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Author : Bernardo Kastrup
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1785352881

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This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the prisms of religious myth, truth and belief, respectively. With each turn, the book seeks to convey a more nuanced and complete understanding of the many facets of transcendence. Part I puts forward the controversial notion that many religious myths are actually true; and not just allegorically so. Part II argues that our own inner storytelling plays a surprising role in creating the seeming concreteness of things and the tangibility of history. Part III suggests, in the form of a myth, how deeply ingrained belief systems create the world we live in. The three themes, myth, truth and belief, flow into and interpenetrate each other throughout the book.

Author : Bernardo Kastrup
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Myth
ISBN : 9781785352874

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A plausible, living validation of religion that doesn't contradict reason.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2022-05-18T22:59:00Z
Category : Philosophy
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The myth of the Holy Trinity provides context to the lives of millions of Christians. It provides perspective: God, as the Father, explains and justifies the creation of the world. The divinity’s entrance into its own creation in forms both ethereal and concrete provides a bridge between ordinary life and a transcendent order. #2 The outer realm is shared by all individuals. We all live in the same world, and we all know what lions, wildebeest, rocks, and hills are. But the meaning and emotion evoked by these perceptual experiences aren’t necessarily shared. #3 The images and interactions of consensus reality evoke meaning and emotion in our inner realm. Our mind needs a code to translate these images and interactions into thoughts and feelings. Without it, there would be no bridge or commerce between outer and inner realms. #4 Myth is the code that we all constantly use to interpret life in the world. We use myth to interpret the events of life, and we use it to emotionalize those events. Without a code for interpreting the consensus images around us, life would be meaningless.

Author : Bernardo Kastrup
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1785357409

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A rigorous case for the primacy of mind in nature, from philosophy to neuroscience, psychology and physics. The Idea of the World offers a grounded alternative to the frenzy of unrestrained abstractions and unexamined assumptions in philosophy and science today. This book examines 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 - from ten original articles the author has previously published in leading academic journals. The case begins with an exposition of the logical fallacies and internal contradictions of the reigning physicalist ontology and its popular alternatives, such as bottom-up panpsychism. It then advances a compelling formulation of idealism that elegantly makes sense of - and reconciles - classical and quantum worlds. The main objections to idealism are systematically refuted and empirical evidence is reviewed that corroborates the formulation presented here. 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 the world.

Author : Bernardo Kastrup
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1782793615

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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. This book seeks to change this. It uncovers the absurd implications of materialism and then, uniquely, presents a hard-nosed non-materialist metaphysics substantiated by skepticism, hard empirical evidence, and clear logical argumentation. 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, analogously 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. Physical death is merely a de-clenching of awareness. The book closes with a series of educated speculations regarding the afterlife, psychic phenomena, and other related subjects. ,

Author : Bernardo Kastrup
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1789045665

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More than an insightful psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung was the twentieth century's greatest articulator of the primacy of mind in nature, a view whose origins vanish behind the mists of time. Underlying Jung's extraordinary body of work, and providing a foundation for it, there is a broad and sophisticated system of metaphysical thought. This system, however, is only implied in Jung's writings, so as to shield his scientific persona from accusations of philosophical speculation. The present book scrutinizes Jung’s work to distil and reveal that extraordinary, hidden metaphysical treasure: for Jung, mind and world are one and the same entity; reality is fundamentally experiential, not material; the psyche builds and maintains its body, not the other way around; and the ultimate meaning of our sacrificial lives is to serve God by providing a reflecting mirror to God’s own instinctive mentation. Embodied in this compact volume is a journey of discovery through Jungian thoughtscapes never before revealed with the depth, force and scholarly rigor you are about to encounter.

Author : Bernard Kastrup
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1846948606

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This book is an experiment. Inspired by the bizarre and uncanny, it is an attempt to use science and rationality to lift the veil off the irrational. Its ways are unconventional: weaving along its path one finds UFOs and fairies, quantum mechanics, analytic philosophy, history, mathematics, and depth psychology. The enterprise of constructing a coherent story out of these incommensurable disciplines is exploratory. But if the experiment works, at the end these disparate threads will come together to unveil a startling scenario about the nature of reality. The payoff is handsome: a reason for hope, a boost for the imagination, and the promise of a meaningful future. Yet this book may confront some of your dearest notions about truth and reason. Its conclusions cannot be dismissed lightly, because the evidence this book compiles and the philosophy it leverages are solid in the orthodox, academic sense. ,

Author : Bernardo Kastrup
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1785350196

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This book is a multi-faceted exploration and critique of the human condition as it is presently manifested. It addresses science and philosophy, explores the underlying nature of reality, the state of our society and culture, the influence of the mainstream media, the nature of free will and a number of other topics. Each of these examinations contributes an angle to an emerging idea gestalt that challenges present mainstream views and behaviors and offers a sane alternative. The book is organized as a series of short and self-contained essays, most of which can be read in under one hour.

Author : Bernardo Kastrup
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1846949335

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A strong and growing intuition in society today is the idea that our thoughts create our own reality. Yet it seems obvious that, try as we might, our lives are not quite what we fantasize. Is the intuition thus wrong? Through a rational, methodic interpretation of meditative insights, the validity of which is substantiated with a compelling scientific literature review, the author constructs hypotheses that reconcile facts with intuition. Mesmerizing narratives of his expeditions into the unconscious suggest an amazing possibility: just as dreams are seemingly autonomous manifestations of our psyche, reality may be an externalized combination of the subconscious dreams of us all, mixed as they are projected onto the fabric of space-time. Perhaps the laws of physics are an emergent by-product of such synchronization of thoughts. Through computer simulations, the author explores the implications of these hypotheses, with conclusions uncannily reminiscent of observed phenomena.

Author : Bernardo Kastrup
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1846947359

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Why does the universe exist and what are you supposed to do in it? This question has been addressed by religions since time immemorial, but popular answers often fail to account for obvious aspects of reality. Indeed, if God knows everything, why do we need to learn through pain and suffering? If God is omnipotent, why are we needed to do good? If the universe is fundamentally good, why are wars, crime, and injustice all around us? In modern society, orthodox science takes the rational high-ground and tackles these contradictions by denying the very need for, and the existence of, meaning. Indeed, many of us implicitly accept the notion that rationality somehow contradicts spirituality. That is a modern human tragedy, not only for its insidiousness, but for the fact that it is simply not true. In this book, the author constructs a coherent and logical argument for the meaning of existence, informed by science itself. A framework is laid out wherein all aspects of human existence have a logical, coh