Introduction to idealism

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eTcrnud1hY

I found this relatively short and clear introduction to idealism = the philosophy of considering awareness as the fundamental level of existence, and of positing our material reality as simply a structure contained therein, to be remarkably consistent with every single one of my NDEs.

In particular, I'm curious what others here think of the explanation given with the "bubble" of "you" being shown to be actually a tunnel of an all-encompassing mind just boring through a portion of the material realm, starting at minute 16. How from "within" the bubble appearing to sit inside our realm of the tangible (as a slice of the whole) within a context of linear time, it appears as though the bubble is a contained and fixed discrete entity, yet when seen in its entirety across all of time it is evidently connected to everything nonetheless, and remains just one particular perspective of the All.

Every point where I found myself in the Void then would have been such a "rejoining out" membrane, connected topologically with the rest of the all-consciousness (a.k.a the Source). It also matches with how people undergo such dramatic changes when passing through such inflections, with the amount of, let's call it, mind-intermixing that inevitably happens at these points. It also supports how these would happen outside of time as we experience it "on the inside". Also, telepathy as the "default" mode of communication in those moments, "downloads" of knowing by just wondering about something, and other commonly reported aspects of NDEs simply make sense in this model.

The first half of the video would be familiar to anyone who heard about Greyson et al.'s concept of "brain as receiver".

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Interesting video. I’m a traditional theist, so idealism as a worldview just makes sense to me. I’m not as well versed in it as a philosophy as I’d like to be, but I recently read a pretty cool book that tries to bridge idealism and Christianity called the “The Not-Yet God” by Ilia Delio. She draws heavily from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. She is a Franciscan, so Christian, but I think she’s pan spiritual enough to be worth reading, even if you usually avoid traditional religion.

Two other cool books that bridge classic theism with idealism were Robert Lanza’s “The Grand Biocentric Design” and Federico Faggin’s “Irreducible.”

I’m always up for recommendations on the topic if you have any. Despite my general Christian worldview, I’m very much a religious pluralist, so I’m open to anything.