I can call myself a Bernardo follower. Since retirement and a life changing event four years ago I’ve been trying to understand what is going on with our very existence. I spent a couple years looking at panpsychism and it never resonated even though I kept trying to believe it. Then I discovered idealism through Bernardo and I knew instantly that this makes sense. I’ve listened to everything I can find with him and it keeps making more sense to me. Thank you Bernardo!

If one can honestly step outside of personal bias, there is much depth to Idealism. Bernado has done a great job in such a short discussion to explain these depths. If you have ever watched people wearing color blind correcting glasses for the first time, you will see a new experience right there. Thank you for sharing. Cheers from a retired soldier down under.

Kastrup examines metaphysics with exceptional clarity - rare to have a philosopher truly able to refute the prevailing paradigm with such rigour and precision. Always a feast for the mind listening to his eloquent and lucid defence of idealism ❤

Materialism is literally stupid.

I began watching Bernardo Kastrup in his work with Rupert Spira, and I did find his theory unsettling. This discussion helps me to understand his view better than ever before. Huge thanks!

Idealism has a deep intuitive truth to it. After following the logic step by stepit completely changed my worldview. It was dizzying, I felt the room fall away when it happened. It was a real epiphany.

Enjoyed this, you're a good interviewer

This Podcast has brought out an angle of BK, that I never completely understood before; unity of his version of Idealism with Spirituality! BK's contention that 'all Matter' is Mind at Large, manifesting in form; albeit Dissociated, is an understanding within Spirituality, that it is Consciousness (call it God if you so wish) that manifests as the numerous forms we see. That this dissociation looks like life, is but the icing on the cake. I further found his contention that all is mental; and most likely, is in the form of thoughts, quite in agreement with some sages (who also contend that what we see is ideas), whose interplay with our senses of perception make us see physical objects; which are not physical, at all!

This makes so much sense 👏

I’ve listened to a lot of interviews with BK and he really pops here. But there are a few hints that it was recorded a few years ago. Would love to know when.

BK is the Galileo of Consciousness. E=🕉️

BK is on point as always. & it's NO exaggeration either, pathological narratives are afoot.

So universal Mind is unable to do what lower personal minds can?

I'm no one special but i pay attention to these issues and ive not heard any successful oppositions to Bernardo's views.

Naïve realist materialism entails a contradiction in terms: namely, it presupposes that the qualia of consciousness are not the qualia of consciousness. Now, not only is a naïve realist materialism self-refuting, because it presupposes and is founded upon a contradiction in terms (the assumption that qualia are not qualia), but, it is naïve too, implying the absence of impartial criticism, because under no circumstances whatsoever does impartial criticism lead to a contradiction in terms: in other words, naïve realist materialism entails dogmatism (accepting some thesis as true (namely, the thesis that qualia are not qualia) without further reflection, without grounds, without substantiation). The application of impartial criticism inevitably, incontrovertibly, and necessarily leads to a phenomenalist stance (if by phenomenalism is meant “the acknowledgement that what we know is our own consciousness and its attendant qualia”): the application of impartial criticism cannot lead to a contradiction in terms, and, ipso facto, cannot lead to a naïve realist materialism. In a word, it is superfluous to refute materialism, because materialism refutes itself (by way of entailing a contradiction in terms, by assuming that qualia are not qualia); additionally, naïve realist materialism is incompatible with a genuinely impartial criticism, since the application of impartial criticism inevitably leads one to the conclusion that what we know is our own consciousness and its attendant qualia (that we are consciousness ouroborically in a state of interaction with itself, namely, consciousness interacting with its own qualia). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNhipZN92bCtmps.htmlsi=9FJsI_XJoefpWyXD

How nicely BK explains Advaita.. 👌

If life can be compared to a dream, then why do I (as the subject) always only experience life through 'my' body-mind, an never through 'other' body minds (the ones appearing in 'my life-dream')?

What if it’s the opposite? What if there are veritable limits to consciousness and it is actually consciousness that cannot fully comprehend physical existence and falls on its own face all the time?

what is consciousness again?

According to Yogacara Buddhism (YB), our consciousness is a three-fold transformation of spaces and energy - rather than from the brains. Brains, our sense organs, all physical objects, including our ideas, sciences, and physical laws exist only in names which are illusion of the three-fold transformation. The first transformation is 8th Consciousness, followed by 7th Consciousness, and first 6 Consciousness. These are totally metaphysical. They show up in string theory which are M-theory, F-theory, and 5 superstrings. It's, on the above principle, worth mentioning that string theory can automatically produce entire general relativity (if Einstein has never been born) and all constants required by quantum mechanics (which take a lot of effort to calculate and measure) - as they are produced by the three-fold transformation. Also, we don't "see" with our physical eye organs but with something called "Visual Function of Eye Consciousness" (VFEC) as idealism, as there's nothing exist outside the Mind, hence the actual objects we see are "Image Function of Eye Consciousness" (IFEC). These are repeated for Ear, Nose, Tongue, Body (first 5) and even Mind (6th). Metaverse reality can help to understand. VFEC is like the 2D surface of the goggle the player is wearing where IFEC is like the LED dots on the goggle. That's why string theory naturally has branes (VFEC or the 2D surface of the goggle) and strings on the brane (IFEF or LED dots on the goggle). Exactly like in a metaverse, an apple which thought to exist in reality is an illusion. A metaverse player can never see an apple after taking down the goggle. That's why Yogacara Buddhism, true idealism, says nothing exist outside of consciousness. All the above (transformation and functiona) are through activation of Seeds which are strings in string theory. Seeds are stored in 8th Consciousness where M-theory has dualities to 5 superstrings. In YB, all our experiences are in one of 5 Fruits. 1. The first is Existential (phenomenally correlated to the reptilian brain) which is Type IIB in string theory. 2. The second is Cognition and Action (phenomenally correlated to the cortices) which is Type IIA in string theory. 3. Remember, nothing exists outside of consciousness, the third is called the Superior Fruit which is External (to the body and brain) and Interactions. For example, an apple, conversation, teaching, lesson, bodily movements. These show up as E8xE8 heterotic in string theory. 4. True idealism has to assume that consciousness is the most fundamental. If consciousness is the most fundamental, the number 1 law of the universe is then conservation of conscious actions. The fourth is Maturation which means all our conscious actions wether wholesome or unwholesome will get matured (by 8th Consciousness which has the maturation function). Then there's an endless cycle of birth and death. This is SO(32) heterotic in string theory. 5. Lastly, to get out of the cycles, it's the Fruit of Nirvana. This is Type I in string theory. The above are the reasons why there are 5 superstrings. As an idealistic based consciousness theory needs all the 5. Seeds are also called Dhatus which is an extension of Ayatana. Dhatus and Ayatana basically mean a space that we can't see. As all our experiences are transformation from Seeds, Seeds then need to contain all sorts of information. As Seeds are strings, then Dhatus / Ayatana is naturally the universal hologram. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibh5pMVincm2j4E.html

I think what bk is saying is obviously true.

" Lo...do not say either here nor there..."

"I don't need to explain it". Not turtles all the way down. The cogito on steroids. Godel's incompleteness at the base.

Ask open-end questions: “Why did you go for PhD?” Not: “Did you get PhD to go into academia?” Interviewer’s ego gets in the way of a good interview.

Its time to look at what sent the amish into the feilds with horses not tractors. I like Bernardo, but everything seems to be the same but inverted . As far as a measure of humanistic materialism that leans into human dashboard bias hierarchy knowledge of( indirect & direct) lines of measure treating them the same dualism but lieing about yourself it just continues to ignore this and flip the dualism. Lol As if form and shape evolutionary horizon paradoxes on all scales are still a problem, the same problems of no homogenous galaxies, 3 degrees of motion/separation on all scales still fail. All your saying is that humanist orientation and direction inverted and everything is idealism or alive is the same differences. For 80 years classical American pragmatic christian self sacrificed generations just to be proven correct as it funded everyone to prove them wrong and exclude them from countless fields. .proper orientation and direction allowed millions of 3rd grade health class kids to predict code of life measure despite not being inverted and the dualistic Babylonian evolutionary primordial Darwin goo argued against it and teacher pressured to spit lyle argument against all things phenotypical. This comes from same source platogot his but far more literal and physically time & time again proven. This Newtonian peasants revolt separatist pilgrims puritan gonna find Jesus left over fingerprints in creation map it and improves the human condition can not be ignored! Pragmatism would call it literal miracle prophetic orientation and direction graced by God as he moves through at his own discretion. It's dualistic physically mystified minds Magicians that deflected eastern philosophy, not prayer logic conservative ortho and damn sure ain't European German cursed rationalism progressive interventionism. Every where you can see emerging pragmaticism and everyone trying to deflect away Or into the same Ole failed stuff under new modeling

"i do not need to explain it" B. Kastrup

bernardo doesn't understand occams razor

I disagree. I think consciousness came from mindless evolution

As I understand it consciousness is non-local and we are only local illusion of the field. But we can open the third eye and get out from the cave because we have a drop of light of the consciousness to which we belong. It is like the relation between the flower (as we are) and the plant to which it belongs (that we also are).