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Bernardo Kastrups book is another nail in the coffin of the superstition of materialism. With elegant clarity he explains that mind, brain & cosmos are what consciousness does.
Deepak Chopra, M.D. Pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine. Author of over sixty-five books with twenty New York Times best sellers.
Bernardo Kastrup takes a bold and brilliant step in the collective movement of humanity beyond the confines of current materialism and everything that it entails. Truly speaking, alternative worldviews to the current paradigm of a material universe and associated ontologies, including various religious kinds, classical Newtonian physics, economic systems based on external consumption, etc., are easily dismissed as they dont fit current modern societal values. Yet, these ontologies may be rapidly leading us to major problems, including perhaps the demise of current Western societies. The hidden ontologies of an external, material universe, devoid of the dynamical, evolutionary role of consciousness are prevalent, all-consuming, and insidious. It is time to abandon them or at least see them as an aspect of reality but not the true reality. Bernardo Kastrup is brave and a true pioneer to show us why and how we should.
Menas Kafatos, Ph.D. Fletcher Jones Professor of Computational Physics, Chapman University. Author of The Conscious Universe: Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality.
Bernardo takes us on a journey to an alternative worldview, one that makes a great deal more sense than the scientistic one we are being spoon-fed through academia and the media. He expresses his ideas lucidly and constructively in a manner that does not lose their scientific and logical force. I challenge you to read Bernardo Kastrups prescription for what metaphysically ails you. You will be a wiser being for it. (from the Foreword)
Shogaku Zenshin Stephen Echard Musgrave Roshi. Director of the Zen Institute of San Diego, California. Author of Zen Buddhism, Its Practice and the Transcendental Mind.
[Bernardo Kastrup is a] remarkable, intellectually diverse and energetic thinker. [A] turnabout in the way scientists conceive and interpret natural phenomena requires new interdisciplinary thinkers like Bernardo. [He] has brought a brand new way of seeing the ancient idea of infinite mind. Although written in a personal and breezy tone, this book is a vast philosophical endeavor. It captures big picture ideas in a manner accessible to a wider audience. (from the Afterword)
Rick Stuart, Ph.D. Practicing psychotherapist.
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Rationalist Spirituality:
An exploration of the meaning of life and existence informed by logic and science
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
Every book is a journey into the bottomless ocean of mind,
not only for its readers but, and perhaps foremost, for its writer.
This book is the diary of the most important journey of my life
thus far. In it, I wasnt alone. Those who walked next to me will
always live within me: Natalia Vorontsova, Rick Stuart,
Guiba Guimares, Rob van der Werf, Snoes and the Other.
The mind is the brain
Scientistic materialism consensus
What certainty can there be in a Philosophy which consists in as many Hypotheses as there are Phenomena to be explained. To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of anything.
Sir Isaac Newton
Bernardo Kastrup has articulated a much-needed corrective to the metaphysical illness of our age, scientistic materialism. Scientism is the belief that science is the most valuable part of human learning because it supposedly is the most authoritative, or serious, or beneficial. But science itself is merely a particular method for dousing the tools at hand to propose hypotheses, do experiments, and come to conclusions based on the information derived. As such, it is regrettable that some practitioners of science and even some philosophers of science have now taken on the attitude that scientism is the only valid approach to human knowledge. The idea that science, and science alone, exhausts the human potential has grown into a boy too big for his britches. Behind this monstrous presumption is the highly metaphysical view of materialism. One should make no mistake here: metaphysical beliefs distort science, for any kind of metaphysics is, in and of itself, contradictory to sciences own purposes as an open-ended search for truth. That does not mean a scientist cannot have a metaphysical view; but this view cannot impinge on the interpretation of observations. Scientism today is doing what the Church did in the fifteenth century: forcing theory to fit a predetermined metaphysics.
In the pursuit of an external truth, scientistic materialism has forgotten the internal, most fundamental reality of human existence: we can know nothing but that which appears in our own mind. Our mind is our reality and, when we attempt to reify either the subject or the object, we chase our own tail at light speed. The ontological vertigo produced by this exercise has extended to the point where materialist philosophers, such as Daniel Dennett, Owen Flannigan, and Pamela and Paul Churchland, tell us that consciousness itself does not exist. And, as if this were not enough, they utter this pronouncement with the smugness and self-assuredness of a Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell.
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