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Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

An in-depth collection of notes and transcripts for Dr. John Vervaeke’s groundbreaking series exploring meaning, wisdom, cognitive science, and the paths beyond the modern crisis of meaning.

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Episode	Title
1	Introduction
2	Flow, Metaphor, and the Axial Revolution
3	Continuous Cosmos and Modern World Grammar
4	Socrates and the Quest for Wisdom
5	Plato and the Cave
6	Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution
7	Aristotle's World View and Erich Fromm
8	The Buddha and "Mindfulness"
9	Insight
10	Consciousness
11	Higher States of Consciousness, Part 1
12	Higher States of Consciousness, Part 2
13	Buddhism and Parasitic Processing
14	Epicureans, Cynics, and Stoics
15	Marcus Aurelius and Jesus
16	Christianity and Agape
17	Gnosis and Existential Inertia
18	Plotinus and Neoplatonism
19	Augustine and Aquinas
20	Death of the Universe
21	Luther and Descartes
22	Descartes vs. Hobbes
23	Romanticism
24	Hegel
25	The Clash
26	Cognitive Science
27	Problem Formulation
28	Convergence To Relevance Realization
29	Getting to the Depths of Relevance Realization
30	Relevance Realization Meets Dynamical Systems Theory
31	Embodied-Embedded RR as Dynamical-Developmental GI
32	RR in the Brain, Insight, and Consciousness
33	The Spirituality of RR: Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness
34	Sacredness: Horror, Music, and the Symbol
35	The Symbol, Sacredness, and the Sacred
36	Religio/Perennial Problems/Reverse Eng. Enlightenment
37	Reverse Engineering Enlightenment: Part 2
38	Agape and 4E Cognitive Science
39	The Religion of No Religion
40	Wisdom and Rationality
41	What is Rationality?
42	Intelligence, Rationality, and Wisdom
43	Wisdom and Virtue
44	Theories of Wisdom
45	The Nature of Wisdom
46	Conclusion and the Prophets of the Meaning Crisis
47	Heidegger
48	Corbin and the Divine Double
49	Corbin and Jung
50	Tillich and Barfield

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