Third Eyrops are intended for open-minded adults.

Now administering Third Eyed Drops. What is going on my friends Michael Philip here and I have to say when I even think

about this mind meld I just get excited because it is bursting with the good stuff. Real onsological,

epistemological, psychological, mythological meat and sauce.

this is a veritable arby's of meaty meaning making.

I would say.

I would say that's what this podcast is. That was borderline. I'm sorry. But I stand by it because in many ways this really feels like the beginnings of the perfect philosophical nutritional object.

Something of an ideal socratic sandwich to stretch my fraught fast food metaphor, which I don't even know why I'm doing that but here we are. But here we are. But my friends we owe this psychological satiety to our great guest on this podcast, Professor John Vervaki of the University of Toronto.

I've become a fan of his, especially his awakening from the Meaning Crisis series on YouTube

over the past month or two after someone in the third Eydrops group turned me on to it.

And I have to say I'm just blown away by John's work. It covers

everything from philosophy and spirituality to the importance of myth, mindfulness,

psychedelics, cognitive science, and more.

It's really something that not many people could pull off,

but John manages to do it masterfully and entertainingly,

so you have to check it out.

So with that table setting,

as you might expect, this one meanders and flows into all of those subjects.

There are quite a few people and books and terms mentioned, so be prepared for that.

But as far as topics go, we riff about what this meaning crisis is,

how we find ourselves in it, how we might begin to heal it, sociately and personally, and more specifically, we get

into why we're so obsessed with this wealth of having, yet hugely deficient in a wealth of being.

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