Christopher Wallis | Bernardo Kastrup Part 1: With Reality in Mind

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0:00 Is the world real?
03:15 History of Nondual Shaiva Tantra / Kashmir Shaivism
4:50 Mind-only view supported by logic, mystical experience and scriptural revelation
7:28 3 types of writing: philosophical argumentation, poetry and instruction manuals
9:06 The view: there is only one consciousness who’s body is the entire universe of phenomena
10:40 There are individuals, but only one all encompassing agent: Each being is a microcosm of the whole
12:14 The world is real, not illusory - space time and form are not fundamental
15:22 Realisation that leads to freedom from suffering
20:20 In contrast with advaita vedanta the world is not an illusion: consciousness is innately dynamic

CHRISTOPHER | BERNARDO DIALOGUE

23:00 No-self, No boundary - but unique vantage points
26:30 dissociation is mental processes that cannot infer other content through association
27:44 Two vantage points does not equate to dissociation = two eyes, one consciousness
33:38 There is no personal free will, only the whole
41:22 “Will” is why there is something rather than nothing
45:12 Deep meditation can reveal the state of pure awareness with no experience
55:10 Time is a mental model: there is no flow of time

“no body has ever experienced the flow of time… there is only a grand tree of cognitive content, associated or not with one another through the evocation of common meanings. That’s all there is, ever was and all there ever will be ” - Bernardo

1:04:33 Duality is a mental construct
1:07:20 Should we trust reason, or evidence? Revelation or Perception?
1:18:33 *What meditation & mystical experience can reveal:*
- Now includes all the future and the past
- All existence infused with live presence
1:23:50 What it takes to “get it”

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