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Meaning in Absurdity: What bizarre phenomena can tell us about the nature of reality by Bernardo Kastrup (PDF)
Author: Bernardo Kastrup
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We transmute quasi-emptiness into the solidity of existence through a trick of cognitive deception where we play both magician and audience. In reality, nothing ever really happens, for the scope of the present isn’t broad enough for any event to unfold objectively. That we think of life as a series of substantial happenings hanging from a historical timeline is a fantastic cognitive hallucination.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory
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“Space and time are like ghosts that vanish into thin air every time we try to grab them. Their ‘form’ is ‘emptiness’ referring to itself in a kind of cognitive short-circuit... [They] are names we give to certain configurations of subjective experience, not independent entities out there.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory
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“Taking consciousness to be an ontological primitive also circumvents the ‘explanatory gap’ and the ‘hard problem of consciousness,’ since both only arise from the attempt to reduce consciousness to matter.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism Is Baloney
#consciousness #Idealism #BernardoKastrup #philosophy
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“Jung’s God is an all-encompassing overmind, of which we are diminutive segments, daemons, dissociated psychic complexes.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Decoding Jung's Metaphysics
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“What is the world for if not to evoke and reflect back to us, as mirror, the obfuscated aspects of ourselves?”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Brief Peeks Beyond
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Logical justifications to believe in Analytical Idealism:
1. It makes good sense
2. It is well substantiated by empirical evidence
3. It is consistent with all observations
4. It explains more of these observations than materialism does
5. it is the most parsimonious metaphysical model (i.e. it doesn't assume unknowns for it to be upheld)
Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism Is Baloney
#consciousness #Idealism #BernardoKastrup #philosophy
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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.
Bernardo Kastrup
Why Materialism Is Baloney#consciousness #Idealism #BernardoKastrup #philosophy
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'Much of what society at large takes to be the 'hard cold facts of life' is, in reality, unfounded supposition and abstraction, much of it flying in the face of reason, parsimony and lucid observation. ... much of what you take to be true, even the most basic aspects of your own reality and identity, is a fantasy that you couldn't sell to a five-year-old.'
Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism Is Baloney
#consciousness #Idealism #BernardoKastrup #philosophy
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“The qualities we attribute to physicality—form, color, temperature, consistency, concreteness, etc.—are merely appearances; they are how a fundamentally psychic ‘world-soul’ presents itself on the screen of our perceptions. Such idealist interpretation allows all of Jung’s key metaphysics-related contentions—not only synchronicity—to cohere elegantly and parsimoniously.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Decoding Jung's Metaphysics
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“Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing. (ONP: 148)”
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“Scientism today is doing what the church did in the fifteenth century: forcing theory to fit a predetermined metaphysics.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism Is Baloney#consciousness #Idealism #BernardoKastrup #philosophy
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“In an important sense, what Jung is saying is that our physical, waking reality is amenable to symbolic interpretation, just as our dreams are. The external world, too, conveys meaning through symbolic expression, as if it were “the dream of a greater and more comprehensive consciousness.”
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Why you need to read this book: If you have spiritual leanings towards Advaita, Nonduality, Zen Buddhism or the Perennial Philosophy but can't let go of your scientific and logical mind-set, Bernardo will show you that its perfectly fine to embrace both. With precision and depth.
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“Truth can be intuited even when it cannot be articulated in language. Such intuition is rooted in our broader obfuscated mind, which can apprehend - in symbolic ways - aspects of reality beyond the grasp of our self-reflective thoughts and perceptions.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory#consciousness #Idealism #BernardoKastrup #philosophy
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'Let us be honest: the fairytale of materialism has server a valid purpose during a more naïve and childish age, but has now far outlives its usefulness. We no longer live in the reality of the 19th century. The collective experiences of modern humanity in the early 21st century demand a more adult worldview.'
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"While science constructs models of reality that predict the behavior of matter and energy, philosophy asks how those models relate to our condition as conscious entities. Without philosophy, science is merely an enabler of technology; it tells us nothing about the underlying nature of nature.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Brief Peeks Beyond
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“Partake in reality as an actor in a theatrical play: with attention, dedication and an open heart. But never believe yourself to be your character, for characters spend their lives chasing their own shadows, whereas actors embody the meaning of existence.”
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'We attribute reality to physical phenomena while taking their meanings to be inconsequential fantasies. By extricating 'reality' from mind, materialism has sent the significance of nature into exile. With the pathetic grin of hubris stamped on our foolish faces, we carefully unwrap the package and then proceed to throw away its contents while proudly storing the empty box on the altar of our ontology.”
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“Materialism represents an astonishing failure of the human intellect to see what’s right under its nose. It hides nature’s marvelous simplicity behind a veil of contrivance. Its continuing survival in face of the mounting odds of reason, evidence and direct experience requires constant and deliberate maintenance. Indeed, materialism serves powerful economic and political interests.”
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“Materialism is a fantasy. It’s based on unnecessary postulates, circular reasoning and selective consideration of evidence and data. Materialism is by no stretch of the imagination a scientific conclusion, but merely a metaphysical opinion that helps some people interpret scientific conclusions.”
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Everything that matters about who we are—our core subjectivity and our personal memories—is left untouched by bodily death. Instead of disappearing, our conscious inner lives are reintegrated into a broader, transpersonal cognitive context, thereby effectively expanding.
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If … we identify not with particular dissociated ideas but with consciousness itself – with that whose excitations give rise to all thoughts and feelings – we attain unfathomable metaphysical free will. This arises not from the power of the ego to control the world, but from the realization that we are the world. How could we feel oppressed by that which we are?
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“Indeed, we have concluded … that the brain is a kind of filter of mind: it selects and localizes the flow of certain contents of mind, which would otherwise be unbound and non-local.”
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The ‘hard problem [of consciousness]’ is merely a linguistic and conceptual construction of human beings. It only arises when you conceptualize a whole universe outside consciousness and then postulate that this conceptual universe somehow generates consciousness. So you end up in the position of having to explain how an abstraction of consciousness can generate consciousness.
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To preserve a minimum degree of empirical honesty in our culture, we must remain grounded in the primary datum of reality: experience itself. Experience is what there is before we start theorizing about the world and ourselves. It takes precedence over everything else. It is the departing point and necessary substrate of all theories. ... We must never forget this, lest we totally lose our connection to reality.
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To consider consciousness an emergent property of brains is either an appeal to magic or the mere labeling of an unknown. In both cases, precisely nothing is actually explained.
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The meaning of life is a gradual return to a unified, boundless state of consciousness enriched by the understanding and self-awareness accumulated during material existence through the transceivers of consciousness.
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Rationalist Spirituality p.73 -
Mind-at-large suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder; and we are its alters.
Bernardo Kastrup
Brief Peeks Beyond Page 18