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🗓️ 2 February 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, and University of Toronto Professor, John Vervaeke returns to the mind meld.
In this one, we muse about John's surprising encounter with higher intelligence and how it changed his life. More specifically, John encountered a being he believes to be his personal daimon or guide. We also riff on the ancient wisdom of Platonism, the mind, the future of the meaning crisis, and the dualistic paradox we're all stuck in.
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0:00.0 | A presence came in and it wasn't in my head. |
0:04.3 | It was sort of that in-between space. |
0:07.4 | And it was like sort of swept aside everything else and said, |
0:10.1 | no, no, put all that aside. |
0:12.0 | You're going to address me now. |
0:14.1 | It was powerful, right? |
0:15.9 | And it had a numinous presence to it. |
0:18.4 | You know, and I said, well, who are you? |
0:19.8 | I just thought it was another powerful part. |
0:21.8 | No, no, this isn't a part. |
0:23.5 | I'm Hermes. |
0:24.5 | And I was like, okay, what is this going to be about? |
0:28.9 | It was like, I want to enter into a relationship with you. |
0:33.5 | Part of me is just scared. |
0:34.8 | Part of me is worried that I push things too far and I'm losing sanity. |
0:40.1 | Another part of me, because I was brought up in front of those Christians, thinks I've confronted a demon. |
0:46.3 | I'm sure there's like at least a percentage of people in the comments who are going to reassure you that that's definitely what you've done and you need to... |
0:53.3 | Welcome back to the transmission, my friends. |
0:55.8 | Lovely to have you, as always. |
0:58.3 | There's an idea I've been captivated by ever since encountering it. |
1:02.9 | An idea you will not be a stranger to if you frequent the channel. |
1:06.5 | That is the notion of the personal daemon, genius, or what we would call in, like, I would say less sexy, modern terms, the guardian angel. |
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