The Essentia Foundation’s origin story is the story of Dutch entrepreneur and humanitarian Fred Matser meeting philosopher Bernardo Kastrup. In this video, Hans Busstra narrates how the meeting of these two men stands for the connection between heart and mind. For Fred Matser, embracing the worldview of idealism has always […]
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 […]
Part 10 of Essentia Foundation’s and Keytoe Academy’s joint course on analytic idealism and its implications.
Part 9 of Essentia Foundation’s and Keytoe Academy’s joint course on analytic idealism and its implications.
Read these 10 books and it will be very hard to still believe in a fundamentally physical universe. Essentia is starting its own book club on YouTube! In a series of videos, we will discuss 20th-century must reads by authors like Carl Gustav Jung, Noam Chomsky and Thomas Kuhn, to […]
Two giants of science and technology—Nobel Laureate in physics, Sir Roger Penrose, and inventor of the microprocessor, Federico Faggin—meet to discuss their ideas on the relationship between Quantum Physics and consciousness, with the special participation of our own Bernardo Kastrup. While always respectful and congenial, the participants don’t shy away […]
