As part of our book club on YouTube, Hans Busstra has made a book review of ‘Answer to Job’ by Carl Gustav Jung. Interviewees: Dr. Hans van den Hooff, Jungian psychoanalyst and Bernardo Kastrup PhD, philosopher and director of the Essentia Foundation. Regarded by Jung as his most important work, […]
Bernardo Kastrup argues why the dichotomy between free will and determinism is false. Watch the entire interview here: https://youtu.be/Nv1OXXfTYfk?si=5gpR6LlbCm1mjoWQ&t=890 In this Q&A, Bernardo Kastrup (Director of the Essentia Foundation) and Hans Busstra delve into the concept of free will through the lens of analytical idealism. Do we truly possess free […]
Sometimes mistakes in physics turn out to be more important than we think. Prof. Bernard Carr explains how Einstein’s idea of the cosmological constant, first thought of as one of his biggest blunders, turned out to be one of his biggest contributions. Watch The Entire Interview: https://youtu.be/pR0etE_OfMY?si=5MxwJrcGpBYFHbyG&t=3017 Copyright © 2023 […]
Could it be a coincidence that two founding fathers of modern day computing, independently from each other, are both coming with theories of consciousness that are idealist in nature? Or does a deep understanding of what computation is—and what it is not—inevitably lead away from physicalist ideas on consciousness? Previously […]
Dr. Pim van Lommel describes how studying Near Death Experiences (NDE’s) completely changed his view on consciousness. Watch the whole video here: https://youtu.be/NVsBFOB7H44?si=nXxUc853JKellju0&t=228 Every week the Essentia Foundation shares selections of the most insightful parts of the longer videos on this channel. In this clip Dr. Pim van Lommel explains […]
Can we turn off our awareness (i.e., conscious metacognition) in meditation and then stay in that state for days without water, food, or going to the bathroom? A recent study by Dr. Ruben Laukkonen on the cessation of awareness in advanced meditation practitioners confirms this. In this interview, Natalia Vorontsova […]
‘Meta Suffering’ is suffering from suffering itself, and that is unnecessary according to philosopher Bernardo Kastrup. He shares this insight by telling about how he reduced suffering in his own life. This video is a clip of a longer video, watch the whole video here: https://youtu.be/DyzHYnOqIoU?si=koMIy4ow-cMvuQeG&t=5876 Every week the Essentia […]
Prof. Dr. Caslav Brukner, Prof. Dr. Renato Renner and Prof. Dr. Eric Cavalcanti just won the Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations. Their different no-go theorems make us reconsider the fundamental nature of reality. Bell’s theorem in quantum mechanics already confronted us with the fact that locality and […]
FULL DOCUMENTARY: https://youtu.be/YxU0ZTt_3YY 00:00 Our Common Ancestor 11:33 A Bacterium at the Nanosecond Scale This is the making of Micronauts, a documentary by director Hans Busstra, which shows the first moving images of the inside of a single bacterium at the molecular level. In this video, we unpack how molecular […]
Inside you there is a largely unexplored universe of 100 trillion bacteria. In this documentary, we embark on a journey into this microcosmos to discover the beauty and complexity of life’s origin at the nanoscale. In 2023 Essentia Foundation’s Hans Busstra created a documentary about bacteria that depicts our common […]
