Greetings from

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

And if you are in the mood for some ideas that are going to stretch your mind a little bit,

well, then you're in the right place.

At the close of my previous podcast, I recommended that you listen to a brief presentation

that Bernardo Castro gave at one of Deepak Chopra's conferences last year,

because it tied directly to what Rack was saying in his Palenque Norte talk.

Now, today we get to listen to a presentation that Bernardo has done specifically for us here in the salon.

As it turns out, he's one of our fellow saloners, and

after we exchanged a few emails, he offered to create a presentation specifically for the salon,

and we're about to listen to it now. But first let me tell you a little something about Bernardo

Castro. He has a PhD in computer engineering

and has worked as a scientist

in some of the world's foremost research laboratories,

including the Phillips Research Laboratories and CERN.

He has authored many scientific papers

and four philosophy books,

titled Rationalist Spirituality,

Dreamed Up Reality, Meaning in Absurdity,

and Why Materialism is Bologna, which is a grand synthesis of his metaphysical views, and it's the basis for the talk that we're about to listen to.

Bernardo has lived and worked in four different countries across continents,

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