Intimations of a New Worldview, Part 7.3: The Evolutionary Psychology of Meaning (video 3)

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Maslow, A. H. (2021). Religions Values and Peak-Experiences. Rare Treasure Editions.
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[forscherr]

This is so much appreciated, Bret, it just makes so much sense - thank you!

[dalibofurnell]

This is all coming together beautifully. I think that another conversation with John Vervaeke is due, I think it would be a good thing. Perhaps consider something you would like to discuss or bring into a conversation to create a nice dialogue to add to your body of work? If it is not your thing, I get it. This is more than good enough already, I just want to encourage you to keep going, keep growing. Let your light shine ❤‍🔥 Ps- I nearly entered a heavenly realm with this episode, I had to pull myself back with my understanding of the law of gravity and feeling the ground with the souls of my feet I had to come back into a more present awareness and mode of being, or else I would have forgotten about my body. As I am writing this, you speak of what I am saying past my typing. Weird. you just said- music dissolves boundaries... and I had a thought- speaking does that too especially when what is being spoken is truly being listened to. I cannot believe you are ending this video on such a cliffhanger, but I am excited for part 10 and everything in between. Again, beautiful.

[ColemanFoley]

Illustrating how the concepts are represented in music was a great way to wrap up part 7.

[Alex-htoq]

Around the 8 minute mark where you talk about being “altruistically selfish” it seems to be synonymous with the “paradox of tolerance” and how one has to be intolerant of tolerant if you wish to be the most tolerant person, enacting a kind of performative contradiction within a higher goal.