Dr. John Vervaeke

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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.

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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.

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 Twenty-eighth 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 Twenty-seventh episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

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.

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: • 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: • 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.

Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Sixteenth 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: • 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.

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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: • 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: • 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: •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.

Books in the Video: •Carl Jung – Man and His Symbols •Friedrich Nietzsche – Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ •Paul Tillich – Systematic Theology Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Third episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

Books in the Video: •Karen Armstrong - The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions •Robert Bellah and Hans Joas (Editors) – The Axial Age and its Consequences •Eric Cline - 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed •Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience •The Dhammapada •Robert Drews - The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. •Robin Hogarth – Educating Intuition •Karl Jaspers - The Origin and Goal of Hist •George Lakoff and Mark Johnson - Metaphors We Live By •Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined •Arthur Reber - Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious •Joseph Schear (Editor) - Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john Second episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

List of Books in the Video: •Michael Anderson - After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain •Barry Boyce (Editor) - The Mindfulness Revolution: Leading Psychologists, Scientists, Artists, and Meditation Teachers on the Power of Mindfulness in Daily Life •Andy Clark - Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence •Michel Ferrari and Nic Weststrate (Editors) - The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience •Harry Frankfurt – On Bullsh*t •David Lewis-Williams - The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art •L. A. Paul - Transformative Experience •Massimo Pigliucci - How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life •Matt Rossano - Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved •Daniel Siegel - Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation •Steve Taylor - Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make Them Permanent •John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic - Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis •Michael Winkelman - Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing •Susan Wolf - Meaning in Life and Why It Matters Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vervaeke.John/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john First episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

We are in the midst of a mental health crisis. There are increases in anxiety disorders, depression, despair, and suicide rates are going up in North America, parts of Europe, and other parts of the world. This mental health crisis is itself due to and engaged with crises in the environment and the political system, those in turn are enmeshed within a deeper cultural historical crisis that I call "The Meaning Crisis". It's more and more pervasive throughout our lives. And there's a sense of drowning in this old ocean of bullshit. And we have to understand, why is this the case? And what can we do about it? Today, there is an increase of people feeling very disconnected from themselves, from each other from the world from a viable and foreseeable future. Let's discuss this, let's work on it together, let's rationally reflect on it. Getting out of this problem is going to be tremendously difficult. It's going to require significant transformations in our cognition, our culture, our communities. And in order to move forward in such a difficult manner, we have to reach more deeply into our past to salvage the resources we can for such an amazing challenge. I'll be talking about a lot of people who have spoken in ways that will provide us the resources we need. We'll talk about ancient figures like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, but we'll also talk about modern pivotal figures. We'll talk about people like Carl Jung, we'll talk about Nietzsche. We'll talk about Heidegger. I want to bring all of this together in a coherent and clear fashion, so that together we can discover how to awaken from The Meaning Crisis.