Essentia Foundation

Materialist assumptions often ignore or dismiss the role of consciousness in shaping brain activity itself, argues Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Christophe Morin. Neuroplasticity forces us to reconsider this oversight. essentiafoundation.org/psychedelics-t…

What can the experiences of those who returned from NDEs tell us about justice, morality, meaning, and existential angst? Arthur Haswell invites us to contemplate these questions without metaphysical prejudice. essentiafoundation.org/ndes-and-exist…

Does Analytic Idealism limit the scope of its own conclusions and implications because of its adoption of realist, empirically-focused, scientific concepts and argument structures? Dr. Grego argues precisely so in this critical essay. essentiafoundation.org/analytic-ideal…

Hans Busstra and Dr. Lídia del Rio talk to Dr. Matthew Leifer about e.g. the ‘Bell-Wigner mashups’: thought-experiments that entangle different observers to arrive at the disturbing consequence that there is no ‘absoluteness of facts’ for all observers. youtu.be/w1K6LDpF7mA

Dr. Colborn argues that, perhaps surprisingly, the worldview of the technology elite is shifting from fundamentalist materialism to a form of apocalypticism that echoes fundamentalist Christianity and risks demeaning humanity. essentiafoundation.org/open-worldview…

In this interview, Dr. Philip Cozzolino talks about his research and methods for dealing with fear of death. He also delves into intriguing reincarnation-like cases and past-life memories in children, and the metaphysical implications of his research. youtu.be/DsLOKqS7rT4

In this very personal, poignant essay, Moreira argues that our most primal fear isn’t death, but solitude. As he says, “A child does not cry because she understands mortality. She cries because no one comes.” Moreira is redefining Existentialism. essentiafoundation.org/meaning-is-not…

Dr. David Schmid, Dr. Lídia Del Rio and Hans Busstra explore a metaphysical shift that’s happening in the foundations of physics: the wave function is no longer regarded as something real, but just as a description of what we know about the world. youtu.be/SgQdDD3SY84

The jealous and alienating gnostic Demiurge, a certain mode of attending to the world described by Heidegger, and Iain McGilchrist’s characterisation of the brain’s left-hemisphere, all share remarkable similarities, according to Arthur Haswell. essentiafoundation.org/the-demiurge-i…

What if phenomenal consciousness, signs, communication, and interpretation are fundamental aspects of all living systems? In this conversation, Hans Busstra talks to philosopher Dr. Yogi Hendlin about widespread meaning-making in nature. youtu.be/6hHRtu8Y2sM

Important read alert! Introducing Relational Quantum Dynamics (RQD), a further development of Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM). RQD circumvents the infinite regress inherent to RQM by proposing that all relations arise within a field awareness. essentiafoundation.org/relational-qua…

Have you ever had 'strange' experiences as a child? Ever wondered what children's experiences can tell us about who we are? @EssentiaFounda1 collectiveinkbooks.com/essentia-books…

Hans Busstra talks to Dr. Bernardo Kastrup about the works of Professor Michael Levin and Dr. Christof Koch. Though Levin and Koch make no explicit metaphysical claims in their work, their empirical findings and views are in line with analytic idealism. youtu.be/UUg1uYMq8vs

“If experience is all I have, I may be alone—but the essential emotional necessity of the other demands that I live as if I am not,” argues Dr. Moreira. He embodies a long-overdue reemergence of existentialist thought, in 21st century terms. essentiafoundation.org/reaching-acros…

Dr. Edward Kelly, a professor of experimental psychology, talks about his many years of study of a variety of psi and anomalous phenomena. In this interview, he candidly shares how phenomenological evidence has led him to re-examine his metaphysical views. youtu.be/_KuIugPiHk0

An intriguing read that we at Essentia Books would encourage you to peruse: collectiveinkbooks.com/essentia-books…

A very insightful read! Fredric Nord argues that knowing reality through language is fundamentally and inescapably a misunderstanding of reality. We misunderstand what language actually does and, thereby, misunderstand what life is. essentiafoundation.org/not-even-langu…

Physicist Dr. Lídia Del Rio, Essentia Foundation’s Research Fellow at the University of Zürich, explains to Hans Busstra one of the strangest quantum conundra confronting the foundations of physics: the Frauchiger-Renner (FR) thought experiment. youtu.be/v7kxWT_zI60

Dr. Dolezal invites us to consider the uncanny similarities between the ancient stories of creation, across many religious and philosophical traditions, and how the human imagination, when prompted or triggered by words, creates entire universes. essentiafoundation.org/how-imaginatio…

Hans Busstra interviews theoretical physicist and complexity scientist James Glattfelder, who makes a plea for ‘syncretic idealism’: a synthesis ancient idealist texts and mystical experiences with physics, complexity science and analytic idealism. youtu.be/RgpABHt2B7I