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Bernardo Kastrup QUOTES

1 " Scientism today is doing what the church did in the fifteenth century: forcing theory to fit a predetermined metaphysics. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything

2 " Our particular states of mind colour and frame the whole of our experiences. We live under the illusion that we all share the exact same world because *our language has evolved to pick out precisely the few aspects of our experiences that are common and shared, while ignoring those that are completely personal and idiosyncratic.* "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything

3 " Indeed, it is nearly impossible for any person inserted in a modern cultural context to escape the haze of the zeitgeist and develop a truly unbiased, critical, and personal worldview. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything

4 " materialism is a fantasy. It’s based on unnecessary postulates, circular reasoning and selective consideration of evidence and data. Materialism is by no stretch of the imagination a scientific conclusion, but merely a metaphysical opinion that helps some people interpret scientific conclusions. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism and Culture

5 " if we could escape the hysterical cacophony of culture so to develop a more authentic and unbiased worldview, "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything

6 " We now find our gods not on the altar, but in the bottle of alcohol, the football match on television, the new pair of shoes and the arms of the casual lover. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

7 " A religious myth infuses ordinary aspects of life with enchantment and significance: accidents and coincidences become invested with hidden purposes; our actions in the world acquire the importance of a cosmic mission; our suffering becomes the carrier of critical insights; even objects and people around us acquire a numinous aura. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

8 " The ability to turn conscious apprehension itself into an object of conscious apprehension is what fundamentally characterizes our ordinary state of consciousness "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything

9 " Materialism represents an astonishing failure of the human intellect to see what’s right under its nose. It hides nature’s marvelous simplicity behind a veil of contrivance. Its continuing survival in face of the mounting odds of reason, evidence and direct experience requires constant and deliberate maintenance. Indeed, materialism serves powerful economic and political interests. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism and Culture

10 " In today's culture we take the package for the content, the vehicle for the precious cargo. We attribute reality to physical phenomena while taking their *meanings* to be inconsequential fantasies. By extricating 'reality' from mind, materialism has sent the significance of nature into exile. With the pathetic grin of hubris stamped on our foolish faces, we carefully unwrap the package and then proceed to throw away its contents while proudly storing the empty box on the altar of our ontology. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything

11 " Particular experiences – that is, particular contents of mind – are just mind in movement. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything

12 " Truth-seeking is the path to self-annihilation and thus to liberation. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

13 " Only nothing is true. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

14 " Partake in reality as an actor in a theatrical play: with attention, dedication and an open heart. But never believe yourself to be your character, for characters spend their lives chasing their own shadows, whereas actors embody the meaning of existence. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

15 " Our myth-making capacity may be our key role in the dance of existence. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

16 " A tremendous mystery unfolds in front of our senses every waking hour of our lives; a mystery more profound, more tantalizing, more penetrating and urgent than any novel or thriller. This unfolding mystery is nature’s challenge to us. Are we paying enough attention to it? "

― Bernardo Kastrup , More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

17 " [D]eep within, in a way that isn't self-reflective, there is that intuition that you aren't really this character you seem to be playing in this story. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism and Culture

18 " Reality is far too diverse, broad, elusive, ambiguous and complex for us to pin down. Even the limited empirical data we do manage to collect can only be interpreted within the framework of a subjective paradigm. It is, therefore, not really neutral. But in our desperate search for closure and reassurance we confabulate entities and explanations to construct huge edifices of assumed truths. They make up the world we actually experience; a self-woven cocoon of stories, not facts. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism and Culture

19 " The past is a mental, intellectual construct meant to give context to your present perceptions. There has never been a moment in your entire life in which the past has been anything else; I challenge you to find one. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief

20 " Figure 3. A whirlpool in a stream is a metaphor for a brain in the medium of mind. "

― Bernardo Kastrup , Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything