Exceptional human experiences

In this session we turn our attention to the outer edges of the human experience—those capacities, states, and phenomena often dismissed as fringe, yet increasingly supported by both data and first-person accounts.

Could analytic idealism offer a more coherent framework for understanding human potential than mainstream physicalist science has traditionally allowed? Not “potential” in the conventional sense of success or performance, but in reference to latent capacities. Some are seemingly anomalous, others are simply underexplored, denied or even suppressed.

From extrasensory perception to spontaneous healing, telepathy to precognition, savant syndrome to remote viewing, we’ll explore the possibility that these are not aberrations, but clues to a deeper structure of mind and nature.

Bernardo has spoken before about psi phenomena and ESP as legitimate subjects of inquiry—not because they fit neatly within our current categories, but precisely because they challenge the metaphysical assumptions of materialism. Analytic idealism provides an ontological space where such phenomena are not only possible, but perhaps expected.

What, then, is the relationship between our perceptual “dashboard” and the latent capacities of human consciousness? To what extent does our interpretation of reality limit what we express, experience, or become? Are we constrained by cultural and cognitive inertia—missing the non-linear leaps that Mind-at-Large may be inviting us to take?

How might analytic idealism shift our sense of what it means to be human, what consciousness is for, and what it might become? What does the resurgence of interest in these themes reveal about the current zeitgeist?

Thanks Fawn Miller for suggesting this theme.

As always, your related questions and comments are welcome below, and will help shape the discussion.

6-8pm UK time / 7-9pm CET / 1-3pm EST