An Open-Ended Conversation with Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, is a computer scientist, who has recently completed a second doctoral degree in philosophy. He is author of Rationalist Spirituality, Why Materialism is Baloney, Dreamed Up Reality, Meaning in Absurdity, Brief Peeks Beyond, More Than Allegory, The Idea of the World, and Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics. He has published several papers on Scientific American's website arguing for metaphysical idealism. His website is https://www.bernardokastrup.com/. Bernardo is launching a new organization, #EssentiaFoundation, and has produced some wonderful short videos that can be viewed at    • New Science About the Nature of Consciousness   and    • Why Our Reality Is Not What It Seems...  . This conversation covers many topics: varieties of philosophical #idealism, the meanings embodied in Bernardo's coat of arms, the strengths and weaknesses of anti-establishment feeling, the pressing need for safe nuclear power, projections of the #shadow, is the universe friendly?, and discovering #evil within ourselves. 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). (Recorded on December 14, 2020) For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listin.... If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to [email protected]. Check out our new website for the New Thinking Allowed Foundation at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions. There, you can also subscribe to our free, weekly Newsletter! To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see   / 1953031791426543   To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... You can help support our ongoing video productions while enjoying a good book. To order Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics by Bernardo Kastrup, click here: https://amzn.to/36tQuxa. LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS SHOWN IN THIS INTERVIEW: Bernardo Kastrup, The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality – https://amzn.to/2zsuoib Bernardo Kastrup, Dreamed Up Reality: Diving Into the Mind to Uncover the Astonishing Hidden Tale of Nature – https://amzn.to/3bYAyEe Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism is Baloney – https://amzn.to/2TCSUEp Bernardo Kastrup, Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism, and Culture – https://amzn.to/2ZzcjK0 Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us About the Nature of Reality – https://amzn.to/2XruFdh Bernardo Kastrup, Rationalist Spirituality – https://amzn.to/2Xp7IYm Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth, and Belief – https://amzn.to/3efgSgD George Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge – https://amzn.to/37za7pJ Georg Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit – https://amzn.to/38necw3 Baruch Spinoza, The Road to Inner Freedom – https://amzn.to/3nB8iOx Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being – https://amzn.to/2WIWCO1 Dean Brown, Cosmic Law – (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) Our Facebook page:   / newthinkingallowed   Our Twitter page:   / newthinkallowed   Our Instagram page:   / jeffreymishlove   Our LinkedIn discussion group:   / 13860770   Our Discord channel:   / discord