Wolfgang Smith: Beyond Non-Dualism and Materialism

Wolfgang Smith and Curt Jaimungal examine the limits of non‑dualism and materialist worldviews, arguing for a deeper metaphysical framework that integrates wisdom traditions with modern science. They trace the origins of wisdom, discuss the measurement problem as a clue to a greater reality, and explore vertical causation across physical and corporeal realms.

- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:04:00 - The true origins of wisdom
- 00:05:06 - Enlightenment: To slaughter the Moral
- 00:10:00 - Disillusion is masked as education
- 00:14:20 - Measurement problem is the hint toward a greater reality
- 00:22:50 - Vertical causation (the Physical and Corporeal Realms)
- 00:33:34 - The cosmos is divided into three planes
- 00:44:28 - Geometry and Yogi ascension
- 00:53:12 - A Vedic Fakir and first-hand telepathy
- 01:15:00 - Heisenberg, Aristotle, and Plato
- 01:23:49 - "Science is unwholesome and blind"
- 01:41:29 - From atheism to taking religion seriously
- 01:48:45 - Vedic vs. Christian union with God
- 02:23:19 - Philos Sophia foundation and multiplicity within God
- 01:40:10 - All that matters is esoteric and exoteric
- 02:53:00 - Ascension has lost its societal support
- 03:05:09 - The sacred in man and woman
- 03:15:15 - Lunacy as misframed wisdom (debating Jung)
- 03:32:46 - "Evolution is the pseudo-religious credor of our civilization"
- 03:44:37 - Determinism cannot craft what we know to be life
- 03:52:07 - "Being has nothing to do with process ontology"
- 04:01:47 - Wolfgang and Curt bond
- 04:03:37 - Upcoming announcements with Wolfram, Chalmers, and Goertzel

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