Bernardo Kastrup on Encountering Entities in Consciousness

Philosopher of consciousness, Bernardo Kastrup muses about one of his most profound experiences with a being, intelligence or agency that is beyond description. Check out the full episode in the related video.

[BavinGeter]

I can relate to what he’s saying, I’ve had encounters with “entities” on psychedelics that impart on me what I always just called a “knowingness” about something. One time particularly was a very unpleasant “knowingness” that essentially showed me that the path I was currently walking would lead me to a lifetime of misery, and that I had the option to simply try, give this life my best, and maybe avoid it. It was very unflattering. The experience lives with me every day and this happened about 9 years ago

[chaoticneutralmystic]

my experience of this during a dmt trip was exactly that: emotions images light sound overflowing ever-changing with a mantra of "everything and nothing" repeating over and over 🌀

[iknowsitall]

I’ve seen it
This man speaks the truth

[MichaelJones-ekvx]

I never heard Bernardo say this before, I must have missed the tape. I've had identical experiences pf shape movement and light. Each light seems to be a locus of living energy, I absolutely knew there was meaning, I could not possibly explain it now, but I felt it. I knew it. My mind was too small to To understand the meaning, but I knew it and I was part of it. This happened during a near-death experience, ap long time ago. It happened again, during three very high dose psychedelic trips Not long ago. I came to the same realization about it. The perceptual event,
was a kind of gauze, isomorphic to the truth. But the outline was there, you could see the symmetry, You experienced the meaning, beyond language & symbol.

[MS-odje]

The gift is nearly impossible to explain

[mistermistyc]

I relate!! Yes! Just because its an illusion doesn't mean it's not "real" for lack of better words. Love the channel 🙏🕉💚♾

[hollywoodwear]

My experience is not as meaningful as what Bernardo talked about but I noticed that when I get deeper into spirituality I experience seeing beautiful ever changing colorful mandala patterns that change in color and shape by the fraction of a second, this only upon closing my eyes. It has happened twice and unexpectedly and never in command, always around a time when I think intensely about our purpose on this planet and with a desire to belong to something larger than my mortal body and my little physical life on this planet. I have tried and tried to experience it willingly but no go. It is the most beautiful experience, it is a connection with something that is vibrant and alive.

[foxbasedelta]

Yes - had a lot of experiences and meetings in meditation recently.

[.Tapestry]

it's like an emerald with a golden light radiating out of its center and inside is the most precious gift in all of existence given to us to be a light for us - do not squander it

[thepoetryofpredicament]

I may have had a similar exchange or resonant communication. It came in the form of impressions conveying insights about relatedness … and the language seemed to be in the motion of the creature / presence.
To receive the communication was at once as relaxed as saying, Hi… and, like receiving the gift of ecstasy.

[trippy]

This is lovely. “Benign deception” seems to allude to the Trickster.

[DEXTROBILL]

This was a good podcast. Matey was afraid to disagree at times. It's crazy how persistent some of us are at trying to understand reality even though it's clearly beyond our means. There's no point interacting with an ipad by messing with the electrons floating about the silicon when there's a nice interface to work with.

[lostandlost]

I can't seem to focus on it. It's right there in the distance, but I can't get closer and I can't focus. I find it perplexing.

[archonphilosopher]

Another mystic in that long and illustrious list of mystics.

[samkarstens]

DMT has allowed us access into this infinite realm of information. In the stillness, in the silence, we are given insight (internal sight) revealing nothing and everything residing in all of us. In this quiet state of consciousness we remember our source.

[JohnGreen-qw]

It’s so difficult to remember anything that passes through you, giving you feeling of an emotional understanding beyond words!
I think that they are here? Have been here and will be here always .. it’s now our spiritual ability to accept them as non physical with some kind of non physical presence that can pass through us as we walk around and also through them?
The ancients knew of them, connected with them esp when fasting or deep meditation or plant medicine.
Maybe it’s the parasites and candidas that live in us and keep us in a loop of physical craving and addictive abuse which is keeping many in the 3rd dimensions 🙏🏻

[alebairos]

The nature of mind. I asked "Who/what are you? Its answered: I'm unmoving. Yet, I'm impermanent. It was a form of pulsating "plasma".

[jamesstaggs]

I'm guessing this "object" or way of seeing is the origin of the idea that the universe is holographic. That term usually places people in the idea of an illusion, which in a sense is true, but I think what it's actually meant to convey is that "everything contains everything". In a hologram you can cut off a piece of it and it contains all the information of the original object. An easier way to think of it is that the universe is made up of nothing but stem cells. Every atom contains the instructions for anything you could possibly imagine.

I have zero idea if any of the above is true or not. I don't know if the universe is holographic or not. If true though that's both amazing and terrifying at the same time.

[kerijohnson]

I can relate, I have seen something similar… Perfect geometry…

[isaackellogg]

I suspect this entity is not an other, but fundamentally another form of self