Dr. John Vervaeke

List of Books in the Video:

•Michael Anderson - After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain

•Barry Boyce (Editor) - The Mindfulness Revolution: Leading Psychologists, Scientists, Artists, and Meditation Teachers on the Power of Mindfulness in Daily Life

•Andy Clark - Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence

•Michel Ferrari and Nic Weststrate (Editors) - The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience

•Harry Frankfurt – On Bullsh*t

•David Lewis-Williams - The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

•L. A. Paul - Transformative Experience

•Massimo Pigliucci - How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

•Matt Rossano - Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved

•Daniel Siegel - Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

•Steve Taylor - Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make Them Permanent

•John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic - Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis

•Michael Winkelman - Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing

•Susan Wolf - Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

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First episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

We are in the midst of a mental health crisis. There are increases in anxiety disorders, depression, despair, and suicide rates are going up in North America, parts of Europe, and other parts of the world. This mental health crisis is itself due to and engaged with crises in the environment and the political system, those in turn are enmeshed within a deeper cultural historical crisis that I call "The Meaning Crisis". It's more and more pervasive throughout our lives. And there's a sense of drowning in this old ocean of bullshit. And we have to understand, why is this the case? And what can we do about it?

Today, there is an increase of people feeling very disconnected from themselves, from each other from the world from a viable and foreseeable future. Let's discuss this, let's work on it together, let's rationally reflect on it. Getting out of this problem is going to be tremendously difficult. It's going to require significant transformations in our cognition, our culture, our communities. And in order to move forward in such a difficult manner, we have to reach more deeply into our past to salvage the resources we can for such an amazing challenge. I'll be talking about a lot of people who have spoken in ways that will provide us the resources we need. We'll talk about ancient figures like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, but we'll also talk about modern pivotal figures. We'll talk about people like Carl Jung, we'll talk about Nietzsche. We'll talk about Heidegger.

I want to bring all of this together in a coherent and clear fashion, so that together we can discover how to awaken from The Meaning Crisis.