Ep. 37 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Reverse Engineering Enlightenment: Part 2
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Thirty-seventh episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.
Hey everyone!
Are there any people from Budapest, Hungary, or Hungary in general? I am thinking to form a little community of people who are interested in John's lectures and like-minded people like Jordan Hall or Jonathan Pageau. I find these really fascinating topics and it would be nice to talk to others about it, maybe even in person.
Please leave a reply if you are interested, and I appreciate any upvote to keep this visible.
(please let me know if this kind of comment is not wanted, and I stop)
I would be very interested!
@@jcsm1951 Hi, thank you for your interest! That is awesome! We have regular meetup each Wednesday (on Zoom at the moment). So far there is only a few of us but slowly growing ^^ We have already uploaded a few discussions on the youtube channel Szintézis. Here is our latest one: ua-cam.com/video/rjoIAjf0Hp0/v-deo.html
You can find us there and on facebook as well (see linked video description).
Let me know if you have any questions.
We are looking forward to meeting you!
Hello there, fellow Budapest dweller :)
@@robertmartinusz3388 General Kenobi! :)
Anyway, if you are interested, let me know, we managed to get a few people together, but we look fotward to meet more. Considering the current situation, mostly online.
Good move! Is there a Frankfurt branch?
This is my favorite series. Lecture series, book series, movie, show, whatever. This is the best one.
This is awe-inspiring. John Vervaeke is the final boss of the intellectual dark web.
😂🤓👏👏👏
Indeed. S. Harris had a few difficulties with JP.
JV would be an epic dialogos
@@matthewparlato5626 I hope this happens! I think Sam could learn a lot from John.
I’ve been watching these videos on Sat morning after they drop. And I’ve noticed repeatedly at certain points in each episode as John starts to trigger insights in me I get this deep sense of well-being. I physically feel it around my heart. It’s something related to contentment but also growth. Sorry hard to articulate but I felt the need to share.
I want to share too, haha. I agree. I feel almost bombarded with thoughts, ideas, and questions; yet not overwhelmed. There's some kind of peace that happens for me, too in each lecture. Maybe, it's the peace of knowing it's ok to think about and learn about Meaning, and that people are putting words to it. But in each lecture, as Vervaeke goes along, the lecture always slowly simmers up to a "warm" point where things bubble up and I have that "aha" moment of relating to something and understanding things a bit better. I have to take notes when I listen, haha.
Rosa Falls yes thank you well said. I think you’re onto something with “it’s ok to think about meaning”. So many times I hear the concept of meaning of life is delusional. When John early on described it as a metaphor I knew he was worth listening to. But this series has exceeded all my most optimistic expectations. In particular I’m impressed with John’s emphasis on community and practices. In my previous explorations I think this was an important missing piece.
@@matfar100 Yes, ever since this lecture, and him mentioning community and communion, I've been thinking about it, because this is something I've been interested in for years. I've always thought humans are "handicapped" when it comes to communing together in a comfortable, unforced way; so, we've come up with tools to enable communion, many of which have died off a bit....things like groups of people meeting on park benches, or pubs to discuss and joke about things, critique each other. To enable that type of community and communion requires a neutral space where people can come and go at will, and something to enable rest and take the edge off such as a pint or pipe, or nature. We've corrupted, banned, or demeaned many of the old tools/enablers of communion between people so that now, many group activities are not about rest, but a kind of binging and getting "high" on the experience, or in a giant mob. I think a key to community is rest and being at rest in the company of ourselves and others; not work, an idea which we've lost the past few decades.
For a while I ritually watched the series with a coffee on a Saturday morning also. Although I've fallen out of practice recently. Id love to get back to doing it as I felt I took more from the lecture that way.
Yes! Like how I remember feeling during a good sermon as a kid.
Man, I just fkn love this series. Looks like it helps me integrate all my pre-existing psycho-technologies, and potentially create new ones for me and others, into a dynamic solution that might actually solve most of my problems.
I fkn love you, John! You are a blessing!
Hi John. I had taken a pause from this series while staying up to date with other material from you and Pageau and, while watching this video, I felt the urge to stop and write this: thank you. Thank you for the immense amount of care and precision with which you've categorized and rearranged the vast knowledge and wisdom that you've acquired through the years. It's of unspeakable value. I see how much love has been poured over each mark on the whiteboard. I feel blessed to have crossed your work. God bless you John.
12:00-13:00 'People are trying to articulate something real with their/these pseudo-arguments' is such a great summary of the necessity of discussion from a point of charity ... thank you John
the arguments are after the fact expressions, rather than generators, of absurdity. The argument itself keeps one focused on propositional knowing, which hence cuts off the other ways of knowing. It would seem that "charity" and also "humour" are acting as a "bridge" between ways of knowing?
The culmination of this series to this crescendo is a tour de force. We now have a reference and an image of how to cultivate the inner sage or sages. For me, Vervaeke's voice sits at that roundtable.
Dear John.
I am visually impaired, and I would love it if you could remember to always speak the words out loud when you point to them on the blackboard since I am unable to read what it says.
Thank you.
Dear Eske, I read your post and understand you are visually impaired. why do you think there are unspoken words on the board? My eye sight is OK and from my perceptual and perspectival knowing there are, broadly speaking, few unspoken written words on the whiteboard. I have seen the speakers procedure is to speak the word he is emphasising as having relevance within the narrative and then realizing it on the board.
@@TLMS654 The problem mostly arises when speakers refer back to words already on the whiteboard by pointing to it and referring to it as "this".
@@EskeAndersen Precisely. This is why I must specify to the people I recommend this lecture to, to not treat it as an audio book or a podcast. You simply must watch it otherwise you get lost when he points to the whiteboard and says "this" "remember" *points points points*
It would help many if he made it audio-only friendly.
There is a transcript of all lectures somewhere online (I think it is called meaningcrisis dot something) - maybe they make the explicit what he is refering to (I didn't check them for this specific feature, but might be worth a try).
EDIT: I mean: then you could maybe use text to audio program.
Here I was watching this episode, and I realized that as of today its been exactly 2 years since this episode was published. Everything about this feels special, the series is so enriching. Thank you JV!
Thank You!
John, this episode has brought many pieces together and gave me sweet sweet insights and ahaaaa moments.
interesting to see a lot of these things as they explain the powerful experiences we have made at our seminars!!! thank you!
Ah finally
This episode is the one I have been waiting for since the beginning
Finally everything is connected now, it makes sense why I had to watch all the other episodes, because all of that was building up to this
After watching this episode, it gives me more motivation to go back and study the previous episodes even more deeply
Never apologize for metaphors!💕
Mary Kochan, I’m in so much agreement about your encouragement!
I want to share one of my favorite metaphors that relates to prajna as a response to absurdity (minute 39:00 of the video). It comes from the movie “Inside Out” (yes, the Pixar animation). The islands of personality in Riley’s head are based on core memories that turn transform earlier absurdity into meaning via Relevance Realization, but which must occasionally crumble and be rebuilt when new absurdity can no longer be metabolized and digested. This is the fittedness tuning function in action. One aspect of the movie that is often missed is that this isn’t the first crisis Riley has come across. Each crisis is accompanied by an upgraded control panel. If you go back to the beginning of the movie, the control panel is just a single button for Joy to push. The resolution of this crisis during Riley’s 11th year results in a new control panel which allows two emotions to “drive” at the same time. But if you watch carefully during the scene where the father puts his foot down, and the mom roles her eyes, the parents have all five emotions sitting at the controls simultaneously.
The fact that we must go through periodic and regular/normal upgrades in our inner control panels (psycho technologies) is normalized for the current generation of kids. We may have been aware, but this shows how much of a crisis maturation is, even though it is as natural as a snake shedding its skin. Further, cultures must also occasionally shed their collective mythologies, which brings us to the current Meaning Crisis.
An important consideration is the point Vervaeke makes about the machinery that gives us wisdom also gives us the experience of foolishness. We can recognize how foolish it is for Riley to run away in her attempt to “go back home”, to run away from San Francisco and return to Wisconsin where absurdity was manageable. Riley recognizes this and gets off the bus, but she was ready to enact that solution before she caught herself. Her recognition is that she needs to ask for help, as impossible as that seems. Similarly, it takes quite a bit of wisdom to recognize that the kind of sense that we may make with failing psycho technologies should be held lightly. The absurdity in our current news/political environment shows how tempting it is to “go back” to some previous form of safety. We can’t possibly imagine what the next version of our world will really look like from this state of consciousness before we get the insight that comes from practicing sense-making through the collapse.
Lastly, as tempting as it is to save Riley from the crisis collapse, giving her this coping mechanism would actually stunt her development. The same is true for us. Even as much as we have invested in our current mythologies, we can’t simply patch them. Luckily, the collapse is actually an act of composting, the cycle of the life of the mind, like a phoenix, arises from the ashes. So-called “transcend and include.” Not easy to do, but natural.
@@dls78731 thank you for the your clever integration of that movie into this discussion. Quite delightful to see your application.
@@dls78731 by the way, please note that I did not say we should never apologize. I just said we should never apologize for metaphors. And that reminds me of something funny.
You know there is a saying that if one door closes another will open, or sometimes put that if God closes one door he will open another. So somebody made a cheeky meme that said if a door closes you can open it, because that is how doors work. And my response was, you might know how doors work, but you don't know how metaphors work.😏
Isn’t all language fundamentally metaphorical? When we speak or write, are we not transforming mental representations into symbols which are not the representations themselves? This isn’t the way we use the word metaphor, of course, since we make a distinction between literal and metaphorical, but it seems to me the distinction is rather flimsy. A so-called literal phrase might be “I understand you.” However, as John has pointed out, I am not literally standing under you. So is it not just a metaphor that has come to be taken as literal over time? Are literal expressions not just cases where we have forgotten the metaphorical aspects of them?
@@lucasfabisiak9586 yes, I think that's right
If 34 was my least favorite, 37 is my most, so far. Not sure where to access the show notes (I don't find them on UA-cam) but I watched twice and made my own (a first). I feel hopeful.
I deeply appreciate YOUR time JV ❤️🍄 you bring about a new found understanding of what I’m thinking about alot this series. I quit my job dec 31 2021 and decided to take a mental break from life but than February freedom convoy happened and i watched the entire show through live streams and found a “comunitas” as you put it. But i also witnessed a horror and I’ve been existentially entrapped since in a combitorial explosion i have been labeling it “a set of dominos falling” i still am cause it sums it up easier for my listeners(1-2 people) but i see alot of things that make sense and i throw them i to my pot and try and form who i am from that and im not sure if i am even making sense of that anymore… i play with this madness in hopes i will become alright but when i turn in application forms to a new job blank cause i trust my self deception to show me what I really should be doing in my life more and im not sure if thats heart or gut or mind making that anxious decision for me to stop people pleasing and be patient with myself untill I definitely defeated the “dragon” or else i end back here a year or two from now. So I deeply appreciate this series of lectures and understanding you have formed i do hope I finish this and conquer my inner wars. I just lack the ability to ponder and than have a dialogue about that so i feel mad at times and melancholic in other times. P.S i also am embarrassingly poor with my grammar and punctuation but just haven’t time to unlearn it proper in my chaos so I appreciate all that don’t cut me down for my flaws
This episode is evidently where it all starts! Still plugging away while I have time and really enjoying it. Thanks John. Also at 38:00 when you say you "try" to get into the flow state... My man, you are so far into the flow state in all of these lectures, it shines so bright it's blinding and inspiring. 👏👏🙏
John John John.... thank you. This work is truly excellent.
Why does this video only have 20,000 views in 3 years? I hope more people discover that learning can be more that just a ritual that needs to be done to procure a job.
My great aunt laura has a conspiracy theory about grandma. She believes that my great aunt linda moved grandma's dead body in the cemetery from one part of the cemetery to another. They have been fighting for 20+ years over this. The Absurd nailed it for me. 😊 . Sending love, and honor 💜.
First! Soooo Excited!! :-) I just caught up on this series a few days ago and I'm so glad I have the day off to watch the Fri. release!! I've been interested in philosophy/theology/Yoga/Buddhism for most of my life and this is probably the best video series I've seen on such topics .I also recently got interested in Psychology (Jung) semiotics and the addition of cognitive science is just a dump truck of cherries on top!! I can't thank you enough for doing this!!!
The second half of this lecture really rung some bells... especially the mentioning of the scientia intuitiva. It actually caused a physical reaction. Goosebumps, yet I am unable to say why at this moment.
This is a remarkably fair and balanced depiction of the events. I’m surprised, CBC. Credit where credit is due. However, I still hold CBC in contempt for its shambolic coverage of the pandemic in general.
If anyone needs a transcript we've made them for this & all episodes here: www.meaningcrisis.co/ep-37-awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-reverse-engineering-enlightenment-part-2/
John I really think if you made your structural, functional, developmental diagram into an app or book or evolving blog or something you would have the makings of the religion that's not a religion. Implicit in the wisdom practices are the different types of knowing and the use of psycho technologies layed bare, practical and ready for use.
I've heard your working on the book so basically I'm saying this better be in there, or else, ......or else......I got nothing
Great lecture John, but l would add a few things such as understanding our dysfunctional attachment styles, increasing our emotional intelligence and working with maladaptive emotional schemas, dismantaling body armoury, opening up parasympathetic shutdown, stabalizing sympathetic flight, working with emotional dead spots, dealing with dissociation, splitting and trauma and most importantly of all intergrating your inferior function or your shadow personality type.
I Watch your lectures in “lectura divina” mode
please elaborate im fascinated :D :D :D
Thanks John.
Thanks Lee.
wow. taoism as religion of flow. never thought of it this way! but it is!
Based on what I've learned from this series I thought that Taoism was the religion of opponent processing. I suppose once you learn that both opposites are needed then you understand that you should dynamically flow between the two.
Wonderful. And I love the no yelling. : )
Yelling is the best part!
I believe it is worth it to be careful of reciprical narrowing here. In trying to set the foundation for enlightenment, there are many paths to be agknolaged. When you mention Socraties, Aristotle, Jesus as potential gurus, I think it imporant to mention a more diverse group.
Socraties, Jesus, Muhammad, Sidhartha, Lau tzu, maybe even Eckhart Tolle or Deepak Chopra, to name just a few more.
I am deeply interested in your work. As I haven't finished this series, I will refrane from commenting more. I think you are aware of this already, but I will still mention it - The more specific you get, the more people will have to exaptat your process to their worldview. Love you John, thank you.
Thank you, Professor....
Polymath Park NOTES!
O [Optmization]
Parasitic processing (always re-wires itself “if you try to one shot it”, kind of like coming out of talk therapy and only remembering one catchy maxim.
Self-reflection ----> reflectiveness gap ---> flow state
Modal conf
Develop by functioning ----> existential inertia, existential ignorance
Function by developing ------^
The gnostics talked about this paradox as existential entrapment. L.A. Paul and Agnes Callard?? On her book on aspiration. This is talking about the issue of never being able to have the questions about our existence fully answered by any one philosophy. This instills what is known as Existential Humility, as opposed to domicide, I suppose.
The Buddha talked of the Goldsmith. Gold is valuable, the mind is valuable. Gold is fun to look at, but that does nothing. The goldsmith melts it down (high dose psychedelics/religious ritual/transformative experience), then he must forge it, shaping it. It becomes “as he says, ‘weildly’, you can wield it, it fits in your hand well”, it adorns you properly, etc. This reminds me of stone wrapping, and how I felt that everyone should try it, give it a good go and see what they can create.
The reflectiveness gap and flow.
Your attention is simultaneously bottom-up from features and top-down from the gestalt.
Spinosa talked about how we have an intuitive knowledge. If you practice the ethics, you see the meta-argument in each premise.
Prajna- a self-liberating state of wisdom, as DT Suzuki says “A state in which you’re simultaneously looking in as deep as you can and looking out as deep as you can.
Vervake says “Practice scaling down to the farthest extent, the pure consciousness event (that meditation taps into) and scaling up to this sense of profound, resonant at-onement with everything”
IDENTITY AND THE SAGE/ANXIETY/OCD/COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE/EVOLUTIONARY NEUROSCIENCE:
Internalizing the sage, and indwelling the sage. [keep sage form] The state of “indwelling” meaning the pen example1, where you’re tapping around a cup trying to identify the object with just a pen instead of your hand or eyes. This is what we’re doing with our incorporation of philosophical maxims, protocols we try to adopt. This is also a big part of CBT, and any talk therapy, one has to introspect deeply to integrate the lessons and have a discourse with the self. Then, when the moment arises, they must choose to walk away from the fight. They must put forth genuine effort to call upon their “thought police”, always keeping their thoughts within boundaries (CBT).
This also brings to mind Ian McGhilchrist’s work on split brain theories, and how it seems to suggest that much of conversation may be taking place as a trade off between the logical, framing left brain and the more out-of-the-box-thinking right brain. NOTE! (Remember, this does not suggest that people can be wholly “left brained logical” or “right brain creative”, that logic is ancient and flawed. We are very necessarily both.
All of my studies in psychology, psychiatry(paranoid schizophrenia), linguistics in neuroscience, evolutionary neuroscience, CBT, and philosophy all seem to converge on this concept of having a relative dichotomy between the hemispheres of the brain. Furthermore, that that dichotomy can begin to lean over time as a person develops (due to ecological impression, not from genetics), or one side may become over excited due to a spike in neural activity causing paranoid delusion/split personality disorder/auditory hallucinations (schizophrenia). All this relies on the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres.
He says that Jacob hill is trying to “get coherence, a kind of communitas, that is directed towards engaging the collective intelligence of distributed cognition (remember that most of our real-world problem solving, contrary to the bs we tell ourselves like we’re self made individuals), most of our problem-solving is done in concert (serious play, concert music) so he extends towards a state of coherence in which we are creating a kind of communitas that is marshalling distributed cognition and its collective intelligence for simultaneously freeing us from the ways in which we are boxed in (like the 9-dot problem) by our historical -cultural cognitive grammar, access the other kinds of knowing, and bring that to bear on the problems that we are facing.”
We’re seeing a whole “set of practice for bringing out authentic discourse that can really address the issues of alienation.” I’m glad to say I’ve personally observed a relative surge in this area as well.
SUMMARY:
Perennial Problems!
1. Religio - the processes that make us adaptive intelligently also make us vulnerable to self-deception and self-destruction
2. Address parasitic processing with a counter-active dynamical system
3. Address modal confusion with cultivation of Sati
4. Addres reflectiveness gap with cultivation of flow
5. Absurdity with prajna
Anxiety with a process of internalizing and indwelling the “sage” (keep sage form)
Alienation with communitas, this just seems like a fancy way of saying “get past a feeling of alienation by not alienating yourself by going out and dern.t”
Enlightenment is the ameloriation and alleviation of these Perennial problems. These got danged paradoxes of the human condition.
Thank you John 🙂💚
At around 18:00 John mentioned the complexity of mapping out how the perennial problems interact. Before that he gave some examples though. I wonder if there are archetypical interactions that people could use to identify themselves or others so they knew what practices (which solve those specific problems) they needed to incorporate into their lives.
45:00 ~ 47:00 Would the UA-cam equivalent of Lectio Divina be *Spectio Divina* ?
Because I think that's what I'm doing with this series.
Stephen I just wanted to thank you for your enthusiastic support.
47:57 I think there may be another answer for anxiety especially social anxiety that involves a combination of self love practices and an almost Taoist belief in "doing by not doing" by being truly authentic to who you are every moment. I guess this could also be a version of the sage as well. Your sage would be someone that represents the love you wished you had for yourself. The only challenge with the sage I fear, is what if the sage we want to be isn't compatible with who we truly are? It might be better to start from a place of truly understanding, accepting, and loving yourself first, so that you then become your own sage, you want to live as the best version of yourself. Once you've made some headway in that direction, you can start being that person for as many moments in as many situations as possible. Once you start having success as your best self, you no longer doubt it's possible, and anxiety is gone. You've found a tool to beat it. And that's all anyone needs in any fight. A tool and a little success.
“The eye by which I see god is the same eye by which god sees me.”
You are God playing to not know Who He/She is.
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
Hi John, 1st thanks for the videos, them are really really good.
2nd I wanted to ask if you have a complete list of book to read in order.
Wasn't it DT Susuki who helped train WWII Japanese soldiers to experience a Zen at-one-ment instead of doubt or horror when ordered to participate in atrocities for the empire? Agape indeed.
I wonder if he'd consider Zen a "totalitarian ideology" for this.
Raptors!
41:52 Addressing absurity
It's all for play in the same way as flowers exploding with color or heavy rain smacking the sidewalk. Thank you professor.
here's my opinion tell me yours:
the craziest most intense version of communitas happens right now in music especially things like drum circles, group chants at concerts, dancing together, etc.
whats a stronger version of communitas than that?
I have experienced this in religious ceremony or fellowship, but am a musician and can also relate to the experience to which you refer. Probably the strongest I ever felt it (as an almost palpable 'thing') was when playing in a massive musician's circle after a Scottish festival late into the night. Can still remember the entire circle more or less abandoning instruments near the end of the night and singing 'Shenandoah' together spontaneously. The harmony, and the accompanying spiritual and bodily sensations, are something I have wished I could recapture ever since. I don't know if everyone felt it the same way I did (I was not even acquainted with most of them personally) but I will never forget that evening.
There is a white chapel across the street from a beautiful and prestigious University. Down the block a man stands next to his home on the sidewalk. He has crazy eyes, doing finger guns at passing cars.
Up the street people build their lives and learn and pray. Down the street a women pushes her life around in a shopping cart.
There is great meaning here. like a finger pointing it's way to the moon, but all I can see is the finger, because I see with my eyes and do not perceive with my mind.
Transparency opacity shift within the self.
My face is that of transformation, and the face of transformation is death. A churning kaleidoscope of flesh.
It's like a finger pointing it's way to the moon. If you focus on the finger you lose all the heavenly glory.
nice
10:30 - mentioned notes, where are these?
Is there an ongoing discussion group somewhere online for these lectures? Or just a few people who wanna talk about it on Twitter/ insta?
t.me/joinchat/AAAAAFCO6ELkOCx9RgJ2yQ
I'm on a FB group specifically looking at this series and related material JV discusses
Jase the-ace i would like a place to talk but i’m off social media. If there was an alternative i be very involved. Maybe i should start one..?
I'm not on FB.
Honestly we could just discuss each video here in the comments. Probably the easiest option. Lol. I wanted create notes/ transcripts for each vid.
@@arvoart7731 I wish you would . Notes on the serries would be helpful
Hey John... is there a reason the books you mention in the video are no longer listed in the description in this, and subsequent episodes?
He's talking about the things Baha'is or anyone needs to cultivate and practice to consult and discover and arrive at the truth in any context.
Does anyone know which episode of the Meaning Crisis goes into the frame problem? I'm current on the series but can't keep straight where all the ideas come in 😕
30:00 ~ 32:00 Gold purification/molding as analogous to "neural annealing" in meditation. 👍
Related: opentheory.net/2018/12/the-neuroscience-of-meditation/
I had a philosophy lecturer at the University if Queensland who talked like this chap. He was a schizophrenic.
Did I understand it right that Buddha developed his teaching 2.5 thousand years ago to help Americans in 21st century with their boredom and procrastination? I am starting to guess that Jesus Christ went to Golgotha for the same purpose.
Perhaps the best example I’ve seen of Authentic Dialog (AD) is the recently released conversation between Guy Sengstock and Paul Vanderklay ( ua-cam.com/video/7dshAsIDP7I/v-deo.html ) on Transformational Listening. I’ve Circled with Guy, and have practiced circling for four years, and I also deeply appreciate and recognize Paul’s approach to ministering as dialog, and still I’m surprised and delighted by how exemplary the interaction in the linked video is, and how it demonstrates the effectiveness of AD as a response to alienation by deeply recovering the deep sense of self that may have been lost due to developmental enfoldment of perspectives as one makes ones way through maturity. Each of us has true perceptual sense-making capacities unique to our upbringing that are often unconscious and inaccessible and which can be re-activated through the practice of AD. It’s also a demonstration that this reactivating is unique to each individual; not simply a rote set of instructions, but a deeply personal engagement.
This also brings to mind Thich Nhat Hanh’s idea that the next Buddha may be a sangha, a community of practitioners. And perhaps not only one, but several. What I see Vervaeke promoting is broad and far reaching, and much more than any one individual could implement as a single teaching or practice. Jamie Wheal and others are doing fantastic work with Flow, the various Circling and Authentic Relating communities are bringing deep relational practices, and the deeper practices of mindfulness, embodied awareness, and contemplative practices are likely to all play a part together. I look forward to seeing these various approaches become more widely accessible and loosely coupled to allow people to find their best path through this ecology of psycho technologies, in order to address the perennial problems mentioned. I am certain we can do this without to creating new dogma, though I imagine that avoiding dogma may be one of the more interesting challenges.
What does "noumenous" mean? Is it related to Kant's noumenon?
Does anyone have a descriptive list of the technical terms used for this series? I find that many of the terms used are impossible to google.
Perhaps you heard 'numinous' (meaning "arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring")? The adjective in English deriving from Kant's noumenon is usual 'noumenal'.
@@russellsharpe288 Thank you, that was very helpful.
@@russellsharpe288 Just to add to your comment. It's from Rudolf Otto speaking about just the things you describe in the definition. @Eske Andersen: Vervaeke gets into this in the lecture about horror ep. 34. No need to watch everything all over.
What’s the intro song called? I forgot the title and it’s killing me.
Erik Satie - Gymnopédies
😉👉😋👉 change love 😊
Again with mechanical metaphors