Test your philosophy in the lab of life: Francis Lucille & Bernardo Kastrup
Recorded Oct 2026. Join weekly meetings with Bernardo: withrealtyinmind.com More on Francis Lucille https://francislucille.com/ FRANCIS LUCILLE studied mathematics and physics at the École Polytechnique in Paris. After graduating, he worked on missile testing for the French armed forces, but ceased all weapons-related work after discovering the writings of J. Krishnamurti. That encounter began an intense search into the nature of reality, which found its resolution shortly after meeting Advaita Vedanta teacher Jean Klein in 1975. Francis remained a close student and friend until Klein's death in 1998. Francis teaches internationally, bringing together the precision of his scientific background with a direct investigation of consciousness and experience. He has also translated works by Eastern and Western sages, including Meister Eckhart, Shankara and Parmenides. BERNARDO KASTRUP is the Executive Director of Essentia Foundation and Founder/CEO at AI systems company Euclyd BV. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, he has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect’ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). He has also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years, having founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geopolitically significant company ASML. Most recently, he has founded AI company Euclyd BV. Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured in Scientific American, the magazine of The Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think, among others. His most defining book is Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century’s only plausible metaphysics.
