
More Than Allegory

‘Keep focusing beyond the screen… Stay alert for what might come into focus in that deeper layer of your cognition…’ These were the last words he said that I still heard more or less clearly.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
The tangle is like a Möbius strip, with no start and no finish. Assumptions follow from implications just as easily as the other way around. The only reason this isn’t obvious to you is that you contemplate only a tiny segment of the Möbius strip at any given time. If you were to step back and look at all of it at once, you would see that your cons
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The challenge for you is to achieve greater depth of experience and subtlety of inquiry without killing yourselves or ruining the planet in the process. The living Earth is the reverse side—the symbol—of an expression of curiosity and eros by God. Loss of life on a planetary scale would thus be experienced by God as a hindrance of this expression,
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Life is about depth of experience—how hard you love, how intensely you explore, how sincerely you express yourself—and insight—how deeply you inquire, how discerningly you ask questions. If our culture as a whole truly recognized this, the world would be a very different place.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
‘When I said that reality reflects your beliefs,’ he answered, ‘I didn’t mean the superficial beliefs of your ego, but those held in deeper, obfuscated layers of your cognition.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
We are the vehicles through which God both experiences and understands Itself.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
What could this new facet of the truth be? How could I relate to something I couldn’t grasp analytically? To
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
like bubbles in a fizzy drink.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
Project staff thought I was willing to take too many risks for the sake of the experience. In other words, they thought I had become a bit of a reckless cowboy.