Bernardo Kastrup

We have become lost in a dense fog of unreal suppositions, taken for granted without critical thought. It is time we woke up to what is truly real: to our immediate experience of reality. It is time we realized that the models of physics inform us not about a reality ‘out there,’ but about ourselves; about how our deeper mind – our collective, shared, non-egoic mind – flows according to certain patterns and regularities

Now, notice that solipsism entails the acknowledgement of statement 1 of the previous section and the rejection of statements 2, 3, and 4. Therefore, it is not idealism. Idealism grants reality to statement 2. ‘Why?’ I hear you ask. After all, if we are already following this road of radical skepticism anyway, why grant reality to statement 2? Because believing in statement 2 is the simplest explanation for observations. As discussed earlier, I can explain much of my own external behavior to myself by the fact that I am conscious, and so can you.

When I say that everything is in mind I am saying that things exist only insofar as they play themselves out in the mind of a conscious observer. For instance, when you dream at night, everything in your dream exists only insofar as it is in your mind. The stuff in your dreams clearly does not have an independent existence outside your mind.