Author: Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup

About the Author

Bernardo Kastrup is the Executive Director of Essentia Foundation and Founder/CEO at AI systems company Euclyd BV. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, Bernardo's ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the magazine of 'The Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others. His 11th and most defining book is 'Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century's only plausible metaphysics.' His website is www.bernardokastrup.com.

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UFOs – Even More Mysterious Than You’d Think

By Bernardo Kastrup

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 10 No 1 (Feb 2016) Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have fascinated me since early childhood. I’ve spent many a night lying on the deck of my childhood home, staring at the sky […]

The Fairytale of Materialism: How ‘Fundamentalists’ Hijacked Science

By Bernardo Kastrup

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 7 No 5 (Oct 2013) The theme of this special issue of New Dawn Magazine is important in more ways than meet the eye at first. The notion of forbidden ideas in science is […]

Transcending Our Brain Created Reality: A New Call to Lift Nature’s Veil

By Bernardo Kastrup

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 6 No 4 (Aug 2012) The study of non-ordinary states of consciousness is quickly becoming an established area of scientific and philosophical inquiry. Yet, all the enthusiasm about finding out what these non-ordinary states […]