John Vervaeke, PhD: Finding Your Meaning “In” and “Of” Life, Cancel Culture, and the Age of Disinformation | EP 390

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Do you know what your meaning in life is? What about your meaning OF life? In this episode of the Align podcast, John Vervaeke, Ph.D. and I share a profoundly striking dialogue on our collective starvation for meaning. Plus, we tackle why we experience a gnawing disconnection from ourselves, from each other, and from nature. As he sheds light on the difference between meaning “in” life vs. meaning “of” life, we also touch on cancel culture, addiction, the power of a flow state of mind in meaning-making, and how to cultivate wisdom in the Age of Disinformation. John Vervaeke, Ph.D., is an author of several books, and he’s been a professor of cognitive science at the University of Toronto since 1994. His award-winning 50-part lecture series on Youtube titled "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis” has garnered 500k+ views worlwide. What we discuss: 0:00 - Introduction to John Vervaeke 3:00 - Culture, Grammar, and the Creation of Meaning 6:00 - What is the Meaning Crisis? 9:00 - The roots of our alienation + how to harness our power to self-correct 16:00 - Cancel culture as a symptom of the meaning crisis 23:30 - What exactly is cognition? 27:00 - Love, psychedelics, and the flow state of mind 36:00 - The definition of meaning-making & the different kinds of knowing 41:30 - Addiction: A learned behavior or a disease? 44:50 - Why we should never stop looking for meaning & seeking wisdom 56:00 - Actionable Tips to cultivate wisdom & live a fulfilled life 1:01:00 - How religion contributes to solving the meaning crisis Learn more from John Vervaeke: Website: johnvervaeke.com Twitter: @vervaeke_john Youtube: johnvervaeke Book: Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis Related Links: The revised version of the Align Method book is now available with 22 brand-new exercises! Order here: alignpodcast.com/alignbook alignpodcast.com/alignmethod for a special discount alignpodcast.com/community to join our community www.organifi.com/align and use ALIGN during checkout to receive 20% magbreakthrough.com/alignpodcast and use ALIGN10 during checkout to save 10%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place
0:05.1	that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and
0:08.4	wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement. Today's beautiful
0:11.7	conversation is with someone that I have admired from afar for
0:15.9	pretty much the last about six to eight months. I discovered him through Jordan B. Peterson on his
0:22.4	podcast also through the Aubrey Marcus podcast.
0:26.2	And I was really struck by the way that he thinks, the way that he communicates, and I wanted
0:30.4	to share his perspectives here.
0:32.6	His primary fields of study are perception, cognition, and cognitive
0:36.8	neuroscience, and this conversation was very rich within those fields. I think this would be one that you would probably
0:45.1	want to take notes on. It'll be one that you perhaps may listen to again and if you're
0:49.8	interested in the mind-body relationship, the way that are words in form, the way that our words inform the way that we think what we feel the way we structure our lives that is this so Dr. John Verveki he is a true pioneer in the field of behavior and cognitive
1:06.2	neuroscience and things of the sword so very excited to share this with you
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