Are You Taking Up to Awakening Up to Reality?

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i've been looking for a meam that kind of represents the continued waking up a further out of that, you know, every new reality you find yourself in. And we came across that one great gray pilling in a, actuallyt might have been the in crisis, a medium article by peter limberg. We shouldn't look for a final solution to meaningi, we should not do that. The process itself is the meaning. But i think there are deep reasons why we have to re conceptionize nd the's many other people doing this. I'm notim not an unbridled fan of the gnostics. There's deep criticisms there,. but the ideaat,

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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