Materialism

We live in an observable, measurable world; one built of the smallest bits of matter. And so we live our lives thinking for the most part, that this is the reality of everything- that the only thing that matters, is matter. Yet for a dominant social paradigm, Materialism & Physicalism has a hard time with a few things, especially those things which is says doesn’t exist because it cannot explain it. In this episode of What Magic is This? we take a page out of the Materialism rulebook and start to take it apart, bit by bit.

Show Notes

• An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem by Bernardo Kastrup
• Why Materialism is False and Why it has Nothing to do with the Mind by William Jaworski
• What is Materialism
• Ajita Kesakambali – Kinjal is bang-on, there were certainly antecedents to Greek ideas of Materialism
• Neuromania!
• Neurophilosophy vs. Neuromania
• The Credit Crunch for Materialism and Liberating Science from Pervading Materialism by Rupert Sheldrake
• No One can Explain why Planes stay in the Air
• Panpsychism and Alfred North Whitehead
• Interview with Jeffrey Kripal
• Is the Universe a Conscious Mind?
• A Conscious Universe – Pansychism vs Idealism
• The Universal Mind – Pansychism vs Idealism
• Where is My Mind? Podcast by Mark Gober – A lovely podcast about Idealism
• The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science & Spirit Together by Charles Tart
• Duke University Researchers say Every Brain Activity Study you’ve ever read is Wrong
• Postgenomic Era
• How Darwinism sucked the True Power out of Biology
• The Ontological Turn
• A Visible Spirit Form in Zambia by Edith Turner
• Most Scientists can’t replicate studies by their peers
• A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal by Terje Simonsen
• Leading Theory of Consciousness Rocked by oddball Study
• Case for Axion Origin of Dark Matter Gains Traction – remains to be seen
• The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality
• Mind at Large – Aldous Huxley’s Filter Hypothesis
• Biological Dark Matter
• Possibilianism

Heroes

• The Flip and Secret Body by Jeffrey Kripal. But you should read everything he has and will write
• Bernardo Kastrup. Fantastic mind and all his books are excellent. Particularly Why Materialism is Baloney
• Irreducible Mind and Beyond Physicalism – These books are amazing. Can’t say enough about them or recommend them enough
• David Eagleman – Everything is possible
• Rupert Sheldrake
• Living With a Wild God by Barbara Ehrenreich – Wonderful book
• Purpose and Desire by J. Scott Turner – Fantastic book and much to ponder here
• 13 Things that Don’t Make Sense by Michael Brooks. A casual but comprehensive look at the things that perplex us still
• Time Loops by Eric Wargo
• Skeptiko Podcast
• Dr. Dean Radin – The man does great work
• Quantum Enigma by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner – Probably the best book to get some kind of grip on Quantum Physics
• Philip Goff
• Science and Psychic Phenomena by Chris Carter – I adore this book. Highly Recommended
• Surviving Death by Leslie Kean
• The Restless Clock by Jessica Riskin – Brilliant Book. It really is. For a short summary, here’s Jessica talking about her book
• Definitely Maybe by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky – So good