Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ   Books in the Video:  • Bernard Baars - A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness • James Gibson - The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception • Wallace Matson - Sentience • Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation • L. A. Paul - Transformative Experience • Steve Taylor - Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make Them Permanent • Giulio Tononi - Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul • Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, and Evan Thompson (Editors) - The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness 

Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ   Books in the Video:  • Robert Forman – The Problem of Pure Consciousness: Mysticism and Philosophy • Aldous Huxley – The Perennial Philosophy  • William Miller and Janet C’de Baca – Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives • Michael Polanyi – Knowing and Being • Michael Polanyi – The Tacit Dimension • Sebastian Watzl – Structuring Mind: The Nature of Attention and how it Shapes Consciousness • Wayne Wu - Attention

Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ   Books in the Video:  • Stephen Batchelor – Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism • Michael Eysenck – Cognitive Psychology: A Student’s Handbook • Ellen Langer – Mindfulness  • Christopher Mole – Attention is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology • Amir Raz & Michael Lifshitz – Hypnosis and Meditation: Towards an Integrative Science of Conscious Planes • Susan Wolf – Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

  Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ   Books in the Video:    · Marcus Aurelius – Meditations  · Karen Armstrong – The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions · R. G. Collingwood – The Principles of Art · Erich Fromm – To Have or To Be? · Clifford Geertz – The Interpretation of Cultures · Eric D. Perl – Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition

Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ   Books in the Video:  •Alicia Juarrero - Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System •Eric Perl - Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition •Francisco Varela, Eleanor Rosch, and Evan Thompson - The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ  Books in the Video: •George Ainslie - Breakdown of Will •Arthur Versluis - Platonic Mysticism: Contemplative Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Art

 Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ  Books in the Video:   •Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit  •Harry Frankfurt - The Reasons of Love 

Video series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ   Books in the Video: •Carl Jung – Man and His Symbols •Friedrich Nietzsche – Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ •Paul Tillich – Systematic Theology 

Explore the fascinating connection between shamanism and flow states as tools for enhanced consciousness and meaning-making. Discover how rock climbers and jazz musicians achieve peak performance through flow and implicit learning. Delve into intuition's role in recognizing complex patterns and how external influences shape our thinking. Finally, consider how literacy transforms cognitive processes, fostering self-awareness and moral responsibility in personal and societal growth.

Dive into the intriguing intersection of Buddhism and cognitive science as it illuminates today's meaning crisis. Discover how altered states, from shamanism to psychedelics, can lead to profound personal transformations. The discussion highlights the evolution of human intelligence and cultural expressions while analyzing the peril of self-deception. Engage with unique problem-solving challenges like the nine dot problem to rethink conventional approaches. Explore shamanism's role in enhancing cognition and insight, tying it all back to the search for deeper meaning in life.