EBTV with consciousness expansion teacher Evita Ochel and featured returning guest Bernardo Kastrup in an episode that focuses on Bernardo’s new book More than Allegory: Religious Myth, Truth & Belief.
Bernardo’s 2014 episode on EBTV: The Nature of Reality, Consciousness & How We Think
Bernardo’s 2015 episode on EBTV: Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Culture
General topics covered in the video
Brief synopsis of the book “More than Allegory”. (1:29)
- the role and value of symbols
Definitions of how the terms myth and allegory are used by Bernardo. (3:13)
The extremes of science and religion. (8:37)
“Never before in history has a civilization been so desperately devoid of context and perspective.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup
Exploring part 1 of Bernardo’s book—Myth, and the role of myth in interpreting our reality. (13:17)
- ability to feel truth via our connection to the mind at large
What will it take for us to gain back some balance between intellect and intuition. (18:19)
- science and myth
“The natural and legitimate psychic impulse towards transcendence has become artificially associated with ignorance, stupidity and weakness.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup
What does faith mean, what happened to it, and how to best use it. (19:47)
Exploring part 2 of Bernardo’s book—Truth, and how our own inner storytelling creates tangibility and the different types of truth. (21:40)
- allegorical, literal and transcendent truth
- time-related truth: past truth, present truth, future truth
- the “cognitive Big Bang”
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup
How to understand that there is no literal truth “out there”. (29:45)
“We’ve succumbed to lives of uptightness, intolerance, and even hatred.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup
How Western and Eastern spirituality differ in how they interpret reality and use myth, truth and belief. (33:47)
- via positiva versus via negativa
- the pitfall of literal truth and fundamentalism
- the pitfall of reality as an illusion
Exploring part 3 of Bernardo’s book—Belief, and how deeply ingrained belief systems create our world. (39:12)
- does the belief create the event or does the event create the belief
- the role of expectation and its connection to belief
How to access the “rule set” or “beliefs” of the mind at large. (43:36)
- the world is unfolding exactly according to the will of your True Self
How to approach a “quest for truth”. (45:20)
- the search for truth as an Egoic game
A mention of the rich epilogue of the book. (50:31)
“Truth is fundamentally incompatible with existence.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup
What Bernardo hopes the reader gets out of the book. (52:36)
If reality is merely a “mental trip”, does it matter what we do or how we live. (55:00)
- the importance of “quality of experience”
Bernardo’s contact info. (58:03)
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