John Vervaeke
John Vervaeke is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He is in the Psychology Department and in the Cognitive Science Program and also teaches for the Buddhism psychology and mental health program. He has produced a lot of videos on a lot of various topics. What he wants to do in this series is draw it all together and present to you an overall unified argument that can show you the interconnections between pieces that you might have seen before in previous videos. Now how all this got started is he got very interested in a particular phenomenon where there seemed to be a growing confluence between people who are interested in Buddhism and people who are interested in cognitive science.
What is the Meaning Crisis?
This page presents what the meaning crisis is in the view of John Vervaeke.
In this episode John Vervaeke lays out what will be covered in this series. This time we'll be talking about the connections between meaning making, enhancing cognition, altered states of consciousness, wisdom.