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What if consciousness isn't just something that emerges — but the foundation of everything? In this powerful reflection, David Bentley Hart explores a third way beyond materialism and dualism: a worldview where mind is the ground of being. Drawing from Eastern and Western traditions, he challenges the modern vision of reality and asks what changes — ethically, spiritually, even ecologically — when we start seeing the world as alive, sacred, and intelligent at its core.

David Bentley Hart is a scholar with wide-ranging interests in philosophy, theology, religions, and culture. He is the author of hundreds of literary essays and more than twenty books. Our conversation today focuses on two in particular; the first is The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss; and the second is David’s most recent work entitled All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life. This book is playfully written in the form of a Platonic dialogue in which the characters explore questions of ultimate reality. David is also an avid fan of baseball, a subject that he eloquently praises in his popular essay “A Perfect Game.”

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