Dr. John Vervaeke Ep. 37 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Reverse Engineering Enlightenment: Part 2
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Apr 3, 2023 
Philosopher and cognitive scientist John Vervaeke delves into sacred guidance, enhancing religiosity, navigating absurdity, cultivating a counteractive dynamical system, immersing in Spinoza's Ethics, exploring non-duality, internalizing identities and wisdom, and fostering genuine discourse in a thought-provoking podcast episode.
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Cultivating an Ecology of Practices
- Cultivate an ecology of practices, like Buddhism's Eightfold Path, to address perennial problems.
- These practices should be interdependent and mutually supporting, forming a counteractive dynamical system.
Absurdity and Non-Duality
- Absurdity arises from a clash of perspectives and is addressed not through argument but by overcoming this clash.
- Achieving non-duality, a state of simultaneous deep internal and external focus, can resolve this clash.
Internalizing the Sage
- Address anxiety, driven by inner conflict, by internalizing the sage, creating an inner dialogue.
- Practice indwelling the sage's perspective and internalizing their wisdom for self-dialogue.