Tao Shunyatta: Most of our knowing that gives us meaning is not propositional knowing. It's procedural, perspectival, participatory and the political ideological systems do not give us practices or ecologies of practices for those non propositional. That is largely left unaddressed or at most given weak symbolic outlet in political ideologies. But how do you transform your skills and your states of mind and presence and consciousness such that you have virtue? And with virtuosity track what is most real in a way that is conducive to a good life for you and other people. We'll get into hopefully whether it starts to not work as well.
John Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist at the University of Toronto and world renowned thinker, bridging science and spirituality in order to understand the experience of meaningfulness: how to cultivate it and why it’s crucial for human beings.
John joins me to discuss “the meaning crisis”—the global phenomenon of modern humans having access to so much, and yet so little profundity. Referencing neurobiology, faith and behavioural science, John explains the impact the meaning crisis is having on individuals all around the world, and what to do about it.
We then explore its intersection with the metacrisis, and the historical traditions which are the root of our global energy, economic and climate crisis. Critically, John says we cannot solve the climate crisis without addressing the cultural forces driving the meaning crisis
Planet: Critical investigates why the world is in crisis—and what to do about it.
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