10 ESSENTIAL reads with Bernardo Kastrup
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2023
- Read these 10 books and it will be very hard to still believe in a fundamentally physical universe.
Essentia is starting its own book club on UA-cam! In a series of videos, we will discuss 20th-century must reads by authors like Carl Gustav Jung, Noam Chomsky and Thomas Kuhn, to seminal work by idealists such as Schopenhauer. And, of course, we will pay tribute to foundational ancients texts as discussed by, for instance, Peter Kingsley and Patrick Harpur. As a starter, Hans Busstra asked Bernardo Kastrup to pick 10 books from his own shelf that most influenced his philosophical work. In this video, Bernardo briefly runs through the main ideas put forward in these books and how they changed his life. In the upcoming videos, Hans will do the homework by reading and reviewing these 10 books. You are, of course, invited to read along and send in your own insights and questions (please do so via our UA-cam community page: www.youtube.com/@essentiafoun.... The first book to be discussed after this video will be ‘Answer to Job,’ by Carl Gustav Jung.
00:00 Introduction
01:50 #1 Answer to Job - Carl Gustav Jung
07:25 #2 On the Nature of the Psyche - Carl Gustav Jung
14:28 #3 Saving the Appearances - Owen Barfield
20:03 #4 The Philosophers' Secret Fire - Patrick Harpur
24:38 #5 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn
32:00 #6 The Sense of the World - Adrés Ortiz-Osés
34:30 #7 Language and Mind - Noam Chomsky
42:53 #8 Passport to Magonia - Jacques Vallée
44:48 #9 The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer
54:18 #10 Reality - Peter Kingsley
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Huge respect for mentioning Valle and his book. With Bernardo we have yet another brilliant intellectual accepting the reality of UAP and the phenomenon and the new paradigm we’re about to enter. Fascinating times ahead
1. Jung = Answer to Job
2. Jung = On the Nature of Psyche
3. Owen Barfield = Savingthe Apperances
4. Patrick Harpur = The Philosopher's Secret Files
5. Thomas S. Kuhn = The Structure of Scientific Revolution
6. Andrès Ortiz-Oses = The Sense of the World
7. Noam Chomsky = Language of Mind
8. Jacques Vallée = Passport to Magonia
9. Arthur Schopenhauer = The World as Will and Representation
10. Peter Kingsley= Reality
Thank you!
Thanks, 475!
danke!
I could only find a handful of these in the states but it’s whatever
@Adolf Stalin the jung at least should findable, routledge press
Woah, Jacques Vallée. Such a courageous choice. And I absolutely agree-it's the rhinoceros in the living room. The existential, technological, political, religious and academic consequences for this revelation can't be overstated. It is quite literally the most profound realization for us as a species - yet, all of academia is in total denial. Liked/subscribed.
I've read "Reality" five times and am looking forward to the sixth.
Only just started watching this vid but already the WARMTH of these two men is palpable. I've noticed that about healthy-minded people--they are firm in their beliefs and practices while having warmth in their personalities. Thanks for this terrific video. Also I feel that 'Saving the Appearances' by Owen Barfield is indeed a profound and accessible survey of thought and consciousness.
I have all these books and because like Jung I have a strong interest in Gnosticism my recommendation would be The Exegesis of Philip K Dick the American Sci-fi writer whose books were so good several were turned into Hollywood movies. Phil states in this book that he like Jung was a Gnostic.
Two questions dominated Phil's thoughts throughout his life, What does it mean to be human and what is the true nature of reality!
At a famous press conference in France in 1977 Phil talked about retrocausation, the future influencing the past, and claimed he had lived the future in an Ouspensky time loop and 13 years before Nick Bostrom claimed, we were in a simulation.
Thanks for sharing. What a fabulous set of books. 🙂🙏🏼
I feel great affinity and a strange closeness to You Bernado. I really appreciate you and all that you do and all that you are. I never normally say this or comment on anything but Thankyou for sharing yourself and all that comes through you 🙏
Very interesting discussion. It was pleasing to see Bernardo crediting Schopenhauer with being the most important figure within Idealism which he undoubtedly is. The World as Will and Representation is a such a seminal book and the work a a true genius. He produced the first fully fleshed out version of Idealism with mainstream Western philosophy.
Very interesting talk, as ever Bernardo does a great job of communicating. Early on (about the 11-minute mark) he made a distinction between approaching this topic experientially or conceptually. I think this distinction is key, and is why so many maths/logic/left-brain types can be trapped in illusions when it comes to talking about consciousness. It's because they lack direct experience of all of it, that the more mystical/spiritual have. Hence they end up going around in circles. You could do another Top 10 Books list, just about the experiential side of this issue. Stuff like the Bardo Thodol, Terrence McKenna, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Israel Regardie, Rudolph Steiner.
experientially or conceptually, is in its a paradigm.
I really enjoy McKenna and Steiner. Never heard of the others you listed but I'll check them out.
Barfield was a member of The Inklings, which included CS Lewis and Tolkien, who is said to have been profoundly influenced by Barfield.
I wasn't aware of this. Thank you!
This is awesome, thanks for this insight!
I was assigned Barfield for a History of Science course in uni, and Kuhn the following year - same Prof included Castaneda and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the latter being the topic for our term paper. (But I'd already read Pirsig a decade prior as a teenager, which is when it changed my life - and WHY I was in that course taught by Morris Berman, who wrote The Reenchantment of the World :)
What joy it would have been to share a pint with those exulted people in the Eagle and Child in Oxford .
Ok, thanks for the warning.
This is priceless! Thank you, Bernardo and Hans!
Glad to see Kuhn. Super underrated philosopher of science.
Marcus Mueller deserves so much more limelight 🎉
His "Law without law" was truly awe-inspiring read for me
A wonderful interview. Hans has been a tremendous addition for the Essentia Foundation.
I already read these books and it is a good choices...But if you read one writer read all Owen Barfield books because they are simple to read and very deep...Kingsley book is better than any thriller then ... And moving in a unique way...It is his best book... But about linguistic nothing beat Gustave Guillaume not even Chomsky...But very hard to study for english reader...
I will recommend Wolfgang Schad book about mammals a life changing book... After Goethe book about plants...
Wonderful. I actually discovered Bernardo through Patrick Harpur. Some googling one day led me from Harpur to 'Meaning in Absurdity,' which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Both writers helped to soothe my soul, if only a little bit. But that's more than most. I'm very grateful.
Analytic idealism shares a lot of parallels with Advaita Vedanta. I watch lectures by Swami Sarvapriyananda and recommend them to all who are interested in this mode of thought.
Then you’d definitely love Bernardo’s chat with Swamiji :) I agree there are many parallels, Advaita is a bit more like Dual Aspect Monism but I feel it’s somewhere in-between Idealism and Dual Aspect Monism. In Advaita, Brahman is the Ultimate Reality, from which consciousness and the illusory material world both arise. Idealism says that Consciousness is the Ultimate Reality. DAM says that there is an underlying reality from where the consciousness we experience and the material world are manifested. However, in Advaita, Consciousness is more fundamental than the material world. It’s Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. Idealism is Consciousness. Dual Aspect Monism is Existence: Consciousness/Matter. So again, it’s somewhere in between 🤪
Thanks!
@Cash Globe The way you describe advaita as a mode of thought can't be what it really is because that is just a point of view from someone looking at it from the outside. The "outside" is more figurative because the real vantage point here is another mode of thinking. Like an intellectual filter that compares and categorizes what it sees into it's own manner of seeing. That's where we get all these isms.
Where as advaita itself deals with looking at things from the "inside" and again this is speaking figuratively because the inside is your own direct and actual experience and that is above any intellectual translation or mental imagery.
Analytic idealism is closer to Yogacara Buddhism, since Vedanta is theistic and analytic idealism is not.
I humbly say that I think you are correct on many levels . Swami Sarvapriyananda is a brilliant orator . Also for a long time I thought that quantum physics , more and more , was giving a scientific basis to advaita Vedanta . Also Idealism gives a philosophical basis to advaita . Bernardo brings all these elements together . He had a great discussion with Swami Sarvapriyananda and is due to have one with Michael James , who knows a great deal indeed about the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi ( who is/ was the embodiment of Advaita Vedanta) . ✌️🙏🕉️
Wow! This was so much more than a list of books. I learned so much about the history of philosophy and many other topics. Thanks for this. Fantastic!
Oh, only halfway through this video and it is already saved on my "Best of BK" playlist. I am laughing in part because I got "into" BK and idealism seriously about a year ago and have been struggling to decide what books I should read to fully understand idealism.
(If any of you have suggestions for good books to read for somebody who is still a "beginner" please feel free to lmk! I've read all of BK's books and am trying to get started with getting a better comprehension of idealism's history and growth. Thanks!)
Rudolf Steiner used to point out, that it is futile to try an defeat materialism, as it is simply one of a variety of viewpoints of thinking (idealism being another one). It's findings are not wrong, they just represent one of many angles. People spend too much time nailing themselves to one point of view, where they could try to move in thinking, and view an object from various positions.
Very true. But our so-called materialists only do have a half-ass job of understanding Matter. To be a true materialist is to view matter and perceive it in all its strangeness and numinosity.
@Abbas the Alchemist happy to see you here brother
Or one could say materialism is correct within its domain but is a special set within a larger set, not the totality of reality but pertaining to a spectrum or part of reality that can be accessed by material perception and material tools.
@Linda Rae Reneau I agree, this is certainly the case. And so-called Materialists look at the surface of things and think they've apprehended the essence of the Material. They cut a fruit in half and gaze inside thinking they've reached one step closer to deciphering the mystery of matter yet fail to notice that all they've revealed is yet another surface. Matter is paradoxically impenetrable and infinitely divisible.
Likewise the physicist Rovelli points out the same thing, that we don't know what matter or ideas are yet, so it is too soon to reduce the universe to one or the other and he claims that most quantum physicists take this position and that he doesn't know any of the so called Materialists that BK rallies against because it was accepted science from 150 years ago, not today.
Another outstanding episode, thank you for all you do Bernardo and team 🙏🏻
Surprised not to see Plato on here but good list none the less. I’m going to pick up a couple of these. Also, really interested in the red book now.
Great video! It's helpful to hear Bernardo's perspective on the contents of these books. To say the least, he has a knack for explaining things well. Would love to hear more about the history of materialism. Any Essentia videos around this topic would be awesome. Apparently the hard problem of consciousness wasn't a thing before the enlightenment era? You talked about projecting the linguistic structure onto the world (e.g., thing exists outside of me). Since ontological views seem to be cultural, was there something different about language before the enlightenment? Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much for all the books shared!
To my shame I haven't read any of them, except for Schopenhauer. He's my childhood hero after all 😊
As for Bernardo, Im as impressed with his brilliance, as confused with his view on the tragedy in Ukraine. Provided you believe in "from all things One and from One thing all" there could be no universal good or evil, where you stand is what you see.
In case you believe in a free will - consequentially you believe that either side can stop the conflict in 24hrs. And if both choose not to - both are equivalently evil.
In case you dont believe in a free will - you have to treat the tragedy of war as a natural disaster (human species are a part of nature after all) with no one really left to blame.
A very compelling list and overview - thank you for this. Bernardo, I have several of your books and have seen you on New Thinking Allowed a few times. It would be awesome if you wrote a book focusing on Daimons! Please consider doing so. Cheers from Toronto, Canada
This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my UA-cam channel 6 months ago about self development. Now I have 501 subs and > 100 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.
So excited for this series!
Great idea to share the roots of your ideas in books.
Thank you! 😊
Can't wait for future videos! I've tried reading Schopenhauer, I just didn't get it. Kuhn was very influential for me, thats the one book I've read in this list. I feel I'm going to be pretty skeptical about Passport to Magonia, but I will try not to pre-judge. I've tried reading Kastrup's own The Idea of the World..., but I found it pretty tough going also.
A wonderful talk. One note: The Red Book is a Magician’s grimoire.
I really enjoyed this discussion and I am just starting out in reading philosophy so this was great. Thank-u Essential Foundation and of course Bernardo:)
Love this Jung , Patrick Harpur- Daimonic Reality is also a great read.
Bernardo is one of my hero’s👍
wow cool to see passport to magonia on that list! the only one i have read of them. it had a deep impact on me as well. when i first heard of this book i thought it sounded absolutely loopy but boy did i do a 180 after educating myself more and reading it.
This is one of the best videos I've watched on Essentia Foundation! I'll start from Answer to Job ! Thank you so much!
great!!! you should do more videos like this one.
Great interview. I already don't believe in the physical universe but discovered Kastrup after arriving at this conclusion. That seems to be a thing, LOL. I think we are a single electron existing within an older, homogenous, Universe I call Tao. The electrons bond together, since they no longer become matter, and a frequency is created. We are particles within that common frequency. If so, then each electron might be playing out every conceivable possibility from a unique action which spawned it. Like ripples from a stone's splash. If that's true then each electron would do the job of a string, or multiverse, and it's simpler. We know electrons exist.
You guys are great! A friend of mine sent this chat of yours my way… and I subscribed to your channel as a result. That act of mine trumps any adjectives I might otherwise throw your way. Cheers
In regards to the fine tuning problem, I would check out Tom Campbell's explanation ( which does not involve parallel universes ), it's the best one I've heard so far. In short, this is a simulation which was run and tested many times , most of which failed because the initial conditions were not right. It was started again, maybe thousands of times, each time tweaking a certain function until it found the right balance of physical laws that worked . That's why this virtual reality we call the physical universe appears to be fine tuned, because it was. No big problem if you follow MBT !
MBT?
Great discussion - thank you
Oh guys, I love these 1 to 1 chats, ❤️🇬🇧
Great video, I've already ordered Answer to Job and will read World as Will and Representation next
Bernado never disappoints, while always stirring the hornet's nest of the over indoctrinated.
Hans is such an adorable guy .
And I owe my mental sanity to Bernardo and this is no joke.
insane that "the case against reality" by Donald Hoffman isnt on this list
More lightly structures conversations like this, please!
In Non-duality, Idealism and Materialism are two-sides of the same Coin. 🙏🏻😊
Thank you both Hans and Bernardo for this beautiful, enriching talk.
Seeing the last 3 months many of Bernardo interviews on many different platforms, which i also value very very high, i found some pattern in his approach to eastern philosophies similar to that of Jung. There was some resistance of Jung towards the eastern approach mentioned by Heinrich Zimmer who wished he would have visited the great Maharishi in Tiruvanamalai on his trip through India. But Jung did not go there and if i remember properly he told him, what i could find there…“ There is no village or country road where that broad-branched tree cannot be found in whose shade the ego struggles for its own abolition, drowning the world of multiplicity in the All and All-Oneness of Universal Being“ It is obvious an excuse which Zimmer really hit. I think Jung felt that going there he could not have gone on with his western approach of thinking or giving birth his alchemistic ideas with which he was pregnant at that time. He felt that he was not ready or did not want a short cut and he would have been stigmatised as running to a Guru which would have ruined his whole work. Although Bernardo is having deep knowledge of eastern traditions and is having even Nisargattas I am That on his book shelf, very very often he says people pursuing eastern paths want to escape suffering. This maybe a reason in orthodox introductions of Vedanta,/ advaita vedanta, but really none, really none of the known personalities like Nisargadatta, Vivekananda , Ramakrishna, Jogananda, Ramana and many other western seekers verbalised ever that escapism was ever there goal, it was always finding god, experiencing god. The same with real Christian followers. They want to be in the holy Spirit and nobody aspires suffering as end in itself. Of course due to the dramatic life of Jesus, and the many writings about suffering it got a tool, a stepping stone towards god which was valued very much in western traditions.
Please go on! Best regards from Vienna !!! Forgive my amateurish thoughts.
Coming from an Eastern background, I cannot imagine a way which (psychological) suffering is THE way to god. My limited knowledge of Western thoughts reconciles with this is this: the path to god is a sacrificial path, if suffering comes along the way then it is ok to suffer (not that you HAVE to suffer in order to get to god). Wonder your thoughts on it?
People search for God to escape suffering
34:25 physics is the syntax of nature
1:02:18 markus muller
It seems important, given the title, to crush things. In this case 'materialism'. Chapeaux!
The book "I Am That" was missed in the list of books. Nonetheless, great pointers by Bernardo.
Thank you. I'd love to have a guided tour through these books, or a book club with a knowlegeable leader. Is that coming? Thanks again.
Yes, I'm working on that! First book to discuss is 'Answer to Job' by Carl Gustav Jung, let me know if you have any particular questions on that book!
Perhaps I'll try psychedelics to understand Bernardo's take on the Tragedy of Ukraine. Everything else he says is crystal clear to me straight, no chaser.
"History is a nightmare I'm trying to wake up from."
James Joyce
I love Bernard when he starts off. I don't want to be too cryptic. lol I can't eat now after that. On another note Jung and Schopenhauer have greatly inspired me and of course Kastrup.
Great idea! Love this
I can't remember a video that I have enjoyed so much as this one; a totally fascinating short but deep-ish dive into mind, philosophy and metaphysics. Each of these authors, each of these books purports to support Idealism, and they sure do, and they enlighten us along the way. Nevertheless, I cannot help but feel that the conclusion is wrong-minded (not wrong). Idealism still, like Materialism is still a label for a perspective that is incomplete. True truth is complete, whole, undivided. A Zen teacher once said that the world is not monistic, not dualistic but both and neither. Western thought will never get there, because it is so limited by the restrictions of language and logic, which I think Bernardo even admits to (to his credit) at one point. It interests me that Art and Music are never mentioned, why would they be, they are not in books, they are living embodiments of physical reality, mind, consciousness and something that transcends words. The same Zen teacher (a very famous one) also mentioned that its ok to feed the mind with words, but the truth, reality and a way-of-being that resonates with nature, does not live in books. Your new subscriber, thanks for the food ... Daniel Lawlor. (the Tao that can be stated is not the true Tao)
Not sure if we are ready to embrasse TETRAVALENT logic ( true, false, both, neither) but my humble ass agrees that the DIVINE CREATION's nature is beyond LANGUAGE and LOGIC, so UNKNOWABLE by our EGO. Peace & love
Thanks for your comment. I think these Zen master types present logical paradoxes in the form of Koans to try to show that reality is beyond language and logic as you said. Cheers.@1sanremy
@Daniel Lawlor Thanx for your feedback. "Why did the sages come from the north ? because of the tree in the garden " The aim is to interrupt the rationnal thinking of the neophyte and push him in the satori's direction. My humble understanding...P&L
This was fantastic
1:00:50
@Bernado
The western and eastern thinking are both useful .
It is time we filled in the gaps in both to create a complete picture for the next generation.
God and Soul are the two missing pieces that we can explain, know and understand both logically and experientially. I have done that and so am in bliss and peace always.
You should add "my big toe" by Thomas Campbell to that list. A physicist who is currently redoing the double-slit experiment, trying to prove that the diffraction pattern (or absent of it) is caused by a consciousness (non-material observation). In other words, consciousness is fundamental to reality, and the strange behavior with the double-slit experiment comes from needing an observer (consciousness) to create "data" in this world. So our "task" in this world, is to enhance the quality of our consciousness, and that is what this world is about. This is what life is. Just being, just learning, just interacting, making choices, learning from those choices, then make better choices.
Yes Kingsley!
I hope more people read him.
Absolutely agree!
I have been feeling the pull to read Reality for a few years now, as well as the work of Corbin/Cheetham. I keep putting it off. Something tells me it will open up doors I won't be able to close again.
@Pneumanon I confess that I felt the exact same trepidation and sense of crossing a threshold as you describe with respect to Reality. I can assure you, my life has never been the same.
just imbibed Kingsley’s latest, The Book of Life
I've been trying to decide which Vallee book to read 1st. Many recommend The Invisible College, Passport often comes up, but the one I'm most curious about is Messengers of Deception. Unfortunately, my public library system does not have any books by Vallee.
Surely they are cheap on Amazon
How about Dimensions?
What a good idea: a book club to whet our appetites or quench our thirst.
Heidegger also wrote a book called Parmenides that is worth inclusion.
Bernardo 👍🏻 The Cure 👍🏻 Patrick Harpur 👍🏻
There are two conversations I would like to listen to before my life is gone. One is Kastrup with Wolfgang Smith and Kastrup with Vervaeke.
Kastrup & Vervaeke have had discussions on Curt Jaimungal's Theory of Everything youtube channel.
@Pneumanon thank you very much for the info. I am a follower of TOE. Thank you again.
To mention Jung in the same breathe as Schopenhauer is beyond the pale.
Bernardo, did you ever consider writing a book about Carl Jung's wife?
I imagine she could shed an interesting perspective on Carl Jung.
I need a job where I can justify reading all day.
Why couldn't it be that fundamentally, the "material" and "mental" are really the same? Maybe this is what these Idealist concepts in fact advocate -- I can't wait to find out! Ha ha! I think my own upbringing in a Christian environment, and training in Natural Sciences, and although rejecting literal interpretation of creation accounts, and in fact most "miracle" claims, still the deep spiritual upbringing has formed me--and makes me open to Idealist ideas. And interest in psychology, due to my own struggle with OCD, depression, anxiety, has brought me to the point where I'm more and more interested in philosophy, even though empirical science is my first love and my bread and butter. :) In recent years I'm beginning to understand that "just in my mind" does not mean unreal! In fact my memories, my personality, all the important stuff about me, one can say is "just in my mind". OK I'll stop making long comments...and read and listen more! Thank you Bernardo and Hans for this, and I'm looking forward to watching more Essentia Foundation videos!
Was thinking same thing about Passport to Magonia.
:3 Out 3 hours ago.
I thought that I read a few years back that someone had successfully rebutted Chomsky's idea of the inborn "universal language" that is based in human biology. I can't remember the name of the linguist or exactly his argument. Does that sound familiar to anyone?
No
Great video.
Re 8. Jacques Vallée = Passport to Magonia, what does Bernardo know and how does he know it?
Thanks, I was waiting for this.
I just HAVE to get my hands on these materials!
If rationalism, logic, reason and argument are the mental cognate of materialism, then explanations can never bring us closer to the universe of mind. Only art, ritual, and the poetic can.
Baloney. Voodoo is baloney
Great! Why not discuss about J Krishnamurti in this context? Thanks.
Excellent discussion, but I felt that Hans missed a key opportunity. When BK stated that ufo disclosure would happen in the next few years, the question would be: “Does this prediction arise from your understanding of idealism, or are you privy to insider information?” Or at the very least: “What makes you say that with such confidence?” It struck me as an unusual statement coming from BK. Not because of the ufo reference, but because he was making a specific prediction about the future based on nothing he had said up to that point. It seemed out of character for him. I sensed BK wanted a follow up question, but the topic made Hans uncomfortable.
Indeed, I was a bit unprepared for this one:) and didn't want to go to deep into a rabbit hole during our conversation, but from a journalistic point of view I should have pushed on... So WILL follow up on this with Bernardo in our next sit down conversation. Thanks for this honest feedback, it's helpful!!
Thx you Bernardo😊
These books absolutely do not crush materialism.
I would add Stanislaw Grof and his books on transpersonal psychology based on the results of a large array of experiments with LSD that he gave his patients as treatment. His books influenced my worldview.
Reducing Schopenhauer to biographical anecdote...almost...oh and Iain McGilchrist is missing
That BK is not widely considered one of the most brilliant thinkers of our times is a sad commentary on the intelligence of our so-called intelligentsia. What I would give for a dinner --- a very (very) long dinner --- with him.
WOW! Is Bernardo referencing NHI disclosure regarding Jacques Vallee book?
Yes, but he did say the book would be helpful for people so as not to take a wrong turn and misinterpret things. So who knows quite what he means? Have to read it to find out, I suppose!
Hmm, so recently I was thinking about "man is made in God's image" and the thought that God has a dark side and is evolving, same as individual human beings, entered my imagination. I then thought - this makes sense - all of life is one evolving organism, and the human mind breaks it into discrete objects and processes because of the current material/physical limitations of the mind that exist in this evolutionary moment. And my next thought was - why dont people speak of this? why haven't I come across that perspective before? Maybe this isnt what Jung is saying (I haven't read the book) but it did remind me of those recent thoughts.
man/wombman is borm tripping, finding his heavens and hells as the drug of life runs its course, gardening is/was the original goto straightner. lol. i will read some books some day :) edit: Druges: old franco/dutch for dry spices and herbs :)
Yep. Man is born tripping…
and then came The Fall…
into civilization, so-called.
Heel interessant .
Look at that, the 10k subscriber video was two weeks ago, and we are already almost at 12k. The snowball is rolling guys!
Read Greg Goode's book, the Direct Path.
Why go to the extremes? Materialism is also a part of life which you can enjoy tremendously.
God is definitely infused within nature. There is no division between nature and supernature. For an excellent book on this, see David Bentley Hart’s “You Are Gods.” I would love to see a discussion between Bernardo and David Bentley Hart, who also wrote an interesting article in response to Chalmer’s book Reality Plus, called Reality Minus.
A Einstein saw the univerrse as god
I'm waiting for a discussion between Ed Feser and Bernado
@colquest that should also prove to be very interesting, although a discussion between Feser and David Bentley Hart would be even more interesting; but I have my suspicions that it probably won’t happen.
so interesting ...
Bernardo is so brainy , rumour is that ' god ' often consults him about the nature of realty ,existence , and indeed the nature of gid Himself 😅✌️🕉️
Years ago Bernardo was a fan of Swedenborg. I wonder why he never mentions the guy anymore?
I’ve never heard him mention that name. Could you point me to some resources where he discusses him?
Fan is a poor choice of word. If we are inspired in ways that shift our appreciation of life, we become an embodiment of that as our own integrative understanding and development. There may be many gifts received through people who we choose not to stay in the frame of their thinking or even accept the whole of their thought.
Overtly spiritual frameworks of thought are not able to bridge the Cartesian split, in an age of scientism - along with a plethora of irrational reactions of magical or ungrounded thinking.
It would be a huge stretch to criticize materialism with jung
Combining Bernardo's contemporary approach to Neville Goddard's interpretation of the Bible could bring so much clarity to humanity
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Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber MD.
Don't you think it's time we left this weird desire for there to be one answer to everything and instead embraced that reality is multifaceted. Chasing after the notion of overarching singular truth in everything is narrow-minded, IMHO. Truth, validity, and similar characterisations are attributes of context and scope.
Hey guys I am loving your videos! True fan but can you sort out the audio post production - they need to be louder in general and sometimes one voice drowns out another
I can do it for you if you want!
Yes, i also missed key words at times, notably the name of his recommended version of Schopenhauer. Showing the books clearly on screen helps counter this, thankyou. I struggled a little with Bernardo's accent but not because his accent was too difficult to the ear, but because the audio wasn't clear enough to be able to hrar him clearly. I don't know the first thing about audio production but i would describe it as 'it felt the mic was too far away', or 'like i was at the back of a big room & wished i'd sat closer to the front'. Whilst on my whinge box i would also say i really appreciated the language style comments such as hard/easy read, best edition etc etc, however, this was well covered for some titles but not all for others. But what a fabulous talk, thankyou. 😊👍
@AiamW Thanks for your reply! Yeh I guess if your not happy with the original recording theres not a lot you can do.. what I meant is the audio needs to be normalised so that it is as loud as it can be without distorting, and for some videos where one voice is significantly quieter than another, ideally the gain should be manually automated in the DAW so that the volume goes up when that person is speaking.