Recordings
2025
Motivations & Aspirations
The different kinds of idealism, the value of suffering, and questions of meaning and purpose
Amir Giles
The Hierarchies of Dissociation
The self, subconscious, and the nature of experience
Amir Giles
Mind at Large vs Universal Consciousness
The physical universe as an abstraction, alters, and momentary vs self-sustaining dissociations
Amir Giles
Frontiers of Thought with Michael Levin & Bernardo Kastrup
Special event raising money for Compassion in World Farming
Amir Giles
The Laws and Habits of Nature
Naturalism, anomalous experiences, and creativity’s source
Amir Giles
The Physical Body, Internal Dissociation & Metacognition
Can we become less dissociated and follow our inner guidance? Is reality a lesson or research lab?
Amir Giles
Dreams & the Hierarchies of the Subconscious
Can dreams be objective? What can they reveal about our “waking life”?
Amir Giles
Death, Near Death Experiences & Reincarnation
What can we learn from near death experiences? What is the nature of death?
Amir Giles
The Purpose of Life & the Meaning of Suffering
What is the connection between suffering and meaning in life?
Amir Giles
What Nature Represents
The symbolism and meaning present in nature
Amir Giles
Quantum Entanglement & the Alchemy of Integralism
Quantum physics, entanglement, & the measurement problem in the idealist framework
Amir Giles
Buddhism, Emptiness & Idealism #1
Can Buddhism and analytical idealism meet in the middle?
Amir Giles
Swami Sarvapriyanada & Bernardo Kastrup in Conversation
Bridging western and eastern approaches to metaphysics, meaning, and more
Amir Giles
Buddhism, Emptiness & Idealism #2
Panel discussion on how Buddhist thought meets analytical idealism
Amir Giles
Mystical, Spiritual & Psychedelic Experiences
What is the common ground between psychedelic and spiritual experiences?
Amir Giles
Rupert Spira & Bernardo Kastrup in conversation
Consciousness, not as something we have, but as something we are
Amir Giles
Idealism on Spiritual Leadership & Ethics
How do we organise and teach spirituality ethically in today’s world?
Amir Giles
How to follow your daimon
And the importance of remembering you are a monkey
Amir Giles
Ethics & living your life to its full
Ethics, determinism, and the moral catastrophe of our time
Amir Giles
Alexey Tolchinsky, Psy.D., and Bernardo Kastrup in conversation
Do things have to get worse before they get better?
Amir Giles
Jung’s “Answer to Job” - on suffering, evil & meaning
The birth of metacognition, morality and meaning
Amir Giles
Idealism will not be televised
A new vision for education, economy, and culture
Amir Giles
Can science & religion be friends?
Spiritual technology, scientific bias, and the fear of death
Amir Giles
Robots will be tools, not tyrants
Agentic AI and what the future holds for humans & AI
Amir Giles
AI - It’s our show
Could AI be a conduit for Mind at Large?
Amir Giles
IIT: A Rosetta Stone for Mind at Large?
Could Integrated Information Theory help us map consciousness?
Amir Giles
Christof Koch and Bernardo Kastrup in conversation
The neural correlates of being the world
Amir Giles
Exceptional human experiences
Telepathy, placebo, and the outer edges of human experience
Amir Giles
We are aliens to ourselves
UPAs, UFOs, and alien encounters
Amir Giles
Jeffrey Kripal and Bernardo Kastrup in conversation
“The Sacred is not the Good” - trauma, revelation, and the impossible
Amir Giles
Life, the ultimate guru
In theme with the launch of Bernardo’s book, “The Daimon and the Soul of the West”
Amir Giles
Patrick Harpur and Bernardo Kastrup in conversation
Subatomic particles, fairies and finding your God
Amir Giles
One journey. Many paths.
The Western Path, the Cosmic Itch, and navigating the forces of nature
Amir Giles
Art & Creativity: Emptiness Dancing
Who is the true author of an artwork?
Amir Giles
Michael Levin and Bernardo Kastrup in conversation
“Hey liver, why do I feel like crap today?” The frontier of biology, computer science and philosophy
Amir Giles
Paying attention to life
Art as the purpose of life and the collapse of opposites on the Western Path
Amir Giles
Dreams, horror and beauty are real
Dr Sthaneshwar Timalsina and Bernardo Kastrup in conversation
Amir Giles
Dashboards, dials and what lies beyond
What perception veils and reveals
Amir Giles
No need to transcend the human experience
Accepting and loving our perceptual dashboards
Amir Giles
All perception is archetypal
Distinguishing between internal states in mind at large
Amir Giles
What makes the body special?
Why life is a unique process in nature
Amir Giles
Could the answer be looking for you?
Michael Levin and Bernardo Kastrup in conversation
Amir Giles
DMT & the nature of reality
Dr Christopher Timmerman and Bernardo Kastrup in conversation
Amir Giles
Live your questions, listen to soul
James Hollis and Bernardo Kastrup in conversation
Amir Giles
Birth, DNA, Disability
Diving into the nature of dissociation when it comes to our bodies
Amir Giles
Is love fundamental? (and is there a plan?)
Does nature have plan, and is love fundamental to it?
Amir Giles
Solstice & the symbols of nature
The power and importance of ritual
Amir Giles
New Year: Reflections, intentions, ritual & soul
Reflection and memory as forms of time travel
Amir Giles
2026
Time is an illusion but meaning is real
Recording 6th January 2026: Q&A with Bernardo Kastrup on Time
Amir Giles
Time & the Crystal of Eternity
Recorded 13th Jan 2026: Bernardo Kastrup on the ultimate Koan
Amir Giles
Consciousness Beyond the Body with Marjorie Woollacott
Recording 20th Jan 2026 Q&A with Marjorie Woolacott
Amir Giles
A Worldview for Global Change
Idealism, cosmology & regenerative economics with Jude Currivan & Bernardo Kastrup 27th January 2026
Amir Giles
Why Bernardo is distressed by the idea of a soul
3rd Feb 2026 - Bernardo Kastrup & Marjorie Woollacott on Near Death, Duality & Seeing without Eyes
Amir Giles
Meaning doesn’t need time, the ego does - with Dr Julia Mossbridge
10th Feb 2026 Bernardo Kastrup & Julia Mossbridge on what time teaches us about reality
Amir Giles
Seeing Without Eyes: The cusp of a major step forward?
18th Feb 2026 Q&A with Bernardo Kastrup on naturalism, empiricism & following your own intuition
Amir Giles
“Western thought has produced some monsters” - Dr Athena Potari on reviving the non-duality of ancient Greece
24th Feb 2026 | Dialogue with Bernardo Kastrup
Amir Giles
“Not one serious defender of materialism left”
On the future & past of idealism, non-human civilisations, ethics, & the place for prayer
Amir Giles
What the shadows reveal..
On Blackholes, Jung & karma
| 12th March 2026
Amir Giles