Rupert Spira Podcast - Episode 44. Bernardo Kastrup (Second Conversation)

Episode 44. Bernardo Kastrup (Second Conversation)

05/24/22 • 115 min

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Bernardo Kastrup joins Rupert for a follow-up conversation, with Simon Mundie moderating.

This conversation covers several complex topics. It is a deep dive into matters such as the sharing of our being, how to love those who are causing pain and war, infinite consciousness’s experience of itself, and much more.

Bernardo has two PhDs, one in computer science and another in philosophy. He was employed first at CERN, the European council for nuclear research, where he began working in artificial intelligence (AI) in connection with the Large Hadron Collider. Then he moved on to artificial consciousness (AC), wondering if which inspired him to ponder whether he could build an artificially conscious entity and piqued his interest in philosophy.

Simon Mundie is the host of the podcast Life Lessons: From Sport and Beyond, which explores life’s bigger questions.

Bernardo Kastrup joins Rupert for a follow-up conversation, with Simon Mundie moderating.

Simon Mundie is the host of the podcast Life Lessons: From Sport and Beyond, which explores life’s bigger questions.

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Episode 45: Henry Shukman (Second Conversation)

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Moderated again by host Steve James, Rupert and award-winning poet and author Henry Shukman pick up their discussion from a few months earlier. Here they discuss the practice of art and its connection with spirituality.

Amidst sharing observations on one another’s artistic evolution, they discuss in depth their respective apprenticeships. At first artistic, then spiritual, the training for both men involved total immersion in traditional forms and, crucially, surrender to a master teacher. They consider such lengthy, one-to-one training in relation to their desire to make the teaching available to large numbers of people. Is it possible to go deeply with those few who are interested and, simultaneously, widely to many?

Regarding what makes impactful spiritual art, they concur that artists with great humanity can enter very deeply into the whole human drama with powerful empathy and understanding, and thereby convey what is eternal and universal.