Mind Meld 192 | Awakening From the Meaning Crisis with Professor John Vervaeke

THIRD EYE DROPS

Michael Phillip

Spirituality, Development, Philosophy, Psychedelic, Comedy, Psychology, Mckenna, Future, Plato, Rogan, Science, Society & Culture, Watts, Trussell, Mind, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Professor of philosophy and cognitive science, John Vervaeke enters the mind meld!

John is the creator of a fabulous series of youtube lectures called Awakening From the Meaning Crisis that dives into everything from philosophy and psychology to psychedelics.

In this meaty mind meld, we touch on a lot -- Rationality versus empiricism, the importance of inward-facing practices, anamnesis and why mythological context is incredibly valuable. We also discuss the world's deep need for new participatory knowledge systems, a sort of neo-socratic dialogical learning modality.

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0:00.0	Third Eyrops are intended for open-minded adults.
0:03.7	Now administering Third Eyed Drops. What is going on my friends Michael Philip here and I have to say when I even think
0:28.2	about this mind meld I just get excited because it is bursting with the good stuff. Real onsological,
0:37.1	epistemological, psychological, mythological meat and sauce.
0:44.8	this is a veritable arby's of meaty meaning making.
0:48.8	I would say.
0:50.5	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.
1:07.0	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.
1:30.0	I've become a fan of his, especially his awakening from the Meaning Crisis series on YouTube
1:36.6	over the past month or two after someone in the third Eydrops group turned me on to it.
1:41.6	And I have to say I'm just blown away by John's work. It covers
1:45.9	everything from philosophy and spirituality to the importance of myth, mindfulness,
1:52.0	psychedelics, cognitive science, and more.
1:55.8	It's really something that not many people could pull off,
2:00.0	but John manages to do it masterfully and entertainingly,
2:05.2	so you have to check it out.
2:07.8	So with that table setting,
2:10.0	as you might expect, this one meanders and flows into all of those subjects.
2:16.1	There are quite a few people and books and terms mentioned, so be prepared for that.
2:22.4	But as far as topics go, we riff about what this meaning crisis is,
2:28.0	how we find ourselves in it, how we might begin to heal it, sociately and personally, and more specifically, we get
2:37.2	into why we're so obsessed with this wealth of having, yet hugely deficient in a wealth of being.
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