From Capitalist Realism to Anarchist Idealism, Part Five

This is Part Five of an ongoing thought stream. If you want to read it from the start, here are links to Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.

Analytic Idealism

Let’s review what we have discussed so far. We began with a brief survey of Bernardo Kastrup’s philosophy. Kastrup proposes a metaphysical model of “analytic” or monistic idealism: There is only one thing in the universe, and that thing is not matter, but mind. The universe is the projection of an instinctive, unitary consciousness. This consciousness employs matter to reach new levels of self-reflection and creative manifestation. Ultimately, all physical things are like the objects we encounter in dreams, unreal and illusory, created from “mind stuff.” Kastrup bolsters his argument with the experimental results of quantum physics, along with statements from the scientists who made the original discoveries in this field.

Why we can once again have a “hermeneutics of everything”

Individually, we are the dissociated projections of this underlying, unitary consciousness. At death, we are reintegrated back into this primordial source, which, Kastrup proposes, we will experience as an expansion rather than an…