Birth
If Bernardo is correct, your life is a thought in universal mind. Not a mysterious separate mind "out there", but rather the same consciousness looking through your eyes right now, and that of every other living creature.
Whilst all of existence is one great movement of mind, your lives are special kinds of thought - patterns of thought in fact. Swirling around themselves like whirlpools so internally integrated that they each form a unique perspective on all your other thoughts, represented on a dashboard of perception as planets and stars, your neighbour, your cat.
So how are new thought-patterns born? Where do their contents come from? And where do they go when we "die"?
In this meeting Bernardo shares his perspective on birth, death, the ancestors and animal communication.
It was one of the most shamanic in tone whilst remaining tethered to the analytic rigour for which Bernardo is so admired.
I look forward to hearing your reflections. With appreciation!
Amir
We discuss:
- The innate seeds we bring to the world as priors.
- How decisions are born from intuition then rationalised
- A toddler re-enacts their traumatic birth
- Ramanujan's uncanny mathematical intuition and what it reveals about the mind
- Are we remembered by God after we die?
- How Western prayer gets the relationship with God backwards
- On raising children with a sense of mystery, not doctrine