title: Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to life, the Universe, and Everything
author:  Bernardo Kastrup 
description: Bernardo Kastrup's book is another nail in the coffin of the superstition of materialism. With elegant clarity he explains that mind, brain &amp; cosmos are what consciousness does.<br />-- Deepak Chopra, M.D., best-selling author<br /><br />It's important that this message is widely disseminated.<br />-- Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., author of Science Set Free / The Science Delusion<br /><br />
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  Who are
  
  the children of
  
  the Matrix?
  
  WE ARE
  
  "Ridicule
  
  is
  
  the
  
  tribute
  
  that
  
  mediocrity
  
  pays
  
  to
  
  genius.
  
  Anon.
  
  "All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed.
  
  Then
  
  it
  
  is
  
  violently
  
  opposed.
  
  Finally
  
  it
  
  is
  
  accepted
  
  as
  
  self-evident."
  
  Schoepenhouer
  
  "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will
  pick himself up and continue on."
  
  Winston Churchil
  
  "When
  
  they
  
  think
  
  they
  
  know
  
  the
  
  answers,
  
  people
  
  are
  
  difficult to guide. When they know they don't know, people can find their own
  way."
  
  Tao Te Ching
  
  "Life can take many forms. Look at the forms life can take on this planet
  alone. Here in this bush, there are insects you could easily mistake for rocks
  or for pieces of bark - until one of them stings you, that is. Life does not
  have to consist of bipeds who move and breath and smoke cigars as we do. I
  have said it before and 1 say it again - the universe is a gigantic
  
  chamber
  
  of
  
  possibility
  
  wher