Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.
This is a podcast adapted from the video series, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Latest episodes
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May 31, 2019 • 54min
Ep. 20 - Death of the Universe
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
· Mark Taylor - After God
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May 24, 2019 • 54min
Ep. 19 - Augustine and Aquinas
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
· Saint Augustine - Confessions
· Michael Casey - Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina
· Tom Cheetham - World Turned Inside Out: Henry Corbin and Islamic Mysticism
· Tom Cheetham - Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman
· Marc Lewis - Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
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May 17, 2019 • 54min
Ep. 18 - Plotinus and Neoplatonism
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
• April DeConick – The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today
• Chris Hedges – I Don’t Believe in Atheists: The Dangerous Rise of the Secular Fundamentalist
• Chris Hedges – American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
• Hans Jonas – The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity
• Eric Perl – PLOTINUS Ennead V.1: On the Three Primary Levels of Reality
• Eric Perl – Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition
• Paul Tillich – The Courage to Be
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May 10, 2019 • 55min
Ep. 17 - Gnosis and Existential Inertia
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
· Harry Frankfurt – The Reasons of Love
· Iris Murdoch – The Sovereignty of Good
· L. A. Paul – Transformative Experience
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May 3, 2019 • 55min
Ep. 16 - Christianity and Agape
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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Apr 26, 2019 • 59min
Ep. 15 - Marcus Aurelius and Jesus
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
· Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
· Julian Barnes – A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
· Erich Fromm – To Have or To Be?
· Pierre Hadot - What Is Ancient Philosophy?
· Pierre Hadot - Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
· Margaret Visser – Beyond Fate
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Apr 19, 2019 • 56min
Ep. 14 - Epicureans, Cynics, and Stoics
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
• Paul Tillich - The Courage to Be
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Apr 12, 2019 • 55min
Ep. 13 - Buddhism and Parasitic Processing
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
• Stephen Batchelor – The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture
• Stephen Batchelor – Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
• Stephen Batchelor – Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism
• Stephen Batchelor – After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age
• Marc Lewis – Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
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Apr 5, 2019 • 54min
Ep. 12 - Higher States of Consciousness, Part 2
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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Mar 29, 2019 • 58min
Ep. 11 - Higher States of Consciousness, Part 1
Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
Books in the Video:
• Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor - Retrieving Realism
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception
• Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation
• Elaine Scarry - On Beauty and Being Just
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