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# How to follow your daimon
- URL: https://www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-how-to-follow-your-daimon-and-the-importance-of-remembering-you-are-a-monkey/
- Published: 2025-05-27T21:43:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-21T07:14:35.000Z
- Description: And the importance of remembering you are a monkey
- Author: Amir Giles
- Tags: meeting, recording

Recording details 

Date: 27 May 2025

Duration: 2h 12m

Free preview 

Chapters 

0:00:00 Spirituality and following your daimon

0:05:08 Is analytic idealism **theistic or atheistic**?

0:10:35 Why our philosophy cannot contain every truth

0:15:00 What introspection adds to metaphysics

0:20:23 The comfort of mysteries still unexplored

0:25:26 **Spacetime as the mind’s filing system**

0:30:12 After recognising the one, why study the many?

0:35:03 What illusions reveal about reality

0:45:14 Why **understanding can take seconds—and living it years**

0:50:07 Suffering without the added why me?

1:05:28 Knowing it is a game can deepen the experience

1:15:23 **Why keep calling us monkeys?**

1:25:04 Playing your part without controlling the outcome

1:30:39 What does transcendence actually transcend?

1:35:09 Can consciousness know itself without any experience?

1:40:00 God, nature and the limits of the image

1:50:05 **Have your survival strategies hidden your calling?**

1:55:01 Recognising what nature wants to do through you

2:00:03 Your calling need not be one thing forever

2:05:26 The daimon’s call: **meaning without comfort**

In this session we discussed: 

- How to follow your daimon,  
  - (and how even to ignore it can be a moral and heroic life)
- The **biggest misunderstandings about Spinoza**: pantheism vs panentheism = Nature is god, but god is more than nature.
- How to transform **intellectual recognition into lived realisation**
- The importance of **remembering you are a monkey**
- Why we should pay attention to the magic show
- Atheist spirituality

I particularly liked how Bernardo clarified that transcendence only transcends concepts, not being.

Did you have a favorite moment or realisation? Feel free to comment below, email me, or share on telegram!

Recordings, audio and transcript below: 

Speakers 

![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c5/20/c520bbe6-927b-460d-bf38-d4f48d5dc338/content/images/2026/09/Bernardo-Kastrup-profile.jpg) 

Bernardo Kastrup

Analytic idealism

Bernardo Kastrup is the Executive Director of Essentia Foundation and Founder/CEO at AI systems company Euclyd BV. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence).

As a scientist, he has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect’ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). He has also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years, having founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geopolitically significant company ASML. Most recently, he has founded AI company Euclyd BV.

Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured in *Scientific American*, the magazine of *The Institute of Art and Ideas*, the *Blog of the American Philosophical Association* and *Big Think*, among others. His most defining book is *Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century’s only plausible metaphysics.*

[Explore Bernardo’s work →](https://www.bernardokastrup.com/?ref=withrealityinmind.com)