In this interview, Dr. Philip Cozzolino talks about his research and methods for dealing with fear of death. He also delves into intriguing reincarnation-like cases and past-life memories in children, and the metaphysical implications of his research. youtu.be/DsLOKqS7rT4

Dr. Colborn argues that, perhaps surprisingly, the worldview of the technology elite is shifting from fundamentalist materialism to a form of apocalypticism that echoes fundamentalist Christianity and risks demeaning humanity. essentiafoundation.org/open-worldview…

Hans Busstra and Dr. Lídia del Rio talk to Dr. Matthew Leifer about e.g. the ‘Bell-Wigner mashups’: thought-experiments that entangle different observers to arrive at the disturbing consequence that there is no ‘absoluteness of facts’ for all observers. youtu.be/w1K6LDpF7mA

Does Analytic Idealism limit the scope of its own conclusions and implications because of its adoption of realist, empirically-focused, scientific concepts and argument structures? Dr. Grego argues precisely so in this critical essay. essentiafoundation.org/analytic-ideal…

What can the experiences of those who returned from NDEs tell us about justice, morality, meaning, and existential angst? Arthur Haswell invites us to contemplate these questions without metaphysical prejudice. essentiafoundation.org/ndes-and-exist…

Materialist assumptions often ignore or dismiss the role of consciousness in shaping brain activity itself, argues Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Christophe Morin. Neuroplasticity forces us to reconsider this oversight. essentiafoundation.org/psychedelics-t…

Every now and then a remarkable idea graces the pages of this online magazine. This is one of such occasions. Here, Dr. Lehner discusses a fascinating account of the intrinsic contradictions and absurdities of the human unconscious. essentiafoundation.org/understanding-…

In this interview, Dr. David Acunzo, from the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, talks with Natalia Vorontsova about his experimental research on hypnosis and anomalous psi phenomena. essentiafoundation.org/reproducing-an…

This one comes with a big reveal! Robert Lawrence Kuhn, creator and host of the renowned documentary series “Closer to Truth," has been careful to remain neutral in his published work. But here he shares which theories of consciousness he finds plausible. youtu.be/h5G6Oc_V3Lw?si…

Essentia Foundation asked Closer to Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn to share his personal ideas and insights into consciousness studies in this illuminating interview youtube.com/watch?v=h5G6Oc…

Moreira argues that Camus made a crucial mistake: in revolting against an absurd world, he wasted his emotions on a rock. What sustains us is not proud intellectual faith against absurdity, but the humility and vulnerability of doubt and uncertainty. essentiafoundation.org/the-myth-of-he…

Physicist and neuroscientist Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín delivered a strikingly activist speech at the Science of Consciousness Conference. He argued that we are now in a war on consciousness, with materialism and trans-humanism forming a dangerous cocktail. essentiafoundation.org/neuroscientist…

While Prof. Torday agrees that quantum mechanics is salient to consciousness, he maintains that the the cell membrane is key to the selective assimilation of the quantum properties of the cosmos into the differentiated consciousness of the organism. essentiafoundation.org/the-cell-membr…

Physicist and physician Dr. Anita Goel has designed the equivalent of the double slit experiment in a living system, to test if the nanomachines that read and write DNA could operate quantum mechanically. essentiafoundation.org/what-if-the-mo…

In this thought experiment mixed with science fiction and serious futurism, eminent neuroscientist Dr. Christof Koch sketches a not-so-distant future in which we will be tempted by the promise of eternal life in an AI cloud. essentiafoundation.org/an-unfelt-surp…

What even IS reality? In this mind-expanding episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, Dr. Bernardo Kastrup (Executive Director of the Essentia Foundation: Essentia Foundation, CEO of AI company Euclyd B.V., and the leading voice behind the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism)

What if you are a pixel in a higher-level consciousness navigating through extra dimensions of time? Meet the ‘Nested Observer Window Model’ of Jonathan Schooler, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences UCSB. essentiafoundation.org/12750-2/seeing/

David Lloyd invites us to see form as an expression of feeling, a notion whereby the physical world becomes the geometric expression of inner emotion, carrying—or, better yet, mirroring—in its patterns the qualitative structures of feeling. essentiafoundation.org/the-geometry-o…

In this remarkably Schopenhauerian essay, Arthur Haswell argues that a world where consciousness is fundamental may still be a world of suffering; even fundamental suffering. essentiafoundation.org/is-ours-a-worl…

We did it, and it was a blast! Our invitation-only 2025 conference may have been a seminal moment, a first step on the road to science's first predictive theory of the noumena. Thanks everyone for participating and contributing so much! #EssentiaFoundation #engelbergswitzerland