MEDITATION TIME

This lecture briefly reviews the most salient ideas expounded in this podcast.

Based on a conversation between Susan Blackmore and Jordan Peterson, this lecture opposes the secular to the religious path, as contrasted answers to the search for meaning.

This lecture briefly explores pantheism and panpsychism as theoretical options for understanding the ultimate foundations of reality,

This lecture highlights our threefold human nature in terms of life, knowledge, and power. It also explores the practical conditions for a good life and a good society.

This lecture looks at arguments against euthanasia but also makes a case for it, in light of various insights taken from human psychology and biology.

This lecture pits against each other two opposite philosophical stances toward life: acceptance and rejection. In the final analysis, acceptance stands as the healthier and wiser of the two. 

This lecture argues against all forms of reductionism in favor of emergentism, where the creative potential of the universe manifests itself incrementally, in stages, with each stage creating the opportunity for the emergence of the next stage, which displays new properties that are contingent on those of the previous stage but are not reducible to them.

This lecture proceeds to deconstruct the reality of life with the purpose of reconstructing it mindfully and meaningfully.

This lecture lays the groundwork for the management of our emotions to prevent them from running wild and wrecking havoc with our life.

This lecture shows the path to an authentic and fulfilling life through our awareness and embodiment of the creative and nurturing force at the heart of everything, including us, Our attitude and behavior then become a testament to our enduring adaptability and expanded love.