@@THIRDEYEDROPS of course. Hey, can I send you a list of some questions I have for him? Maybe you can use them in your next interview to break more new ground.
2:19 Me too. I had a spiritual awakening in Albania and I followed the call to a new job and life in Myanmar. At first my ego resisted it. Now more and more I am in flow and connected and two weeks ago I realized my Daimon was revealing itself to me. Both in real life glimpses and dream images and synchronicity. I don't question it because like you I have enough hours of research with people like Bernardo, Jung, Ian Stephenson etc to go with the flow. Now my UA-cam channel on life in Myanmar is taking off. Because I do it as a work of spiritual practice. Like Bernardo I see my work not as about me and my Ego but about telling stories for Myanmar and bringing light and joy. And the reverb is growing every day. I just follow the path. Soon I will give up my day job and just follow this journey. I no longer worry. I trust that I am where I need to be, doing what I need to do. The universe working thorough me. An Aunty Myanmar UA-camr. How amazing this journey of life is and I know that we are on the right path with Bernardo and the likes of yourself. Blessings from Myanmar Miss Liza
This host is the most sincerely whole mind engaged with his guest, his love for the subject matter is beautiful to see. That’s passion. That’s dedication.
"The Attic of Cobwebs." Carl Jung, "The Redbook" Libra Novus edited and with an Introduction by Sonu Shamdasani. Synchronicity of the unconscious. Mysterium and Unis Mudis Benardo Kastrup, one is always fortunate to listen to you. Now more books for me, fortunately. Three hour conversation seemed like moments bursting. Many thanks "Third Eye Drops." This channel is exhilarating. 🙏❤️🌎🌿🕊🎶🎵
I feel compelled to share with you Michael and hopefully it extends to Dr. Kastrup, I listened to both mind melds with Bernardo twice over and I was so overwhelmed by the lingo and academia type references that are way beyond my understanding, right now at least. I googled Kastrup, his work, the definitons of analytical idealism, trying to understand it all and I was pleasantly surprised to find a website called Essentia that shares free videos and information explaining his theories. I am grateful to both of you for the free knowledge you share with the world! I very much struggle with articulating and just with words in general... im a more visual and intuition based human. So having Kastrup develop a cite that provides free content to understand these theories is a great gift to people with access to internet. Thank you!
Can’t wait for this one. One of my favorite big thinkers sitting across one of the very best conversationalists and hosts in this space. Thank you to both of you. I’ll be listening once it releases today.
Timestamps ↓ ✦ Archetypes as defining features of the Mind space and their implications on the world around us. 00:02 ✦ Discussion on Jung's metaphysics, synchronicity, collective unconscious, archetypes, and UFO phenomenon. 02:43 ✦ Synchronicity reveals the correspondence between our minds and the world around us. 07:44 ✦ Carl Jung and Nobel prize-winning physicist Pauli had a serious and engaging correspondence on the concept of synchronicity and psychic world. 10:23 ✦ Three sigma measures how unlikely a measurement is compared to the average value 15:24 ✦ Randomness can show patterns that contradict scientific paradigms. 17:48 ✦ Experiencing synchronicities while researching Jung's life. 22:02 ✦ Finding a rare four-sided pyramidal Pebble invoked Jung's concept of synchronicity. 24:24 ✦ Synchronicities confirm Jung's teachings. 28:42 ✦ Synchronicity is about the correspondence of psychic state and the world. 30:49 ✦ The experience of synchronicities and its connection to archetypal symbols and psychedelic trips. 34:51 ✦ Synchronicity is a correspondence of archetypal states. 36:59 ✦ Nature may be constituted of mental states, like our inner mental life. 41:27 ✦ Qualitative categorization of different types of experiences. 43:49 ✦ Codependent emergence in quantum mechanics 48:41 ✦ Nature is like movement but there is nothing that moves 51:01 ✦ Physical reality is relational and not purely material. 55:34 ✦ Our perceptions represent the world accurately without being the world itself. 57:37 ✦ The physical world is not magical, but still has an incredible wonder. 1:01:37 ✦ AI can find correlations between brain activity and experience 1:03:40 ✦ AI image extraction not used as an argument for physicalism 1:07:51 ✦ Reality is not limited to brain states and measurements. 1:10:02 ✦ Reductionism from big to small is a mistake. 1:14:26 ✦ The goal of a grand unification theory is to reduce everything to one hyperdimensional universal field. 1:16:48 ✦ Avoid conflating different phenomena as alien 1:21:11 ✦ The phenomena are real, important for our understanding of nature and our role on this planet. 1:23:15 ✦ Our cognitive structures are projected onto the world, shaping our understanding. 1:27:47 ✦ Translating to non-human intelligence is naive. 1:29:58 ✦ The urgency of the message conveyed by nonhuman intelligence 1:34:20 ✦ Communication between different intelligent species requires implanting a vision in the other. 1:36:26 ✦ Primordial mental states embody meaning directly, leading to spontaneous narrative construction in our minds. 1:40:42 ✦ Engage with the metaphor of encounters before seeking literal explanations 1:42:56 ✦ Understanding and accessing extra degrees of freedom can lead to magical abilities. 1:47:21 ✦ Implications of technological advancements and speculations about alien civilizations. 1:49:32 ✦ The division between mental and physical is arbitrary and will soon end. 1:53:56 ✦ Extraterrestrial civilizations may not be limited by our understanding of mind and physicality. 1:56:11 ✦ Technology advancing to control devices with thought waves and implanting neural implants for accurate mental activity measurement. 2:00:31 ✦ The merging of biology and technology is on the verge of creating something like a homunculus. 2:02:39 ✦ Different cognitive systems perceive truth differently. 2:06:54 ✦ Mythology, symbolism, and dreams evoke meaning through illogical means. 2:09:08 ✦ Carl Jung explains the manifestation of the unconscious mind 2:13:24 ✦ Unconscious mind communicates with the ego and suffers from psychological crisis. 2:15:45 ✦ Dealing with stress, anxiety, and nightmares by aligning with the unconscious 2:19:59 ✦ Unconscious messages in dreams are important when ego is in denial. 2:22:11 ✦ Recurring dreams convey deep, uncomfortable messages. 2:26:26 ✦ Realizing teenage dreams in adulthood can be a blessing and a curse depending on one's attitude. 2:28:27 ✦ Bernardo Kastrup discusses his academic achievements and upcoming book on analytic idealism. 2:32:52 ✦ Bernardo Kastrup plans to release a new book and talks about taking analytic idealism forward with more research. 2:34:55 ✦ UFO phenomenon can unground and affect even competent, serious scholars. 2:39:00 ✦ Avoid suggestive whispers and mysteries, be clear and direct in reasoning. 2:41:39 ✦ Losing our relationship to mystery and the impact on our lives. 2:46:14 ✦ Acknowledging the mystery and allowing legitimacy can have dangerous consequences. 2:48:23 ✦ Exercise caution in promoting ungrounded hypotheses. 2:52:45 ✦ Carl Jung grounded himself in building Ballinger Tower to balance his deep dive into archetypes and psyche. 2:54:58
OK… I wasn’t going to share about this synchronicity experience, but then there was all this about the roses 🤣🌹💎 A couple years ago, it was August 8, Lions gate energy portal. I went for a day trip to Dallas with my boyfriend, and when we took off that morning, I was thinking about rose quartz and its metaphysical healing properties. I did a walking meditation in Dallas, barefoot; when I arrived back to the location my boyfriend was at, I walked around the yard, and underneath a tuft of grass there was a 3 sided pyramidal polished, rose quartz
Michael, keep doing what you’re doing. The work of the daimon in you is so resonating with me. Your art is evoking some the the most incredible, beautiful experience through the images and symbols you share and bring out in your guests. All you work is wonderful. This conversation is one of the very best/life changing ones I’ve ever heard anywhere.
I would not go that far, but yeah... he is good! :) What is most amazing in the current world, that is also referencing a lot from Jacques Vallee, Jung, Joseph Campbell or even fairy tales (Janet Bord had a good book about it: "Fairies - real encounters with little people" (with definitely an "UFO" connection there). And going even deeper, you can find similaries with the research from Peter Fenwick, or Pim van Lommel or if you want to push the envelope a bit: Ian Stevenson or go completely towards Donald Hoffman. And a lot also can be related in modern quantum physic, and simulation theory. At the end, it all starting to make sense, and in a way may be connected with stories from Vallee and others. And you always have stories about people being taken to a different realms, classic folklore legends about various entities (also ones including lost time). So there is always something common there, you just have to look at the more data, not just an "UFO", or "Fairies", or "Angels" or other old legends/myths. And that is not even touching issue of shamanism, ayauasca/psilocybin/dmt and so on. So whatever is happening, some kind of controling/influencing mechanism that can display itself under various objects/entities (or whatever you want to call it) - and it is projecting itself in many different variations, including one based on your believes, uprising, growing up, or global technogical level and so on, incuding being there when we die (especially when considering Fenwick's research or even observations from Vallee). Not in every case of course, but often enough. Especially if you have been working in a hospital, or hospice for a while and partly you are familiar with those stories. All of that in a little bit points to... virtualization/simulation (or some other "reality" out there, definitely beyond our physical bodies).
You are mixing wisdom with intelligence. Most intelligent? Really? Intelligent? Definitely. Full of wisdom? You bet. The same way in which the Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi is. But most intelligent? That's a full exaggeration right there, disregarding work of other people, especially in academia, experts from many different subjects => and probably even Bernardo wouldn't like to say it about himself.
Okay, borderline syncronicity here: used to work at a law firm, and had a colleague that was a wordsmith. She challenged a young associate to drop the word *pejorative* into our work week somehow, in convo, over the phone, whatever. He did it--and did it in a legal brief about a domestic matter...it was classic! Thanks for the reminder. We had so much fun with that word, lol!
Love this! Even finding this video feels rich with meaning for me, given recent events in my life and pondering about these things.. the synchronicities in life are too numerous to even behold at times let alone explain! It all makes sense lol Great host too, Subscribed ❤
I’ve had three synchronous experiences. I was displeased with my son’s daycare in New Mexico so we moved him to a new school. When we arrived, we met the secretary who had just moved across the country from Maine. I’m from Maine, spent most of my life there and my son was born there. She brings us to his teacher who I learn is from the same city in Morocco that my dad was born in. While getting introduced, another student also on his first day arrives. He’s just moved from Vietnam. My wife is Vietnamese. The teacher then proudly shows us that she’s teaching the kids the flags of the world and holds up the Japanese flag to them and they all yell “Japan!” While my wife is Vietnamese, she grew up in Japan. This all occurred in a 5 min period and blew my mind. It felt like the universe was trying to tell us we were making the right decision. It was a great decision and tremendously helped our son for what it’s worth. Another synchronous experience I had occurred in Japan. I met my friend who I hadn’t seen in ten years while in Tokyo. We spent the day together and then parted ways, expecting not to see each other for a long time. The next day, I’m boarding a train in a different part of Tokyo and as I’m getting on, I look to my left and my friend is directly next to me, boarding the same train and the same time. Tokyo is massive, insanely populated and the train station was filled with a sea of people. We were in a completely different area of the city. Finally, when I was in middle school I had a dream that I came to school and everyone was crying because a student at our school had died of the cancer she had been fighting for a few years. I showed up to school to find she had passed away that night. A coincidence maybe, although I didn’t personally know her, had no classes with her and definitely didn’t know anything about her disease progression other than she was a girl that had been dealing with cancer for a few years. It felt so surreal showing up and living my dream from the night before.
1:30 _Bernardo discusses the common misconception of assuming that all entities with advanced intelligence perceive the world through an identical cognitive system._ Similarly, don't we often hold a misguided belief about history, presuming that individuals from, let's say, 4000 years ago possessed the same cognitive framework or mental "dashboard" as contemporary humans. This misconception leads us to believe that they comprehended and interpreted reality in the same manner as we do today. An approach that can lead to misunderstanding of ancient writings and archaeological finds.
Thank you for all the amazing content! I'd suggest to divide the video in sections, it would be easier for people like me who have short periods of time to dedicate to youtube. I aways endup messing the videotimeline going from desktop to mobile and back...
It’s the same time line either way. You really expect someone to divide their work into sections for your convenience? I don’t want to be rude but come on. Maybe you’d also like to tell him how long each section should be to fit your schedule?
Great episode! Always loved Bernardo’s message, I have so many thoughts about this. One the people I always enjoy listening to after mckenna. Bernardo is brilliant and thoughtful I just love the guy. You did a great job interviewing as well.
This metaphor came to me while listening to cave and dash board metaphors you two were sharing about. The physical and mental states we experience as humans are one in the same in the mind of nature similar how, while in a dream we are aware of our metal states as well as the “physical” states in the dream (such as a sunny day or cool grass, growling tiger chasing us)…. When we wake up we realize both the physical and the mental emotional states in said dream were all made by our mind! Holy shit, I think it’s all sinking in for now!😂🤯❤️
Yes, the dream metaphor is powerful! I think I messaged Bernardo about using it more, and I think he’s doing it (may or may not have anything ti do with my comment).
@@PhysicsWithoutMagic I’ve heard him use it a number of times in the past and got some of it. I’ve intellectually grasped much of mind-metaphysics but Last night, the dream metaphor really sunk in. Like one of those tricky images, once you see it, it’s so obvious you cannot in-see it. It’s one thing to intellectually get an idea and another thing to *experience the reality of it.
From my personal experiences during a kundalini awakening in 2016 it became apparent that synchronicities are not rare events as such, they are just the flow of life viewed with awareness. When awareness is obscured, veiled by ignorance, these instances of meaningful coincidence have a profound effect on our psyche when glimpsed. Of the many experiences i witnessed at that time there was a a period for about a week or so where I was just a passenger in this body with no control over the flow of event's. Everything was a synchronicity. Everywhere I went, everything I did, everyone I met was all laid out in front of me like I had no say in it, because..... I didn't. Eventually that experience of complete helplessness faded as I grounded back into the body , so to speak.... the understanding however, was not lost to me.
The alcoholic named Hazard was reportedly a patient of Jungs also, it is said that step two in 12 step recovery was given by Jung. Oh i am so very greatful for Jungs work and for aspirants like you who translate it all for us Dr Bernado, i can't wait to read your book 🙏❤️🎉👏
Love Jung, his journey discovering his perceptions of metaphysics, love eynchronicity, and UAPs or UFOs are interesting, though I'm more skeptical about that than ghosts 😅 I'm so here for this interview! Thanks ThirdEyeDrops
Synchronicity is like a Mountain. It’s a place you can see from everywhere but maybe never choose to go to. A place where energy accumulates. Many paths lead to the summit. It talks to you in symbols which you must also use to climb it. The Archetypes which we embodie are the pathway to travel to it. Since archetypes always point to a source, the summit. It’s inherit to the archetype to point to something. That’s what the shamans overwhelming use of symbols does for them. It points the way to the soul, to the mandala within. You can’t go there be foot. Only in embodimet we can get there like the current of a river. You walk around and find reflections of the mountain in many places. Archetypes and symbols are probably the same thing in different realms. My opinion…
I was at the edge of my seat waiting for Bernardo to discuss his recurrent dream and how he knows what it means but he’s unwilling to pay the price. And you interrupt him and didn’t let him tell us and complete the story. This was around 2:27. This is when you ask “what is it?!!” Tragic 😩
When I saw a podcast, I began to understand how synchronicity might function in the universe. Apparently Wolfgang Polly and Carl Jung. We're trying to organize events that did not happen by classical causality on the vertical axis and on the horizontal axis for events caused by causality. Mental events or psychic events organize by similarity. Like nonpolar molecules aggregate together and polar molecules are excluded in a solution. This model for me worked well. 😁
When he talks about the difference between relational/movement/physical and the absolute/non physical that gives meaning, I see where the Eastern philosophies/religions fall short. They ignore the physical world, although that's where we experience and learn. For them only the spiritual is important, but in reality it's not that easy. Life is hard, so unless we "take care of business" we will neither be happy in a temporal sense nor be able to be truly spiritual. So the mind helps us discern what's what and shows us what to focus on.
I have had a really complex synchronicity. Way more complex than the scarab. I’d love to talk about it with someone interested in it but it’s really difficult to point to all the connections. I can only really get there if the person I’m talking to approaches the subject with curiosity. I knew I was meant to be exactly where I was in the moment when it happened. And I was led there with a newfound intuitive sense connected to my heart. I was following something blindly and then I found myself in the middle of the biggest synchronicity ever. And other smaller synchronicities pointed me in the right directions to get there. It kind of showed me the general direction of where I should align my life to moving forward It has to do with the soul and psychedelics. Part of the synchronicity was something from a mushroom trip I had a year ago was shown to me in real life in the most specific way that there’s no way it was just coincidence. That trip also showed me how to find my intuition and become more aware of it. And it led me to that place. Fucking trippy shit
As I was listening to your synchronicity about the rose vision I was standing in a parking lot in front of a bakery next to a Starbucks and a black woman in a black dress code vered in pink roses was walking toward me . Fun .needles to say my spine is still tingling.
it’s amusing that Rovelli uses Nagarjuna when Kastrups concepts fit with Nagarjunas concepts much more cleanly. the dashboard of the dials makes me think of his verses on the Ayatanas
Synchronicity is an element of the universe, which makes us perceive an exact moment in our existence. When we experience such coincidences we can recognize that we belong to a whole and equally to an individual located in time-space. The ability to articulate in our memories, moments that we have experienced, to come to the conclusion that at an exact moment there is a synchronicity, depends on having the ability to experience moments within ourselves that are completely independent of presuppositions, or prejudices. Therefore, having the ability to perceive our moments of synchronicities will bring us experiences of deep self-knowledge, so if we want, we can take advantage of these intimate moments that occur to us, with the certainty that in their contexts there will be some important lessons.
“Our own mind takes care of building the symbolic narrative”. Is that why the phenomena is experienced so much differently by different people? It relays the feeling, and our mind does the rest, filtered through our own experiences?
The way the Platonic apophatic ties into Eastern mystic concepts like tathagata and neti neti is something of deep importance, in my opinion. Add Wittgenstein to it all and you see the circle completes itself. This loss at the limits of our language are deeply expressed in quantum physics as well. There's a point where even theory itself breaks down. Even Einstein said, "The more success the quantum theory has the sillier it looks."
I could share a long meandering story filled with synchronicity after synchronicity but people would think I’m crazy. Thus, I keep it to myself. It’s all real. That’s all I can say.
Big thanks for bringing on so many great thinkers and tackling these ideas, and more importantly, for motivating one to stretch the mind and dive deeper into these meaningful--dare I say joy-purveying--explorations. Very cool to see you flow with people like John Vervaeke and Bernardo Kastrup. Keep on keeping on! (Finally signed up for Patreon today by the way.)
just recently I started wondering what was stifling my imagination. I’ve been pondering this for the past year. Then I met this woman soon after, known her for about a year. After interacting with her off and on, just recently I realized that she was mirroring my oldest sister. I didn’t realize until last month how the mirroring that was almost identical. I say this to say that it was my childhood issues with my older sister ( the constant teasing, and unworthiness that she made me feel) was one of the causes. I was so shocked at how universe answered that question that it threw me into a spiritual awakening, and all kinds of psychic things were happening around me I couldnt tell if these things were my imagination or real, until I asked my niece something that the universe revealed to me during that episode about her , and she confirmed that what was reveal to me about her was true, then asked if I was a psychic medium. I’m wondering why now are these things just being revealed to me.
Sun represents identity, the moon is emotions, Mercury is communication, Venus is values, Mars is motivation, Jupiter is expansion, Saturn is responsibilities, Uranus is innovation, Neptune is spirituality, and Pluto is transformation.
It's interesting that, given BK's concern about descending into a "black hole" viz UAPs at the end of the podcast, I thought he had kinda gone there earlier on in the interview where he speculated about the possibility of UAPs being a signal from not-yet-discovered survivors of a 300 million year old advanced civilization on earth.
We shouldn't forget that not only Pauli, but also Eisenberg, Planck, Schrodinger and even Einstein insisted about the role of consciousness in physics.
For Bernardo: Ok, you like synchronicities? Here goes: The Books that Came Out of Nowhere I was just walking through the Barnes & Noble in Marina Del Rey in 1995 when something caught my eye. The colors of the rainbow intensely jumped out at me from the shelf. I walked closer and realized that a series of books by Peter McWilliams were all lined up. The titles and summaries told me they were all about self help & I could really use it right then. I immediately felt so strongly drawn to have them so I could read them, but they were out of my price range. I looked at them intensely and told myself in the strongest possible way that I need to read these books! This was the abbreviated version of the full creative visualization process which I had discovered the year before and which had worked perfectly for me. Later that day I was driving back from a gig near Silver Lake when my beeper went off. Yes, that’s all we had back then! My friend Evan was calling me to come bartend at the gallery he was running which was in the block parallel to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. The guy who was supposed to be there had bailed and I was pretty exhausted, but I said OK, got myself cleaned up and went to the gallery. I didn’t even have time to check out the show and just ran in the back. I was a total novice but poured drinks and that included actual “colortinis” for television’s “Tom Tomorrow” Snyder who happened to make the show. He was hosting that late night show at the time. He and I traded witty banter and it was a really fun night. The next morning, I woke up and went around the back of the apartment, put in my laundry, walked back to the front and, so help me G-d, the entire set of rainbow-colored books that I had seen & focused intently on having the day before in the book store were lined up in front of my door. Seriously?! Something told me to walk next door to Evan’s place. As I walked in, “You put those books there, didn’t you?” He said “take a seat”. He told me the following: A man had been driving down the street when an image in the front of the gallery had caught his eye. He had gone into the show (with me working in the back), had fallen in love with a few pieces, bought them on the spot, put them in his trunk and he had lifted that set of books out of the car, gave them to Evan and said something had told him to give them to Evan. The following morning when I had walked out to do my laundry, Evan had walked down from next door and put them in front of my door. Who was that man who had given him the books? It was the author himself, Peter McWilliams, and those were his personal set of those very books I had become obsessed with the previous day. The artwork in the front of the gallery that had caught his eye was literally the piece that graced the cover of one of the books in the full collection I had become obsessed with and received the next day. How ‘bout THEM apples?! BTW, Creative Visualization worked for me virtually every time I used it. It sometimes happened instantly, over days, weeks, or, in the case of my appearance on Wheel Of Fortune, it took 2 years for the entire scenario to play out. I’m nothing special and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work for you. The best thing is that nobody can stop you, nobody even needs to know you’re doing it, and no trauma you experienced in your life can stop it from working for you. I’m speaking from experience. I’m now writing a book detailing my exact process and all of my successes with it so other people can experience what can only be called real magic, the true power of Universal Consciousness.. which is YOU!
I love how people are finally exploring these concepts. Donald Hoffman. Bernardo etc...are finally delving where the CTMU by Langan first tread. His theory is dense, difficult, and rife with personalized vocabulary to describe concepts that are difficult to grasp: like telology. Those who dismiss him as an unhinged genius forget that first and foremost he is a genius, and as per usual won't be fully appreciated in his own time. They are describing much of the same concepts now, all truth is one. Grapple with the ideas before dismissing him. The elitist academic attitude to dismiss those who come from outside Academia expose their bias at their own peril.
There are two synchronicities in my life that are so mind blowing, the fact of its existence cannot be denied. Not here. I wish there was a way to contact you so that I could share them with you.
Interesting discussion with respect to dreams. I’ve been in recovery from abusing drugs and alcohol for nearly 15 years and I dream almost nightly that I’ve relapsed
I came back to add this thought I had about synchronicity. Jung defined it as a non-causal relationship of meaning between an 'external' event and a perception. He distinguished this from more common types of relationship perceived as causal that can be understood as accidental and meaningless. (Wind blew the tree down.) Can these really be separated so easily? Here's my thought. As every philosopher should know, there is no causal relationship between mind and body/matter. Our experience is not caused by the physical. Neither are physical events caused by our minds. What if when I raise my hand and my hand rises this also is a case of synchronicity? Is it not a meaningful connection that is not causal? Precognition cannot be explained by causality in any ordinary sense of it. But it can be explained as synchronicity. In every case causality can be replaced by synchronicity with an improvement in clarity and simplicity.
Love Dr. Kastrup, but I feel like a 20mbps internet download digesting a 100mbps signal when reading or listening to his work :D (still, slow is better than not at all, I guess!). Cheers Michael (and Bernardo).
I am consciousness on the level of source where I am one with you and one with every other living organism.. And from the level of source I/we cocreate every experience. That is all there is. That explain syncronicity. And it nicely explain everything else also. I talk about my lived experiences. Also You and I create every now, so syncronisity is created in the now. The mind in nature is in you and me not the other way around. That is the perspective that solve everything. All there is, is consciousness, and consciousness is You. Everything with form are abstractions you (and I) create and project outside of you and me - that is the dashboard.😃🎈🌱
Could someone point me in the general direction of what he was probably having in mind when he declined to further elaborate on why he thinks, the distinction of mind and physicality will go away till mid century. "Respect for people" as in stories he has been told or rather wanting to spare the listeners the aforementioned ontological shock?
It's interesting to me that all conversations on this channel lead to psychedelic drug use whilst the father of most of the psychedelic insight was against the use of those drugs
One of the most unique and least redundant interviews of Bernardo Kastrup. (I’ve seen them all.) Great job!
Thanks my friend, I did feel like we went in some novel directions!
I love just about everything I see from BK and from this wonderful channel. This conversation was something extra special. Hats off to you both. 🙏🏽❤️
@@THIRDEYEDROPS of course. Hey, can I send you a list of some questions I have for him? Maybe you can use them in your next interview to break more new ground.
@@THIRDEYEDROPS a list of* (not “a lot of”)
Same..
Bernardo kastrup has absolutely contributed to making philosophy one of my biggest passions.
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Same
What I particularly like about Bernardo is his ability to use precise language.
2:19 Me too. I had a spiritual awakening in Albania and I followed the call to a new job and life in Myanmar. At first my ego resisted it. Now more and more I am in flow and connected and two weeks ago I realized my Daimon was revealing itself to me. Both in real life glimpses and dream images and synchronicity. I don't question it because like you I have enough hours of research with people like Bernardo, Jung, Ian Stephenson etc to go with the flow. Now my UA-cam channel on life in Myanmar is taking off. Because I do it as a work of spiritual practice. Like Bernardo I see my work not as about me and my Ego but about telling stories for Myanmar and bringing light and joy. And the reverb is growing every day. I just follow the path. Soon I will give up my day job and just follow this journey. I no longer worry. I trust that I am where I need to be, doing what I need to do. The universe working thorough me. An Aunty Myanmar UA-camr. How amazing this journey of life is and I know that we are on the right path with Bernardo and the likes of yourself. Blessings from Myanmar Miss Liza
I could listen to Bernardo expand on his thoughts all day.
On the other hand, we have the other voice contrasting. It is irritating. My assumption, a lack of testosterone.
@gofai274😂😂😂😂 the sneak diss is real
This host is the most sincerely whole mind engaged with his guest, his love for the subject matter is beautiful to see. That’s passion. That’s dedication.
Appreciate that my friend 🙏
He stinks!
All around one of the better interviews with Bernardo-appreciated the intelligent and insightful questions by the host.
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Yes, I completely agree! I have listened to countless interviews of Bernardo; this has by far been the best! Great appreciation for this; well done!
"The Attic of Cobwebs."
Carl Jung, "The Redbook" Libra Novus edited and with an Introduction by Sonu Shamdasani.
Synchronicity of the unconscious.
Mysterium and Unis Mudis
Benardo Kastrup, one is always fortunate to listen to you. Now more books for me, fortunately.
Three hour conversation seemed like moments bursting.
Many thanks "Third Eye Drops."
This channel is exhilarating.
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I feel compelled to share with you Michael and hopefully it extends to Dr. Kastrup, I listened to both mind melds with Bernardo twice over and I was so overwhelmed by the lingo and academia type references that are way beyond my understanding, right now at least. I googled Kastrup, his work, the definitons of analytical idealism, trying to understand it all and I was pleasantly surprised to find a website called Essentia that shares free videos and information explaining his theories. I am grateful to both of you for the free knowledge you share with the world! I very much struggle with articulating and just with words in general... im a more visual and intuition based human. So having Kastrup develop a cite that provides free content to understand these theories is a great gift to people with access to internet. Thank you!
Can’t wait for this one. One of my favorite big thinkers sitting across one of the very best conversationalists and hosts in this space. Thank you to both of you. I’ll be listening once it releases today.
Thank you my friend. Hope it tickles your wonder whiskers 🤝
Bernardo is too sure of his ideas. He might need better off to be cautious.
This is the best convo with Bernardo that I have listened to.
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Archetypes as defining features of the Mind space and their implications on the world around us.
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Discussion on Jung's metaphysics, synchronicity, collective unconscious, archetypes, and UFO phenomenon.
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Synchronicity reveals the correspondence between our minds and the world around us.
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Carl Jung and Nobel prize-winning physicist Pauli had a serious and engaging correspondence on the concept of synchronicity and psychic world.
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Three sigma measures how unlikely a measurement is compared to the average value
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Randomness can show patterns that contradict scientific paradigms.
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Experiencing synchronicities while researching Jung's life.
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Finding a rare four-sided pyramidal Pebble invoked Jung's concept of synchronicity.
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Synchronicities confirm Jung's teachings.
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Synchronicity is about the correspondence of psychic state and the world.
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The experience of synchronicities and its connection to archetypal symbols and psychedelic trips.
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Synchronicity is a correspondence of archetypal states.
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Nature may be constituted of mental states, like our inner mental life.
41:27
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Qualitative categorization of different types of experiences.
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Codependent emergence in quantum mechanics
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Nature is like movement but there is nothing that moves
51:01
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Physical reality is relational and not purely material.
55:34
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Our perceptions represent the world accurately without being the world itself.
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The physical world is not magical, but still has an incredible wonder.
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AI can find correlations between brain activity and experience
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AI image extraction not used as an argument for physicalism
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Reality is not limited to brain states and measurements.
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Reductionism from big to small is a mistake.
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The goal of a grand unification theory is to reduce everything to one hyperdimensional universal field.
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Avoid conflating different phenomena as alien
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The phenomena are real, important for our understanding of nature and our role on this planet.
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Our cognitive structures are projected onto the world, shaping our understanding.
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Translating to non-human intelligence is naive.
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The urgency of the message conveyed by nonhuman intelligence
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Communication between different intelligent species requires implanting a vision in the other.
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Primordial mental states embody meaning directly, leading to spontaneous narrative construction in our minds.
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Engage with the metaphor of encounters before seeking literal explanations
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Understanding and accessing extra degrees of freedom can lead to magical abilities.
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Implications of technological advancements and speculations about alien civilizations.
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The division between mental and physical is arbitrary and will soon end.
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Extraterrestrial civilizations may not be limited by our understanding of mind and physicality.
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Technology advancing to control devices with thought waves and implanting neural implants for accurate mental activity measurement.
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The merging of biology and technology is on the verge of creating something like a homunculus.
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Different cognitive systems perceive truth differently.
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Mythology, symbolism, and dreams evoke meaning through illogical means.
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Carl Jung explains the manifestation of the unconscious mind
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Unconscious mind communicates with the ego and suffers from psychological crisis.
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Dealing with stress, anxiety, and nightmares by aligning with the unconscious
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Unconscious messages in dreams are important when ego is in denial.
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Recurring dreams convey deep, uncomfortable messages.
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Realizing teenage dreams in adulthood can be a blessing and a curse depending on one's attitude.
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Bernardo Kastrup discusses his academic achievements and upcoming book on analytic idealism.
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Bernardo Kastrup plans to release a new book and talks about taking analytic idealism forward with more research.
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UFO phenomenon can unground and affect even competent, serious scholars.
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Avoid suggestive whispers and mysteries, be clear and direct in reasoning.
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Losing our relationship to mystery and the impact on our lives.
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Acknowledging the mystery and allowing legitimacy can have dangerous consequences.
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Exercise caution in promoting ungrounded hypotheses.
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Carl Jung grounded himself in building Ballinger Tower to balance his deep dive into archetypes and psyche.
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Thanks, greatly appreciated 🙏
It's incredible how Dr. Kastrup makes these concepts accessible and relatively easy to digest.
I've had some very interesting experiences after dreaming about Jung many years ago. He's like the ferryman on the river of gnosis.
Incredible conversation, thank you for this!
OK… I wasn’t going to share about this synchronicity experience, but then there was all this about the roses
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A couple years ago, it was August 8, Lions gate energy portal. I went for a day trip to Dallas with my boyfriend, and when we took off that morning, I was thinking about rose quartz and its metaphysical healing properties. I did a walking meditation in Dallas, barefoot; when I arrived back to the location my boyfriend was at, I walked around the yard, and underneath a tuft of grass there was a 3 sided pyramidal polished, rose quartz
Anxiety can be a gift and an invitation.. a wise nudge to align with true nature.
Michael, keep doing what you’re doing. The work of the daimon in you is so resonating with me. Your art is evoking some the the most incredible, beautiful experience through the images and symbols you share and bring out in your guests. All you work is wonderful. This conversation is one of the very best/life changing ones I’ve ever heard anywhere.
Well spoken
Kastrup is the most intelligent person on earth. 💯
Oh, there we go. Men and their guru worshipping tendencies. Snap out of it.
normal for flat earthers perspective. When you have a zero IQ you see 0,1 IQ as genius person!
I would not go that far, but yeah... he is good! :)
What is most amazing in the current world, that is also referencing a lot from Jacques Vallee, Jung, Joseph Campbell or even fairy tales (Janet Bord had a good book about it: "Fairies - real encounters with little people" (with definitely an "UFO" connection there).
And going even deeper, you can find similaries with the research from Peter Fenwick, or Pim van Lommel or if you want to push the envelope a bit: Ian Stevenson or go completely towards Donald Hoffman. And a lot also can be related in modern quantum physic, and simulation theory.
At the end, it all starting to make sense, and in a way may be connected with stories from Vallee and others. And you always have stories about people being taken to a different realms, classic folklore legends about various entities (also ones including lost time). So there is always something common there, you just have to look at the more data, not just an "UFO", or "Fairies", or "Angels" or other old legends/myths. And that is not even touching issue of shamanism, ayauasca/psilocybin/dmt and so on.
So whatever is happening, some kind of controling/influencing mechanism that can display itself under various objects/entities (or whatever you want to call it) - and it is projecting itself in many different variations, including one based on your believes, uprising, growing up, or global technogical level and so on, incuding being there when we die (especially when considering Fenwick's research or even observations from Vallee). Not in every case of course, but often enough. Especially if you have been working in a hospital, or hospice for a while and partly you are familiar with those stories. All of that in a little bit points to... virtualization/simulation (or some other "reality" out there, definitely beyond our physical bodies).
You are mixing wisdom with intelligence.
Most intelligent? Really?
Intelligent? Definitely. Full of wisdom? You bet. The same way in which the Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi is.
But most intelligent? That's a full exaggeration right there, disregarding work of other people, especially in academia, experts from many different subjects => and probably even Bernardo wouldn't like to say it about himself.
lol.
Love the channel. Love this guest. Hope your channel grows and grows ❤️
Okay, borderline syncronicity here: used to work at a law firm, and had a colleague that was a wordsmith. She challenged a young associate to drop the word *pejorative* into our work week somehow, in convo, over the phone, whatever. He did it--and did it in a legal brief about a domestic matter...it was classic! Thanks for the reminder. We had so much fun with that word, lol!
At 1/10 the end of the portal and at 7pm? COSMIC BALANCE. I need this for my studies 🙌🏼
Love this! Even finding this video feels rich with meaning for me, given recent events in my life and pondering about these things.. the synchronicities in life are too numerous to even behold at times let alone explain! It all makes sense lol
Great host too,
Subscribed ❤
Loved this interview. Bernardo and his mind is a gift to mankind.
That is zen. "What is moving, the flag or the wind?" The answer: "Neither. It is the mind that moves."
Wind is ELF waves. I´m the on who can feel this. Nasty. Help me to get rid of it. :)
@@v2ike6udik The elves will visit you if you do n, n, Dimethyl tryptamine. DMT is ubiquitous in nature and is even found in our body.
The answer is both. Both the wind and the flag move. It's pretty obvious.
I’ve had three synchronous experiences.
I was displeased with my son’s daycare in New Mexico so we moved him to a new school. When we arrived, we met the secretary who had just moved across the country from Maine. I’m from Maine, spent most of my life there and my son was born there. She brings us to his teacher who I learn is from the same city in Morocco that my dad was born in. While getting introduced, another student also on his first day arrives. He’s just moved from Vietnam. My wife is Vietnamese. The teacher then proudly shows us that she’s teaching the kids the flags of the world and holds up the Japanese flag to them and they all yell “Japan!” While my wife is Vietnamese, she grew up in Japan. This all occurred in a 5 min period and blew my mind. It felt like the universe was trying to tell us we were making the right decision. It was a great decision and tremendously helped our son for what it’s worth.
Another synchronous experience I had occurred in Japan. I met my friend who I hadn’t seen in ten years while in Tokyo. We spent the day together and then parted ways, expecting not to see each other for a long time. The next day, I’m boarding a train in a different part of Tokyo and as I’m getting on, I look to my left and my friend is directly next to me, boarding the same train and the same time. Tokyo is massive, insanely populated and the train station was filled with a sea of people. We were in a completely different area of the city.
Finally, when I was in middle school I had a dream that I came to school and everyone was crying because a student at our school had died of the cancer she had been fighting for a few years. I showed up to school to find she had passed away that night. A coincidence maybe, although I didn’t personally know her, had no classes with her and definitely didn’t know anything about her disease progression other than she was a girl that had been dealing with cancer for a few years. It felt so surreal showing up and living my dream from the night before.
Thanks for the terrific interview with Mr. Kastrup.
1:30 _Bernardo discusses the common misconception of assuming that all entities with advanced intelligence perceive the world through an identical cognitive system._
Similarly, don't we often hold a misguided belief about history, presuming that individuals from, let's say, 4000 years ago possessed the same cognitive framework or mental "dashboard" as contemporary humans. This misconception leads us to believe that they comprehended and interpreted reality in the same manner as we do today. An approach that can lead to misunderstanding of ancient writings and archaeological finds.
Thank you for all the amazing content! I'd suggest to divide the video in sections, it would be easier for people like me who have short periods of time to dedicate to youtube. I aways endup messing the videotimeline going from desktop to mobile and back...
It’s the same time line either way. You really expect someone to divide their work into sections for your convenience? I don’t want to be rude but come on. Maybe you’d also like to tell him how long each section should be to fit your schedule?
Great episode! Always loved Bernardo’s message, I have so many thoughts about this. One the people I always enjoy listening to after mckenna. Bernardo is brilliant and thoughtful I just love the guy. You did a great job interviewing as well.
Bernardo!!!
Holy goosebumps...that rose sync was gorgeous 😍 ⚘️
This metaphor came to me while listening to cave and dash board metaphors you two were sharing about. The physical and mental states we experience as humans are one in the same in the mind of nature similar how, while in a dream we are aware of our metal states as well as the “physical” states in the dream (such as a sunny day or cool grass, growling tiger chasing us)…. When we wake up we realize both the physical and the mental emotional states in said dream were all made by our mind! Holy shit, I think it’s all sinking in for now!😂🤯❤️
Yes, the dream metaphor is powerful! I think I messaged Bernardo about using it more, and I think he’s doing it (may or may not have anything ti do with my comment).
@@PhysicsWithoutMagic I’ve heard him use it a number of times in the past and got some of it. I’ve intellectually grasped much of mind-metaphysics but Last night, the dream metaphor really sunk in. Like one of those tricky images, once you see it, it’s so obvious you cannot in-see it. It’s one thing to intellectually get an idea and another thing to *experience the reality of it.
I have received tremendous help psychologically and spiritually from your content.
I truly love hearing that. Much love to you my friend!
The ideas of Carlo Rovelli that Bernardo mentions are described in the "Helgoland" book by Carlo Rovelli.
Short but impressive book, by the way 😊
From my personal experiences during a kundalini awakening in 2016 it became apparent that synchronicities are not rare events as such, they are just the flow of life viewed with awareness. When awareness is obscured, veiled by ignorance, these instances of meaningful coincidence have a profound effect on our psyche when glimpsed.
Of the many experiences i witnessed at that time there was a a period for about a week or so where I was just a passenger in this body with no control over the flow of event's.
Everything was a synchronicity.
Everywhere I went, everything I did, everyone I met was all laid out in front of me like I had no say in it, because..... I didn't.
Eventually that experience of complete helplessness faded as I grounded back into the body , so to speak.... the understanding however, was not lost to me.
Right. Synchronicity is constant.
Thank you for your talk both! Great questions!
Fave philosopher ⚡️great interview!!
Great interview a must
I couldn’t sub fast enough! Favorite topics, and Bernardo, win/win!
Welcome ✨🙏✨
The alcoholic named Hazard was reportedly a patient of Jungs also, it is said that step two in 12 step recovery was given by Jung. Oh i am so very greatful for Jungs work and for aspirants like you who translate it all for us Dr Bernado, i can't wait to read your book 🙏❤️🎉👏
Love Jung, his journey discovering his perceptions of metaphysics, love eynchronicity, and UAPs or UFOs are interesting, though I'm more skeptical about that than ghosts 😅
I'm so here for this interview! Thanks ThirdEyeDrops
This content...just incredible stuff. 👏👏👏👏🌀
Synchronicity is like a Mountain. It’s a place you can see from everywhere but maybe never choose to go to. A place where energy accumulates. Many paths lead to the summit. It talks to you in symbols which you must also use to climb it.
The Archetypes which we embodie are the pathway to travel to it. Since archetypes always point to a source, the summit. It’s inherit to the archetype to point to something.
That’s what the shamans overwhelming use of symbols does for them. It points the way to the soul, to the mandala within. You can’t go there be foot. Only in embodimet we can get there like the current of a river.
You walk around and find reflections of the mountain in many places.
Archetypes and symbols are probably the same thing in different realms.
My opinion…
I was at the edge of my seat waiting for Bernardo to discuss his recurrent dream and how he knows what it means but he’s unwilling to pay the price. And you interrupt him and didn’t let him tell us and complete the story. This was around 2:27. This is when you ask “what is it?!!” Tragic 😩
Hi, thank you for the video. Would it be possible to provide timestamps, or to make the transcript available so that one of us viewers can do that?
At the end it's like the ego dissolving. The ego is useful for experiences. It's about tuning and equilibrium.
Excellent interview! Thanks. 🙏
When I saw a podcast, I began to understand how synchronicity might function in the universe. Apparently Wolfgang Polly and Carl Jung. We're trying to organize events that did not happen by classical causality on the vertical axis and on the horizontal axis for events caused by causality. Mental events or psychic events organize by similarity. Like nonpolar molecules aggregate together and polar molecules are excluded in a solution. This model for me worked well. 😁
Awesome interview! I would love to hear his views on John Vervake after he goes down that rabbit hole.
Can’t wait for the new book!!!
When he talks about the difference between relational/movement/physical and the absolute/non physical that gives meaning, I see where the Eastern philosophies/religions fall short. They ignore the physical world, although that's where we experience and learn. For them only the spiritual is important, but in reality it's not that easy. Life is hard, so unless we "take care of business" we will neither be happy in a temporal sense nor be able to be truly spiritual.
So the mind helps us discern what's what and shows us what to focus on.
I have had a really complex synchronicity. Way more complex than the scarab. I’d love to talk about it with someone interested in it but it’s really difficult to point to all the connections. I can only really get there if the person I’m talking to approaches the subject with curiosity.
I knew I was meant to be exactly where I was in the moment when it happened. And I was led there with a newfound intuitive sense connected to my heart. I was following something blindly and then I found myself in the middle of the biggest synchronicity ever. And other smaller synchronicities pointed me in the right directions to get there. It kind of showed me the general direction of where I should align my life to moving forward
It has to do with the soul and psychedelics. Part of the synchronicity was something from a mushroom trip I had a year ago was shown to me in real life in the most specific way that there’s no way it was just coincidence. That trip also showed me how to find my intuition and become more aware of it. And it led me to that place. Fucking trippy shit
Great interview, don't listen to the negative comments!
If I would be given the opportunity to talk to any person living today, I would probably want to talk to Bernardo.
As I was listening to your synchronicity about the rose vision I was standing in a parking lot in front of a bakery next to a Starbucks and a black woman in a black dress code vered in pink roses was walking toward me . Fun .needles to say my spine is still tingling.
it’s amusing that Rovelli uses Nagarjuna when Kastrups concepts fit with Nagarjunas concepts much more cleanly. the dashboard of the dials makes me think of his verses on the Ayatanas
3 hour podcast -3 time stamps 🫨
Synchronicity is an element of the universe, which makes us perceive an exact moment in our existence.
When we experience such coincidences we can recognize that we belong to a whole and equally to an individual located in time-space.
The ability to articulate in our memories, moments that we have experienced, to come to the conclusion that at an exact moment there is a synchronicity, depends on having the ability to experience moments within ourselves that are completely independent of presuppositions, or prejudices.
Therefore, having the ability to perceive our moments of synchronicities will bring us experiences of deep self-knowledge, so if we want, we can take advantage of these intimate moments that occur to us, with the certainty that in their contexts there will be some important lessons.
If you pray out loud with genuine strong emotion, it can help guide your path through almost immediate synchronous events.
“Our own mind takes care of building the symbolic narrative”. Is that why the phenomena is experienced so much differently by different people? It relays the feeling, and our mind does the rest, filtered through our own experiences?
Great podcast. Kastrup is really interesting. I wonder what he didn’t want to talk about, regarding the UAP phenomena towards the end…?
Wish I knew. 🌀
2:27:19 😮 I have that dream frequently! Very interesting! They're my favorite dreams. (the one of finding extra space in your house)
Mega! Love this. Thanks Michael. You got a Sub
Gratitude my friend!
Great video
Crazy that my father took a picture of an UFO and then i see this in the title, also seeing ufos all day
The way the Platonic apophatic ties into Eastern mystic concepts like tathagata and neti neti is something of deep importance, in my opinion. Add Wittgenstein to it all and you see the circle completes itself. This loss at the limits of our language are deeply expressed in quantum physics as well. There's a point where even theory itself breaks down. Even Einstein said, "The more success the quantum theory has the sillier it looks."
In my opinion, it means we really need to revisit cosmological concepts that are steeped in Judeo-Christian prejudice. We are painting the roses red.
I could share a long meandering story filled with synchronicity after synchronicity but people would think I’m crazy. Thus, I keep it to myself. It’s all real. That’s all I can say.
Big thanks for bringing on so many great thinkers and tackling these ideas, and more importantly, for motivating one to stretch the mind and dive deeper into these meaningful--dare I say joy-purveying--explorations. Very cool to see you flow with people like John Vervaeke and Bernardo Kastrup. Keep on keeping on! (Finally signed up for Patreon today by the way.)
Love to hear it, and much appreciated 🙏Glad to hear you’re in the patreon community!
just recently I started wondering what was stifling my imagination. I’ve been pondering this for the past year. Then I met this woman soon after, known her for about a year. After interacting with her off and on, just recently I realized that she was mirroring my oldest sister. I didn’t realize until last month how the mirroring that was almost identical. I say this to say that it was my childhood issues with my older sister ( the constant teasing, and unworthiness that she made me feel) was one of the causes. I was so shocked at how universe answered that question that it threw me into a spiritual awakening, and all kinds of psychic things were happening around me I couldnt tell if these things were my imagination or real, until I asked my niece something that the universe revealed to me during that episode about her , and she confirmed that what was reveal to me about her was true, then asked if I was a psychic medium. I’m wondering why now are these things just being revealed to me.
Sun represents identity, the moon is emotions, Mercury is communication, Venus is values, Mars is motivation, Jupiter is expansion, Saturn is responsibilities, Uranus is innovation, Neptune is spirituality, and Pluto is transformation.
Well done, both parties.
It's interesting that, given BK's concern about descending into a "black hole" viz UAPs at the end of the podcast, I thought he had kinda gone there earlier on in the interview where he speculated about the possibility of UAPs being a signal from not-yet-discovered survivors of a 300 million year old advanced civilization on earth.
We shouldn't forget that not only Pauli, but also Eisenberg, Planck, Schrodinger and even Einstein insisted about the role of consciousness in physics.
For Bernardo:
Ok, you like synchronicities? Here goes:
The Books that Came Out of Nowhere
I was just walking through the Barnes & Noble in Marina Del Rey in 1995 when something caught my eye. The colors of the rainbow intensely jumped out at me from the shelf. I walked closer and realized that a series of books by Peter McWilliams were all lined up. The titles and summaries told me they were all about self help & I could really use it right then. I immediately felt so strongly drawn to have them so I could read them, but they were out of my price range. I looked at them intensely and told myself in the strongest possible way that I need to read these books! This was the abbreviated version of the full creative visualization process which I had discovered the year before and which had worked perfectly for me.
Later that day I was driving back from a gig near Silver Lake when my beeper went off. Yes, that’s all we had back then! My friend Evan was calling me to come bartend at the gallery he was running which was in the block parallel to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. The guy who was supposed to be there had bailed and I was pretty exhausted, but I said OK, got myself cleaned up and went to the gallery. I didn’t even have time to check out the show and just ran in the back.
I was a total novice but poured drinks and that included actual “colortinis” for television’s “Tom Tomorrow” Snyder who happened to make the show. He was hosting that late night show at the time. He and I traded witty banter and it was a really fun night.
The next morning, I woke up and went around the back of the apartment, put in my laundry, walked back to the front and, so help me G-d, the entire set of rainbow-colored books that I had seen & focused intently on having the day before in the book store were lined up in front of my door. Seriously?!
Something told me to walk next door to Evan’s place. As I walked in, “You put those books there, didn’t you?”
He said “take a seat”. He told me the following: A man had been driving down the street when an image in the front of the gallery had caught his eye. He had gone into the show (with me working in the back), had fallen in love with a few pieces, bought them on the spot, put them in his trunk and he had lifted that set of books out of the car, gave them to Evan and said something had told him to give them to Evan. The following morning when I had walked out to do my laundry, Evan had walked down from next door and put them in front of my door.
Who was that man who had given him the books? It was the author himself, Peter McWilliams, and those were his personal set of those very books I had become obsessed with the previous day. The artwork in the front of the gallery that had caught his eye was literally the piece that graced the cover of one of the books in the full collection I had become obsessed with and received the next day.
How ‘bout THEM apples?!
BTW, Creative Visualization worked for me virtually every time I used it. It sometimes happened instantly, over days, weeks, or, in the case of my appearance on Wheel Of Fortune, it took 2 years for the entire scenario to play out. I’m nothing special and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work for you. The best thing is that nobody can stop you, nobody even needs to know you’re doing it, and no trauma you experienced in your life can stop it from working for you. I’m speaking from experience. I’m now writing a book detailing my exact process and all of my successes with it so other people can experience what can only be called real magic, the true power of Universal Consciousness.. which is YOU!
I love that story! Can you add how the book collection has affected you in your life? I am also interested in your other stories and technique.
That was a fun read. Any quick visualization techniques I can use to find your books?
I love how people are finally exploring these concepts. Donald Hoffman. Bernardo etc...are finally delving where the CTMU by Langan first tread. His theory is dense, difficult, and rife with personalized vocabulary to describe concepts that are difficult to grasp: like telology. Those who dismiss him as an unhinged genius forget that first and foremost he is a genius, and as per usual won't be fully appreciated in his own time. They are describing much of the same concepts now, all truth is one. Grapple with the ideas before dismissing him. The elitist academic attitude to dismiss those who come from outside Academia expose their bias at their own peril.
Fantastic. Thank you
The art in the beginning of the video; where is it from? Who’s the artist? I find it very very beautiful.
There are two synchronicities in my life that are so mind blowing, the fact of its existence cannot be denied. Not here. I wish there was a way to contact you so that I could share them with you.
“We are the monkeys on the roof” I love that!
Any idea what he is eluding to about the "before the latter half of this century bit"??? ???
Complexity theory needs to be addressed by Bernardo
Interesting discussion with respect to dreams. I’ve been in recovery from abusing drugs and alcohol for nearly 15 years and I dream almost nightly that I’ve relapsed
You are great
Thank you
Thanks bro ❤
I came back to add this thought I had about synchronicity. Jung defined it as a non-causal relationship of meaning between an 'external' event and a perception. He distinguished this from more common types of relationship perceived as causal that can be understood as accidental and meaningless. (Wind blew the tree down.) Can these really be separated so easily? Here's my thought.
As every philosopher should know, there is no causal relationship between mind and body/matter. Our experience is not caused by the physical. Neither are physical events caused by our minds. What if when I raise my hand and my hand rises this also is a case of synchronicity? Is it not a meaningful connection that is not causal? Precognition cannot be explained by causality in any ordinary sense of it. But it can be explained as synchronicity. In every case causality can be replaced by synchronicity with an improvement in clarity and simplicity.
How much entropy does organized thought have? How much does entropy decrease if entanglement correlates one thing with another? Is this synchronicity?
Nurturing the algorithm
Love your name btw
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Love Dr. Kastrup, but I feel like a 20mbps internet download digesting a 100mbps signal when reading or listening to his work :D (still, slow is better than not at all, I guess!). Cheers Michael (and Bernardo).
The cosntant syncros I have is beyond mindfk. BEYOND. Sigma over 9000. Fallen ones: "aww, look this guy struggling, kek. let him roast."
I am consciousness on the level of source where I am one with you and one with every other living organism.. And from the level of source I/we cocreate every experience. That is all there is. That explain syncronicity. And it nicely explain everything else also. I talk about my lived experiences. Also You and I create every now, so syncronisity is created in the now.
The mind in nature is in you and me not the other way around. That is the perspective that solve everything. All there is, is consciousness, and consciousness is You. Everything with form are abstractions you (and I) create and project outside of you and me - that is the dashboard.😃🎈🌱
Dubious wonder nuggets 👌🏼
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You should interview Patrick Harpur if you have the chance.
This guys said he was a determinist now he believes in synchronicity idk how you can reconcile the two.
DEFINITELY not a “far flung to open with” thing to say!
59:30 Similar to Donald Hoffman's theory of conscous agents.
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Welcome!
2:39:11 Who then? Danny Jones' guests ?
Could someone point me in the general direction of what he was probably having in mind when he declined to further elaborate on why he thinks, the distinction of mind and physicality will go away till mid century. "Respect for people" as in stories he has been told or rather wanting to spare the listeners the aforementioned ontological shock?
It's interesting to me that all conversations on this channel lead to psychedelic drug use whilst the father of most of the psychedelic insight was against the use of those drugs