What Can We Learn From Bizarre Phenomena? with Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, is a computer scientist. He is author of Rationalist Spirituality, Why Materialism is Baloney, Dreamed Up Reality, Meaning in Absurdity, Brief Peeks Beyond, More Than Allegory, and The Idea of the World. He has published several papers in Scientific American arguing for metaphysical idealism.

Here he reviews a number of nonsensical events ranging from bizarre UFO encounters to religious miracles to psychedelic visions and dreams. He suggests that there are certain common themes that run through dreams, fantasies, and reports of paranormal occurrences -- and that they all speak to us symbolically. He also proposes that the deep archetypes of the Jungian collective unconscious can manifest in what we think of as the physical world.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is past-vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that association for his contributions to the study of consciousness.

(Recorded on January 3, 2019)

[benbishop]

Bernardo is such an articulate heavyweight in this field. He's got to be making huge differences in the field.

[anduinxbym]

This is one of my all time favorite interviews from Bernardo. It has got me thinking in new ways.

[christinemiller]

Out of all my subscriptions to my you tube videos, Jeffery yours are my favorite! You have amazing guests and the way you interview is superb ! Your smiling face is also refreshing ! 🙂

[Simon-xitb]

I am just getting into the whole idealism concept towards consciousness. Today I had a weird experience. When I came home, I heard my cat meowing quietly but really close to me somewhere and in a split second i saw only half of my cat moving under my legs. Just the head and half her body. It was like my brain decided that the cat is under my feet and started rendering it, but then it realised that the cat is not there and stopped the render. The cat was close to me, but in a room next to me, behind a closed door. It felt really weird. So was it my consciousness that was tricked and almost rendered a cat under my feet ?

[Drevenhaven]

This channel is quickly becoming my favorite YouTube channel. The videos make my day, thank you.

[mrandall]

Bernardo, my favorite engineer, scientist and philosopher. Thank you Jeffery for these interviews!

[oliviergoethals]

Really great book! Bernardo is filling the gaps in consensus meta-reality... Just what we need to shift the paradigm.

[grantbattison]

Once again I quote David R Hawkins and his awesome book "Power vs Force", I quote him as follows - "The fallacy of logical empiricism is clear from its essential premise. To say that nothing is real unless it's measurable is already an abstract position, is it not? This proposition itself isn't tangible, visible, or measurable, the argument of tangibility is itself created from the intangible."

[dr.williamkallfelz]

One of the best interviews recently conducted by Jeffrey Misholve with innovative philosopher and computer scientist Bernardo Kastrup. Though one need not be familiar with any of the Western and Eastern traditions he draws on to follow his claims, his insights range from constructivist logic, metaontology, to the foundations of quantum theory. Kastrup suggests a relationalist perspective which Buddhists will immediately recognize as Sunyata, drawing from the insights of Carl Jung, with implicit references William James's neutral monism and the process philosophy and phenomenology of A.N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne.

[rabbitholehomes]

I always look forward to any appearance of Bernado on YouTube. Sometimes I lose the thread with him, over my head so to speak, but I generally understand a minute or two later because he uses terms very similar to Paul Brunton. Reading "The Wisdom of The Overself" over 20 years ago has set me up to be able to follow Bernado's ideas. I can highly recommend the above book - the chapter titles alone are intriguing. I think he's a very important and beautiful writer on Vedanta and I hope he doesn't get forgotten.

[katherinestone]

The double-slit experiment (DSE) within quantum mechanics suggesting that there is no world out there independent of "observation" is haunting.

[bearheart]

I love seeing Bernado! =D he's deffo in my top 3 favourite guests of yours EVER.

[danielduarte]

Bernardo's ideas are so fresh and logical. What lies beyond our perception and capacity to grasp reality is a conundrum. Maybe we will never know, but it is worth trying to solve this puzzle. Thank you, Jeffrey and Bernardo!

[SchibbiSchibbi]

Bernardo Kastrup, jeffrey mishlove, dr bruce greyson, sam parnia, dr. pim van lommel, dra Luján comas, hospice nurse julie, julie beischel, marjorie woollacott, …. Just to name a few people who completely turned my worldview upside down. These videos are truly life changing.

[johnpaul]

I'll have to listen to this one later, and more than once.
Thanks. Excellent.

[EchanJp]

Stunning! Brilliant! Thanks so much for this Jeff and Bernardo.

[davidfee]

Many thanks for another great interview with Bernardo Kastrup. I never manage to find fault in anything he says! Looking forward to the next one.

[michaelk]

Really interesting...I get about 15% of this but it’s fun struggling.

[stephaniedyer]

After thousands of hours of talks on theories of everything..finally mr kastrup ties it all together...thankyou

[krishnapartha]

God bless you Jeff and Bernie. Excellent. As always both of you are gems of the universe that make me happy to be alive. Both your smiles are genuine and I smile along with you. Thank you! 🙏🏾❤️🔥