Vajra Clarity of Bernardo’s “Kastruping” Mind: A Tantric Rejoinder to Energy Humanities and Analytic Idealism
摘要
“Materialism is baloney,” declares Bernardo Kastrup, a thinker of the most ageless kind who is capable of shining light on the roots of our being; hence, radical. With two PhDs, in computer engineering and philosophy of mind, his is a formidable intellect to contend with, and yet he also declares Bernardo Kastrup does not exist and is merely a process, a Kastruping. In dialogue with Swamy Sarvapriyananda, a master nondualist, or Igor Kufayev, a Shaiva Tantric guru, Kastrup sounds like a Upanishadic Rishi who experiences pure consciousness and declares, “I am that.” He is a maestro with the clarity of mind that I have only glimpsed in Tantric circles, Buddhist, and Hinduist. This paper will examine his views from a Shakta and Vajrayana Tantric perspective to add an Indic flavor for the introspective mind to taste as it finds ways to stop the plasticization of our planet under the Anthropocene.