John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro: Reinventing Soul

After what John Vervaeke has called The Meaning Crisis we need to reinvent soul, faith, virtue, dialogue—all the perennial notions.  An amazing three way conversation with John and Chris circling around the idea of the soul, where John suggests we creatively re-invent and rediscover soul.

 John Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto and the creator of the popular online YouTube Series ‘Awakening from The Meaning Crisis’, which is a rich feast of cognitive science, philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas.  What makes Vervaeke special in my opinion is the breadth of his work, but his courage descend the ivory tower and talk to people ‘on the street’—and to exemplify his ideas.  His hero is Socrates, and he embodies the living dialogue and courage that Socrates represents.   

 I was first  introduced to Christopher Mastropietro by Peter Limberg for his series on Letter.com, 'impossible conversations'. Our first 'impossible conversation can be found here’:  https://letter.wiki/conversation/232.    Christopher is John Vervaeke’s writing and research partner and co-author of ‘Zombies in Western Culture: A Twentieth Century Crisis’.  A great book which I have used for undergraduate classes in Paris. (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/602) Chris is among other things an amazing wordsmith who writes and speaks like an 19th Century Henry James/Herman Melville!   

Links:

Other conversations with John Vervaeke and friends
John Vervaek’s Awakening from the Meaning Crisis 

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Intro music: Beautiful Machines by Andrew Sweeny