We explore the intersection of quantum nonlocality, monistic idealism, and the contemporary psychedelic movement, including DMT experiences. Today’s cutting-edge ideas and trends provide a compelling framework for revisiting Rudolf Steiner’s esoteric claims. Learn why Steiner’s vision is not only relevant but essential for understanding our interconnected reality.

In our first session, we explore how recent discoveries in quantum physics, psychology, philosophy and other fields provide a new path to understanding and integrating Steiner’s cosmological vision into our postmodern world. Steiner defined himself as a “monistic idealist” who believed we live in a universe where consciousness is the fundamental reality: “Fundamentally, there is nothing in the universe but consciousness… The only true realities in the universe are beings in different states of consciousness.”

In his first book, Philosophy of Freedom, Steiner refuted Kant’s dualism between noumena and phenomena. He proposed a different approach to philosophy, as a creative, imaginative and transformative act. Today, the ideas of monistic or analytic idealism have been advanced and formalized by thinkers like Bernardo Kastrup, Donald Hoffman, and Amit Goswami, among others. We are in an ontological revolution, breaking from the reductive materialism and atheist nihilism of the past centuries, to discover a new connection to the cosmos.

Quantum physics has established the universe is “not locally real,” revealing the primacy of subjective awareness in the shaping of reality. In psychology, Internal Family Systems theorists such as Robert Falconer explore the reality of spirits and spirit possession, beyond the model of “subpersonalities.” Professor Ian Stevenson from the University of Virginia compiled evidence for reincarnation, studying hundreds of children around the world who spontaneously recalled their past lives. Rupert Sheldrake’s morphogenetic field theory gives us a way to approach to local knowledge systems and occult realities.