04/02/2025

Sunny meditation

Philosopher and essayist Juan Arnau presents his latest book Sunny meditation along with fellow philosopher José Luis Villacañas, poet Marifé Santiago and actress and playwright Irina Kouberskaya.

Sunlit meditation is a vision and a way of being in the world. It stems from the idea that the cosmos is an extended mind and matter a mental experience. The mind here is not the brain, but the experience of perception, memory, desire, and language. These are the four components of the world for the radical empiricist. All inquiry begins now, when one perceives, remembers, and desires, through an inherited language that helps one understand one's identity. Radical empiricism distances itself from any kind of genealogy or explanation of the causes that have brought us here (big bangs, Neolithic periods, karmas, or DNA). It accepts the fact that we are an arrow in motion and tries to elucidate where we are headed.

Sunlit meditation is mental culture. It offers methods and strategies for orienting oneself within and navigating the world's mind. This book is a pocket-sized metaphysics, a synthesis of years of research drawing on the Pre-Socratics, phenomenology, Sufism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and the philosophy of science.

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Date:
04.02.2025
Opening hours:
19:30h
Conference room:
Boardroom
Price:
Free entry until complete seats
Organized by:

Gutenberg Galaxy
Círculo de Bellas Artes