Giordano Bruno

[hkurtblache]

-totally agree-progress of knowledge depends on the best individual thinking!

-Bruno's space/time/reality made no allowance for any thinking that put in question the so called knowledge of the day! I personally fragments of the same type of thinking that burned Bruno haunts individual modern psyche's

[Ettenyl56]

Bruno, like Hypatia, was one of the many independent thinkers outside of the herd mentality. Bruno also stated that each star was a sun like our own with revolving planets inhabited by sentient intelligent beings. Modern cosmologists are confirming the discovery of extra-solar planets daily. The fact that we are not alone in the universe is only a logical conclusion given that it would be the height of human arrogance to assume otherwise.

[1umbnonearth]

Bruno seems like he was a time traveller. Maybe his time machine broke LOL!

Definently appears that he should have lived in mordern times. Poor like had to live with such ignorance in his time...very sad...

[SpencerFamily1]

Geat info, but work on presentation. A face on a black bckground though? Try adding some pics, with your presentation. Im certainly glad to see someone young interested in Bruno.

[cryingsoftly]

Bruno also got in trouble for his views on Jesus.

[anonimoromano72]

Giordano Bruno: Che mortificazione chiedere al potere di riformare se stesso.

[Tubularider]

Great video! Do you know who is the artist that made the picture at the beginning of the video, and the name of the picture itself?

[ewoudvr]

that's a detail of a painting by the surrealist painter leonora carrington.

[pgm98387]

Thanks.

A historical figure rarely mentioned. I have to disagree that his ideas have been contradicted by modern science though.

[dannyzerozerozero]

"Giordano Bruno executed in the campo dei Fiori in Rome. It's often assumed that Bruno was burned at the stake by the church for championing the modern, scientific view that the earth revolves around the sun. In fact it was his esoteric views that really frightened the Church. His experiences of the spirit worlds led him to claim that there are an infinity of interlocking universes and dimensions. He Invoked the authority of the 'Pythagorean poet,' Virgil to back up his belief that the human

[dannyzerozerozero]

spirit could travel between these universes, but would eventually 'desire to return to the body in accordance with the laws of reincarnation."

^

Was reading this book from Mark Booth: The Secret History of the World. Decided to search for some vids. on here.

[AugustusAurelianus]

Beyond the horrendous crime of a MURDEROUS catholic church, which was capable of so many heinous crimes against inocent, brillant people for their advanced, noble ideals, BEYOND the fact that such crime against BRUNO was the worse which any primitive Mythological institution could have done... Beyond all of its many crimes, LIES AN INSULT to BRUNO's MEMORY and to our DIGINITY when the catholic MURDERERS had the audacity to CANONIZE, in 1930, the MONSTER who tortured Bruno: Caridnal Belarmino

[cardellacole2]

i do believe there is a centre of the universe its called , attention

[CaptainCrunch80]

Let wrong ideas die, before people must die for these wrong ideas.

[DancingSpiderman]

RIP, Saint Giordano Bruno, a man just 12 years plus several centuries ahead of his time.

[faunflynn]

The roots of Gnosticism loom large here !

Good post.

[zoroasthra]

today we calebrated his memory.

[alien8ted]

On this day (17th February) in 1600 the Roman Inquisition burned Bruno alive for daring to challenge their superstition. If christians get sufficient power, they will start the burnings again, as they cannot win any arguments about reality. Never let yourself pass up a chance to fuck a theist over.

[salvatoreadamo7]

@alien8ted sin embargo la informacion de giordano bruno estuvo mal informada en internet, ya que se trataba de un loco, que cambiaba de pensamiento costantemente, no de pensamiento, se contardecias constantemente pasandose del catolicismo al calvinismo, finalmente fue condenado a la hoguera proque fue entre a LAS AUTORIDADES CIVILES, no la inquisicion, y fue condenado por las autoridades CIVILES POR ESTAFADOR. se debe revisar las fuentes escritas originales sobre su biografia.

[thejubebox]

yeah i saw his photographic memory demonstration on iqrenaissance. com

[cinnamonbrandylite]

He didn't have a photographic memory. He had been trained in the classical memory system of Simonides of Keos, which allows you to mimic photographic memory. The memory system he created makes it pretty clear that his own modality was more complex - rooted in words and numbers.

h.

[bmihalj]

very informative video. I have great respect for Giordano Bruno, for me he was prophet of God as Swedenborg, Lorber etc...

[debswildhoney]

I like this perspective and admire heros that "rage against the machine". Great homework.

[Censeo]

Giordano Bruno and Matt look a little alike too. =D

Did Copernicus believe the sun was the center of the whole universe?

[tmafkap]

Methinks it's ridiculous (and as well quite revealing) that "occultism" is still shunned. Most people that started what now became modern science were occulstists...

[3rdWorldCrusader]

"Most people that started what now became modern science were occulstists..."

While the occult informed Newton's view of the universe, his experiments did not use occult/magickal props.

[tmafkap]

Depends on what is called "occult/magickal props"... the stereotypes most people expect when they hear words like "occult" or "magick" or the stuff used by real occultists. And as so often there is a big difference between common fantasy (stereotypes) about something and the real thing.

[3rdWorldCrusader]

Okay.

[Mario10016]

The numerous charges against Bruno, included blasphemy, immoral conduct, and heresy in matters of dogmatic theology, and involved some of the basic doctrines of his philosophy and cosmology. Claiming the existence of a plurality of worlds and their eternity.

Believing in metempsychosis and in the transmigration of the human soul into brutes.

Dealing in magics and divination.

Denying the Virginity of Mary....as per wikipedia

[SpeedBlade123]

CHURCHES are evil and.....

[MENCADO]

Kinda makes one glad to be alive in 2008 rather than 1600, no?

[jonesr999]

Bruno's always been one of my heros. A free thinker at a time when free thinking was a crime. Thanks for making this video.

[cosmanthony21]

It may be a good idea for you to make a video giving definitions to all of these terms you use in your video to allow your viewers to be in the know. It probably wouldnt take you long and I think it would be worth it. Just simple definitions of terms and words you think may be confusing or technical.

[thomasmatus]

Taking your invitation to 2bsirius, I'll also read up on G.Bruno. Want to find recent Vatican comments, maybe rehabilitation (as they did with Galileo). God is omnipresent: accepted theology. So panpsychism is OK. Catholic version of pantheism (very different) is pan-en-theism (cf. Teilhard de Chardin) or pan-Christ-ism (J.Monchanin). "God all in all": Paul. About extraterrestrials nothing new: Catholic tradition has always assumed a densely populated cosmos (see Padre Pio).

[HaleyMary]

Great video. I have heard of Giordano Bruno before, but don't know a whole lot about his ideas. I'll have to do some research to see what else I can learn.

[zezt]

This video inspired me to do some Giordano bruno research here at Youtube. What I find. Some good videos but NOTE!!! 99% are foreign!!

SO...I later did a search of Rene Descartes, and guess what, first few i see are English!

whats this say to me. That, even now, Giordana Bruno is taboo for 'English/American eyes and ears'!!

[THEGlobalAwakening]

Extremely thoughtful and informative piece!

Interesting thoughts raised...

"Consciousness" creates?

God IS "consciousness"?

Consciousness is IN us?

We are in consciousness?

There is only consciousness? "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."

John17:23

[jogayot]

need a match to fix that darkness ;?) anarchy of ideas saves... it might be complicating communication but if it prevents "wrong" dogmas to gain the upper hand it serves some good.

[AxiomofDiscord]

oh sweet anarchy set me free

[jogayot]

ummm, i don't know... have you been good libertarian socialist?

[AxiomofDiscord]

how did you know I fancy myself as a libertarian with socialist leanings lol. If not for my lack of belief in my species I would be a straight anarchist

[jogayot]

libertarian socialism IS straight anarchism. you can't get more hetero than this. to complete the punism: simple libertarianism or socialism alone is homo.

[AxiomofDiscord]

Ok I will accept that when you say libertarian socialist you mean Anarchist. I am not sure why you mean that but I will accept that that is what your getting at. I do not get how your saying that libertarianism is the same as socialism though. Socialism the more and more pure it becomes takes a lot of government and libertarians and even more so anarchist want less and less government.

[jogayot]

point is anarchism is not about government. government is merely one of the symptoms.

and taking into account both ends of the spectrum (individual and society) is the only way to come to lasting solution. the left-right divide of political spectrum is "stupid" distortion akin to the trivialisation pointed out in my first sentence.

[AxiomofDiscord]

My point is your abusing the English language and the concepts of the terms with your disregard for any meaning behind them. I agree to a point. I see it as right and left fascism to communism and up and down from totalitarianism to anarchism and yes the extreme right and left do meet at the top totalitarianism as they both are forms of it.

[jogayot]

i ain't abusing anything. and you might need to educate yourself. perhaps start with wikipedia entry for this term...

and to reiterate: my point is there is no dualism. anarchism started socialist and got libertarian (vel individualistc) streak in order to assert person-(parts of society)-al rights.

[AxiomofDiscord]

I see now what you mean. I misunderstood, yet I still disagree that the extreme right and left are the same.

[jogayot]

why? because the "right" of your country through anarcho-capitalism is telling you that everything would be fine and dandy if not for this damn government? ha ha...

1st of may is supposedly "communist" holiday... check out what and where it is celebrating! and end of 19th century is considered peek of leisse-faire capitalism.

[zezt]

cool video Matt. ......Yeah I'd sub Giordano alright!! ;)

[patternsinchaos]

Aristotle's "unmoved mover" really resonates with Bohm's holomovement and my Astrotometric Translation. Ironically, the radical Catholics are going to love Astrotometry. Even more ironic, if the middle Catholics really did possess this understanding, I can understand why they would be so vehement about protecting it. If they did possess it, they've obviously lost it, or at least the ability to teach it en mass. Perhaps the inquisition was that loss, definitely a fearful one for the church. :-/

[Tusek420]

He was actually prisoned for like 10 years, and then burnt (in 1600.)

Some of his ideas were based in hermeticism.

[2bsirius]

He was imprisoned for 8 years. He was arrested in Venice in 1592. He had returned to Italy because he had support himself as itinerate scholar and teacher. He has spent years in exile traveling to Prague, Geneva and England. He needed the money promised by a nobleman in Venice who promised to pay him well in exchange for learning what Bruno knew about the memory arts. The nobleman turned him over to the church authorities when he became disenchanted with Bruno. Hermeticism was only a part...

[2bsirius]

BRILLIANT! The best book I've read on this is "The Acentric Labyrinth of Giordano Bruno: Prelude to Contemporary Cosmology" by Ramon Mandoza. Yes, he was a pantheist [his panpsychism is sticker, at least to me], and was a great influence on Spinoza. Mendoza says, "[H]e absolutely absolute rejected every from of anthropocentric finalism, and proclaimed instead the plausible existence of infinite worlds inhibited by other intelligent beings. No wonder the church burned him!

[2bsirius]

BTW this is a very amateurish video I made on a channel I used for about two weeks 8 months ago:

watch?v=VKqO-_fWv34

I haven't even gone there in months, and I don't like people who have multiple accounts, but I decided I didn't like the channel name. I also noted that there were very few sources about Bruno in English on YouTube, so I have not deleted the account. It might help to explain Bruno a bit, even though it's my first attempt at a video, and it fairly awful.