My latest painting!
16x20 acrylic on gallery depth canvas

“Sky Blue”

#art #artistsofbluesky #womeninart #painting #womenartists #horses #sky #expression

The corridors between: What ecology reveals about consciousness Stephen Lester invites us to contemplate the relationship between the seemingly individual self and the world—including other seemingly individual selves—merely as different perspectives within a continuous ecosystem. Ecology has taught us to see the world as an interconnected whole. In much the same way, embodied awareness can teach us that we aren't separate from the world, but instead that the objects we observe are merely other perspectives within the same consciousness we are.

Stephen Lester invites us to contemplate the relationship between the seemingly individual self and the world—including other seemingly individual selves—merely as different perspectives within a continuous, conscious ecosystem.
www.essentiafoundation.org/the-corridor...

A symphony of intuition & reason Keys to a powerful, balanced mind & a new foundation for your life | Q&A 31st May 2026

Perhaps our most personal conversation to date, @bernardokastrup.bsky.social confronts the lived experience of idealism through dream analysis, navigating chronic pain & toxic families even as life bursts forth with its boundless creativity.
www.withrealityinmind.com/living-ideal...

Fresh off the easel!
“Electric Bloom”
18x24” Acrylic/Mixed Media

#artistsofbluesky #flowers #womeninart #graffitiart #art #painting #eastcoastkin #electric #bloom

Does Neuroscience Point To Non-Dualism? | Karl Friston YouTube video by Essentia Foundation

WOWW!!! 🫨😮
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Prof. Karl Friston is the most cited neuroscientist in the world. In this conversation with Hans Busstra, Friston touches on the metaphysics of his theory, which surprisingly points to non-dualism instead of materialism, as widely assumed.
youtu.be/kbs2ozkXGjI

Bernardo Kastrup on the state of the consciousness debate YouTube video by Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

@bernardokastrup.bsky.social discusses the state of the debate on physicalism & consciousness and his predictions for the future

youtu.be/IJtcx8FaoW4

Not sure if this is finished yet. Playing with gesture and warm/cool colours - 72x36 in acrylic -untitled so far lol

#art #abstractart #painting #womeninart #gesture #graffiti

Seeing Without Eyes: The cusp of a major step forward? 18th Feb 2026 Q&A with Bernardo Kastrup on naturalism, empiricism & following your own intuition

Some words from @bernardokastrup.bsky.social on the recent topic - seeing without eyes and the challenge to the naturalism of Analytic Idealism

www.withrealityinmind.com/seeing-witho...

How 20% Of Neurons Separate Us From LLM’s | Integrated Information Theory Explained YouTube video by Essentia Foundation

How is it possible that the cerebellum, which contains roughly 80% of all the neurons in the human brain, can be absent without abolishing consciousness? In this conversation, Jeremiah Hendren unpacks Integrated Information Theory, which answers this fascinating mystery.
youtu.be/7I0DopbNBM0

Quantum Information Panpsychism PART II | Federico Faggin YouTube video by Essentia Foundation

In this conversation with Hans Busstra, the legendary CPU inventor explains his quantum theory of consciousness in more detail and outlines some of his novel ideas, to be presented in his upcoming new book.
youtu.be/cXlxCOoNZ7E

The Carney doctrine Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

Carney's speech is brilliant. Here is a transcript. I suspect we will be feeling some serious pain in Canada shortly from the reaction
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Me neither Bernardo… feel like we are living in an alternate universe

COMING SOON: IAI Live February From the origins of life to the limits of consciousness, from AI to the future of democracy — the world’s biggest questions demand bold new thinking. At IAI.tv, philosophers, scientists, artists, and ...

Michael Levin’s biological robots are defying expectations as he explores the boundaries between the physical and non-physical world. | https://iai.tv/live/science-beyond-the-physical

Join our IAI Live Event on Monday 2nd January to hear Levin discuss his groundbreaking research.

Thought experiment: Universal empathy YouTube video by Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

Keep in mind this is not analytic philosophy. Neither is it a formal argument in an academic paper. It is an informal thought experiment, meant to open some avenues of ideation during an informal conversation, not to constitute a strict, internally-consistent chain of reasoning.
youtu.be/bPYuhR0-VRI

The magic of Fourier: How time and eternity are two facets of the same reality In this remarkably observant essay, Brian Fang shows that the mathematics of the ubiquitous Fourier transform—which ties the words of events and frequencies together—provides a formal grammar for unde...

In this remarkably observant essay, Brian Fang shows that the mathematics of the ubiquitous Fourier transform—which ties the words of events and frequencies together—provides a formal grammar for understanding how temporality is a facet of eternity.
www.essentiafoundation.org/the-magic-of...

THOSE OTHERS We lived at the end of an empire. Sometimes we gathered in huge auditoriums and tried to understand. Our shame did not save us, nor our sadness redeem us, as we came to understand how others, far into the future, would look back at us, shaking their heads: we hoped in sorrow; more likely, anger.

“We lived at the end of an empire.”

Time doesn't exist - Thought experiment #2 with Bernardo Kastrup YouTube video by Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

A thought experiment that allows you to see, for yourself, that everything exists in nothing ;)
youtu.be/r68Jx_MIRVM

Structure & meaning can exist without space or time - Thought Experiment #1 with Bernardo Kastrup YouTube video by Bernardo Kastrup 🇪🇺

I think you'll like this one... It's kinda trippy.
youtu.be/7DI8L5G_VHw

Don’t despair about being a pessimist <p><em>Modern society prizes hope and activism, treating optimism as a moral ideal and pessimism as a flaw. Drawing on Buddhist thought and contemporary philosophy, Nottingham philosopher Ian James Ki...

We’ve been taught to treat optimism as a moral ideal and pessimism as a flaw; but what if it’s a hidden strength? | https://bit.ly/49t1oE9

Philosopher Ian James Kidd challenges this cultural assumption and uses Buddhist thought to explore forms of pessimism that resist despair.

Nobel Committee announces that "A Nobel Prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred" In other words, we're not bending to Donald Trump, and you can't use our prize to kowtow to him.

www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...

Trump says that when it comes to Greenland "we will do it the nice way or the difficult way."
Canada is over being nice. We stand with our allies.

A Worldview for Global Change with Jude Currivan & Bernardo Kastrup Tue 27th Jan 2026, 1pm – 3pm EST (UTC -05:00)

Feeling energized by Jude's brilliant mind and passionate heart in prep for this event with @bernardokastrup.bsky.social - translating recent cosmology science indicating a living universe to inform new ways to do business, global economy & life on this planet

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Psychedelics, Quantum Mechanics and Hyper Reality | Christof Koch & Bernardo Kastrup YouTube video by Essentia Foundation

In this conversation, neuroscientist Dr. Christof Koch, philosopher Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, and Hans Busstra explore what it means to take mystical experience seriously without abandoning scientific rigor.
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NASA Visualizes the Ocean Currents in Motion: A Mesmerizing View of Earth’s Underwater Highways The mesmerizing video above lets you visualize the ocean currents around the world. Using data from spacecraft, buoys, and other measurements, the visualization shows the ocean in motion, with the cur...

NASA Visualizes the Ocean Currents in Motion: A Mesmerizing View of Earth’s Underwater Highways

Time is an illusion but meaning is real Recording 6th January 2026: Q&A with Bernardo Kastrup on Time

Here @bernardokastrup.bsky.social guides two powerful thought experiments which, despite his protestations, place him on a par with any spiritual teacher I've encountered. The conclusion is that everything exists, not in time, not in space, but in you:
www.withrealityinmind.com/the-big-bang...

Same here in Canada, unbelievable 😔

Time Q&A with Bernardo Kastrup 6th January 2026

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know.
If I wish to explain, I know not" - Saint Augustine

This week, we discuss with @bernardokastrup.bsky.social time from the perspective of Analytic Idealism. You can find out more, and join the session via this link:

www.withrealityinmind.com/time/

An Open-Ended Conversation with Bernardo Kastrup YouTube video by New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove

I love open-ended conversations!
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When reality is not out there: Making sense of quantum weirdness The familiar quantum probabilities are not arbitrary. They express the best possible way for a particular perspective to summarize a deeper situation it can never see completely. Each perspective gets...

The familiar quantum probabilities are not arbitrary. They express the best possible way for a particular perspective to summarize a deeper situation it can never see completely. This is how this remarkably accessible essay makes sense of quantum weirdness.
www.essentiafoundation.org/when-reality...