The Commitment to the Process of Democracy

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The commitment to the process of overcoming self deception and affording self transcendence in a deep way, is being lost. When people really focus on the products of their cognition, and they they don't value or pay attention to the processing, that's the hall mark of irrationality. And think about how this is even o ramifying into our political discourse. What matters is me winning. Dbunking, trushing, demolishing you, and then taking all the marbles of attention, right and power and wealth to me. Yes, i think, i think that's it.

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.

Show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/98

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