“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…

“Wisdom is not about what you know. Wisdom has to do with how you know it.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 39: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-39-85fec7325be7) Ep. 40— Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — Wisdom and Rationality [55:25] https://youtu.be/udlkps-81JM A central feature of wisdom is the systematic seeing…

“We need to do something like what religion used to do. We need a comprehensive set of psychotechnologies that are set within communities and practices that allow for the comprehensive transformations of consciousness, cognition, character, and culture, in a way that is analogous to religion.” (In case you missed it…

“Your body is a bioeconomy that enacts logistical norms of efficiency and resiliency that constrain your cognition so that it continually evolves its fittedness to the world.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 37: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-36-2b9840db9436) Ep. 38 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — Agape and…

“I’m trying to get a balance between respecting where we really are and what our situation really is, and respecting all of the tremendous heritage and legacy that has been given to us.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 36: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-36-2b9840db9436) Ep. 37 — Awakening from…

“Enlightenment is the set of practices that ameliorate the perennial problems and alleviate us from the stress and suffering that they inflict upon us.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 35: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-35-61554e778eed) Ep. 36 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — Religio/Perennial Problems/Reverse Eng. …

“ What if sacredness is not about finding the completion — the essence, the stabilized final form. What is sacredness is actually an experience of the inexhaustibleness of reality and the inexhaustibleness of the relevance realization machinery in its coupled response to that reality?” (In case you missed it: Summary…

“I think why many people still are so deeply dependent on music, especially when they’re going through any transformative period in their life, is precisely because of the way it puts them back in touch and helps them remember — at least intuitively — some of this machinery of seriously…

“Awe pushes you towards an opening, an ongoing accommodation. A sense of the inexhaustibleness — the combinatorially explosive nature — of reality, and the ongoing, evolving, and adaptability of your relevance realization to that explosive potential of reality itself.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 32…