Dr. John Vervaeke

Welcome back to episode 5 of After Socrates! Please join our patreon to support our work! https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaeke -- You are invited to join me live, online, at the next Circling & Dialogos Workshop where we discuss & practice the tools involved in both Philosophical Fellowship & Dialectic into Dialogos. You can find more information, and register, here: https://circlinginstitute.com/circling-dialogos/ -- Thinkers Referenced: Christopher Cherniak Jerry Fodor John Searle Ludwig Wittgenstein Aristotle Werner Stegmaier Kevin Corrigan David Yaden Ezequiel Di Paolo Christopher Honey Garri Hovhannisyan Edwin Hutchins Brett Andersen Jordan B. Peterson Gregg Henriques -- Time Codes: [0:00] Welcome back to After Socrates [3:24] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis episodes for review: 27 - 33 [3:30] John's article in The Journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences -https://link.springer.com/article/10.... [12:50] Adaptive [18:30] The Phenomena of Insight [26:00] Emerging Framework [34:30] Salience Landscaping [44:22] Second Meta [50:00] Flow State [58:30] Logos [1:03:00] The Self [1:11:00] Consciousness [1:25:30] Logos of Being [1:30:00] Opposite Lived Strategies [1:34:00] Beginning of practice: Walking Theosis --- After Socrates is a series about how to create the theory, the practice, and the ecology of practices such that we can live and grow and develop through a Socratic way of life. The core argument is; the combination of the theoretical framework and the pedagogical program of practices can properly conduct us into the Socratic way of life. We believe that the Socratic way of life is what is most needed today because it is the one that can most help us cultivate wisdom in a way that is simultaneously respectful to spiritual tradition and to current scientific work.

Welcome back to episode 2 of After Socrates. In this installment, Dr. Vervaeke continues to add insight into the Socratic Way as we go deep into dialogue and the practices of "Finding Your Root" and "The Humble Wonder Practice." Please consider joining my patreon to support our work: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaeke -- You are invited to join me live, online, at the next Circling & Dialogos Workshop where we discuss & practice the tools involved in both Philosophical Fellowship & Dialectic into Dialogos. You can find more information, and register, here: https://circlinginstitute.com/circling-dialogos/ -- Thinkers Referenced: Drew Hyland Erich Fromm Robert C. Fuller Harold North Fowler Christopher Mastropietro Aristophanes Iris Murdoch John R. Wright Francisco J. Gonzalez Sara Ahbel-Rappe Sean D. Kirkland Show Notes: [0:00] Introduction to episode [0:23] "Socrates the Monstrous" [1:06] Socrates described himself as atopos, which means "strange" or "out of place," not belonging to any known category. It resembles the modern word "atypical" but is deeper and more powerful. [1:48] Metaxy: as fundamentally in between the human and the divine [2:17] Finitude and Transcendence [2:35] Eros [3:26] The monster distorts the normal categories in a way that is startling, challenging and disruptive. [4:57] Questioning [7:12] By practicing this kind of dialogue, Socrates has come to know that he does not know. [7:48] "One has been pretending - deeply, unconsciously, automatically, reactively - to know." [8:25] Learned Ignorance [12:03] Horizon of Wonder [12:17] The psychoanalyst and social psychologist Erich Fromm successfully combined psychological and sociological thinking in a social psychological theory and method. World-wide known are his books Escape from Freedom, The Art of Loving and To Have Or to Be? and his humanistic concept of man. [12:25] Professor Fuller's research concerns the relationship between psychology and religion as well as the study of contemporary religion in the United States [13:00] Wisdom begins in Wonder [13:30] Educe: to bring out, or draw forth. Closely related to the word "education." [13:59] To be on the Horizon of Wonder is to be in a place in which you are calling yourself and your world into question. So a new self in a new world can deeply be born. [18:48] The process of dialogos is not something we do. It is something we participate in, the way we participate in love and friendship. It is between us, and between us and the world. [19:13] Harold North Fowler was the original translator of a number of Plato's works for the Loeb Classical Library collection. [21:07] we seek to bind ourselves to things [21:30] We seem by nature to be looking for things other than ourselves, to complete us. Self-transcendence; I'm looking for something that's other than me to become me so that I am more than me, but completed as me. [30:15] The unexamined life is not worth living. [34:49] 1) The best life is the life of virtue. [35:33] 2) Virtue depends on knowledge. [35:44] 3) He does not have the knowledge needed for virtue. [36:06] Aristophanes was a famous comic playwright of ancient Athens. His play The Clouds gives a critical portrayal of Socrates as a man of nonsense and deception. Socrates addresses the slander in Plato's Apology. [41:50] Iris Murdoch was a prominent British philosopher of the second half of the 20th century, best known for her moral philosophy. She combined her grounding in Wittgensteinian and linguistic/analytic philosophy with a strong influence of 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy, Christian religion and thought, and Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. [45:47] Is Socrates just Plato's mouthpiece? [59:11] Practice Intro. [59:44] Finding Your Root. [1:11:16] The humble wonder practice [1:12:08] There is so much I do not know about myself because of all of the facts. [1:12:49] There is so much I shall never know about myself because of all of the fate. [1:13:45] There is so much I refuse to see about myself because of all of my foolishness. [1:16:32] There is so much I am unable to see about myself because of all of my faults. --- After Socrates is a series about how to create the theory, the practice, and the ecology of practices such that we can live and grow and develop through a Socratic way of life. The core argument is; the combination of the theoretical framework and the pedagogical program of practices can properly conduct us into the Socratic way of life. We believe that the Socratic way of life is what is most needed today because it is the one that can most help us cultivate wisdom in a way that is simultaneously respectful to spiritual tradition and to current scientific work.

Welcome to After Socrates, a new series by Dr. John Vervaeke; Professor and award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in the departments of psychology, cognitive science and Buddhist psychology. In this introduction of the series, Dr. Vervaeke explains the differences between Imaginary and Imaginal, as well as the concepts of Predictive Processing, Reciprocal Interpretation, Dialogical Reflection, and the Salience Landscape. Join Dr. Vervaeke as he attempts to follow "After" Socrates in a quest towards true and applicable wisdom. Please join our patreon to support our work! https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaeke -- You are invited to join me live, online, at the next Circling & Dialogos Workshop where we discuss & practice the tools involved in both Philosophical Fellowship & Dialectic into Dialogos. You can find more information, and register, here: https://circlinginstitute.com/circling-dialogos/ -- Books mentioned: The Art of Spiritual Midwifery | Stephen Faller - https://amzn.to/3WZBujZ Philosophising the Dialogos Way Towards Wisdom in Education | Guro Hansen Helskog - https://amzn.to/3VYhQ6B Socrates: Quotes and Facts | Blago Kirov - https://amzn.to/3GkXLS8 Plato Quotes: 365 Quotes by Plato | B. Ashiedu - https://amzn.to/3VYi4ut The Allegory of the Cave | Plato - https://amzn.to/3W66oGc -- Thinkers Referenced: Guy Sengstock Rafe Kelly Dan Chiappe Henry Corbin Karl J. Friston Mark Miller Brett Andersen John Russon Peter Limberg Tanya Luhrmann Jack Kornfield Søren Kierkegaard -- Show Notes: [0:00] Introduction to episode [0:57] Circling: Is a multi-stage relational practice and unique transformational modality. It is a dynamic group process that is part-art-form, part-skillful facilitation and part-relational yoga. It is also a unique modality that can be practiced one-on-one. Although it is based on complex ideas, participating in it can be easy and fun for people at all levels of experience. [6:20] "Imaginary" - Imagination as fantasizing. We often use it in reference to something unreal or illusory. [6:20] "Imaginal" - Imagination to enhance perception and insight. The realm of imagination where we encounter the deeper patterns of being. [8:51] Predictive Processing - In neuroscience, predictive processing (or predictive coding) is a paradigm of brain function that links perception to mental modelling: the brain generates a model of the environment and uses it to predict sensory input. These predictions are compared to the actual input received, and the errors are used to update the mental model. There is increasing integration between predictive processing and 4E cognitive science. [17:25] Taoism - Tao is a Chinese word that is often translated as "way" or "path." It is a fundamental concept in Taoism, a philosophical and spiritual tradition that originated in China. In Taoism, the Tao is the fundamental source and ultimate reality of all things, and is seen as the natural order and flow of the universe. It is not a deity or a personal God, but rather an impersonal force or principle that underlies and permeates all things. [35:22] In Latin, the word "inventio" means "discovery" or "finding." It is related to the verb "invenire," which means "to come upon, find out, invent, discover, or devise." "Inventio" is a powerful term because it can refer to an act of invention as both creation and recollection. This makes it very apt for describing Socratic midwifery. [48:58] Sapiential is often used in reference to religious or philosophical texts that are considered to contain profound wisdom or insight. For example, the writings of ancient Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, or the Hindu Vedas, could be described as sapiential. [1:09:47] A salience landscape is the way a cognitive agent determines relevance through decisions about how to commit its attentional, and behaviour resources in a complex, dynamic, and self-organizing manner. These decisions and commitments result in certain information from the environment standing out more than other information such that the cognitive agent will only orient to certain aspects of objects and situations. [1:10:00] The monkey mind is a Buddhist term that refers to various states of restlessness or distraction, i.e., "unsettled; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable." [1:24:33] Meditation is not a vacation. It is an education. --- After Socrates is a series about how to create the theory, the practice, and the ecology of practices such that we can live and grow and develop through a Socratic way of life. The core argument is; the combination of the theoretical framework and the pedagogical program of practices can properly conduct us into the Socratic way of life. We believe that the Socratic way of life is what is most needed today because it is the one that can most help us cultivate wisdom in a way that is simultaneously respectful to spiritual tradition and to current scientific work.

Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Fiftieth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

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Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Forty-fourth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

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Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Thirty-eighth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Thirty-seventh episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: - Thomas Nagel - The View From Nowhere - Susan Wolf - Meaning in Life and Why it Matters Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Thirty-sixth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

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Books in the Video: - Michael Anderson - After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Thirty-fourth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: - Robert Fuller - Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality - George Levine - The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Thirty-third episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: - Read Montague -- Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Thirty-second episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Thirty-first episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Thirtieth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Harold Brown – Rationality • Christopher Cherniak – Minimal Rationality • Zenon Pylyshyn – Things and Places: How the Mind Connects with the World • Dan Sperber – Relevance: Communication and Cognition Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Twenty-ninth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

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Books in the Video: • Daniel Dennett - Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking • Elijah Millgram - Practical Induction Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Twenty-sixth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Herman Melville - Moby Dick • L. A. Paul - Transformative Experience Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Twenty-fifth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Eric Perl - Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition • Merold Westphal - Transcendence and Self-Transcendence: On God and the Soul Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Twenty-fourth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Gary Lachman - Lost Knowledge of the Imagination And the vile, anti-semitic treatise that is Martin Luther's "The Jews and Their Lies'" Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Twenty-third episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Antonio Damasio - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Twenty-second episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Twenty-first episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Mark Taylor - After God Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Twentieth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Saint Augustine - Confessions • Michael Casey - Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina • Tom Cheetham - World Turned Inside Out: Henry Corbin and Islamic Mysticism • Tom Cheetham - Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman • Marc Lewis - Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Nineteenth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • April DeConick – The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today • Chris Hedges – I Don't Believe in Atheists: The Dangerous Rise of the Secular Fundamentalist • Chris Hedges – American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America • Hans Jonas – The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity • Eric Perl – PLOTINUS Ennead V.1: On the Three Primary Levels of Reality • Eric Perl – Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition • Paul Tillich – The Courage to Be Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Eighteenth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Twelfth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor - Retrieving Realism • Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception • Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation • Elaine Scarry - On Beauty and Being Just Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Eleventh episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: •Marcus Aurelius - Meditations •Julian Barnes – A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters •Erich Fromm – To Have or To Be? •Pierre Hadot - What Is Ancient Philosophy? •Pierre Hadot - Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault •Margaret Visser – Beyond Fate Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Fifteenth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Harry Frankfurt – The Reasons of Love • Iris Murdoch – The Sovereignty of Good • L. A. Paul – Transformative Experience Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Seventeenth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

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Books in the Video: • Paul Tillich - The Courage to Be Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Fourteenth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Stephen Batchelor – The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture • Stephen Batchelor – Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening • Stephen Batchelor – Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism • Stephen Batchelor – After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age • Marc Lewis – Memoirs of an Addicted Brain Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Thirteenth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: •George Ainslie - Breakdown of Will •Arthur Versluis - Platonic Mysticism: Contemplative Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Art Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Fifth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Marcus Aurelius – Meditations • Karen Armstrong – The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions • R. G. Collingwood – The Principles of Art • Erich Fromm – To Have or To Be? • Clifford Geertz – The Interpretation of Cultures • Eric D. Perl – Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Seventh episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Stephen Batchelor – Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism • Michael Eysenck – Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook • Ellen Langer – Mindfulness • Christopher Mole – Attention is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology • Amir Raz & Michael Lifshitz – Hypnosis and Meditation: Towards an Integrative Science of Conscious Planes • Susan Wolf – Meaning in Life and Why It Matters Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Eighth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Robert Forman – The Problem of Pure Consciousness: Mysticism and Philosophy • Aldous Huxley – The Perennial Philosophy • William Miller and Janet C'de Baca – Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives • Michael Polanyi – Knowing and Being • Michael Polanyi – The Tacit Dimension • Sebastian Watzl – Structuring Mind: The Nature of Attention and how it Shapes Consciousness • Wayne Wu - Attention Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Ninth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: •Alicia Juarrero - Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System •Eric Perl - Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition •Francisco Varela, Eleanor Rosch, and Evan Thompson - The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Sixth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: • Bernard Baars - A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness • James Gibson - The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception • Wallace Matson - Sentience • Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation • L. A. Paul - Transformative Experience • Steve Taylor - Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make Them Permanent • Giulio Tononi - Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul • Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, and Evan Thompson (Editors) - The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Tenth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: •Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit •Harry Frankfurt - The Reasons of Love Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Fourth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.