Ep. 50 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Tillich and Barfield
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Fiftieth episode of Dr. John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.
I would like to thank all the people thanking me for the series. I am moved by all the support and kind words. Thank you so very much.
Also, the video with myself and Anderson Todd discussing Jung, the shadow, the meaning crisis, and Jordan Peterson's work will be available Dec. 30th at 12 pm. EST.
John Vervaeke polysemy
Id like to thank you for thanking us for thanking you!
Thanks for the journey. About the post Kantian. For what I understood, I don't believe we are unbounded, we are infinites in probability but not in possibilities. Only the thing out of itself is unbounded. There exist modes of beings that can't be accessed by humans never ever.
Thank you! This was a really really good deed. God bless you!
@@SymbolsPatternsGnosis Can you elaborate your words? Where can i fing your proofs that Peterson and Vervaeke are harmful?
This is a life-changing series. Thank you for your time and attention!
I agree, I was hesitant at first, thinking it was going to be yet another re-run of the same old stuff, but I have found many nuggets in this series.
This is the Western Civ. course we all should have access to as undergrads.
You have not “taxed” us, John. We gladly pay the tribute of our time to listen to your wisdom, it’s been worth every minute. I’m SO grateful for your work and teaching. Many thanks!!
Wow, as you were closing out there, John, I burst into tears. Floodgates, let loose. The gravity of 50 days of watching these episodes finally dawned on me.
Thank you, thank you so very deeply. From me and my wife, who I was so fortunate to have had as a philosophical companion throughout this journey, in love and in dialogue in ongoing discovery of this, truly, inexhaustible fount of insight. That is what this series will mean to me in my ongoing journey to live up to, in some way, the most excellent way you have so virtuously exemplified in this opus of a series. To me, it fits your definition of the sacred.
Thank you for your grace, your humility, your tact, your deft, eloquence, passion and by the beard of Zeus, man, your wisdom. Thank you for all the great schematic diagrams, the beautifully consistent language (or grammar perhaps? To learn to speak of these matters) developed throughout. My favourite concept of which was anagoge. Thank you for just that, even. My wife happens to be Persian, lucky for me, and she cried out in joy at your acknowledgement of the contribution of Persian philosophy to both West and East. She also fervently agreed with your characterization of the deep "remembering" of the Iranian people. She tells me that as kids in Tehran they would play games of reciting lines of the poetry of Hafez, Rumi, Khayam, Ferdowsi etc trying to see who could get the lines to match the best. That sounds like a beautifully good serious play. Thank you deeply for the (I believe 2) times you graciously pointed this oft forgotten but beautiful moment in the history of philosophy.
My final insight of watching the series, as I was pondering what I must do in order to become the person I could be and I saw, really really saw, felt, became aware of, whatever, that that very struggle is the way. If I'm going to aspire to be wise the very struggle to do so is the way. Struggling in a cathartic sense.
Once again, a heartfelt and sincere thank you! I can't say it enough.
Until next time,
Thank you so very much for you eloquent and kind words. They touched me deeply and I profoundly appreciate what you said. Such feedback is deeply encouraging. I wish you and your wife all the best in your journey forward. Thank you 🙏
This series has been ineffablly relavant and meaningful. These tears and joy and beauty and sense of freedom cannot be expressed in words. How you have opened all these doors...
"..the nothingness of despair is transformed into the revelation of no-thingness as inexhaustible being meaning"
“When we stop trying to push away the nothingness, but have instead an imaginal relationship to it and move through it anagogically in an imaginal fashion with the nothingness of God, then we overcome meaninglessness.”
The distinction between letting be and breaking through. How they co-exist. Wow.
Well framed. Thank you.
My mother is a Christian, my father is Jewish and I myself am a Muslim. I think we theists can learn a great deal from nontheism. I am grateful to the Divine Reality for being capable of producing a John Vervaeke. Thank you for sharing your loving knowledge, professor Vervaeke.
Your work Dr. Vervaeke will not only be remembered it will be revered. Thank you for your energy in demonstrating your understanding as you have showed that during existential problems or crisis it is the capacity for relevance realisation as well as to have the participatory knowledge that will provide a constructive meaningful frame of our cognitive existence.
Every episode, no exceptions made, Mr. Vervaeke ended with thanking the listeners, the viewers and me for our time? This man thanked us? Me? For listening?
And every episode, no exceptions made, I thanked you Mr. Vervaeke, in return.
I said it out loud, as if you could hear it.
I said it out loud, deeply enriched with insights and paralyzed with this electrifying fascination.
I said it out loud, indescribably grateful and awestruck by your agapic love.
Thank YOU Mr. Vervaeke! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
Thank you for educating me, thank you for inspiring me, thank you for enlightening me,
and thank you before all,
for making me human. ❤️
I've watched the 50 hours.
I think this talk is no less than HISTORIC.
3 last words : "One and all" ... it sum up everything !!! AWEsome.
Thank You, John. It has been an amazing journey. With some close friends, we studied this for almost two years (1 episode a week plus many pauses) and shared thoughts and opinions on every episode. Personally, I have to say, it made me a better being, with more awareness and wisdom. It made me a new agent in a larger arena and for this, I am infinitely grateful and indebted. "Thank you very much for Your time and attention" in bringing us this masterpiece
Excellent series, I learned a lot. I'd pay for a glossary and some slides to go along with this which I could use to re watch all these lectures in order for a better understanding.
Mark Lefebvre Second!
Yes! More please. 💫
You can find the entirety of the series transcribed along with the slides over here: www.meaningcrisis.co/ep-50-awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-tillich-and-barfield/
Yeah. I am currently on lecture 20 and it is complicated. Have to rewatch some material and read additional literature to keep up (just looked this video out of curiosity)
@@Igor_lvanov feel free to join the discord server, same name, where we have notes posted and discuss John's ideas.
From the bottom of my heart thank you John. It’s been an honor and privilege.
Thank you!!!
As l write, this moment represents my fourth journey through this series, it’s never enough. Yes, l have gone on to other series too but these teachings have no end in their transmission. ❤️🌺❤️
Hear me shouting from a tiny corner in the valleys of Wales, UK:
"ABSOLUTELY BLOODY BRILLIANT! Please do not stop!"
This series has awakened me from my own personal meaning crisis. I was mired in existential nihilism when I found Mr Vervaeke's channel... 3 or 4 months later I am ALIVE again...
Often way above my level of intelligence, these lectures have continued to compel me...
Thank you ... thank you ... thank you.
Thank you for your kind words and I am so glad my work has been helpful to you.
It is here! Been going crazy in my personal life but I still have been re-listening to all of these epidsodes on the podcast. I can hardly wait to see Pageau respond to your efforts. Thank you for your honesty and citing your sources! One last time, thank you video/editing team!
From Payson, AZ, USAmerica, peace be with you.
THANK YOU Prof. Vervaeke! This series helped lift me out of a dark place and for that I am forever grateful!
I finally finished this series, what a ride, thank you for creating this I don’t think I can articulate how deep this series has been but it means a lot to me!
I began this series two years ago and am arriving at this video only now. I took my time, fought the whole way, and grew. Certain episodes sent me spinning for months. It has been a beautiful struggle.
Sitting here, letting it all sink it, my eyes water. Thank you so much Professor John. You and your crew have accomplished something so special and real, and invited us all to participate.
I cried when this finished. So moving and so meaningful. John you have changed how I participate in life and I'm deeply grateful
Thank you sharing that.
Thank you! And now back to the start and listen all over again ... dammit.
I feel sad to watch the last video but also I'm so grateful for all the knowledge you have presented us. I aspire to apply what i have learned with you during my lifetime, especially during those dark times when meaninglessness lurks behind us. Greetings from Ecuador.
Thank you, John, for your immense efforts - this series is truly outstanding. Your ability to integrate vast amounts of content is inspiring.
You have provided me with a strong foundation and framework for further academic progression. Your integration of interdisciplinary content, pivotal concepts, and major progressions is invaluable; these connections would take years of reading to grasp otherwise.
You certainly have made significant strides towards restoring meaning through your work.
This is what academia should be striving to achieve, and it certainly will guide my personal academic journey forward. I cannot thank you enough.
Finally finished this series. Worth having watched each episode though I'd have to go back to some. Great work Dr. Vervaeke
I can say I have awoken
What an end to a year long but wonderful journey. I will most definitely have to mull this over and rewatch this series and particularly some of its more intense passages several times but nevertheless look forward to the next project you give yourself to. Thank you John & co. so much for integrating and opening up all of this to so many people at such a crucial time. I can safely say it is invaluable work.
Yeah. Im like: I'll watch it again. Maybe now that I know where the ending is, I can connect all the information better. More clearly. Right now I feel like I was taught a language to speak of things beyond my knowledge and spoke of them. Also need to keep up with all the books and authors. God! So much work!
KeyFrame5 absolutely man but I think it’s work well worth it. There’s some great communities on Facebook etc who discuss, swap notes and all that good stuff, I’d recommend checking it out!
This series opened my mind with a long form exposure to complex rigorous thinking in a way and to an extent I have never experienced. You literally blew my mind into a new dimension of thought. This is what education can be but seldom is.
Eternal gratitude
I made it to the last episode! While I spent 50 days on the series, I was going through various job changes to search for meaning in life, as if life's meaning can be "fulfilled" once I have reached a status of power, financial status etc. I was trapped within having mode. I realized after this series, what I need, is fundamentally perspectival and participatory. I have always known who I should be but I am just afraid of the process of "becoming". Your words have given me the courage to "be", and to overcome self-deception.
The series has helped me in addressing my existential dreads in very important ways. I can't thank you enough for bringing wisdom available for everyone.
Thank you, John.
I just finished all 50 episodes and I'm immediately starting again back at 1.
"the brave person faces danger, but that's all we can say about them, the person with fortitude endures difficulty, but that's all we can say of them, the corageous person sees through the illusion and the distortion of fear or stress to what is truly good... and acts accordingly" 4:00
amazing, just... amazing.
Thank you for this journey, it's been a hell of a ride and it played (and continues to do so) a crucial role in every aspect of my life.
I was stressed on a constant basis, now I am not. I was vomiting every morning because of the stress, now I am not. I did not know what to do with my life, where to orient myself, now I know.
Furthermore, I have a completely new perspective on things which gives me insights on a constant basis, and a large set of well developed and well presented toolkits to use.
Even though I never would have done it, the idea of suicide seemed more like a liberation than a threat for me in the past 3 years because it would wipe of the pressure. Now I am no longer under pressure, now I am at ease, and even better, I am living what I find to be a meaningful life.
Your teachings (both the lectures and the practical series) have been a major turning point for me. So, from the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank you, Dr. Vervaeke, for pulling my life out of despair, emptiness and constant suffering and helping me orient toward something meaningful
Antonio I am so very happy that my work has helped you in this way! Thank you for sharing your kind and encouraging words.
@@johnvervaeke Thank you again for everything Dr. Vervaeke. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️
Truly epic series Dr. Vervaeke. However, one time through just isn't enough. After hearing it all and reading some of the material new to me, it is time to return to the beginning, listen again, and discover what new affordances and insights there are to be found.
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for the fantastic series.
*slow clap*. Dr. Vervaeke, thank you for this terrific argument. I came across the series after a death of a loved one. Little did I know, this is a fountain of wisdom (the what and how). The argument was well researched and delivered with terrific enthusiasm and energy. I was challenged to understand and learn many complicated concepts which in turn proved to be timely and vital to processing my loss, understanding myself and viewing the world from a different perspective. The stimulating and thought provoking (belief-shattering) knowledge gained propelled me into "the great turn". I took up Tai Chi, yoga, gardening, Carl Jung, and mycology. I developed a deep understanding and appreciation of philosophy. Your intelligence is remarkable. And without sarcasm and in the most respectful way - you must be fun at parties 😊. Thank you, thank you so very must for taking us on this magnificent journey. I look forward to studying your other works.
The beauty of this project is its...transframing! Wow, this is supremely what we need to move beyond the utterly sterile mud slinging and talking at cross purposes that so easily occurs between the scientifically minded and the poetically minded. Thank you so much for moving this 'reuniifcation of the psyche' forward!
I cried at the end, I started to read the comments while crying, I cried even more. I am writing this message as I cry rivers. Thank you John for this magnificent journey. Thank you for the community and the people that participates in it. And thanks to the crew that recorded and edited the videos.
I am here. I got it finally. Ty for this amazing series John
25:47 “This fundamental aspect shift in which the nothing-ness of despair is transformed into the revelation of no-thingness as inexhaustible being meaning.”
From the deepest depths of being: thank you John!
bingo
18:31 Relationship between the "existential-self" and the "essential-self," Tillich and "Gnosis"
19:38 On Agape: "My salience landscape... naturally self-organizes to constantly tempt me towards the good"
21:03 Meaninglessness is now despair, as discussed in existentialism.
22:06 The No-Thingness of God is central to the notion of Faith, and has transformative power over the Nothingness of despair.
35:29 Atheist vs. Theist on "Sacredness"
I am not the same person after this series. Truly a transformative experience, not just another list of facts read from a PowerPoint. I will strive to live in the being mode. Thank you so much 🙏
I have finished climbing this mountain of series. It's time to come down and share what I've learned and change in ways I didn't know we're possible beforehand. I'll be climbing this mountain again...This was the kind of philosophy that I encountered as a college freshman but never had seen again. Thank you John.
BRAVO!!! I think you have come out of your shell! Even my chickens are applauding.🐓🐔🐔🐔
Thanks Mary!!!
Thanks for all the work involved in these (urgent) series, John. You were sorely needed.
It’s great to end the decade with this last lecture. Here’s to a new decade full of opportunities to cultivate wisdom!
Thank you John, this was a mammoth task and I appreciate your work very much. It has been life changing for me thanks again. It got me back into my daily Zen practice and I've found other Zen practitioners who I sit with on a weekly basis. Plus the depth of knowledge I have gained from your lectures going back to Socrates, Plato, Buddha and linking all these to the modern day prophets, simply spellbinding. Much Love to you John.
Oh man, what to say. This was brilliant. A stunningly good course in a shockingly complex subject. Life-changing, profound, massively inspiring. Just brilliant. Thank you for making this available.
Dear @John Vervaeke, I find you brilliant and kind, generous, brave and impactful. I wonder if you are aware of your presence as you teach for it has also fed me while I watched and listened and furiously took notes:) I thank you for all the work you’ve done on yourself that enabled you to share this work with us. Thank you for the depth of your thinking and synthesis, your insights and your capacity to articulate those for us. Thank you and your team for all the care, concern and effort that went into producing and sharing this work with us for free. You’ve been my inspiration for the last few months, and my heart and neurons thank you!
In particular, I’ve found the bridge you’ve illuminated between science and sacredness to be compelling. I also found the articulation of wisdom as a set of practices to be liberating. But the thing I appreciated the most so far has been your placing of a ‘negative’ experience, horror, on the map of spirituality. You are the first person I’ve heard to make this move, and I experienced it as such a relief, though I would love to see you go farther with it.
In my meaning-making, I identified a problem nexus around human social power. In other words, I hypothesize that all of our multiple crises have in common is a misuse and a misdistribution of power. Motivated by the potential of healthy power for our world, I’ve researched and synthesized an ecology of communication practices that enable healthy power use and have been putting them to the test in organizations for the last 8 years. The benefits that accrue are encouraging, but the most exciting potential is for these practices to be evolved through further research and application by researchers and practitioners, very much like the wisdom wiki you suggest. I see these practices building both collective and individual wisdom in the bounded domain of work, though much more research and development is needed. I would be happy to share and discuss this body of work with you, and was going to sign up via your Patreon link for pen pal conversation, but cannot find it on the series anymore, might that still be available? I can also be reached at cecile@roundskysolutions.com if you or any find this territory of interest.
By way of a challenge, I wonder why you didn’t include trauma in your understanding and synthesis of understanding of the meaning crisis and what the implications of it are to the meta-crisis we face. Perhaps you have included trauma, and I failed to recognize that, but I am aware of how trauma impacts meaning-making for those of us who have been traumatized, who live in traumatic arenas, and who wrestle with the gods of harm. From my perspective, the reality and prevalence of trauma, including trauma caused by those who have been called wise, redefines what is relevant.
Truly amazing work John! This will go down as one of the most important series of lectures ever released
Thank you John. This was the most amazing and insightful educational experience I’ve ever had the pleasure of part-taking in.
Bravo John. So many things have circled around and shown me how my perception of meaning has changed during this series. I too think that Nietzsche should have gone deeper. My reading of his famous quote about staring into the abyss points to his having experienced a negative effect of an outward assessment of meaningless (or evil) reflecting back upon the deep meaninglessness (or evil) he felt in himself. I wonder if Nietzsche would have come to a different conclusion if he were alive today and had access to all the knowledge in this series? For me, the key that unlocked the possibility of awakening was entertaining the possibility of utilising the imaginal, without having to make it magical. "if you smile long enough into an abyss, the abyss will smile back into you." :-)
Thank you so much for all your hard work and that of your team. I'm really looking forward to the new series and seeing where we all go from here.
"If you smile long enough into an abyss, the abyss will smile back into you"
Thank you! I am keeping this quote now ^^
You are flying at the end...What a crescendo! What a series!
My Relevance Realization brought me here to find itself.
John you are master wrestler of words and ideas. Reaching the abyss of Nihilism and finding it to be a curtain to push past is so exciting and gives me so much energy to move forward with the skills I have and develop more. You have synthesized and clarified the path forward. Virtuous cycles forever!!!
Deeply grateful. Thank you . Blessings.
(Side note: Rudolf Steiner has/had great influence in the performance arts, acting and dance.
The artist's process of embodying character just works with the 'Divine spark'.
The arts and religion are deeply connected. Performative trance is a thing.
And Barfield was a dancer.
Can there be a Scientific Art? I know this series has multiple scripts/narratives in-built. )
I have listened to the whole series, and I thank you very much for it.
I think I have two insights I'd like to share:
- In a sense it's all about continuous and never-ending transframing, to avoid getting stuck in any network of concepts (BTW one of them is meaninglessness). This is by keeping balance between the network solidifying too much and its falling apart. So we need tools to keep ourselves in the critical point between these two (i.e. solidification and chaos).
- The transframing moments bring us the pleasant quale of feeling wise, or englightened, at least for a while. The pleasure suggests that the transframing is adaptive.
A side note: I think the mention of computational irreducibility is also important. This implies that there is no other way to know life than to live through it. So it can be only known by continuous experiencing, not by conceptualizing too much (again - maintaining the critical point is crucial).
Just finished the whole series and I feel greatly indebted to you, Mr. Vervaeke. Going to restart all over again, of course. And extended reading is bound to happen too! My own personal flow - mystique moments up to this time have been primarily through music and literature. Never knew it could happen through philosophy and I am so eager to delve into as many of the books you have recommended as possible. I thank you a lot, best regards from Athens.
Thank you John and team for all the hard work. Thank you.
He puts so much into this lecture you can see it both draining and invigorating him at the same time. You have put your soul into this series and allowed many people a wonderful chance to participate in something transformational. I have been transformed and have been afforded opportunity to aid in the transformation of others because of this series. I can not express my gratitude to you John Vervaeke, and of course your hard working camera crew you had to torture. Thank you to everyone involved in this project.
incalculably important work. The breakthrough to non-theism is ultimately the only way out of the Meaning Crisis and 4E Cognitive Science promises to be a powerful rational-empirical discipline that people in the atheist frame can get behind. Well done John Vervaeke! May your excellent intellectual (propositional-procedural) and spiritual (perspectival-participatory) work continue to bear good fruit!
Stumbled across you on the Jordan Peterson podcast and quickly realized I didn’t understand anything you two were talking about for the first 20mins.
I switched to this playlist and have been humbled by the content and context you have shared with the world.
I have listened to the podcast and watched the videos and there is something about your physicality and arm movement that is like an extra layer of punctuation.
Truly one of the greatest journeys on TH-cam.
Thank you
Thank you so much, professor. I hope to seed all this knowledge and produce fruitful contributions to our field of research (psychology) with all the insights and references you have provided!
Thank you so much Johnny V. This series and the surrounding dialogos have profoundly re/in/trans-formed my connection with myself, my work, my loved ones, and the Ground. I'm indebted.
John, thank you again for this tremendous, and deeply transformative series. The countless hours you've put into direct production and also decades of learning do not go unnoticed! Thank you!
Thank you deeply Dr. Vervaeke for the opportunity to learn from these lectures.
One consequence of the meaning crisis I find to be relevant is in it's effect on how we raise our kids. As a parent of a toddler, I agonize constantly that I will fail to raise my daughter properly. (whatever "properly" means.) As I wrestle with the kinds of questions that are the basis for this series, I feel ever more confident that I am moving closer toward getting it right. For me there is a deep sense in which the narrative argument you have produced points to the image of sets of train tracks, viewed from the train: parallel, but also converging in the distance. The pursuit of wisdom enables the realization of this convergence.
I wonder what would happen if I re-watched this series all the way through. My sense is that it would be deeply analogous to the processing machinery of the psyche described throughout. A kind of self organizing process involving (to borrow from McGilcrist) the extraction of individual parts from a whole, and their re-integration back into a new, slightly different, coherent whole. A kind of journey up a ladder, where the view from each rung is altered slightly by the lens constructed of the content one rung below (also not my idea but I'm not sure exactly where it comes from - maybe Peterson). A kind of feedback loop of philosophic awesomeness, where a relevant piece of information was taken up by the mind into memory one time, is now taken up again, but with the added significance of itself as a contributing guide to how it is to be understood the second time. A kind of layering effect, whereby a base layer has superimposed onto it a new slightly translucent layer, thereby generating an entirely new outlook. A kind of process analogous to how blueprints were once produced: the original ink remains visible, and remains the same, but at the same time is altered by the presence of and interaction with new ink.
Thank you.
Thank you so much John for this.
After i got to overcome depresion by means of a transformative experience, I was looking to realize my new perspective of the world, and your work was so helpfull, you give me so many insides, in many of the episodes I was flowing with your words. Your series is so incoraging and provocative that i feel that my salience landscape its now totaly diferent. For now on, i will acompany you in the pesuit of wisdom.
thank you so much.
nice. i turned 27 last year and im really excited for what lies ahead. i love being alive so much . I'm so excited to keep going and getting better. keep getting deeper into the shit i like, more focused on what's important to me. Maybe i'll have a family one day . im so glad to be alive . thanks for this great series john !
As a 21 year old, I feel I have been blessed with such wisdom at such a potential time in my life. I have already been applying and practicing these ideas within my life and it is profound. Thank you immensely, sincerely.
What a series and what a finale! I am so greatful for having found your work through Rebel Wisdom. Looking forward to seeing you in their course and at their festival in May and to your upcoming series ‘After Socrates’. You are doing great and important work! Thanks so much John!
Hi John, and greetings from Finland!
It's a cool and invigorating September morning here. I just finished your series. In the + 40 years of my life nothing has taken more of my attention and time than the search for meaning and the yearning for understanding. The journey in search of this has lead me through such a varied - often troubled - landscape. And then I end up here, listening to your insight and encouragement. And so much of it comes together, finds relevance.
I can't begin to express how much I hungered for this - although not beforehand knowing quite what it was - and how much I enjoyed your series. Never have I experienced such a tasteful union of the spiritual, mental, logical, rational and magical and so much more when listening to someone talking about these subjects. Never have I felt such an all-encompassing satisfaction (as well as definitely a growing hunger for ever more).
So yes, you've affected and for sure afforded transformation in very meaningful parts and ways of my life. Deepest thanks. Anicca.
Fascinating and enlightening series. I discovered this only recently via Seekers of Unity, but the timing was just right.
I am greatly appreciative of the time that was put into creating this series. It's been said before, but I agree and repeat, this content for me is sacred. Thank you, John! Looking forward to seeing more.
Standing ovation! It's a weekly ritual for me to watch your lectures.
Time + Attention = Magic
This series expanded my world so much.
I feel incredibly fortunate that someone shared this with me on a whim, thinking I might find it interesting. I can't find the words to express how tremendous this is. You express humility and a may only reluctantly want to hear it, but thank you for your work, Dr John Vervaeke.
Masterpiece of a series, I am recomending it highly and frequently to my vieweres - this and all the recomended reading are making me intelectually and whole hearthedly engaged this year. You make very important work here John, congrats!
A humdinger of a finale, an achievement made more impressive by the fact that it focuses on two fairly obscure thinkers. Tillich has been on my reading list for a long time, but he's not exactly the twentieth century's most glamorous intellectual, and I am ashamed to say that although I used to teach a course on fantasy literature that naturally referred to the Inklings, I'd never given Barfield any thought - if Williams was "the other Inkling', then Barfield was the other other Inkling. Anyway, thank you so much for a mind-blowing intellectual journey. Diving into After Socrates now!
Thank you so much for all of this. You've given me so much to appreciate with your series.
Thank you so much John. Been working my way through these since discovering you on Peterson's podcast. I've enjoyed every single hour! Had my mind blown so many times. The future is an exciting prospect with thinkers like you in the world.
Thank you so much for consistently uploading these, Professor Vervaeke. I remember listening to your lectures in class last year and being in awe at several instances. Glad I get to relive those moments via TH-cam now! Going to re-watch these slowly and carefully. Your work is truly appreciated.
I’m going to cry, This was the most amazing journey. Just the beginning!
Thank you so much for this wonderful series John.
Thank you John. I hope you realize how much this series means to people like me who are trying to figure things out, take care of yourself!
There’s so much depth to this series that it requires repeat viewing. Thank you for your time and energy spent doing this wonderful series.
You should be very proud, Dr. Vervaeke. Thank you very much!
Onwards and upwards!
An incredible year long journey with John Vervaeke! Thank you for sharing your wisdom to all!
Thank you so so much for your existence and everyone who participated in creating this series! I feel a boost of gratitude with a beautiful 😻 view of living a joyful everything all the time. Also, the exquisite way of defining the words and referencing books 📚 to expand mindfulness 🧘🏽♀️! Thank you all dearly 🫂🤗
What a journey. I am profoundly changed. Thank you John!
Thank you for so deep journey and precious ideas! Thank you for attentive to details teaching!
Bravo 👏. May we all keep stepping into relevance realization.
Finished watching the series just now. Thank you so much, Prof. Vervaeke. There is a new avenue in front of me, thanks to you and your generosity in sharing.
A beautiful series Dr Vervaeke, I am extremely thankful to live in the same time as the developments you've elucidated in your videos and have a whole new outlook thanks to your series having spent the last month going through all of them. Thank you again.
I can't wait to write more about this beautiful series. Looking forward to the next one! Thanks for everything John!
-Chris
Just finished! Incredible lectures and ones I will revisit to feed my relevance realization!
Truly amazing. Thank you so much John. This has been life changing and so inspiring. What a feat doing this. Just wow. Cant wait to dive into after Socrates.
Thank you for this most incredible learning experience. This series has given me an anchor through the pandemic shutdown. It has in many ways tied together for me a lifetime of learning and seeking meaning. My son was taking a masters level HR/Psychology course at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and his professor assigned lecture one to the class. My son contacted me and highly recommended your work. I've taken 55 pages of single spaced notes, and look forward to starting the series again. Again thank you for your profound wisdom, honesty, humility, scholarship, and insight!
This is the best episode yet, in my opinion. Will be watching it a second and third time.
Throughout this series you came at this task with humility and integrity and completely embodied the “loving gaze on the world” that Iris Murdoch spoke so much about in “the sovereignty of the good”. That is such a difficult thing to do and it’s so important that you did because it provided a place for us to do the same.
When I began this journey over a year ago I had no idea where it would lead. At times it was challenging. At time it was all but insuperable. From psych-technologies to anogoge; from Gibson’s theory of affordances to RR; from the four kinds of knowing to the three orders; from the having mode to sati; and from the power of the symbol and transcendence. You gave us a cognitive grammar to look past illusion and into what is really real!
I’ve never attended a university and for so many of these topics I was in uncharted territory and throughout I had to get these books in hand to truly study them and contemplate them myself but it was never felt trivial because you had so deeply inspired me. Of course saying that your arguments are compelling need not say anything more than that but what I wish to convey is that you have made this way of thinking deeply viable
Sincerely, thank you, John I am forever indebted to you and I can’t wait to start “After Socrates”
Ps if you’re curious I’ve read “Metaphors we live by”, “On Bullshit”, “Transformative Experiences”, “After Phrenology”, and now “Sovereignty of the Good”. My next book will be “The Courage to Be” and a whole host of other on my shelf waiting to be cracked.
What a ride it has been. My life long gratitude goes out to you professor.
22 years of age and a whole life ready to design in the pursuit of meaning.
Thank you so very very much for everything.
This was easily the best book I read in 2022. Thank you for recommending it so early in the series. Thank you for your time!
Thank you john for your intellectual generosity
Thank you John, I've been following watching, rewatching, digesting, discussing and writing notes of this series for the almost 7 months exactly.
I've been enchanted with your work since I first saw you on TOE with Kurt Jurmungal, and felt like I just had to finish every video in this series. For the longest time I've been looking for something that would fill me deep in the heart, and make me whole. This series has done just that and it brought tears to my eyes when I finished it finally after so long.
You've helped me become a better person. Rekindling an interest in culture, ethics and philosophy that I had when I was kid. Touching on mythologies, the power of fables and everything I found so wonderful. Even articulating the danger I felt in excessive computer gaming wherein gaming becomes a central axis for a person's meaning in life.
I've even started to read again, and I now desire to write my own work on culture, the meaning crisis and various ideas on how people live their lives. I'm making it a life goal to understand how the meaning crisis manifests in my own home country's culture and to investigate its culture and gain the right questions to ask.
There's just so much I love deeply in your series and work, so much I've gained in terms of knowing and in my relationships; I could never thank you enough for affording the opportunity for me to have studied this. Thank you once again, John.
John, thank you so much for your diligence and courage in creating this series of lectures. From the first episode to the last I have been blown away with how much I have learned and the curiosity that has blossomed in myself from your lectures and suggestions.
This is an amazing series! I look forward to watching it again!
Thank you. This series meant (and means and will mean) a lot for me.
Thank you John, thank you very much.
Thank you so much for your work! I appreciate it beyond words.
Thank you John. It has been an incredible journey. This series feels like a great book that every time you read it, you learn something new.