The Priority of Mind | with Bernardo Kastrup (More Christ)

This is a repost from my conversation with Bernardo Kastrup on the More Christ podcast and YouTube channel. We discuss dissociation and the problem of unity and multiplicity, how the Western mind approaches the world and what we have lost in modernity, banality, heavenly hierarchy and transcendence, crisis in the West and recovering the sacramental life without sentimentality.

Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the 'Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others.

Bernardo’s website: https://www.bernardokastrup.com/

Original video:
More Christ: Jonathan Pageau & Bernardo Kastrup: Orthodoxy and the Resurrection of the Western Mind, Body, & Soul: https://youtu.be/usFMBUTkaLk

Mentioned:
- The Book of Enoch: Fallen Angels and the Modern Crisis: https://youtu.be/QtmLCK1keFI
- The Mythical Constantinople | with Dr. Mario Baghos: https://youtu.be/3vGTGBW8CS4

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Coming up next
00:00:50 - Intro music
00:01:15 - Introduction (More Christ channel)
00:02:04 - Jonathan opening statements
00:03:25 - Bernardo opening statements
00:04:33 - Technical vs religious language
00:08:49 - Dissociation (kenosis)
00:10:44 - The Christian answer to multiplicity/dissociation
00:14:22 - The false dichotomy of unity and multiplicity
00:16:45 - Engaging the world
00:19:42 - Life is service
00:21:14 - Resolving dissociation in a symbolic life
00:24:32 - An impoverished western christianity
00:26:57 - Banality and a revival of ritual
00:28:36 - The reign of banality
00:31:17 - The new materialistic religions
00:35:06 - Dante and the hierarchy of being
00:41:07 - Man at the center
00:43:40 - Fractals: the universe as a nervous system
00:45:24 - The daemon/guardian angel
00:55:54 - What the daemon wants
00:57:33 - Are principalities pre-existing?
01:04:49 - The boundaries of identity
01:07:54 - Extensions of man
01:10:45 - Do you have a daemon?
01:17:20 - “What Progress Wants”
01:19:48 - Philosophy and reasoning is not enough
01:22:00 - Freedom in service
01:26:45 - Like in the time of Noah
01:29:42 - Nietzsche
01:32:29 - The cosmic structure of a city
01:39:34 - The hope in crisis
01:41:55 - The fall and the spiral
01:43:24 - Romanticizing "spirituality"
01:51:54 - Recovering truth in ritual without sentimentality
01:55:14 - “A Hidden Life”
01:57:08 - Outro

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