Decoding the Metaphysics of Jung & Schopenhauer

An interview with Bernardo Kastrup on various philosophical concepts, including analytic idealism, synchronicity, metaconsciousness, and the nature of consciousness. We explore the metaphysics of Schopenhauer and Jung, the collective unconscious, causality, suffering, psi phenomena, psychedelics, and economic materialism.

🎥Chapters
0:00 Interview highlight
2:09 What is analytical idealism?

❶ Decoding Jung
4:55 The I Ching and Jung’s preface
7:00 Bernardo’s New Years’ ritual
8:35 Decoding Jung’s metaphysics
11:35 Jung’s collective unconscious (diagram)
13:50 Kids are tripping all the time? Tapping into collective unconscious
18:20 Synchronicities vs. mere chance
20:40 Alan Watts on causality
24:35 Archetypes: Primordial templates
26:50 🔥Jung’s idea of what is the meaning of life

❷ Pay Attention
32:10 How can we be more meta-aware?
36:10 🔥God wants to become man
39:55 🔥Bernardo’s practice: Pay attention to life
42:30 Psychedelics inform your thought?
46:00 Brain scans on psychedelics vs. dreaming (evidence for idealism)
51:45 Parapsychological/psi research… ordinary is amazing
56:25 Angel of forgetfulness, dissociation
57:45 Need to balance meaning-finding?
1:00:20 “Everything has meaning”

❸ Decoding Schopenhauer
1:03:55 We are the universe trying to understand itself
1:06:25 🔥Decoding Schopenhauer’s metaphysics
1:10:50 Was Schopenhauer a pessimist?
1:18:10 Where do Jung & Schopenhauer depart?
1:23:00 🔥Did Jung take psychedelics?
1:27:20 Hypnagogia & psychedelics
1:32:45 “True salvation lies in the denial of will.”
1:37:40 Levels beyond ego-consciousness?

❹ Brief Peaks Beyond
1:40:20 “It is the very economic success of materialism that carries with it the seed of its own destruction.”
1:48:40 Economic materialism & technofeudalism
1:52:20 Where is capitalism going? Universal basic income
1:55:50 One of the biggest errors: Confusing importance for value
1:59:10 Rise of populism relies on failure to recognize human dignity
2:02:10 What’s next from Bernardo?

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