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Dedicated to rational, scientific arguments for metaphysical idealism. https://t.co/uXvtDod5nn… https://t.co/PlfJD9Ma1J… @EssentiaFoundation@mastodon.nl

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Essentia Foundation
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What can the experiences of those who returned from NDEs tell us about justice, morality, meaning, and existential angst? Arthur Haswell invites us to contemplate these questions without metaphysical prejudice.
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Does Analytic Idealism limit the scope of its own conclusions and implications because of its adoption of realist, empirically-focused, scientific concepts and argument structures? Dr. Grego argues precisely so in this critical essay.
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Hans Busstra and Dr. Lídia del Rio talk to Dr. Matthew Leifer about e.g. the ‘Bell-Wigner mashups’: thought-experiments that entangle different observers to arrive at the disturbing consequence that there is no ‘absoluteness of facts’ for all observers.
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Dr. Colborn argues that, perhaps surprisingly, the worldview of the technology elite is shifting from fundamentalist materialism to a form of apocalypticism that echoes fundamentalist Christianity and risks demeaning humanity.
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Essentia Foundation
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In this interview, Dr. Philip Cozzolino talks about his research and methods for dealing with fear of death. He also delves into intriguing reincarnation-like cases and past-life memories in children, and the metaphysical implications of his research.
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Essentia Foundation
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In this very personal, poignant essay, Moreira argues that our most primal fear isn’t death, but solitude. As he says, “A child does not cry because she understands mortality. She cries because no one comes.” Moreira is redefining Existentialism.
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Essentia Foundation
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Dr. David Schmid, Dr. Lídia Del Rio and Hans Busstra explore a metaphysical shift that’s happening in the foundations of physics: the wave function is no longer regarded as something real, but just as a description of what we know about the world.
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Essentia Foundation
2 months
The jealous and alienating gnostic Demiurge, a certain mode of attending to the world described by Heidegger, and Iain McGilchrist’s characterisation of the brain’s left-hemisphere, all share remarkable similarities, according to Arthur Haswell.
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Essentia Foundation
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What if phenomenal consciousness, signs, communication, and interpretation are fundamental aspects of all living systems? In this conversation, Hans Busstra talks to philosopher Dr. Yogi Hendlin about widespread meaning-making in nature.
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Essentia Foundation
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Important read alert! Introducing Relational Quantum Dynamics (RQD), a further development of Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM). RQD circumvents the infinite regress inherent to RQM by proposing that all relations arise within a field awareness.
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Essentia Foundation
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RT @donnamthomas: Have you ever had 'strange' experiences as a child? Ever wondered what children's experiences can tell us about who we ar….
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Essentia Foundation
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Hans Busstra talks to Dr. Bernardo Kastrup about the works of Professor Michael Levin and Dr. Christof Koch. Though Levin and Koch make no explicit metaphysical claims in their work, their empirical findings and views are in line with analytic idealism.
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Essentia Foundation
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“If experience is all I have, I may be alone—but the essential emotional necessity of the other demands that I live as if I am not,” argues Dr. Moreira. He embodies a long-overdue reemergence of existentialist thought, in 21st century terms.
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Essentia Foundation
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Dr. Edward Kelly, a professor of experimental psychology, talks about his many years of study of a variety of psi and anomalous phenomena. In this interview, he candidly shares how phenomenological evidence has led him to re-examine his metaphysical views.
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3 months
An intriguing read that we at Essentia Books would encourage you to peruse:
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Essentia Foundation
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A very insightful read! Fredric Nord argues that knowing reality through language is fundamentally and inescapably a misunderstanding of reality. We misunderstand what language actually does and, thereby, misunderstand what life is.
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Essentia Foundation
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Physicist Dr. Lídia Del Rio, Essentia Foundation’s Research Fellow at the University of Zürich, explains to Hans Busstra one of the strangest quantum conundra confronting the foundations of physics: the Frauchiger-Renner (FR) thought experiment.
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Essentia Foundation
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Dr. Dolezal invites us to consider the uncanny similarities between the ancient stories of creation, across many religious and philosophical traditions, and how the human imagination, when prompted or triggered by words, creates entire universes.
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Essentia Foundation
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Hans Busstra interviews theoretical physicist and complexity scientist James Glattfelder, who makes a plea for ‘syncretic idealism’: a synthesis ancient idealist texts and mystical experiences with physics, complexity science and analytic idealism.
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Essentia Foundation
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With humanity at a crossroads, we are invited to ponder a novel vision of existence. Dr. Glattfelder delves into some ideas meticulously researched and carefully presented in his latest book, 'The Sapient Cosmos,' published by Essentia Books.
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