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Bernardo Kastrup | Freedom From Fear #4 | Legalise Freedom | Nov. 14, 2020

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Beginning in August 2020, 'Freedom From Fear' is a free-form discussion series taking the title as its starting point. 

In this episode, Bernardo Kastrup and Greg Moffitt explore how the unique intelligence which allows humans to sit atop Earth's evolutionary pyramid and have dominion over all life on the planet is both our greatest gift and the source of our most profound problems, personally and globally. 

Unlike other creatures, humans have a sense of the past, the future, and our own mortality. Combined with a hardcore scientific materialist world-view and a 'I'll be dead by then' attitude to the future, it has led our species to the brink of disaster. Bernardo also reveals his own relationship with fear. 
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Bernardo Kastrup | Reality? It's All in Your Mind | Legalise Freedom Radio | Apr. 6, 2019

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Bernardo Kastrup discusses his book The Idea of the World: A Multi-disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality.

In his most cogent and compelling work to date, Kastrup’s theory of reality offers a grounded alternative to the frenzy of unrestrained abstractions and unexamined assumptions in philosophy and science today. The Idea of the World makes a rigorous case for the primacy of mind in nature, examining what can be learned about the nature of reality based on conceptual parsimony, straightforward logic, and empirical evidence from fields as diverse as physics and neuroscience. It compiles an overarching case for idealism – the notion that reality is essentially mental.

The author begins by exposing the logical fallacies and internal contradictions of the reigning physicalist paradigm and popular alternatives such as panpsychism. The main objections to idealism are also systematically refuted. The book closes with an analysis of the hidden psychological motivations behind mainstream physicalism and the implications of idealism for the way we relate to each other and the world. The view of reality presented here makes sense of the many mysteries which mainstream materialist science simply cannot fathom. It reconciles the classical and quantum worlds and disposes of the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness. It may even hold the secret to the origin and meaning of life.

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Bernardo Kastrup | Religion, Reality and The Meaning of Life: Part Two | Legalise Freedom Radio

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Bernardo Kastrup discusses his book More Than Allegory – On Religious Myth, Truth, and Belief. As a journey into the rabbit hole we call reality, its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. It puts forward the controversial notion that many religious myths are actually true, argues that our own inner storytelling plays a surprising role in creating the seeming concreteness of things and the tangibility of history, and suggests, in the form of a myth, how deeply ingrained belief systems create the world we live in.

In a Universe seemingly devoid of meaning and purpose where matter is all that matters, our souls are at war with our intellects, and the consequences for life on Earth may yet prove disastrous. Maybe it is time for us to remember who we really are - both magician and audience, dreamer and dream, from a realm beyond language where time and space are illusions, and the very nature of truth itself may not be what it seems. We are the universe becoming aware of itself. We know what God cannot know.
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Bernardo Kastrup | Why Materialism is Baloney | Legalise Freedom Radio

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Bernardo Kastrup discusses his book Why Materialism is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

What is consciousness? What is reality? Does mind arise from the universe or the universe from mind? The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed materialism to go unchallenged as the only rationally-viable metaphysics. Why Materialism Is Baloney seeks to change this. It uncovers the absurd implications of materialism and then presents a hard-nosed non-materialist metaphysics substantiated by skepticism, empirical evidence, and clear logical reasoning. It lays out a coherent framework upon which one can interpret and make sense of every natural phenomenon and physical law, as well as the modalities of human consciousness, without materialist assumptions.

According to this framework, the brain is merely the image of a self-localization process of mind, similar to how a whirlpool is the image of a self-localization process of water. The brain doesn’t generate mind in the same way that a whirlpool doesn’t generate water. It is the brain that is in mind, not mind in the brain, and therefore physical death is merely a dispersion of awareness. The implications of this wider reality for our notions of human life, purpose and meaning are immense. -legalise-freedom.com
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