Psychical Research

Postmortem Survival and Analytical Idealism with Bernardo Kastrup (4K Reboot)

New Thinking AllowedSep 1, 2026

Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup argues that analytical idealism allows for the only kind of life after death that truly matters: the survival of our deepest sense of subjectivity, freed from personal identity, much like waking up from a dream. He suggests that at death our memories and even our skills spill into a wider field of mind, where mediums might pick them up, which could explain evidence for survival without requiring the personal ego to persist. Host Jeffrey Mishlove challenges him with famous cases, including a chess game played through a medium, the spirit healer George Chapman, and the Myers cross-correspondences, and Kastrup weighs each with cautious openness.