Ep. 33 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - The Spirituality of RR: Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness

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Books in the Video:

- Robert Fuller - Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality
- George Levine - The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now

Thirty-third episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

[PaulVanderKlay]

Wow, this is a big one! I'm excited! I'll have to listen to it a few times before I do much commentary on it. This all has been very very helpful. Thank you!

[edwinnjoroge]

This feels like getting your mind blown by being educated on how your mind gets blown...Thanks John.

[michaelmorrisinfarsi]

Relevance realization and tools against self deception has really helped my OCD. I am listening to this, while cooking salmon. And before I started, I picked up that raw peace of salmon and really felt it with no fear. It’s like the chains of obsessive compulsive disorder are slowly starting to disappear. Thank you so much John Vervaeke 🙏

[mudfondler]

Such a generous act, putting all of these lectures on line.

[rockshowii]

I don't know really why, after your classes I always feel revigorated. Maybe it's because your lessons feels like "Sati", remember how to be alive and how we are living, to truly look into the world and feels that "it" is looking back at us, in a feel of symbiotic oneness. Thank you John, for adding a real solid brick of understanding in my wall of how to understand and appreciate life itself. Keep up the good work.

[yuyurolfer]

I’m in awe after watching this episode. Thank you.

[tclt]

I watched your latest video 2 times now and even talked my wife into watching it instead of Netflix. One of the things I appreciate is the way you brought technical language in distinguishing the primordial pre-reflective ground that Heidegger opened up. But then you clearly showed how this phenomenological mystery opens and folds back on itself in revelation enriching our reflective capacities that then folds back and enrich the primordial ground in trans reflective fittedness. This auto poetic relation through participatory knowing was really clear and powerfully shown. This was a really powerful articulation in new language of what Heidegger called ecstatic time. To me your furthering what Heidegger radically opened in a way I have not seen before. Deep Bow..

[mylesflaig]

“My theory of “vagueness” doesn’t itself have to be vague. In fact, my theory of “vagueness” has to be clear!” 00:40:20 Oh my! I think this should henceforth be labelled the Vervaeke Paradox. ✨😹💫

[MatthewJohnCrittenden]

I vote for 150. I’ll put up the bail money.

[kindenebeker]

It just so happened that at 21 minutes into this video, my room began to become flooded with the gloriously rose-orange glow of a late summer desert sunset. ❤

[andrewseymore]

I’d listen to an extra 100 hours of this!

[dianeobanion]

I can't wait to get to this episode. Got sidetracked way back on 28 with Hegel but I enjoy reading ahead on the comments.

[conornagle]

This episode culminated beautifully within the series. Kairos.

[dalibofurnell]

You know what's also enriching in this? It is to actually go down and read other people's comments it's amazing to see the responses to you, it's like an added effect making this process more beautiful as it unfolds and moves and takes up it's form in the way most optimal set in love and life . Saw your After Socrates trailer, It looks great, congrats John 👏 ❤️🌿

[hydroxyT]

beautiful and comprehensive explanation of religion...it explains so well the teachings of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, whose interpretation of Buddhism was coloured by his own experience of exile from Vietnam, and how his practice of mindful breathing and walking could brings us home to the ‘very here and now’. To me, this practice, which he developed out of his experience of domicide, is the ultimate system of meta-meaning! it protects the agent-arena relationship against any kind of physical (or even meta-physical) displacement

[indianastoned]

As someone who has experienced a direct, sustained encounter with horror and worked towards a feeling of belonging in the world through spirituality this resonates very much with me.

[tigerag]

John is nuts and I love everything about it! Thanks again man!

[lizellevanwyk]

Wow. This hits deep - so much deeper! - after all the work we've been doing. ❤

[mylesflaig]

I am emailing this to my wife and children who have been shaking there heads at me wondering what the heck I have been up to since June 9, 2015. This was the day I picked up my daughter from her school, and the first thing she told me was that they watched a documentary about the oceans. They learned that the oceans would be dead in forty years! She was in grade 8 at the time.

I told her that was unacceptable! We would do something to stop that from happening. Since then I have been in a spiral, circumambulating toward the “ultimate root cause”. In other words, I hVe been on a quest, and relevance realization is my compass 🧭.✨😺💫

[PaulVanderKlay]

Ach! Otto! Holy! Glory! cliffhanger!!!! Next week...