Kastrup - Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical essays on metaphysics, neuroscience, free will, skepticism and culture

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BRIEF PEEKS BEYOND

Better than any book Ive come across, Bernardo Kastrups collection of essays confronts two mysteries that must be urgently solved. The first is the mystery of reality. The second is the mystery of knowledge. To confront both mysteries at once requires courage, tenacity, a willingness to swim upstream, and thick skin. But if you have a persistent, acute mind like Bernardos, an exciting journey opens up. (From the Foreword)

Deepak Chopra, M.D., pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine. Author of more than 75 books with 23 New York Times best sellers.

Some words, such as the collection of essays in Brief Peeks Beyond, have the power to evoke in the reader not just the concept of infinite Consciousness but the experience of it, a taste of its own essential reality. I have been touched by the profundity of these essays and know that they will imprint their healing intelligence in the broader medium of mind, from which humanity draws its knowledge and experience, for many years to come. (From the Afterword)

Rupert Spira, non-duality teacher and author.

In this pioneering, original and brilliantly written book Bernardo Kastrup is very critical of the still widely accepted materialist approach in science, while making use of many convincing rebuttals to materialist counterarguments. According to him all reality is in consciousness itself, because it is the only carrier of reality anyone ever knows for sure, but it is in a transpersonal mind-at-large, and not limited to our personal waking consciousness. His inevitable conclusion is that consciousness must be fundamental in the universe. This important book is an excellent contribution to the growing awareness that the domination of materialism in science is irrefutably coming to an end, perhaps even in the next decade. Highly recommended.

Pim van Lommel, cardiologist, author of Consciousness Beyond Life.

Occams Razor never cut so deep as in this penetrating critique of science, philosophy and the cultural cocoon weve constructed. Kastrup has followed up on his previous assault on dopey scientific materialism with a knockout punch.

Alex Tsakiris, author of Why Science is WrongAbout Almost Everything and host of the Skeptiko podcast.

Bernardo has the ability to communicate with the readers, through challenging them, in order to help our human consciousness to (re-)merge with the Whole of Consciousness, the Infinite Womb of all that expresses Itself in time/space. For the open-minded and openhearted seekers of truth, this is great stuff to read.

Fred Matser, humanitarian, philanthropist, author of Rediscover Your Heart.

First published by iff Books, 2015
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Text Bernardo Kastrup 2011-2015
Foreword copyright 2014 by Deepak Chopra. Used with permission.
Afterword copyright 2014 by Rupert Spira. Used with permission.
All quotations in this book are either from works in the public domain or are believed, in good faith, to fall well within fair use provisions.

ISBN: 978 1 78535 018 4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015930443

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Dreamed up Reality: Diving into mind to uncover the astonishing hidden tale of nature.

Meaning in Absurdity: What bizarre phenomena can tell us about the nature of reality.

Why Materialism Is Baloney: How true skeptics know there is no death and fathom answers to life, the universe, and everything.

Doris Lessing

Disentrenchment of formative contexts provides societies with a range of material and intangible advantages In fact, all the varieties of individual and collective empowerment seem to be connected in one way or another with the mastery the concept of disentrenchment describes.

Roberto Unger