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
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.
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.
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!!😊
"Life is sacraficial. It is not about us". Thankyou Bernardo for this transforming insight. I am 78 and was the family scapegoat since my teens. I've lived with constant tinnitusfor 22 years plus severely distorted hearing in one ear only for the first 7 years until I went totally deaf in that ear. I had a major stroke nearly 5 years ago in which I lost a considerable portion of my brain and completely lost the ability to play classical music on my beautiful grand piano. But Ive never been more at peace than I am today. Those early challenges were ultimately of profound importance to me and lead me to a wonderful freedom that even the stroke has not taken from. In fact the stroke brought me staight into the present moment, perhaps for the first time ever. To think that these personal challenges have absolute meaning for the universe and my efforts are not ultimately lost is a very heartening and wonderful discovery. Thankyou so much for your honest and rigourous work. And by the way, I can speak from personal experience, that it is possible to know today what will happen in 24 hours time, even though the instruction recieved made no sense at all at the time. It happened once and I checked it out thoroughly . 😊
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,
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.
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!
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.
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.💫
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!
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.
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).
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.
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! 🌿
As Joseph Campbell said We all share the supreme ordeal, Carry the cross of the redeemer. Not in the bright moments of our tribes great victories, but in the silence of our personal despair.
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!
"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.
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.
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 ✨
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. 😊
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.
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!
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..🙏
When I watch you guys and observe the the joy of your friendship it brings a physical tear to my eyes! Or is that physical? Regardless I purely enjoy your discourse and challenge to create a new paradigm for the human race. All the best! Congratulations!!!
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)
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
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.
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
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.
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. ❤
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!! 🌹🌹🌹😘
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!
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. :-) 🙏🏾❤️🔥
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
@@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. 🐂
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 ❤ 🙏
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.
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.
interesting discussion about sacrifice gentlemen. The concept of sacrifice is too often ignored in modern philosophical discourse. Thanks for raising it.
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.
That absolutely is the holy grail on TH-cam, that every viewer becomes a subscriber! I guess it is up to us to make the content so engaging that that actually happens:)
Not found this on comments so I’ll post it. 50:05 BK said “outside of time it’s already happened”. It’s kept bothering me. We live all the time outside of time as far I know. “Now” is not moving through the time it’s ever present. Constant change plus our capability to remember plus metacognition creates time, right? What does BK means by that sentence, would be lovely to hear. 😊 Or maybe I’m asking the “wrong question”. 😅
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!
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.
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.
Hi Bernardo, I like your thinking very much, indeed, and in one moment in this video, you said the right way to define Reality is math, mathematics. How can you expect something like this neglecting the Kurt Gödels theorem from 1931 “The Theorem of Incompleteness? How can you neglect his statement “One is unable to define mathematically one system without one point outside of that system and that point has to be assumed.” The missing, supposed point for the definition of Reality, according to Kurt, is to be taken from the field of indescribable, unfathomable, unbegotten, transcendent, androgynous, and the source of everything, and many more uns…... Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Hibner, and all other world mathematicians were lost being confronted with this fact. Are we going to continue with the new and new constructs, neglecting so many facts for which we will never have answers. Metacognition will not help us here. ????
🌹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...
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.
Hi, thanks for creating such interesting videos. Is there any where I can view your content besides TH-cam? As I'm getting adverts seemingly every 5 minutes on my device and begrudge paying for TH-cam Premium. Many thanks.
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.
2:01:41 - See, there is another misunderstanding people buy into without thinking. Computing power has increased so much and so fast the last few decades, that people just take it for granted that it always will, and that there is no limit. They talk about us someday simulating entire universes, and in their world view those universes will be populated by conscious beings, who ALSO simulate entire universes on simulated computing machinery, etc. etc. etc. When you sit back and realize the complete idiocy of the whole perspective.... wow.
2:05:19 - Wait; just a few minutes ago you talked about the spider "planning how to build his web." How is that not "thinking it through"? It sure seems consciously "aware" to me. How is that not meta-cognizant?
Advice for the moderator: Please refrain from saying " yeah, yeah, mhm, mhm" while the guest speaks. It is rather annoying and makes some of us lose concentration once we are aware of it. Example: 47:15 to 48:13.
Sorry guys, I will keep silent in between questions next time!! My background is in documentary filmmaking where I edit stuff like this out, but in a full length interview like I need to keep my mouth more:) Thanks for this feedback.
@@essentiafoundation Dear Hans, I watched the interview twice, the first time, I was just listening (not watching)and what you were doing bothered me, but the second time while literally watching it didn’t bother me because what you were doing seemed normal LOL….. I have a question for Bernardo, where can I post it? Congratulations on the 10 thousand subscribers, and congratulations on your official position with Essentia!
@@essentiafoundationfor me, it is so human, to make spontaneous responses - they make the interview alive. I hope you won't inhibit your responses too much the next time😀
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
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.
Thank you for sharing. ❤ bless you.
Similar experience for me
Thanks for sharing. Plese look fo the Bigelow Institute of Comscioussness Essays. Bernardo has an essay there too.
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.
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!!😊
Trust me when I say, your channel needs 10 million subscribers!
i agree
Wow, great to hear! Let's aim for the stars together with all of you!
Agreed!
Actually, 8 billion ...
no no no those of us that understand and crave this are lucky. it's our job to spread the evangelicalism.
"Life is sacraficial. It is not about us". Thankyou Bernardo for this transforming insight. I am 78 and was the family scapegoat since my teens. I've lived with constant tinnitusfor 22 years plus severely distorted hearing in one ear only for the first 7 years until I went totally deaf in that ear. I had a major stroke nearly 5 years ago in which I lost a considerable portion of my brain and completely lost the ability to play classical music on my beautiful grand piano. But Ive never been more at peace than I am today. Those early challenges were ultimately of profound importance to me and lead me to a wonderful freedom that even the stroke has not taken from. In fact the stroke brought me staight into the present moment, perhaps for the first time ever.
To think that these personal challenges have absolute meaning for the universe and my efforts are not ultimately lost is a very heartening and wonderful discovery. Thankyou so much for your honest and rigourous work.
And by the way, I can speak from personal experience, that it is possible to know today what will happen in 24 hours time, even though the instruction recieved made no sense at all at the time. It happened once and I checked it out thoroughly . 😊
Thank you for sharing!
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,
I am fanning out on Bernardo
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.
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!
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.
Bonus points for The Cure shirt!
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.💫
@@essentiafoundationShow me show me show me how you do that trick, the one that makes more sense of the world...🎶
I thought the same!!😂❤❤❤
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!
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.
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).
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.
I’m glad you are here. Your work has enriched my life.
Me too.
I love this Q&A format. Wonderful topics. So enlightening. More of this please 🙏
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! 🌿
As Joseph Campbell said
We all share the supreme ordeal, Carry the cross of the redeemer. Not in the bright moments of our tribes great victories, but in the silence of our personal despair.
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!
"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.
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.
yes. the lure of cognitive bias...
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 ✨
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. 😊
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.
I do not regret discovering this channel! ❤
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!
yes. But that doesnt mean he is right.
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..🙏
When I watch you guys and observe the the joy of your friendship it brings a physical tear to my eyes!
Or is that physical?
Regardless I purely enjoy your discourse and challenge to create a new paradigm for the human race. All the best! Congratulations!!!
Bedankt! Goed gesprek, kijk uit naar meer!
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)
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
Thanks a lot🙏🙏🙏
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
Wonderful conversation. Love that the cat made a walk on appearance 🙂
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. ❤🧡💙
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.
Thanks!
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
Que entrevista maravilhosa! Bernardo, muito obrigada por existir e trazer tanto sentido!
Just pure delight,wow..what a conversation, that you so much for sharing it with us🙏💚
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.
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. ❤
Bernardo is my guru.
Once again, Floki contributes to the matters at hand. Thanks for the dialogue!
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!! 🌹🌹🌹😘
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!
Good to hear from Bernardo ..
Fantastic ❤
Thank you so much …with a growing feeling of gratitude🙏😊
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. :-) 🙏🏾❤️🔥
Beautiful conversation. Keep thinking about it afterwards.
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!
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.
Thank you so much!
Wow that was really great! Im so darn glad Isubbed. Absolutely great content!!! ❤ 💯
My favorite part is while he’s talking about Analytic Idealism, he’s wearing a shirt that says THE CURE
The best explanation of the Daemon! Thank you 🙏
You will annoy Anthony Peake by claiming that.
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.
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.
Bernado is fantastic..👍
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.
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.
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!
@@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. 🐂
@@essentiafoundation why do my questions get deleted?
Congrats ! TBH it ought to be 10M but these things take time. We should celebrate every added zero, at least.
Let’s go! Next stop, 100k!
Ok, 10,001. Let's get it to 1million.
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 ❤ 🙏
Plus SadhGuru plus Michael Levin
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 🙏🏻
Subscribed ❤
Would be interesting to hear a long detailed discussion between Bernardo and Iain McGilchrist 🙏
Heel fascinerend wat De heer Bernardo Kastrup weet te vertellen.
In 55:33, under analytical idealism how Alzheimer, which affects memory and identity of a person can be explained?
Inevitibility of growth towards Truth.
Just discovered your channel. Thanks to algorithms. Thanks guys. Fascinating & interesting exchange. ;o-))
Great conversation 🎉
Congratulations and thanks 🙏
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.
oh man i want to hear more about that cliffhanger!!!!!!!!!
Seriously! I've heard Bernardo foreshadow about aliens and other cryptid paranormal phenomena, but I wonder how it connects to idealism.
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.
This was good. Down to earth. High level. 😊
Congratulations! Thanks so much for your work!
More of this please.
love your shirt bernardo
Yeah
Love your shirt Bernardo!
interesting discussion about sacrifice gentlemen.
The concept of sacrifice is too often ignored in modern philosophical discourse. Thanks for raising it.
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.
That absolutely is the holy grail on TH-cam, that every viewer becomes a subscriber! I guess it is up to us to make the content so engaging that that actually happens:)
Not found this on comments so I’ll post it. 50:05 BK said “outside of time it’s already happened”. It’s kept bothering me.
We live all the time outside of time as far I know. “Now” is not moving through the time it’s ever present. Constant change plus our capability to remember plus metacognition creates time, right? What does BK means by that sentence, would be lovely to hear. 😊 Or maybe I’m asking the “wrong question”. 😅
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!
great interview. thank!
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.
Tinnitus can be caused by caffeine!
Saved to 'watch when high'
A powerful way to expand our experience of Mind at Large
The experience of satori can certainly give you additional and surprising connection to the mind at large.
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.
Hi Bernardo, I like your thinking very much, indeed, and in one moment in this video, you said the right way to define Reality is math, mathematics. How can you expect something like this neglecting the Kurt Gödels theorem from 1931 “The Theorem of Incompleteness? How can you neglect his statement “One is unable to define mathematically one system without one point outside of that system and that point has to be assumed.” The missing, supposed point for the definition of Reality, according to Kurt, is to be taken from the field of indescribable, unfathomable, unbegotten, transcendent, androgynous, and the source of everything, and many more uns…... Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Hibner, and all other world mathematicians were lost being confronted with this fact.
Are we going to continue with the new and new constructs, neglecting so many facts for which we will never have answers. Metacognition will not help us here. ????
Congratulations!
Brilliant 👏 would love to hear BK chat with Michael Levin ....
And with SadhGuru
Tinnitus: William Shatner also considered suicide but sought help to cope. ❤
🌹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...
2:07:08 - But a uranium atom will sit there for an indeterminate amount of time before decaying. What's it doing?
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.
Hi, thanks for creating such interesting videos. Is there any where I can view your content besides TH-cam? As I'm getting adverts seemingly every 5 minutes on my device and begrudge paying for TH-cam Premium.
Many thanks.
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.
2:01:41 - See, there is another misunderstanding people buy into without thinking. Computing power has increased so much and so fast the last few decades, that people just take it for granted that it always will, and that there is no limit. They talk about us someday simulating entire universes, and in their world view those universes will be populated by conscious beings, who ALSO simulate entire universes on simulated computing machinery, etc. etc. etc. When you sit back and realize the complete idiocy of the whole perspective.... wow.
2:05:19 - Wait; just a few minutes ago you talked about the spider "planning how to build his web." How is that not "thinking it through"? It sure seems consciously "aware" to me. How is that not meta-cognizant?
Advice for the moderator: Please refrain from saying " yeah, yeah, mhm, mhm" while the guest speaks. It is rather annoying and makes some of us lose concentration once we are aware of it.
Example: 47:15 to 48:13.
Very true, super distracting!!
Sorry guys, I will keep silent in between questions next time!! My background is in documentary filmmaking where I edit stuff like this out, but in a full length interview like I need to keep my mouth more:) Thanks for this feedback.
@@essentiafoundation
Dear Hans, I watched the interview twice, the first time, I was just listening (not watching)and what you were doing bothered me, but the second time while literally watching it didn’t bother me because what you were doing seemed normal LOL…..
I have a question for Bernardo,
where can I post it?
Congratulations on the 10 thousand subscribers, and congratulations on your official position with Essentia!
@@essentiafoundationfor me, it is so human, to make spontaneous responses - they make the interview alive. I hope you won't inhibit your responses too much the next time😀
The hmmms etc are not as disturbing that interrupting Bernardo and his train of thought.