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Bernardo Kastrup's book is another nail in the coffin of the superstition of materialism. With elegant clarity he explains that mind, brain & cosmos are what consciousness does.-- Deepak Chopra, M.D., best-selling authorIt's important that this message is widely disseminated.-- Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., author of Science Set Free / The Science Delusion I challenge you to read Bernardo Kastrup's prescription for what metaphysically ails you. You will be a wiser being for it. -- Shogaku Zenshin Stephen Echard Musgrave Roshi, Director of the Zen Institute of San Diego, California. Bernardo Kastrup takes a bold and brilliant step in the collective movement of humanity beyond the confines of current materialism. -- Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., author of 'The Conscious Universe: Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality.'
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About the Author
Dr. Bernardo Kastrup has been a scientist in some of the world's foremost scientific laboratories. A successful entrepreneur, he currently works in the high-tech industry and writes about metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
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Product details
Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Iff Books (April 25, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1782793623
ISBN-13: 978-1782793625
Product Dimensions:
5.6 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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4.4 out of 5 stars
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I was a philosophy major in college, and although I was aware of non-materialistic worldviews, I had never seen anyone take them seriously in modern times. They tend to be treated as a relic of a more superstitious era.Mr. Kastrup's book blew my mind. I realized that a materialistic worldview was so ingrained in my thinking, it was hard to even imagine otherwise. Yet, once I did so, and took the author's arguments seriously, I found those arguments compelling. This book has affected my thinking more than anything else I've read recently. I highly recommend it.
During its heyday in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, British empiricists such as John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume, found the philosophy of Idealism to be a difficult sell, and as legend has it, was naïvely challenged by a materialist who kicked a boulder and declared, “I refute it thusly.†That was an era preceding the quantum revolution when the philosophy of materialism and realism, advocating a one-to-one correspondence between objective reality and perception, seemed self-evident; a time before it was understood that matter was not “solid†but mostly empty space; a time before the understanding that an observer can change reality instantaneously across space and time, and a time before the realization that knowledge is limited by indeterminacy. It seemed that reality was not so objective after all. Physicist and mathematician James Jeans pronounced: “...that the stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.†These post-quantum revolutionary ideas certainly are changing our view of reality but they are never-the-less still based in materialism. Modern science considers matter and information to be fundamental and consciousness, if it is even acknowledged as a phenomenon at all, is thought by most to be an emergent property of matter. For example, the philosophy of epiphenomenalism asserts that consciousness is a result of neural processes in a one-to-one correspondence with certain brain states, but recent studies indicate that there is no consistency in this relationship, and even if such a relationship exists, correlation do not necessitate causation. Materialism simply cannot explain the “hard†problem of consciousness, that asks the question of how a two-and-a-half-pound mass of tissue creates our subjective experience of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Materialism must confront the fact that nothing physical, including information, can have objective reality without subjective experience. To suggest otherwise, implies the paradoxical notion that the very consciousness that apparently arises from matter requires consciousness to exits a priori. Bernardo Kastrup proposes a philosophy that more closely coincides with observation. He suggests that mind is a fundamental aspect of the universe and that matter, including our body and our brains, are localized regions of the universal mind in the same way that whirlpools are self-sustaining and localized regions of a river. As Kastrup notes, the mind is not in the brain, rather the brain is in mind. Our brains simply act as localized filters that select information from the universal mind just as a radio receiver selects a particular station from multiple broadcast signals.Kastrup makes a convincing argument for the philosophy of idealism. I highly recommend this book for those looking for consistent view of reality.
Bernardo Kastrup tackles the Big Questions in this book, taking aim at the prevailing world view of scientistic materialism, the idea that there is no "mind" as such ("mind is the brain"), that what feels like our consciousness as an individual is just neurons firing in our brain. Of course, western civilization also encompasses other world views, and many postulate a spiritual dimension or alternate realities connected to the seemingly solid reality of the world we see around us. This type of world view often takes the form of dualism, a material world and an invisible world that shadows the world of material objects.Kastrup does not subscribe to either of these, but offers another option he calls Idealism. In this view, the universe and everything in it, including us, consist of Mind and Mind, not some "shadow universe," is the engine behind the solid objects we see. Kastrup says scientists who insist that materialism explains nature confuse how nature works with the metaphysical interpretation of the models of nature. Science describes patterns and collects data, but it does not tell us the meaning of what is observed.It seems to me that most scientists have decided there is no meaning. But, then, why is there a universe? Why is there us?I was attracted to this book because I would love to have answers to these questions and, like the author, I don't think the materialist philosophy provides any answers. It seems to me there are two parts to these Big Questions: What am I? What is the universe? If you think consciousness is more than your brain (and I do), then there is another dimension to reality besides the solid world of trees and rocks and tables and chairs. I had come to the feeling that the invisible world is the "real" world that creates the material world. But Kastrup's book has shown me that this is a dualistic view, and he subscribes to the view that "all is one" and the one is Mind. We are part of a universal mind, but are each mainly able to see just what is in our current focus, although everything in the universe is available to us as everything is part of the same whole. At least, I think that is what he is saying.I found this book fairly tough going, as his points are often difficult to grasp. He uses extensive metaphors to explain the concepts, but this was not totally satisfying as metaphors can only point your thoughts in the direction of the idea being proposed: Mind is a river and we are whirlpools in the river; mind is a membrane and we are protrusions, etc. Where he does a better job of getting his idea across is in discussion of the brain and why it is not our consciousness. Research with the brain has shown that people have extraordinary inner experiences when the brain is at a low ebb or even shut down, with no detectable activity. Yet consciousness exists and thrives.The author brings into the discussion Jungian concepts such as Ego and the Unconscious which he accepts as part of Mind. We each have a sense of our own identity (Ego), but we also have some awareness of things we don't control, within ourselves and sometimes outside events, places, or perceptions of people. Dreams, for example. We also have a "consensus reality" with other people about the world around us, but within our Ego we experience reality in our own way. The concepts in the book are difficult to summarize, and having read the whole thing, I cannot say I have really changed my world view.The final two chapters are more speculative as the author deals with some of what is still a bit fuzzy and tries to answer the objections he's heard to his concept of Idealism. He never mentions God anywhere, but does ask why we would need a Big Bang or if questions about time and space matter. He does talk about death, but only to speculate about what remains and what is lost with physical death.In the end, the book is not very satisfying in providing any answers because his concepts and explanations are so complex and he sidesteps the issues of God, human origins, religion, death and the actual meaning of the Universe. On the other hand, expecting answers for these things is asking too much. Maybe the meaning of life is the search itself. I continue to feel we must each search out answers for ourselves, as any ultimate truth that may be "out there" remains elusive.
It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book that's given me so many “aha†moments. For this reason, I read this book very slowly, taking notes and letting things sink in before moving on. Mr. Kastrup explains important points with great care and simplicity, which not being a scientist I appreciated greatly.This book brought so many things together for me that I’ve embraced through the years as pieces of my personal world view, without ever being able to see how they make sense together: the emptiness Buddhism speaks of (reconciled with the Mind at Large being the emptiness that is vibrated) and the Shiva and Shakti of Hinduism (there is nothing but mind and movement), the “magic†of quantum physics relying on an observer, experiences of expanded consciousness after ceased brain activity...I could go on but instead I'll just say, read this book for yourself. It's worth the time.
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