The Convergence of Science, Spirituality and Society

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Ionia: There's a convergence between my work and his work then, and that even ultimately more important. Ause, there are multiple stages to go through, you need to smash every new meaning structure to make ver the new one. Am, that as people go through different transformational experiences, they seem to kind of latch on to these new experiences as their new full meaning structure. And i just find this repeating pattern through the we do weekly calls with a bunch of people who are going through a set of courses that we've designed. But i'm also coming across some of the wilbur stuff in the work on cultivating th wee space,. ecause the integral community seems to have been

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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