Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Lessons By: John Vervaeke
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This video explores the human search for meaning and how different cultures and traditions have addressed it.
John Vervaeke, a cognitive scientist and philosopher, argues there's a growing "meaning crisis" due to factors like declining religious beliefs, rising individualism, and modern life's complexity.
To address this crisis, Vervaeke suggests learning from Buddhism, cognitive science, ancient philosophy, and psychedelic experiences.
These traditions offer insights into the human mind and how it can create meaning in our lives.

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About the author / Об авторе

John Vervaeke is a lecturer at the University of Toronto. You can watch John’s award-winning teaching style on the videos page and YouTube channel.

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What is the Meaning Crisis?

Deeper than social media problems, political problems, even economic problems. They're deeply historical, cultural problems. Getting out of this crisis is tremendously hard and requires transformation in our cognition, culture, and communities.

How can we find a solution?

We have to reach even more deeply into the past to salvage the resources we can for such an amazing challenge. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha. Also modern figures like Jung, Nietzsche, Heidegger. Current work being done by psychologists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, neuroscientists.

My video series covers a lot. Shamanism and altered states of consciousness including mystical experiences and psychedelic experiences. Existentialism. Nihilism. Artificial Intelligence. What does our evolutionary past tell us about how to wrestle with this?

There are no easy answers. We have to be clear about the problem and clear about what potential solutions might look like.

So we can—together—Awaken from the Meaning Crisis.
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Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,” 1818

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