An excerpt from a 5-week course with Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira.
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CONTENT
00:00 Self Enquiry as a direct way to know reality
18:41 Differences between Bernardo & Rupert:Is consciousness self-aware?
23:00 Experiential vs philosophical approach to understanding reality & reducing suffering
25:00 Experience is the goal, philosophy clears the way
33:00 “Your intellect has carved a pathway”
34:45 The goal is to abide in what is actually going on
35:44 Why does the universe dissociate?
36:47 Is dissociation always pathological?
39:03 Ultimately, there is no dissociation
46:31 Consciousness is self-aware as the sun is self-luminous
56:08 Naturalism means Ultimate Consciousness is not metacognitive
58:30 There’s no plan but there is a direction
1:08:00 Can Universal Consciousness learn anything?
1:15:10 Is Universal Consciousness inherently peaceful?
1:20:10 Are the nonlocal transpersonal aspects of consciousness in peace?
1:22:25 It is in the nature of consciousness to appear unpeaceful
1:26:41 Is it possible to always be at peace?
1:30:18 Idealism increased empathy
1:36:11 What happens at death?
1:39:06 What psychedelics imply about death
1:40:52 What about anaesthesia?
1:47:47 Anaesthetics remind us we don’t know what time is
1:54:30 Can ultimate consciousness be veiled from itself?
1:56:00 Can there be localisations within localisations?
1:56:57 Is the universe trying to make sense of itself?
1:57:02 The world is a symbol of our shared mind
2:01:59 There are no parts, there is only one mind
2:04:48 Is there a place for worship?
2:09:24 Bernardo’s journey
2:13:50 Language is just a model
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