“Systems of constraints — virtual engines that regulate the self-organization of what is salient to us… Think of the archetype much more adverbally than adjectivally.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 48: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-48-7c95541af4f9) Ep. 49 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — Corbin and Jung [56:35]…

“A symbol is trying to challenge you to transcendence. If you are not transcending in response to a symbol you really haven’t understood a symbol. If you just treat it as an allegory that you can replace with other literal terms, then you haven’t really remembered through the symbol. …

“Understanding being, or the ground of being, as a supreme being is the deep forgetfulness that has us existentially adrift in modal confusion, fundamentally misframing our relationship to being and therefore being subject to a disconnectedness from realness, which is at the heart of the meaning crisis.” (In case you…

“I know myself as a being whose being is in question, and knowing myself that way is also to put being into question. And so I’ve got this deep participation in the co-determining mysteries of who I am and what being is.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes…

“We’re seeing that wisdom is a dynamical system that is counteractive to the machinery of self-deception, and that helps to afford the self-organized transformation into the life of flourishing. A life that is deeply meaningful.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 44: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-44-ebc252d58c13) Ep. 45— Awakening…

“I think this is a very important thing to do, to try and figure out what wisdom is from an account of how one becomes wise.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 43: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-43-cdb2b2a5e8ba) Ep. 44 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — Theories of Wisdom…

”Real life situations do not come labeled with the needed virtues or strengths attached. There is thus the problem of relevance.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 42: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-42-d655472883c1) Ep. 43 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis —Wisdom and Virtue [59:04] https://youtu.be/EUcFqb-DxOA Let’s discuss the work…

”The way you frame yourself—the way you identify with your processing—has a huge impact on your problem-solving ability, your proclivity for self-deception, and your need for cognition. Rationality is an existential thing, it is not just an informational processing thing.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep…

“Rationality is ultimately an existential issue, not just a theoretical, inferential, logical issue.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 40: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-40-8284da916bc) Ep. 41 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — What is Rationality? [56:46] https://youtu.be/IZRqZX5JJqM Stanovich and West (2000) respond to Cohen’s arguments like this: if…