. Glad I found this. The simple concept of looking at the big picture through the inherent components of it from which we are constituted makes wonderful sense.

[@VanEazy]

This is a fantastic way to pass a boring day at work. Love listening to you two talk !

[@chyfields]

Fascinating. Thank you. I have concluded that consciousness is commensurate with purpose. If you consider this reality as being deliberately designed, that is how you would likely share consciousness between different states of being.

[@FlorisV82]

This is so enormously important and essential and yet so important to miss

[@darrylkassle361]

My consciousness informs me that this channel will grow exponentially!!!

[@ChetanKumar-xi7hi]

Looking forward to the last mentioned question being discussed

[@marxfbs1]

On women writing on Idealism: Miri Albahari at University of Western Australia comes to mind.

[@VenusLover17]

Love Essentia foundation and Bernardo’s and all of you guys’ work❤❤❤❤. Thanks thanks thanks!!

[@bhuvana-skandarossi8511]

....Yes Dr Bernardo : " it could have being, is indeed a fantasy clear and loud..." thank you Sir, for telling us and being what you are....a probing Being of Consciousness/Reality...!

[@rachellane2836]

Excellent conversation! Thank you both. 🙏

[@RobbieAbley]

Consciousness is forever, a circle that never ends. Love and light, ( the same thing). Bless you all.oxo

[@drmilanhosta]

Epic conclusion. You made my day guys. The last 20 minutes I will roll to my PE and kinesiology students in ethics class today. Eye opening and great metaphysical, metacognitive justification. Thank you! Keep the spirit!

[@koltoncrane3099]

I always hated ethics classes. I took an accounting class in college. They talked about ethics and how it’s illegal to do insider trading and how we need to be ethical. There was no mention that politicians legally let congress politicians do insider trading. In other words politicians can vote to make themselves rich by funding companies they own stock in or pass a bill and then buy or sell futures. We have a highly unethical ruling body controlling the U.S.

[@Kurdistan2028]

How about Jamie Dimon manipulating the price of Bitcoin by saying he’ll fire any of his employees if they’re caught buying Bitcoin and simultaneously was the largest buyer of Bitcoin himself that same day after it dropped 24%

[@maruskarski169]

Aquinas and other Scholastic philosophers frequently make use of the principle „agere sequitur esse’”, which means “action follows being.” The underlying concept is that what a thing does must necessarily reflect what it is in some way.

[@demergent_deist]

This scholastic proposition was especially utilized by Schopenhauer for the problem of free will.

[@tomroz5046]

Life is not a problem to be solved but a moment to be experienced

[@SiEmG]

I like very much how Bernardo thinks and expresses himself. I myself come from idealism/ dualism and hope to remain there (yummi) . Some concerns: 1. My logical argument: Entropy is a specific measure based on current understanding/ knowledge of physics and mathematics. Physics are founded on our understood/perceived laws/ models INHERENT in the universe (assuming science can actually give ontological insights). Thus, entropy is a human measure of the "real" universe (not an illusion as Bernardo claims). Break-down: Entropy is described here as the tendency to disorder. But in physics/ statistical mechanics (and information theory) it is a HUMAN/SCIENTIFIC MEASURE which has a formal definition (and necessarily describe nature from a Positivist's perspective). It provides a quantitative framework for understanding thermodynamic systems and is rooted in empirical observation and mathematical derivation, which enhances its reliability and utility as a concept. Boltzman's simple formula of entropy: S = klnΩ where k is boltzmann's constant and Ω is the possible space-energy microscopic states in which a system can be found. The possible space-energy states are finite/ measurable. So if we extrapolate this to a finite universe as a close (local) system, there should be a huge however finite number of possible states. According to the law of conservation of mass-energy, the total amount of matter and energy in the universe remains constant (However I know that whether the universe is truly closed and finite in all its aspects (including dark matter, dark energy, and other cosmological factors) is still a subject of active research and debate. See osmological models such as the inflationary universe or theories of an accelerating universe ). Thus, if we accept the law of conservation, at least matter-energy has finite possible states (based on natural laws of current physics. Laws that should be considered inherent in nature, right? at least from a physicalist's or dualist's perspective). Thus, in my understanding, when we talk about universe's entropy, we do not "decide" what is order and what is not as Bernardo claims. We have specific possible states in our current model of the universe, and specific probabilities of a system for it to be in any of them, depending on its current state. If s1 is the current state, s2 is dependent on s1, assuming at least some level of determinism ( In quantum mechanics, however, this determinism is limited by inherent probabilistic nature, which might complicate the straightforward application of Boltzmann’s entropy formula at microscopic scales.). Except if we consider all phenomena (things we observe) and models of physics epistemologically false because of human bias. Then entropy should be one of those "lies" as well. In that case we cannot KNOW anything with human science, and we go back to the good old phenomenology-epistemology-ontology debates of idealism vs materialism and such. Of course there is scientific instrumentalism, which suggests that theories are not necessarily true but useful. But in that case we can never KNOW IF WE (CAN) KNOW THE ONTOLOGICAL TRUTH with intellectuality that derives from logic and observation which can be shared and tested by a 3d person (science). Thus we rely only to idealistic/ spiritual/ phenomenological experiences for access, to identify and recognize as glimpses of ONTOLOGICAL TRUTHS. Of course again in the latter case we make an assumption and a bet, and one cannot argue about it with words of logic. So I cannot test it and I can not validate it and persuade you for the truth i acquired writing words in a text like this one :P

[@taylorrevis2378]

Thinkers like this are important for the discourse on theoretical physics, even if it's just in regard to how we define our scientific terms in relation to what we experience in day-to-day life. I think the idealist philosophy could further inspire future advances in science.

[@healingplaces]

Not a function of Time, a function of Being. Nicely put, Bernardo

[@angelotuteao6758]

It would be fascinating if Essentia could collaborate with a visual artist to depict what reality beyond our ‘headset’ /‘dashboard’ might look like. Also, Bernardo often refers to human beings developing linguistic capacity and symbolic conceptual abilities 30,000 years ago whereas cave art goes back 50,000 years - this demands greater clarity and accuracy imo

[@jach8047]

Fantastic discussion.

[@SimoneMancini1]

Hi from Brazil!! 🇧🇷 Thanks for this amazing interview!!

[@maunlio]

I fully agree, how can you be indipendent from yourself? Above all is nature, we are nature, so we have all the possibilities nature has. In this sense there's no free will because we can't move out of nature. Especially agree with the "it could have been" theory. It can't be any could have been since the "choices" we made were the perfect outcome of what we were in that precise moment in time, and it could have not been otherwise. Thanks for the video!

[@EChambers-f8q]

Such a great conversation. I deeply appreciate you guys doing this.

[@VanEazy]

Okay, Bernardo’s talk towards of “it doesn’t tell you why” and “there’s no nice convenient narrative” 🔥 absolutely!!!!! Could not agree more. His talk of “the movement of the impersonal” is worth multiple listens. Perfection.

[@BrigittePatrice4750]

As a lucid dreamer, we have the ability to befriend the subconsious inner guide. The inner guide has helped me in understanding so much, upon asking, it has taken me into a cell. Into a proton. The time i asked it to show me the web of the universe, i changed my whole perseption. The web was ondulating, Matrixes we're brilliant orbs, when i went into one, it was a Toroid, that generated an insane number of Toroids , then streamed it into its streams , i still cant think about it withour crying. Through the prism of natures

[@Michael_X313]

Free will is a concept revolved around ego. It's like how the ego tells itself its in control of so many things when it's actually secondary to the subconscious. (Confusing terminology eh?) The ego tells itself that it is willing to breathe in and out but it's actually autonomic and should be appreciated.

[@saintmik6576]

lol its a perspective game. Each ego is a filter on a camera lense...or a perspective that captures a part of the whole tapestry of the universe/ mind

[@Michael_X313]

​@@saintmik6576right. It's always a perspective game but every eye has it's blind spot.😉

[@richardscott2235]

Thank you for posting such an educative and inspiring video. A catalyst for good.

[@sarahs3619]

I love this. I am a woman who enjoys listening to Bernardo. But I noticed that he is almost exclusively interviewed by men. I also know that these conversations are a lot of mental abstraction, which is generally less interesting to women, so I enjoyed this conversation talking about the masculine/feminine.

[@ClaudioCunhaPediatra]

O Bernardo é simplesmente o maior pensador brasileiro e um dois maiores filósofos da história. O idealismo analítico com todo o seu poder explanatório, e mais do que isso, na figura da pessoa coerente e sensata, é que me dá orgulho e ao mesmo tempo direção intelectual para entender a metafísica da vida.

[@KievitRob]

Another great discussion, thank you both. I was particularly taken by the tail end, where you discuss good and evil, and our responsibility to make value judgements (and act on them, presumably). As I understand it, making such judgements will have an impact on universal consciousness - we don't know or feel that we're contributing, because we are dissociated, but we do contribute. That's what we're here for: to enrich universal consciousness. Many people, myself included, tend to avoid taking position out of physical self-preservation. You don't want to be beaten up or even be killed because of your value judgement, even though you're convinced that it's perfectly correct. There is something in the dissociated state that calls for its longest possible existence, which leads to such avoidance strategies. Isn't that counter-productive?

[@VittBiancoeNero-hx1jy]

Your observations are very interesting, recently I was thinking that ‘value judgements’ and ‘ acting upon those judgements verbally or what not, makes one vulnerable. I also thought that somewhat unconsciously our idea of Christ symbolises among other things that problem. In simple terms, the more one takes Christ as a model, the more vulnerable one is in society. Also, those decision that we take supposedly with Nature, as Kastrup said many times, are a ‘compromise’. Nature, Kastrup says, does not care for our safety. So, who cares about the safety of the individual? The individual himself or herself follows Nature up to a point, and that point might very well be the ‘edge’ of the Mandala or the Wheel before it makes the inner turn, ever, towards the center. Every ‘circle’ is one’s understanding of himself/herself and better value judgements are made. I made a comment regarding these issues 6 days ago.

[@discordlexia2429]

You make an interesting point. I have struggled a lot with my strong moral principles clashing with an overactive sense of self-preservation that was caused by the absolute existential terror caused by physicalism. I'm finding that slowly, slowly weakening as I settle more into idealism. But an interesting side effect is emerging. I find that my "Spiritual Calling", as in, the thing you feel at your core it is right to do... Is to kill myself. I can't explain why, just that I've felt for years as I grappled with and was tortured by the nightmare physicalism forced onto me that the thing I must do at all costs is die - but not in a physicalist way. I don't want to not exist. The way I conceptualise the desire is most clearly as a drop of water falling into an ocean and disappearing. Now that I'm relaxing into idealism, I'm able to see it wasn't caused by depression. My depression is fading fast, and the urge to commit suicide is only increasing. Maybe this is anthropomorphising the universe but I can't help but wonder if this is me being told my life has become a dead end and I'm being recalled to be scrapped and repurposed or reprocessed? I'd like that. I really want to be scrapped.

[@mattfr11]

I come to this subject from having lifelong and frequent sleep paralysis and out of body experiences. Love Bernardo. ❤

[@Corteum]

Have you heard of Robert Monroe or Jurgen Ziewe?

[@jericosha2842]

Sleep paralysis is panic inducing

[@VittBiancoeNero-hx1jy]

Great video. I agree with B. Kastrup about the argument on free will, yet, what about the psychological issues that brought about those choices. I remember a character in M. Kundera’s book that decided to risk his life to help a stranger and if I recall died because of that act of heroism, and, the book said, the reason for such a risky act was to demonstrate to a non clear person in his past, that he was capable of such an act. Kundera went on to suggest that sometimes we do things to prove to people who are not present (anymore?) that we could do them. I find it difficult to completely accept Kastrup’s argument without considering a thought of H.Corbin “....it is to tour oneself, to delimit oneself so that, under the direction of the centre, entry is gained in all aspects of the personality. This amounts to designating self knowledge as self-incubation. And in the end the sequence of images takes us to this archetype of the complete man that Plato drew as a perfectly spherical being-that is, total and complete, reuniting in himself both masculine and feminine....” Free will has to contend with nature, but it is a work in progress and during such self incubation we make ‘the best free will decisions we are capable of a that moment’.

[@Reality_Road]

I am jealous of the interviewer and Claudia, they have such a friend as Bernardo.

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

[Free will and determinism are the same.] I came to this conclusion myself by perceiving that, taken to it's logical conclusion, if free will is the case, then we are ultimately responsible for everything that happens -- which is absurd! If you try to live like that and remain a moral person you'll die of anxiety in a week. It's responsibility beyond all reason. You either have to go insane or confess that you're perfectly laissez faire with millions of people dying every year because you wanted them to. It's internally consistent but isn't true to life. There's something of an affectation about it. Whereas if you take the opposite approach that everything is determined, you're also unhinged. There's no sense in doing much of anything. The only way you can go about your day is if, just as in the previous case, you suspend your determinism and behave as though you have freedom of choice (which is just the sensation of free will that exists within the context of deteminism.) Again, this reeks of gilding the lilly. So, even though youcan reason your way to one of the other and even live by it to an extent, you ultimately need the other to actually go on living. Which suggests to me that both are two perspectives of the same truth which is that because we are continuous with the processes of nature, everything happens of it's own accord while at the same time being what the totality wanted. The missing ingredient, the thing which allows free will and determinism to be two sides of the same coin, is ignorance: the limits of consciousness. Because your awareness is differentiated from the awareness of nature, you have a distinction between what you will and what happens to you. So you know what you're going to do, but you don't know what nature, the rest of you, is going to do. And that allows your freedom of choice to have meaning while at the same time removing the burden of being responsible for everything.

[@adamjacobs1613]

A very compelling and exciting discussion, TY both! I just want to take a tad of issue with the idea that "YHVH didn't care about Job." It's not so. In fact, the entire exercise in the story was for him. God/Ultimate Consciousness, (having no needs) does nothing for Himself, and all experiences, no matter how uncomfortable, are designed to promote our growth. The greater the person, the greater the challenge. As Job was the greatest person at that time, he got a very great challenge and to this day serves as a paradigmatic symbol of the question "Why do bad things happen to good people" -the entire theme of the book.

[@CJ-cd5cd]

Nice work! We need more of these videos.

[@banderastube]

Great questions , great channel

[@tyamada21]

A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'... My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE... Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.

[@jacksonelmore6227]

All is Love and Self and One

[@samuelcantu8321]

Highly informative and insightful.

[@NigelPJ]

A very pertinent contribution - from the recording of scientific evidence and taking seriously idealism and consciousness - is made in the latest episode of Robert Harrison's podcast series, Entitled Opinions. He interviews Garry Nolan, who is the Rachford and Carlota Harris Professor of Immunology in the Department of Pathology at Stanford. Professor Nolan has a remarkable tale to tell.

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

7NEWS Spotlight channel (YT channel for an Australian tv news station) just uploaded an interview with Gary Nolan by Ross Coulthart. Nolan talks about his own UAP experiences & some more interesting aspects of his research. Nolan described an experience that involved a whole body electric buzzing sensation. I had something similar happen. Prior to that I had had 'internal vibrations' which are a dysautonomia symptom. I've also tried Nanci Trivellato's VELO technique for out of body experiences; it has not resulted in an OOBE, but I think it is a good meditation exercise. One night I was dozing off and I started to feel something like a very strong combination of the two sensations, but involuntary (the 'V' in VELO stands for voluntary). I was wondering if I were about to finally have an OOBE, became frightened and had the thought 'I'm not ready' - and it suddenly stopped.

[@Killane10]

Hi Bernardo, I am really fascinated by your perspectives and you are clearly full of wisdom. but I really think you should take the plunge into the unknown and have another interview with Michael James. He is also full of wisdom and insight ❤❤❤ I really want to learn from conversations where 2 wise and intelligent people get angry, loose their cool, disagree and make up at the end agreeing respectively to diagree This is authentic and invaluable debate whete we all grow

[@stefanalexanderwennberg]

Loved every second of it! Thanks for this amazing discussion!

[@angshumanray]

Bernardo is the best thing I have ever found in internet .... I just found so many things similar to what I always felt but no one understood me .... Bernardo's search for truth is what everybody should get inspired by

[@mechannel7046]

35:30 Jung: the purpose of life 1:13:20 time, physics new direction 1:16:20 bacteria invent new antibiotics all the time; signs of intelligence, data processing, not necessarily self awareness or meta cognition 1:18:20 with meta cognition, act not just with instinct 1:30:20 nature is made of conscious experience

[@simka321]

The non-duality of free will and determinism is revealed in the fact that, at the end of time, one and only one history of everything that we have chosen to do will have been written.

[@johnstarrett7754]

Music can indeed be beyond time. I improvise to meditate, and in the timeless mode *you* are the music unfolding at this instant. There are no previous instants, no future instants, only now, only music.

[@notator]

Yes: there is a music beyond time. But we never perceive infinitely short instants. As a musician, I'd say that experienced time is not the one-dimensional time that physicists use. Inside an unfolding "instant" (vertically aligned symbols in 2 dimensions in a score) are multiple levels of information unfolding at the same "time". Polyphony can only be perceived/understood as multi-dimensional time. One-dimensonal time is used by physicists because its directly related to the structure of an object that is macro-physically instantiated, such as a pendulum. To put it more aggressively: Music is practical metaphysics. :-)

[@Jaded-Wanderer]

Excellent video.

[@nicklaurence318]

A comment on Bernardo's "the notion that there is no could-have-been eliminates regret from your life" - if I am the being that looks back and regrets, and learns from that regret for future choices, then regret is still useful, in the present moment, and can inform the being that I am and that I become. So I'm not sure that "eliminates" is the right word, but I get the original point, it can definitely change our relationship to regret radically...

[@Boratio]

I love these and hope you continue doing them. Unfortunately I've developed a partial parasocial relationship with Bernardo and have placed him in the role of a wise father or uncle that I wish I wish I had but never did. His perspectives heavily influence my life. Hans, you're a superb interviewer and seem like a kind man as well. I wish you both the best and look forward to additional content.

[@stevenpham6734]

I completely empathize, a thinker like Bernardo is a very rare. Perhaps broaden your range of intellectual resources, i.e. read and listen to other philosophers such as Iain McGilchrist, John Verveake, Schopenhauer, Kant, Plato, Nagajuna , etc. to ultimately develop a concrete mental foundation of your own will help.

[@HighCountryStudio]

Thank you very much for this channel. It is helping me to clarify my thinking and reigniting my passion for the study about the “big questions” that have occupied most of my long life. It seems that often art prefigures the trajectory of science, as Leonard Shlain noted in his book,” Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light”, 1991. You may know the following poems but if not, consider the following lines a little gift of gratitude. Regarding free will:“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!' from the poem, “ Maud Muller” by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1856. And regarding the philosophy of idealism: Tell all the truth but tell it slant - (1263) BY EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) Tell all the truth but tell it slant - Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind -

[@StefanSchoch]

Thank you again for that wonderful conversation! Looking forward to the continuation! ♥

[@heinzgassner1057]

I always had a hard time to accept the ‘second law of thermodynamics’ when observing my first person experience of ‘consciousness and life’. Very helpful discussion for bringing my inner experience in alignment with scientific models.

[@juergenbloh45]

Thanks a lot for sharing

[@dazzle7705]

I see him as one of the greatest minds of our generation. The technical detail is mind blowing 🤯

[@dimitrishow_D]

We do choose...we are always thinking ahead of ourselves.. imagination creates reality...

[@iamthematrix-369]

Our mind is not in our body, our body is in our mind. It's time to organize our intelligence and optimize our mind.

[@johnwebb4863]

At the risk of exposing my underinformed understanding of either orthodoxy, the more I listen to Bernardo, the more I hear Barack Spinoza. In the last segment, right after disclaiming to 'be" an "ethicist", Bernardo beautifully summarizes part five of The Ethics where Spinoza advises how we should live in the world. I know BK reveres Jung and other philosophers, yet I haven't heard reference to Spinoza. To my ear BK is todays representative of whom Einstein said "how much do I Love this noble man, no words can say". Because Spinoza sought to integrate his philosophy into his moment to moment life, as does BK, with the greatest sincerity and authenticity.

[@KievitRob]

@johnwebb4863 You're spot on! BK explained at length the connection between his thoughts and Spinoza's in an earlier video. If I remember correctly, it was in one of his six-part series on Analytical idealism.

[@Jacob-Vivimord]

Glad you touched on the Maudlin encounter, Bernardo. We're all human, and we all get caught up in it sometimes. Good on you.

[@stian.t]

Yes... a pleasure, as always ♥

[@MariaPeredaPhD]

Regards from Brazil!

[@kevinbyrne3012]

Id be interested to see a video of Bernardo discussing some of his books and the ideas within them, that would be great.

[@CrispSkimmer]

Geweldig!

[@monivarinen9638]

Excellent. Please can you also release these videos as podcasts ? I wish to revisit some of these ideas in reflective walks or drives. They need additional listens! Wonderful and rich content.

[@24Anandhu]

00:01 The US Navy confirms real UFO footage, challenging materialism 02:34 Updates on latest scientific insights and research in Consciousness 07:43 Entropy may be subjective and based on how we define boundaries. 09:54 Information can be compressed and transmitted efficiently using lower bandwidth channels 14:31 Nature's will is both free and deterministic 17:03 Determinism does not deny the fact that we are always making choices. 21:33 Language doesn't capture the ontological structure of nature. 23:32 Conscious attention to experience life in the present moment 27:55 Regarding the cultural biases on book publications 30:25 Exploring the value of female authors and thinking in idealist literature 34:55 Individuation is the goal of life and involves embracing all opposites to mature. 37:03 Music exists as a projection of something beyond time and space. 41:29 Universe as a big Orchestra with Rhythm and flow 43:29 The reflection of primordial archetypal rhythm and flow in nature and music. 47:20 Mathematics requires habituation and understanding 49:31 Mythical traditions reflect our conceptual vocabulary over time. 54:09 Metaphysics allows for the mixing of physical and mental phases. 56:22 UAPs may be a natural feedback mechanism in nature. 1:00:34 Objective event clothed through projection 1:02:33 The political implications of acknowledging UFOs as real and the concept of dissociation in near-death experiences. 1:06:57 The end of dissociation doesn't mean the end of memories or experiences. 1:09:00 Encountering memories and experiences in the broader cognitive context of Nature. 1:12:52 The universe as it is in itself may not be extended. 1:15:01 Memories are not physical representations; they are direct access to past states. 1:19:19 IIT challenges related to measurement resolution 1:21:33 Understanding the movements of the impersonal within oneself and the dangers of ego inflation 1:25:40 The movement of the impersonal comes without any narrative or explanation. 1:27:51 The importance of paying attention to life 1:31:59 The meta level of experience unifies our perceptions. 1:34:07 Humans are the only metacognitive phenomena of nature capable of value judgement

[@iscottke]

Helps me understand my own path better (as usual).

[@robertrabel1014]

Thank you

[@bergspot]

Guys, please, please put this up as a form of podcast. This would benefit a lot of us. I drive every day some distance and would love to listen to those deep conversation on my way to work.