Brief Peeks Beyond
Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism and Culture
Published on 29. May 2015
251 pages
978-1-78535-019-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a multi-faceted exploration and critique of the human condition as it is presently manifested. It addresses science and philosophy, explores the underlying nature of reality, the state of our society and culture, the influence of the mainstream media, the nature of free will and a number of other topics. Each of these examinations contributes an angle to an emerging idea gestalt that challenges present mainstream views and behaviors and offers a sane alternative. The book is organized as a series of short and self-contained essays, most of which can be read in under one hour.
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English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
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Collective Ink
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2,07 MB
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978-1-78535-019-1 (9781785350191)
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Bernardo Kastrup
Brief Peeks Beyond
Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism and Culture
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Bernardo Kastrup has a Ph.D. in computer engineering and has been a scientist in some of the world's foremost scientific laboratories. He researches and writes about metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Other books by Bernardo Kastrup
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Deepak Chopra
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On metaphysics and cosmology
- 2.1. A more parsimonious, logical, non-materialist worldview
- 2.2. Materialist arguments and why they are wrong
- 2.3. Finding truth within the dream
- 2.4. Survival of consciousness beyond death: an implication of common sense
- 2.5. The actual difference between living beings and inanimate objects
- 2.6. Finding God in metaphysical parsimony
- 2.7. Quantum physics: a parsimonious solution to the measurement problem
- 3. On consciousness, neuroscience and the media
- 3.1. Consciousness: an unsolvable anomaly under materialism
- 3.2. The incredible trick of disappearing consciousness
- 3.3. What are memories, after all?
- 3.4. Misleading journalism and the notion of implanted memories
- 3.5. Psychedelics and the mind-body problem
- 4. On skepticism and science
- 4.1. Intellectual fundamentalism
- 4.2. Living in a cocoon of mere hypotheses
- 4.3. Scientific dogmatism and chance
- 4.4. Science and the defacement of reason
- 4.5. The taboo against meaning
- 4.6. Darwinian evolution: an open door to purposefulness
- 4.7. To understand the anomalous we need more skepticism, not less
- 5. On culture and society
- 5.1. The idolatry of a new priesthood
- 5.2. Education and the meaning of life
- 5.3. Has academic philosophy lost its relevance?
- 5.4. Myths in contemporary culture
- 5.5. Enchantment: the lost treasure
- 5.6. A cultural narrative of projections
- 5.7. Direct experience, philosophy and depth-psychology: why we need them all
- 5.8. Unfathomable change is on the horizon
- 6. On the strange and mysterious
- 6.1. Near-death experiences and the afterlife
- 6.2. Why Sam Harris is wrong about Eben Alexander's visit to 'heaven'
- 6.3. UFOs: even more mysterious than you'd think
- 6.4. Extra-terrestrial life: implications for the materialist paradigm
- 7. On free will
- 7.1. What is free will?
- 7.2. Where is free will to be found?
- 8. On practical applications
- 8.1. Pragmatism and the meaning of life
- 8.2. What difference does it make if reality is in consciousness?
- 8.3. The case for integrative mind-body medicine
- 8.4. Can our thoughts directly affect reality at large?
- 8.5. It starts and ends with us: what can we do individually?
- 9. Takeaway message
- Afterword by Rupert Spira
- Notes
- Bibliography
