The Meaning Crisis, Platonism and Mystical Experiences | John Vervaeke

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  • @alexast1457
    @alexast1457 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    You can tell Vervaeke is the real deal. Such a humble yet knowledgeable philosopher. I love watching him interact with other podcasters because he always brings such a lightheartedness and sincerity in his presence and work. Awakening from the Meaning Crisis has been so profound in my life for its practicality and for the hope it brings.

    • @MattFRox
      @MattFRox ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same here regarding AftMC series. I remember a few years ago I was wrestling with how to language my feelings toward Vervaeke; long story short I was like "Oh s#|T! He's my hero!" I had never had a living intellectual hero until then.

    • @matthewparlato5626
      @matthewparlato5626 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@MattFRox Matt's think alike

    • @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858
      @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 ปีที่แล้ว

      Milton Erickson is the reincarnation of Socrates

    • @the11382
      @the11382 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I found his work can become too propositional sometimes. I used to be in the AFTMC discord server, but it became a distraction from growth for me. His talks can help, but they don't substitute the ecology of practices you should be doing.
      I think his wisdom can be spread more effectively if he goes to the institutions instead of staying in his network as well.
      There might be potential for an even greater synthesis with some opponent processing(not adversarial processing). Humility is no substitute for dialogos.

  • @Aandreus
    @Aandreus ปีที่แล้ว +13

    John Vervaeke is like the guy at the office that makes you want to keep showing up no matter how lame or hard the office work is. His thoughts, writings and philosophical concepts of "cathedral consciousness" have been a game changer for me. Thank you, John!

    • @janthonycologero9206
      @janthonycologero9206 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Likewise. Really giving me some ontological meat to bite into!

  • @pantherstealth1645
    @pantherstealth1645 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    John is one of my few current day heroes. Legit.

  • @PeripheralWisdom
    @PeripheralWisdom ปีที่แล้ว +5

    bumping the algorithm for this

  • @monikabravoiamoptimist
    @monikabravoiamoptimist 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    John vervaeke is a treasure.

  • @psyfiles7351
    @psyfiles7351 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pretty incredible the people you get on here!!

  • @ezreality
    @ezreality ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good podcast Thank you... This is what I learned from my mystical out-of-the-body experience. The Ultimate Truth About Life!
    Life is a circle, with no beginning or end.
    Life gives existence to all that exists.
    Life is real, life is true, life good, life is right.
    Man is the paragon of life.
    Man is life incarnate.
    Man is Eternal Life.
    Love Life!

  • @nancybartley4610
    @nancybartley4610 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, John, for realizing some of us need help with your vocabulary.

  • @gideonsalbato5328
    @gideonsalbato5328 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    best vervaeke vid out there. connects socrates, zen, jung, philosophical contemporaries, etc, with many insights

  • @CreativeArtandEnergy
    @CreativeArtandEnergy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve recently started tuning into some of the conversations John Vervaeke is sharing recently about wisdom. It’s been inspiring.

  • @hamzaalikhoso6688
    @hamzaalikhoso6688 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Woohoo this is going to be awesome!

  • @donovan665
    @donovan665 ปีที่แล้ว

    The repeated use of 'profound', using propositional argument in favour of non-propositional knowledge and steering far from sense, have left a tear in my eye. Thank you.

  • @quest-1-on
    @quest-1-on ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am so excited right now!!

  • @janthonycologero9206
    @janthonycologero9206 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey guys, we're ready for round 2. Go deeper! Deep into the convergence between the Eastern and Western mystical traditions, Jung, Neoplatonism, mystical poetry, dialogical Self and the phenomenology of walking around in these higher states. Among other practices, I do John's walking meditation every night with the dog. The profound feeling of Oneness and flowing with the Tao/logos has been and continues to feel true, and beautiful. Ultimately, binding the roots of connectedness to reality. Thank you both so much. Looking forward to the next!

  • @J-Train
    @J-Train ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hello everyone. Been looking forward to this for some time now!

  • @thegodofwar3744
    @thegodofwar3744 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The character floating on a boat, heart a flame and transcending and bypassing the multitudes of distractions in the short film, "I pet goat, II" comes to mind in conversations such as this. Wisdom is floating upon the waters

  • @zacharyh6361
    @zacharyh6361 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi. I've been listening to John's talks all over TH-cam recently. Thank you for having him on, his values and ideas very much resonate with me.

  • @Flowstatepaint
    @Flowstatepaint ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You have a way of getting to the heart in these intellectuals 🫧🪞🫧

  • @thelucidinstitute
    @thelucidinstitute ปีที่แล้ว

    love John. it's nice here to see his more intimate/personal side.

  • @grace-being
    @grace-being ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2 of my favorite speakers in 1 podcast. Love it!🎉

  • @chrisharding5206
    @chrisharding5206 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    At min 42 I resonate with your assessment of most RELIGIOUS spirituality. It’s James Fowler’s spiritual formation / maturity model on level 3 - bowing down to the ultimate source of being and enter a programme of thought, word and deed / behaviour modification. And most religious institutions need people to stay at level 3 rather than mature further. Also spiritual is seen as some separate mystical reality rather than an integral dynamic dimension of being human. Certainly in the Christian world it shows they haven’t read their own scriptures very deeply. Oh well. Thanks for helping me sharpen my thinking. First time on your channel but have gained a lot from John many times. Keep exploring.

  • @cam-inf-4w5
    @cam-inf-4w5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like how the hero's journey is literally step one of Plato's journey. Its like the initiation for something bigger. Its just the beginning instead of accepting and flatlining.

  • @kolosamosti
    @kolosamosti ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hell yeah! Exciting stuff :)

  • @vibrati0nal
    @vibrati0nal ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was incredible. Thank you.

  • @sisu413
    @sisu413 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I absolutely LOVE your podcast/YT!! You and Jesse Michels are my favs ❤ thank you for always having amazing guests and wonderful topics 🥰

  • @AdrianHackman
    @AdrianHackman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Virvaeke flips everything I presumed on it's head. I thought it was all about: Kant, Freud, Jung and Nietszche. I have to read about Plato and Plotinus.

  • @adamaronovich
    @adamaronovich ปีที่แล้ว

    looking forward to this one

  • @MeaningSeekerPod
    @MeaningSeekerPod ปีที่แล้ว

    You keep flowing, you keep bringing the tip level content...and, I keep loving it. 👏👏

  • @chantlive24
    @chantlive24 ปีที่แล้ว

    great

  • @GilbertGryfud-mu3zi
    @GilbertGryfud-mu3zi 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I believe animals are aware of their mortality too

  • @aineduffy1006
    @aineduffy1006 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love what Jon has done....van you interview also Stephen Jenkinson from Orphan Wisdom School🙏

  • @susannaemmerich1166
    @susannaemmerich1166 ปีที่แล้ว

    I could listen to you all day, thank you!!!!🙃🙏🎶🎶🎶🎶

  • @paradisecostarica4986
    @paradisecostarica4986 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great podcast!

  • @GilbertGryfud-mu3zi
    @GilbertGryfud-mu3zi 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have enjoyed and learned so much from all of these types of discussions. And this one as well, but I have never seen one where the roles of the two were completely inverted, the host acting like the expert and the guest, the interviewer, apologizing for talking too much when in fact, it was the other way around

    • @THIRDEYEDROPS
      @THIRDEYEDROPS  15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Sorry you didn’t enjoy it

  • @enExima
    @enExima ปีที่แล้ว

    So good .. thank you*

  • @DrIIGerMusic
    @DrIIGerMusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is no “falling in love” with the sacredness, it is not a verb. In sacredness love is. It’s beyond time therefore no action (falling into ). I do appreciate the poetry.

  • @chrisharding5206
    @chrisharding5206 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Min 46 was an AHA moment - if reality isn’t showing up unexpected - it isn’t a new pixel reality of reality. It’s you.

  • @curryhamilton9
    @curryhamilton9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing podcast like always. I was wonder if you’ve heard of Paul Chek. His information and life experiences are life changing. I would love to see you guys in a podcast. Thank you for your works.

  • @qMartink
    @qMartink 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    brilliant

  • @CreativeArtandEnergy
    @CreativeArtandEnergy ปีที่แล้ว

    I want to stick around more through learning subjects. I get this sense of exhilaration about learning new things that oftentimes leads to starting a bunch of new things at once. Maybe I work on that in the new year. lol ❤

  • @halawallah95
    @halawallah95 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great conversation. Just a note that Parmenides didn't go up but down. The chariot doesn't mean going up because Hades has a chariot for going to and from yhe underworld. Parmenides went down because he saw the Night Palaces and met the goddess there. He met Persephone in the underworld. Peter Kingsley explained the whole thing about Parmenides in his book In the Dark Places of Wisdom.

    • @THIRDEYEDROPS
      @THIRDEYEDROPS  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ah-ha!

    • @halawallah95
      @halawallah95 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indeed. If you can, I think you should invite Peter Kingsley to your podcast. It would definitely be great.@@THIRDEYEDROPS

    • @pariaheep
      @pariaheep ปีที่แล้ว

      Not knowing if you go up or down is part of the initiation... see Eshers' staircase drawings.

  • @gkannon77
    @gkannon77 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice catch.

  • @kpllc4209
    @kpllc4209 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always find it strange and sad that people like John always talk about mystical experiences, but it seems like nobody ever stops to ask what they are.

  • @johtfloridaman6227
    @johtfloridaman6227 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cognition as we know it, require embodiment -- but we don't know other modes of cognition might exist without embodiment/carnation

  • @zaxehammer
    @zaxehammer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Regarding the myth of becoming a daimon after death: Socrates (the sage, someone who lived well, "did it right") did that by becoming a daimon for those who internalize him afterward. Plausible interpretation?

  • @trukxelf
    @trukxelf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why read Plato without Hegel? We’ve had plenty of time to posit that the biggest illusion in the cave is the one where you think there’s an outside.

    • @Jacob011
      @Jacob011 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      D. C. Schindler Plato's Critique of Impure Reason

  • @hermanhale9258
    @hermanhale9258 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WANTED - I am hoping to find there exists some kind of encyclopedia of the history of Ideas where concepts such as reborn, ultimate reality, the one, the world-soul and other philosophical terms are laid out from the beginning of history. Who, what, where, when information on people or cultures who introduced and/or accepted these ideas. Not a New Age book, but factual entries, a cut and dry history of ideas. Anyone?

    • @theuniques1199
      @theuniques1199 ปีที่แล้ว

      Concepts don't come from anywhere because the Universe(ultimate reality) always conceptualizes itself(knows itself, proof of itself) as the Universe(ultimate reality). As Alan Watts says what happens once always happens once or it doesn't happen at all. What's more important the theory of right now or right now therefore right now is the theory of right now because right now always first believes it exist right now to know it always first believes it exist right now.

    • @williamjmccartan8879
      @williamjmccartan8879 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/play/PLEwpMD47png4zQ9gXjbsyHZCFC0gaeyRf.html&si=Ft6OWIvhiXCgWe-7
      Its not much, but I've been building a podcast library for the last few years, maybe you find it useful, peace

    • @pariaheep
      @pariaheep ปีที่แล้ว

      Try the heroic dose of p s y l o ...

    • @hermanhale9258
      @hermanhale9258 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theuniques1199 The universe can't be Ultimate Reality, it can only be material reality. I thought there was something more.

  • @lukesandy04
    @lukesandy04 ปีที่แล้ว

    Two minutes in and the synchronicities have begun.

  • @artemismoonbow2475
    @artemismoonbow2475 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ramakrishna talks about the Goddess (Nature) loving her games of hid n seek. And the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra says, "Like a mother enticing children with treats to get them where they need to be, so do I bring you to me."

  • @Len124
    @Len124 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm always skeptical of placing public intellectuals on pedestals, transforming them into "thought-leaders" through cults of personality that put the individual on par with the ideas in terms of importance. A perfect example of this, IMO, is Jordan Peterson. Certain aspects of his work clearly filled a niche for certain overlapping demographics, but it quickly escalated until he became a locus of near-reverence among his followers (a word I don't choose lightly), and I think through ambition and audience capture, ended up conflating his professional and political aims in a way that ultimately undermined the benefits of his self-improvement program and the coherence of his philosophical output. While I enjoyed some of his lectures, I was never as drawn to him as some because, from my perspective at least, he seemed to play fast and loose with certain concepts from the field we share in common--Psychology--and created his own definitions of philosophical concepts like Post-Modernism that seemed to prioritize political valence over clarity or historical precedent. His public behaviour also seemed antithetical to the role of a clinician; including targeting individuals on social media in ways that could be considered toxic and instead of providing an example of psychological stability, he could come across as unhinged. I hold these views irrespective of the content of his political statements, but rather his role as a public clinician and intellectual. I don't believe one has to make a judgement one way or the other on the merits of his political opinions to criticize the influence that injecting politics into his self-help and philosophical work has had on the underlying message and his audience.
    So, why do I bring up Jordan Peterson? Because I think John Vervaeke, as a cognitive scientist with an interest in rational approaches to transcendent practices, could satisfy a similar need in our society, but without the considerable baggage. I think Peterson, to his credit, tapped into something our secular, Post-Industrial, nihilistic society is lacking: _meaning._ However, John seems to approach these ideas from a more naturalistic, cognitive, and evolutionary framework that takes the more-or-less materialistic ontology developed since the Scientific Revolution and Age of Enlightenment for granted, as opposed to the supernatural metaphysics of the traditional, religious justifications for said practices. That's not to say Peterson wasn't working from a scientific framework, but that he was much more slippery regarding his religious assumptions. Based on watching "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" and "After Socrates," it's clear that the standard John holds himself to and the metric by which he aims to judge his work is that which the scientific method demands: _truth,_ as determined not only by the rationality of his hypotheses, but their falsifiability. It's not the degree to which they fit the current political zeitgeist, nor the charisma of the individual proposing the ideas, and it's not based how many self-help books are sold, but the merit of the ideas themselves.

  • @mattcapitalized
    @mattcapitalized ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Vervaeke has gone so deep it’s silly

  • @chrisharding5206
    @chrisharding5206 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Min 48 - I would like to hear a conversation about unreceptive people who hold fast to their own BS. In my contemplation on these things, it seems to me that we can call that the EGOIC self (as Tolle might do) vs the soul self (true self) who is the me that longs to know who I really am and where I belong. It’s why Yeshua says to Nicodemus who was at the top of his game “you can’t get there from here Nico…you have to start from a different place (be born again).”

  • @tatsumakisempyukaku
    @tatsumakisempyukaku 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think vervaeke calling everything “a narcicism,” when one is trying to ascertain if whether or not there are transcendent is one way of seeing it, but not everything is narcissism, John. The ONE, if it is theee non plural singular, is precisely above and transcendent and other than that which is mutually arising and inter-depending..namely the one transcends the many in that way the super natural is above the natural, if what we mean by natural is the interdependence of the many. The ONE is simultaneously present or permeates the many, but also transcends it and so is not equated with it.

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    @troysmurras593 ปีที่แล้ว +27

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      @KaitlynHovis ปีที่แล้ว +1

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      @Agustincantero-kt2sr ปีที่แล้ว +1

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      @JulietaJurado-lp5sb ปีที่แล้ว

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      @AriadnaBotero ปีที่แล้ว

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      @Rafaelaisa-pd8gw ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @justinsabaj6349
    @justinsabaj6349 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m watching this instead of the debate on 9-10-2024

  • @j0dead300
    @j0dead300 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video. Anyone interested in platonism, neo platonism and specifically Catholicism’s adoption of its principles should really check out the ‘Presence of God’ series of books by Bernard McGinn. Amazing collection!!!

    • @THIRDEYEDROPS
      @THIRDEYEDROPS  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Interesting thanks for the tip!

  • @toddbutler3155
    @toddbutler3155 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would Vervaeke regard Kripal’s “superhumanities” as harboring occulted narcissism?

  • @rsandy4077
    @rsandy4077 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The problem I find with philosophy in general including Platonism is this aspect of the dependence on your knowledge, the dependence on reason. It’s like what was said early in the talk about being sure that you got the right understanding. It seems that one can never be sure of the truth by philosophy alone. That’s why a religion that share the core ideas of platonism for example, like knowing that one does not know, I find better exemplified in Jesus welcoming little children because of such belong to the kingdom of heaven. Depending on God is better, because you do not have to be accurate or self regulate your knowledge, but it is simply a receiving of God in the person of Jesus like a child. Reading the letter to the Corinthians should make this point clearer.

  • @dieselphiend
    @dieselphiend ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonder is the perfect mental state.

  • @junuthun
    @junuthun ปีที่แล้ว

    “I know one thing, that I know nothing.” -Socrates

  • @frankiefrank4853
    @frankiefrank4853 ปีที่แล้ว

    The editing and censorship? What's that about?

  • @DrIIGerMusic
    @DrIIGerMusic ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Animals know they are going to die too. You can’t say they don’t. I’ve seen it. They know death they fear it and run away from it.

    • @whatupdun
      @whatupdun ปีที่แล้ว

      Fear and run from it yes, but how can you say "animals *know* they are going to die"?

  • @christopherantiam4663
    @christopherantiam4663 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So close to art you be Im sure wee have salved this puzzle only together will all will be revealed the whole is here me X I see o .

  • @ashleyingraham193
    @ashleyingraham193 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🎼🎇🙏

  • @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858
    @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 ปีที่แล้ว

    Milton Erickson is the reincarnation of Socrates

  • @alexvlair9290
    @alexvlair9290 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Socrates didn't say "I don't know anything", he said "I know nothing"; in my opinion the distinction is important, perhaps another finger-pointing-at-the-moon situation.

  • @lesliegreenhill2389
    @lesliegreenhill2389 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Michael. Why did Plato say that the study of geometry was a way of apprehending the Form of the Good? It has fallen to me to have that job. Come to Melbourne where I live and I will change the way you see the Universe. You will never see the 3:4:5 proportion triangle the same way again. Read what Plutarch has to say about that triangle in Moralia V. Follow your dream.

  • @MatichekYoutube
    @MatichekYoutube ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:35 - how you pronounced - Vervaeke - hahah - Verwacky :D haha

  • @dieselphiend
    @dieselphiend ปีที่แล้ว

    We have a perception problem disguised as a goblin problem.

    • @THIRDEYEDROPS
      @THIRDEYEDROPS  ปีที่แล้ว

      A little of this and a little of that.

  • @artandculture5262
    @artandculture5262 ปีที่แล้ว

    Academia is highly responsible for the actual meaning crisis. So why an academic to sort it?

    • @THIRDEYEDROPS
      @THIRDEYEDROPS  ปีที่แล้ว

      “Academia” is not a monolithic entity.

    • @henrytep8884
      @henrytep8884 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who says it is academia responsibility to sort it? John Vervaeke is just one person out of almost 9 billion people and he is only doing his part as we are all part of the collective intelligence of a cognitive network. It’s not just academia that is highly responsible, it is the entire system, including you.

    • @projectmalus
      @projectmalus ปีที่แล้ว

      Science is separate from the knowledge pool, as the leap of reason for the individuals engaged in feeding, exercising and paying attention to the powerful, often sequestered in different ways, knowledge pool object. Tech also has access to this pool, so perhaps doesn't have the same self correcting capacity as the academic, who can peer review, in academia. Tech can slip into trade language combined with sacred language which can get propositional.

  • @Corey31882
    @Corey31882 ปีที่แล้ว

    Play-doe... Plato, he left his mark in some " hidden in pla-in sight " places!!!

  • @JEKAZOL
    @JEKAZOL 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    John doesn't believe in the soul? That makes the whole discussion insane.

  • @Jacob011
    @Jacob011 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The mispronounciation of his name had me cringing, but your channel looks interesting.

  • @Justineyedia
    @Justineyedia ปีที่แล้ว +1

    socratic irony