John Vervaeke
Meaning Crisis
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — a fifty-episode lecture series, first released in 2019.Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. Fifty episodes that trace the crisis from the Axial Revolution to the modern world, then turn to cognitive science, relevance realization and the cultivation of wisdom.
Episodes
Meaning Crisis · 51 episodes
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
1: Introduction
2: Flow, Metaphor, and the Axial Revolution
3: Continuous Cosmos and Modern World Grammar
4: Socrates and the Quest for Wisdom
5: Plato and the Cave
6: Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution
7: Aristotle’s World View and Erich Fromm
8: The Buddha and “Mindfulness”
9: Insight
10: Consciousness
11: Higher States of Consciousness, Part 1
12: Higher States of Consciousness, Part 2
13: Buddhism and Parasitic Processing
14: Epicureans, Cynics, and Stoics
15: Marcus Aurelius and Jesus
16: Christianity and Agape
17: Gnosis and Existential Inertia
18: Plotinus and Neoplatonism
19: Augustine and Aquinas
20: Death of the Universe
21: Martin Luther and Descartes
22: Descartes vs. Hobbes
23: Romanticism
24: Hegel
25: The Clash
26: Cognitive Science
27: Problem Formulation
28: Convergence to Relevance Realization
29: Getting to the Depths of Relevance Realization
30: Relevance Realization Meets Dynamical Systems Theory
31: Embodied-Embedded RR as Dynamical-Developmental GI
32: RR in the Brain, Insight, and Consciousness
33: Spirituality of RR: Wonder, Awe, Mystery, Sacredness
34: Sacredness: Horror, Music, and the Symbol
35: The Symbol, Sacredness, and the Sacred
36: Religio, Perennial Problems, Reverse Eng. Enlightenment
37: Reverse Engineering Enlightenment, Part 2
38: Agape and 4E Cognitive Science
39: The Religion of No Religion
40: Wisdom and Rationality
41: What Is Rationality?
42: Intelligence, Rationality, and Wisdom
43: Wisdom and Virtue
44: Theories of Wisdom
45: The Nature of Wisdom
46: Conclusion and the Prophets of the Meaning Crisis
47: Heidegger
48: Corbin and the Divine Double
49: Corbin and Jung
50: Tillich and Barfield