Rupert Spira | Bernardo Kastrup #2: Awareness, being, ego-death & psychedelics

Rupert Spira | Bernardo Kastrup #2: Awareness, being, ego-death & psychedelics

Nov 29, 2024

Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup discuss the qualities of awareness, memory, deep sleep and time An excerpt from a discussion series November 2022 with Bernardo Kastrup & Rupert Spira. You can access ad free version of this, along with 10hrs of Q&A with Bernardo and an ad free session with Federico Faggin here: https://dandelion.events/e/iuoci

0:00 Guided meditation into being
22:30 how meditation informs Bernardo's work
27:30 it's not possible to describe awareness
35:06 awareness of being is more evocative than awareness
39:00 experience in deep sleep
47:00 why ego death and near death feel good
1:05:00 the great outrage & the great love
1:12:50 being with people in suffering
1:22:00 daimons & the forces that guide our lives
1:33:00 moral responsibility
1:43:00 the world is our deepest subconscious
1:59:30 are mystical psychedelic experiences legit?
2:09:00 are psychedelics useful for nondual realisation?
2:16:40 how are there morals with no separate self or free will?
2:34:10 thoughts on opposites and truth