Adiction and the Meaning Crisis

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Mark lewis is one of the premier researchers on the sunan. His work shows there's an important meaning making system failing in a diction. And therefore we can see the meaning crisis as contributing and exasperating to that. The virtual world also has a isidictive, because it's designed to create the flow state,. which is contributory to meaning, making meaning in life. People are generally lackinga, you know, the opportunity, the guidance to cultivate the flow state in their own lives.

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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