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Since my last post, I got several questions—both on social media and privately—a

Since my last post, I got several questions—both on social media and privately—about what eactly I did to restore the old Mac. Instead of individual replies, I thought I'd just jot down a brief report with plenty of photos: www.thebyteattic.com/2026/08/the-... #Macintosh #retrocomputing #apple

I added a little modern technology to the old Macintosh 128K this weekend, for c

I added a little modern technology to the old Macintosh 128K this weekend, for convenience, so the younger folks at Euclyd can actually bear to try and use this little thing ;-).

Brian Stafford, MD, reflects on his remarkable transition from a successful acad

Brian Stafford, MD, reflects on his remarkable transition from a successful academic career in psychiatry to guiding wilderness-based practices aimed at what he calls an “eco-awakening”: a shift from an ego-centric to an eco-centric mode of consciousness. youtu.be/_Mjx9iqQmXk

This fully-restored little jewel is going to grace the brand-new offices of Eucl

This fully-restored little jewel is going to grace the brand-new offices of Euclyd from September ;-).

Swami Sarvapriyananda on Jay Garfield v Bernardo Kastrup debate

Swami Sarvapriyananda is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order and a scholar of global philosophical lineages. To watch the whole recording: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-swami-sarvapriyanada-bernardo-kastrup-in-conversation/ To sign up for weekly meetings: https://www.withrealityinmind.com

Why it's ok to be lost | Shamil Chandaria

Shamil Chandaria is an advisor to Google's Deep Mind, and a philosopher, neuroscientist and meditation researcher in consciousness studies at Oxford, Cambridge, and Imperial College London.  To watch the whole recording: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/james-hollis-living-your-questions/ To sign up for weekly meetings: https://www.withrealityinmind.com

Through a simple, direct, and very effective thought experiment, Nilsson helps u

Through a simple, direct, and very effective thought experiment, Nilsson helps us develop a very concrete and explicit understanding of where events take place: the realm of mind. He further demonstrates the independence between this realm and space. www.essentiafoundation.org/pinning-down...

The importance of the journey | James Hollis

James Hollis, PhD, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading Jungian analysts and interpreters of Jung’s legacy in our time. Zurich-trained at the C. G. Jung Institute, he is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C., after an earlier career teaching humanities and the history of ideas for 26 years. To watch the whole recording: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/james-hollis-living-your-questions/ To sign up for weekly meetings: https://www.withrealityinmind.com

Patrick Harpur & Bernardo Kastrup Q&A

Patrick Harpur is the leading literary voice on the Daimon. You can learn more about his work via his website: https://www.harpur.org/patrick.htm We are excited to welcome Patrick for another discussion with Bernardo on 13th May. You can sign up to join live as well as accessing all weekly meetings and archive at: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from 2nd September 2025, here: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-patrick-harpur-bernardo-kastrup/

Steven Wolfram claims that the “ruliad,” the space of all possible computational

Steven Wolfram claims that the “ruliad,” the space of all possible computational states in nature, _is_ reality. Here, Proulx argues that the ruliad is best understood under an idealist framework. www.essentiafoundation.org/reality-as-l...

If you use Blogger, beware; this can happen to you too. You can't access the sys

If you use Blogger, beware; this can happen to you too. You can't access the system at all, be it to save a backup or transfer the URL records to another host. It's a sudden nuclear detonation in which you get no say, entirely arbitrary. I advice everyone to get away from Blogger as soon as possible

Google has blocked my website thebyteattic.com (hosted by Blogger) because of al

Google has blocked my website thebyteattic.com (hosted by Blogger) because of alleged malware (!). The block was as arbitrary as the alleged reason for it. I intend to move all my web presence away from Blogger as soon as I get time to deal with it. Apologies for the broken links.

John Vervaeke examines the historical roots of the modern meaning crisis through

John Vervaeke examines the historical roots of the modern meaning crisis through the lens of psychotechnologies: culturally developed mental tools and practices that transform how human beings think, perceive and make sense of reality. youtu.be/wfJ7vZAZrFQ

Sthaneshwar Timalsina | Bernardo Kastrup: Dialogue 14th July 2026

Two great traditions of East and West have arrived at the same conclusion: consciousness is fundamental to reality. Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina is a traditionally trained and authorized lineage-holder within the Sarvāmnāya Order, and a Chaired professor specialising in Hindu Studies and comparative philosophies and religions at Stony Brook University. He founded the Vimarsha Foundation as a global forum for the study and practice of classical tantra. Bernardo Kastrup is leading the modern renaissance of ‘metaphysical idealism’ - the notion that reality is essentially consciousness, based on a

Rupert Spira thought experiment: your being prior to experience

Full discussion at withrealityinmind.com

The great debate in Indian philosophy - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order and a scholar of global philosophical lineages. To watch the whole recording: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-swami-sarvapriyanada-bernardo-kastrup-in-conversation/ To sign up for weekly meetings: https://www.withrealityinmind.com

‘Substance’ does not define existence; structure does. What a thing is cannot be

‘Substance’ does not define existence; structure does. What a thing is cannot be separated from the structure that remains stable as everything else changes. To understand an object is to understand its specific pattern of invariance. www.essentiafoundation.org/how-is-an-el...

The importance of living your questions | James Hollis & Bernardo Kastrup

James Hollis, PhD, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading Jungian analysts and interpreters of Jung’s legacy in our time. Zurich-trained at the C. G. Jung Institute, he is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C., after an earlier career teaching humanities and the history of ideas for 26 years. To watch the whole recording: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/james-hollis-living-your-questions/ To sign up for weekly meetings: https://www.withrealityinmind.com

Do we need the ego? Rupert Spira & Bernardo Kastrup

Full video available to members at withrealityinmind.com Or as a one-off video: https://dandelion.events/e/h2c54

Prof. Cocks recounts the life and ideas of Mary Baker Eddy—a forgotten but found

Prof. Cocks recounts the life and ideas of Mary Baker Eddy—a forgotten but founding figure of the New Thought movement in the 20th century—in particular her gnostic-leaning idealist metaphysics. www.essentiafoundation.org/the-idealism...

Anil Seth, Bernardo Kastrup and Christof Koch discuss the latest insights from p

Anil Seth, Bernardo Kastrup and Christof Koch discuss the latest insights from psychedelic research, as well as their different viewpoints on the epistemic value of psychedelic experiences and what metaphysics these experiences point to. youtu.be/zTqFZwbX3Zc

Buddhist emptiness adds to Hindu Nonduality

Swami Sarvapriyananda is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order and scholar of global philosophical lineages. To watch the whole recording: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-swami-sarvapriyanada-bernardo-kastrup-in-conversation/ To sign up for weekly meetings: https://www.withrealityinmind.com

On the whole technical polemic between LLMs and JEPA/world models, I only have o

On the whole technical polemic between LLMs and JEPA/world models, I only have one thing to say: __language _is_ an embedding__.

The brilliance of Patrick Harpur's contradictory writing

Bernardo introduces us to Patrick's writings, ranging from novels to philosophy, all of which are deeply Daimonic and Alchemical. More information can be found at Patrick's website: https://www.harpur.org/patrick.htm We are excited to welcome Patrick for another discussion with Bernardo on 13th May. You can sign up to join live as well as accessing all weekly meetings and archive at: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from 2nd September 2025, here: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-patrick-harpur-bernardo-kastrup/

The question of reality has proceeded uninterrupted with a search “out there,” o

The question of reality has proceeded uninterrupted with a search “out there,” outside ourselves, but must progress to a search inward towards awareness, argues Adedire. www.essentiafoundation.org/the-urgent-q...

Resistance isn't always egoic - Rupert Spira on activism, dreams & manifestation

We are delighted to welcome Rupert back on 21st July. To sign up and access weekly meetings and archive, please visit: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from the video you have just watched: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-rupert-spira-bernardo-kastrup-the-limits-virtues-of-understanding-awakening/

Rupert Spira: is Bernardo enlightened?

We are delighted to welcome Rupert back on 21st July. To sign up and access weekly meetings & archive, please visit: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from the video you have just watched: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-rupert-spira-bernardo-kastrup-the-limits-virtues-of-understanding-awakening/

Engage with the world or ignore it? Swami Sarvapriyananda & Bernardo Kastrup on East vs West

Full conversation here: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-swami-sarvapriyanada-bernardo-kastrup-in-conversation/ Swami Sarvapriyananda is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order and scholar of global philosophical lineages. To sign up for weekly meetings with Bernardo Kastrup: https://www.withrealityinmind.com

Today we are releasing something that has been cooking in the background for a w

Today we are releasing something that has been cooking in the background for a while: our AI-powered Essentia App! www.essentiafoundation.org/announcing-t...

Swami Sarvapriyananda is one of the world’s leading teachers of Advaita Vedanta.

Swami Sarvapriyananda is one of the world’s leading teachers of Advaita Vedanta. In this conversation with Hans Busstra, he explores the metaphysics of nondualism and why Advaita offers a unique perspective on the problem of suffering. youtu.be/iSoR2Dgowkc

How to induce hallucinations (and what they can teach)

Full discussion here: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/dreams-of-reality/ Right now, your reality might feel solid, certain, and real. But this sense of reality is simply another sense - one that can be hallucinated just like any other. The lesson we can learn from hallucination is not that they are not real, but that we should be suspicious of our state of mind right now. In the meeting we discuss various techniques to induce hallucination, but more importantly, the lessons they teach.

Dreams can represent a deeper aspect of objective reality - Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup answers more questions about the role of dreams in our Q&A Tues 16 of June https://www.withrealityinmind.com/dreams/ This excerpt is taken from the seventh 2025 session of ‘With Reality In Mind’ – a membership programme with weekly Q&As, special guests, video archive and more. Join future sessions to ask your questions to Bernardo and other great guests such as Micheal Levin, with Swami Sarvapriyananda, Rupert Spira, and Patrick Harpur. #dissociation #philosophy #bernardokastrupp #consciousness Video Editing by Kiri Stockman

A clinical neuropsychologist tells us how her ego-dissolution experience led her

A clinical neuropsychologist tells us how her ego-dissolution experience led her to a new perspective on science, the ‘soul,’ and life itself. Psychology and spirituality are, she realized, complementary languages describing the reality of consciousness. www.essentiafoundation.org/the-collapse...

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Why even spiders dream

Next week's Q&A with Bernardo focuses on what we can learn from dreams, and what we learn in them. https://www.withrealityinmind.com/dreams/

Applying ethics of idealism to economics | Jude Currivan & Bernardo Kastrup

You can join the next call with Jude & Bernardo on the 23rd June. To sign up and access weekly meetings and archive, please visit: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from the video you have just watched: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-a-worldview-for-global-change/

Energy crisis of AI: Jude Currivan & Bernardo Kastrup

We are delighted to welcome Jude back on 23rd June. To sign up and access weekly meetings and archive, please visit: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from the video you have just watched: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-a-worldview-for-global-change/

It was a blast! Thanks Anil Seth! #ICPR26

It was a blast! Thanks Anil Seth! #ICPR26

River Kanies argues that the paradoxical nature of psychological archetypes isn’

River Kanies argues that the paradoxical nature of psychological archetypes isn’t contingent, but reflect the very structure of experience: one where irresolvable tension is the impetus to action and the substance of meaning. www.essentiafoundation.org/paradox-as-g...

Revolution in global economy - organisations as living systems | Jude Currivan & Bernardo Kastrup

We are delighted to welcome Jude back on 23rd June. Weekly meetings and archive at https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from the video you have just watched: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-a-worldview-for-global-change/

Guided Meditation with Rupert Spira + Q&A: how do I eliminate the inner voice?

We are delighted to welcome Rupert back on 21st July. To sign up and access weekly meetings and archive, please visit: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from the video you have just watched: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-rupert-spira-bernardo-kastrup-the-limits-virtues-of-understanding-awakening/

David Glowacki is a cross-disciplinary researcher and artist who founded the ‘In

David Glowacki is a cross-disciplinary researcher and artist who founded the ‘Intangible Realities Laboratory’ (IRL) in Spain. In this conversation, Glowacki explains how his Virtual Reality work led him to develop fascinating new visual metaphors for non-duality. youtu.be/r6_VOOe8SMg

Fairies, Daimons & the Soul of the World

Patrick Harpur is the leading literary voice on the Daimon. You can learn more about his work via his website: https://www.harpur.org/patrick.htm We are excited to welcome Patrick for another discussion with Bernardo on 13th May. You can sign up to join live as well as accessing all weekly meetings and archive at: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from 2nd September 2025, here: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-patrick-harpur-bernardo-kastrup/

Determinism does not lead to Fatalism

Patrick Harpur is the leading literary voice on the Daimon. You can learn more about his work via his website: https://www.harpur.org/patrick.htm We are excited to welcome Patrick for another discussion with Bernardo on 13th May. You can sign up to join live as well as accessing all weekly meetings and archive at: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from 2nd September 2025, here: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-patrick-harpur-bernardo-kastrup/

Association is a fundamental principle uniting physics, biology, and mind, Jaros

Association is a fundamental principle uniting physics, biology, and mind, Jarosek suggests. Coherence emerges through the relational act of association itself, which can be seen as the connective tissue not only of meaning, but of reality itself. www.essentiafoundation.org/association-...

David Lloyd discusses the intriguing correspondences and isomorphisms between ph

David Lloyd discusses the intriguing correspondences and isomorphisms between physical laws and the phenomenal flow of mentation. He sees in them more than mere poetic analogy, but a hint pointing to the mental nature and structure of reality. www.essentiafoundation.org/the-supercon...

Bernardo Kastrup & Patrick Harpur discuss their Daimons

Patrick Harpur is the leading literary voice on the Daimon. You can learn more about his work via his website: https://www.harpur.org/patrick.htm We are excited to welcome Patrick for another discussion with Bernardo on 13th May. You can sign up to join live as well as accessing all weekly meetings and archive at: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from 2nd September 2025, here: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-patrick-harpur-bernardo-kastrup/

In 2018, Professor Etzel Cardeña, PhD, published a landmark review paper surveyi

In 2018, Professor Etzel Cardeña, PhD, published a landmark review paper surveying thousands of psi studies in "American Psychologist," one of psychology’s most respected journals. Cardeña’s conclusion is that the cumulative evidence for psi phenomena is strong. youtu.be/5w1lm8UVRSo

Bernardo tries to convince Patrick of his Daimon

Conversation turns towards Bernardo Kastrup's latest release, the Daimon and the Soul of the West, a book which challenged Patrick to reflect on his own life, and inevitably, his Daimon. Patrick Harpur is the leading literary voice on the Daimon. You can learn more about his work via his website: https://www.harpur.org/patrick.htm We are excited to welcome Patrick for another discussion with Bernardo on 13th May. You can sign up to join live as well as accessing all weekly meetings and archive at: https://www.withrealityinmind.com Access to full discussion from 2nd September 2025, here: ht

You did great, what a life. Thank you.

You did great, what a life. Thank you.

Harry Stolting argues that, unlike the human mind, nature automatically excludes

Harry Stolting argues that, unlike the human mind, nature automatically excludes all that is unsustainable within its own natural dynamic. This leads to a mismatch between our inner concepts and the reality where upon we believe we can apply those concepts. www.essentiafoundation.org/systematic-e...

Ishita argues that life, which in a sense can be regarded as a local “violation”

Ishita argues that life, which in a sense can be regarded as a local “violation” of the second law of thermodynamics—the universal tendency towards disorder—, betrays the presence of a universal “prime directive” towards conscious self-knowledge. www.essentiafoundation.org/the-rebellio...

Iain McGilchrist & Bernardo Kastrup hash out their differences on Time

Access to full discussion here: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/iain-mcgilchrist-2/ Weekly meetings and archive: https://www.withrealityinmind.com

This is some careful and well-researched reporting by Bert van Dijk. If you don'

This is some careful and well-researched reporting by Bert van Dijk. If you don't read Dutch, auto-translate usually works very well. You can pass the Paywall by simply giving your name and email address, and read it for free. fd.nl/bedrijfsleve...

This versions plays in the USA as well, not just in Europe: www.cnbc.com/video/2

This versions plays in the USA as well, not just in Europe: www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0... #Euclyd #CNBC #SquawkBox

Euclyd was featured on #CBNC's Squawk Box business show this morning, discussing

Euclyd was featured on #CBNC's Squawk Box business show this morning, discussing the opportunity for European #AI hardware #sovereignty before the end of this decade, and including an interview me. Apologies for my early morning voice. www.youtube.com/live/Cpr35-m... #Euclyd

Michael Pollan is one of the world’s most influential science writers. In his la

Michael Pollan is one of the world’s most influential science writers. In his latest book, he turns to the nature of consciousness. In this interview, Pollan reflects on why he has come to doubt that materialism can fully account for consciousness. youtu.be/8QM5TvdYnb4

Wow, front page, not bad! #Euclyd #AI www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/n...

Wow, front page, not bad! #Euclyd #AI www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/n...

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Imagination vs Fantasy - Iain McGilchrist & Bernardo Kastrup

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Don't let the click-bating title fool you: this video shows precisely why AI is

Don't let the click-bating title fool you: this video shows precisely why AI is NOT a bubble, and why the magnitude of the change that has already happened (let alone that which is still to come) is much higher than our statistics reflect. youtu.be/1zlD0K09IKE?...

Stephen Lester invites us to contemplate the relationship between the seemingly

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...

The limits of science: Physics vs Metaphysics

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Dr. Koch argues that, because AI computers have a structure very reminiscent of

Dr. Koch argues that, because AI computers have a structure very reminiscent of the human cerebellum—which is empirically known not to be involved in human consciousness—we have no reason to expect AI computers to have a conscious inner life of their own. www.essentiafoundation.org/can-ai-be-co...

The biggest misconception about archetypes

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The deep significance of agreement in mathematics

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The Primacy of Subjectivity

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No serious defenders of materialism?

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13 years together today, and still in love! Time goes by in a flash... Photo fro

13 years together today, and still in love! Time goes by in a flash... Photo from 2015. 🎉🎂

Analytic Idealism is Apollonian

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WOWW!!! 🫨😮 -- Prof. Karl Friston is the most cited neuroscientist in the world

WOWW!!! 🫨😮 -- 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

3) ...This is what you get when you elect the deranged village idiot thinking ev

3) ...This is what you get when you elect the deranged village idiot thinking everyone else warning against it is deluded. Now we all pay the price. Great job. The world must decouple completely from the USA. No one can afford that level of insanity and instability.

2) ...it was obvious before his first term, in-your-face obvious at the end of t

2) ...it was obvious before his first term, in-your-face obvious at the end of that term, and ridiculously obvious during the campaign preceding his second term. ...

Essentia Books, our very own in-house imprint, has a number of exciting new and

Essentia Books, our very own in-house imprint, has a number of exciting new and upcoming titles, curated with the same level of care and rigor you've come to expect from our online magazine and videos. See more at: www.collectiveinkbooks.com/essentia-boo...

Moreira invites us into a long meditation on the meaning of digital spaces, and

Moreira invites us into a long meditation on the meaning of digital spaces, and the possibility of finding another in the endless cacophony of simulacra. In the digital void, he argues, kindness is the only bridge that can survive simulation. www.essentiafoundation.org/signals-acro...

Astonishingly beautiful. youtu.be/TTa15jp1WQU?...

Astonishingly beautiful. youtu.be/TTa15jp1WQU?...

Let us celebrate his life and thought. Vielen Dank für alles, Jürgen. www.bbc.co

Let us celebrate his life and thought. Vielen Dank für alles, Jürgen. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bernardo responds to comments on 'seeing without eyes'

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