I'd Like to Have a Dialogue With Ken Welburt

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i think the insight machinery, iht, its being exapted right into flow. These are mystical experiences that cause people to do that tremendous transformation. And again, that's not a final state. It's to be merged into a particular course of development. So i would like to talk to a ken about that, because it just, i mean, i just sort of had that thought. Now, i don't know it's right, but the metaphor of a spiral suggests to me, wight, something like acceptation is occurring. That was part one of our interview with john vervake. Check out his lecture series, awakening from the meaning crisis, on youtube.

We had a great pleasure to interview John Vervaeke, a lecturer at the University of Toronto in the departments of psychology, cognitive science and Buddhist psychology. John’s excellent lecture series on YouTube called Awakening From the Meaning Crisis has inspired us to invite him on the show and discuss how to overcome the meaning crisis in today’s world.

In this interview we also dive deep into the topics of integrating scientific and traditional views of the search for meaning, multiple kinds of knowing, and the ecology of transformational practices. We draw on various resources from cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, religion and spirituality.

This episode is divided in two parts. In Part 1 we talk about what is the meaning crisis, why it has emerged and what are some of the practices and solutions to deal with it.

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