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 P...
Apr 03, 2023•54 min•Ep. 18
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.
Apr 03, 2023•56 min•Ep. 14
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.Jo...
Apr 03, 2023•55 min•Ep. 13
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.
Apr 03, 2023•54 min•Ep. 12
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 M...
Apr 03, 2023•58 min•Ep. 11
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 A...
Apr 03, 2023•59 min•Ep. 15
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.
Apr 03, 2023•55 min•Ep. 17
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.
Apr 03, 2023•55 min•Ep. 16
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/playlis...
Apr 03, 2023•56 min•Ep. 9
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 t...
Apr 03, 2023•55 min•Ep. 6
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...
Apr 03, 2023•57 min•Ep. 10
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... Fa...
Apr 03, 2023•55 min•Ep. 8
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/vervae...
Apr 03, 2023•56 min•Ep. 7
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.
Apr 03, 2023•57 min•Ep. 5
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.
Apr 03, 2023•58 min•Ep. 4
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.
Apr 03, 2023•56 min•Ep. 3
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 Hi...
Apr 03, 2023•58 min•Ep. 2
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 •Harr...
Feb 01, 2023•59 min•Ep. 1
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 drow...
Jan 01, 2023•3 min
