Awakening from the Meaning Crisis: Recent Episodes
John Vervaeke
John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.
This is a podcast adapted from the video series, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
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Robert Fuller - Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality
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George Levine - The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
- Read Montague -- Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the video:
• Daniel Dennett - Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
• Elijah Millgram - Practical Induction
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
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
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
Gary Lachman - Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
• Antonio Damasio - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
· Max Weber - The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
· Mark Taylor - After God
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
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
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
· Harry Frankfurt – The Reasons of Love
· Iris Murdoch – The Sovereignty of Good
· L. A. Paul – Transformative Experience
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
• Paul Tillich - The Courage to Be
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
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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