Pure Being Has No Appearance at All

A man, reflecting on conversations with Bernardo Kastrup, suggests that the brain is what the activity of our finite mind looks like from a second-person perspective. He draws parallels between descriptions of black holes – singularity, collapse of time and space, absence of light – and descriptions of being, and asks if a black hole could represent what being looks like from a second-person perspective. Rupert replies that being doesn’t look like anything from a second-person perspective because, unlike the brain or universe, being itself has no activity to register. He explains that it is only activity that appears as the brain or the universe, while pure being, prior to activity, has no appearance at all. Thus, it couldn’t be perceived or registered by a finite mind.

From event 18 - 25 October, 2024 Seven-Day Retreat at Mercy Center – 18 to 25 October 2024

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