Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
By John Vervaeke
This is a podcast adapted from the video series, which can be found here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Awakening from the Meaning CrisisNov 29, 2019
Ep. 50 - Tillich and Barfield
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Ep. 49 - Corbin and Jung
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Ep. 48 - Corbin and the Divine Double
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Ep. 47 - Heidegger
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Ep. 46 - Conclusion and the Prophets of the Meaning Crisis
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Ep. 45 - The Nature of Wisdom
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Ep. 44 - Theories of Wisdom
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Ep. 43 - Wisdom and Virtue
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Ep. 42 - Intelligence, Rationality, and Wisdom
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Ep. 41 - What is Rationality?
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Ep. 40 - Wisdom and Rationality
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Ep. 39 - The Religion of No Religion
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Ep. 38 - Agape and 4E Cognitive Science
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Ep. 37 - Reverse Engineering Enlightenment: Part 2
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Ep. 36 - Religio, Perennial Problems, and Reverse Engineering Enlightenment
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Ep. 35 - The Symbol, Sacredness, and the Sacred
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Ep. 34 - Sacredness: Horror, Music, and the Symbol
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
- Michael Anderson - After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain
Ep. 33 - The Spirituality of RR: Wonder, Awe, Mystery, and Sacredness
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Books in the Video:
- Robert Fuller - Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality
- George Levine - The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now
Ep. 32 - RR in the Brain, Insight, and Consciousness
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Books in the Video:
- Read Montague -- Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions
Ep. 31 - Embodied-Embedded RR as Dynamical-Developmental GI
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Ep. 30 - Relevance Realization Meets Dynamical Systems Theory
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Ep. 29 - Getting to the Depths of Relevance Realization
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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
Ep. 28 - Convergence To Relevance Realization
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Ep. 27 - Problem Formulation
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Ep. 26 - Cognitive Science
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Books in the video:
• Daniel Dennett - Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
• Elijah Millgram - Practical Induction
Ep. 25 - The Clash
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
• Herman Melville - Moby Dick
• L. A. Paul - Transformative Experience
Ep. 24 - Hegel
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Ep. 23 - Romanticism
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Books in the Video:
Gary Lachman - Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
Ep. 22 - Descartes vs. Hobbes
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Books in the Video:
• Antonio Damasio - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Ep. 21 - Martin Luther and Descartes
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Books in the Video:
· Max Weber - The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Ep. 20 - Death of the Universe
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Books in the Video:
· Mark Taylor - After God
Ep. 19 - Augustine and Aquinas
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Ep. 18 - Plotinus and Neoplatonism
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Ep. 17 - Gnosis and Existential Inertia
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· Harry Frankfurt – The Reasons of Love
· Iris Murdoch – The Sovereignty of Good
· L. A. Paul – Transformative Experience
Ep. 16 - Christianity and Agape
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Ep. 15 - Marcus Aurelius and Jesus
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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
Ep. 14 - Epicureans, Cynics, and Stoics
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
• Paul Tillich - The Courage to Be
Ep. 13 - Buddhism and Parasitic Processing
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Ep. 12 - Higher States of Consciousness, Part 2
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Ep. 11 - Higher States of Consciousness, Part 1
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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
Ep. 10 - Consciousness
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Ep. 9 - Insight
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Ep. 8 - The Buddha and "Mindfulness"
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Ep. 7 - Aristotle's World View and Erich Fromm
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Ep. 6 - Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Ep. 5 - Plato and the Cave
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
•George Ainslie - Breakdown of Will
•Arthur Versluis - Platonic Mysticism: Contemplative Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Art
Ep. 4 - Socrates and the Quest for Wisdom
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
•Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
•Harry Frankfurt - The Reasons of Love
Ep. 3 - Continuous Cosmos and Modern World Grammar
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
•Carl Jung – Man and His Symbols
•Friedrich Nietzsche – Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
•Paul Tillich – Systematic Theology
Ep. 2 - Flow, Metaphor, and the Axial Revolution
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Ep. 1 - Introduction
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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