Philosophical Speculations

Dave - the way you word that looks like dualism. For Idealism, alter consciousness is interfered with by another process or idea in consciousness. The brain is just the image of our human consciousness (viewed from across a dissociative boundary), while the anaesthetic is just the image of the proce...

In deep sleep or under anesthesia, there is less activity in the brain too. In those cases, less activity corresponds with less experience. So why are psychedelics exceptions to the rule? BK's model has psychedelics as having the ability to increase the porosity or permeability of the localised ind...

I am Ra, the dodgy alter of David Wilcock.

Yes, a very good platform for BK's views - the interviewer is a clever chap. He acts as though excited by the novelty of what he hears, but you can tell he's already thoroughly absorbed the principles of Analytical Idealism.

All of this can be investigated now with science and some people are trying to do it with little success. The Victorian investigators into mediumship were pretty successful. In modern times, Rupert Sheldrake has done good work, though few scientists follow him because he is dismissed as being full ...

On the other hand, what does idealism add to science? I can't see that it adds a single thing It would do so, if accepted. So-called paranormal experiences involving expanded and nonlocal consciousness could be scientifically investigated (telepathy, ghosts, remote viewing, channelling, automatic w...

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Would that be an alteration or an altaration?

Some people are good at stretching the boundaries and giving the moderator a teasing time. Moderator, be firm! Or be lax. Or both.

I guess he wants to leave BK till last. Or else, definitively answered, it'll be the end of his series.

Thanks for posting this latest interview, Dana. Bernardo gets increasingly clear and clever in expressing himself in these interviews, which is pretty amazing considering how clear he has always been. The new image of television sets on opposite sides of a football pitch to demonstrate quantum entan...