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

267 Pages·2014·2.14 MB·English

by  Bernardo Kastrup

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT
WHY MATERIALISM IS BALONEY
Bernardo Kastrup’s book is another nail in the coffin of the superstition
of materialism. With elegant clarity he explains that mind, brain &
cosmos are what consciousness does.
Deepak Chopra, M.D. Pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine.
Author of over sixty-five books with twenty New York Times best sellers.
Bernardo Kastrup takes a bold and brilliant step in the collective
movement of humanity beyond the confines of current materialism and
everything that it entails. Truly speaking, alternative worldviews to the
current paradigm of a material universe and associated ontologies,
including various religious kinds, classical Newtonian physics, economic
systems based on external consumption, etc., are easily dismissed as they
don’t fit current modern societal values. Yet, these ontologies may be
rapidly leading us to major problems, including perhaps the demise of
current ‘Western’ societies. The hidden ontologies of an external,
material universe, devoid of the dynamical, evolutionary role of
consciousness are prevalent, all-consuming, and insidious. It is time to
abandon them or at least see them as an aspect of reality but not the true
reality. Bernardo Kastrup is brave and a true pioneer to show us why
and how we should.
Menas Kafatos, Ph.D. Fletcher Jones Professor of Computational
Physics, Chapman University. Author of The Conscious Universe: Parts and
Wholes in Physical Reality.
Bernardo takes us on a journey to an alternative worldview, one that
makes a great deal more sense than the scientistic one we are being
spoon-fed through academia and the media. He expresses his ideas
lucidly and constructively in a manner that does not lose their scientific
and logical force. …I challenge you to read Bernardo Kastrup’s
prescription for what metaphysically ails you. You will be a wiser being
for it. (from the Foreword)
Shogaku Zenshin Stephen Echard Musgrave Roshi. Director of the
Zen Institute of San Diego, California. Author of Zen Buddhism, Its
Practice and the Transcendental Mind.
[Bernardo Kastrup is a] remarkable, intellectually diverse and energetic
thinker. …[A] turnabout in the way scientists conceive and interpret
natural phenomena requires new interdisciplinary thinkers like
Bernardo. …[He] has brought a brand new way of seeing the ancient
idea of ‘infinite mind.’ Although written in a personal and breezy tone,
this book is a vast philosophical endeavor. It captures ‘big picture’ ideas
in a manner accessible to a wider audience. (from the Afterword)
Rick Stuart, Ph.D. Practicing psychotherapist.

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Text copyright: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup 2013
ISBN: 978 1 78279 362 5
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Chapter 1: The Current Worldview and its Implications
Chapter 2: Tackling the Mind-Body Problem
Chapter 3: Mind as the Medium of Reality
Chapter 4: The Brain as a Knot of Mind
Chapter 5: A Mercurial Metaphor
Chapter 6: The Oscillating Membrane Metaphor
Chapter 7: Re-interpreting Reality
Chapter 8: Final Musings
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
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Every book is a journey into the bottomless ocean of mind,
not only for its readers but, and perhaps foremost, for its writer.
This book is the diary of the most important journey of my life
thus far. In it, I wasn’t alone. Those who walked next to me will
always live within me: Natalia Vorontsova, Rick Stuart,
Guiba Guimarães, Rob van der Werf, Snoes and… the Other.