
Rupert Spira Podcast Episode 44. Bernardo Kastrup (Second Conversation)
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May 24, 2022 Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup explore what shared being might mean for love, conflict, animal welfare, and our relationship with nature. They debate when force may be justified, how consciousness experiences the world, and whether space separates us at all. Along the way, they consider how spiritual understanding can move beyond ideas and reshape everyday life.
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
The Importance of Love
02:51 • 4min
The Implications of the Work We Do
07:06 • 2min
Your Life Is Not About You
09:12 • 3min
Your Vision of Me Is Higher Than My Own, as Far as I Can Tell
12:41 • 3min
I Love Everybody, but I Don't Like Everybody.
15:33 • 3min
Is a Force Not Sometimes Necessary?
19:03 • 3min
The End of the Use of Force
21:57 • 4min
The Egoic Response, the Fearful Response
25:38 • 2min
Is There a Limitation of Nature's Expression?
27:31 • 3min
We Will Survive, but Not Live
30:30 • 5min
Chigung
35:02 • 3min
The Meaning of My Life Is Not About Me
37:43 • 6min
The Distinction Between Thoughts and Feelings Is Intolerable
43:22 • 2min
You Unlock Things in My Mind When I Listen to You
45:43 • 4min
Is There a Space Between Two Thoughts at the Same Time?
49:32 • 2min
You Nailed It. Erounailed It
51:39 • 3min
The Theory of Everything - I'm the One Playing White
54:10 • 3min
How Do We Treat Animals?
56:56 • 4min
What Is the World Betraying About the World?
01:01:03 • 5min
The World Is a Cosmic Reality
01:06:07 • 5min
The Only Way to Know God, Beyond the World, Is to Be God
01:11:06 • 3min
A Human Emotion, a First Person's Perspective
01:13:55 • 2min
Is There Something It Is Like to Be the World?
01:15:57 • 3min
The Experience of Being the World
01:18:32 • 2min
Is There Something It Is Like to Be the World?
01:20:09 • 2min
The Inanimate Universe as a Whole
01:21:51 • 2min
The Dynamism of the Universe Is Inherent in the Ultimate Reality
01:23:57 • 2min
The Activity of Infinite Consciousness
01:25:29 • 2min
Isn't There a Mystery There?
01:27:17 • 2min
The World Presents Itself the Way It Is
01:29:01 • 3min
The Evolution of the Finite Mind
01:31:54 • 2min
The Finite Mind Experiences Itself Directly
01:34:09 • 2min
I've Come to Take You as a Kind of Litimus Test E
01:35:58 • 2min
The Difference Between Phenomenal and Meta Consciousness
01:37:46 • 3min
What Is Consciousness?
01:40:21 • 4min
Would the Eating of Meat Become Er?
01:44:32 • 3min
The Problems of Abstraction and Addiction
01:47:36 • 4min
Is There a Reality That Is Always There?
01:51:11 • 3min
