10 ESSENTIAL reads with Bernardo Kastrup

Read these 10 books and it will be very hard to still believe in a fundamentally physical universe.

Essentia is starting its own book club on YouTube! In a series of videos, we will discuss 20th-century must reads by authors like Carl Gustav Jung, Noam Chomsky and Thomas Kuhn, to seminal work by idealists such as Schopenhauer. And, of course, we will pay tribute to foundational ancients texts as discussed by, for instance, Peter Kingsley and Patrick Harpur. As a starter, Hans Busstra asked Bernardo Kastrup to pick 10 books from his own shelf that most influenced his philosophical work. In this video, Bernardo briefly runs through the main ideas put forward in these books and how they changed his life. In the upcoming videos, Hans will do the homework by reading and reviewing these 10 books. You are, of course, invited to read along and send in your own insights and questions (please do so via our YouTube community page: https://www.youtube.com/@essentiafoun.... The first book to be discussed after this video will be ‘Answer to Job,’ by Carl Gustav Jung.

00:00 Introduction
01:50 #1 Answer to Job - Carl Gustav Jung
07:25 #2 On the Nature of the Psyche - Carl Gustav Jung
14:28 #3 Saving the Appearances - Owen Barfield
20:03 #4 The Philosophers' Secret Fire - Patrick Harpur
24:38 #5 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn
32:00 #6 The Sense of the World - Adrés Ortiz-Osés
34:30 #7 Language and Mind - Noam Chomsky
42:53 #8 Passport to Magonia - Jacques Vallée
44:48 #9 The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer
54:18 #10 Reality - Peter Kingsley

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