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.
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Review
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 author
It'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.'
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.
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.
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Review
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 author
It'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.'
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.