Thanks so much for all the great professors who share their lectures online with people who don’t want to drown in student loan or didn’t have the chance to go to university
@@MekkiTekki The channel Awakentheworldfilm is also quite interesting in my opinion. The movie Samadhi has quite some overlap with both Vervaeke's work and JBP.
@@MekkiTekki Wheaton College philosophy course lectures - I enjoyed watching those a lot. It’s a bit more old-school, but I really enjoyed this more traditional rendition.
Powerful work. This year, I am watching one episode per week. I am only on week 9 and I have already decided to re-enroll in university. Finishing my degree in Theatre but going to double Major in Philosophy, and hoping to one day make connections between the Performing Arts, the Shamanistic Traditions, and Western Philosophy. Wish me luck, y'all
Bravo sir! As someone who has had a psychedelic revelatory experience, and has been on a lifelong quest for meaning ever since, your clarity of expression in these talks is resonating right through me. Inspirational.
Meaning is average, and you'll have a rage getting a clean canvas back after this shit finds it a custom moving average for each vantage point... Succumb to magical consciousness structure? Inflate the ego till its so big and close it looks like it's gone? Spiritual flat earth disguised as transcendence via conceited delusion? Find an anti narcissists organ? Regulate an internal state with the external world? Turn the sword into a plow after worldly conquests prove tedium delightful? Regret for others to open pandoras box like you did and talk em out of it? Say the apple isn't worth the fuss to eve? Realize hells deceptive beauty in the spirit realm and beg everyone to differ? Turn away from omnipotence to enjoy the focal point you were put in? When is it just a personality disorder and a brain toad being a squirming bad example... Should 4 o clock make 8 doubt half it's self? I don't see the advantage... It's a situation...
Dear John. Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya. Thank you for your lectures. I am learning so so much as I have been on the path of searching for meaning in my life esp now that my two children have left the nest. Namaste
I’m watching these in order, and so far, I think what makes John most deserved of making his living as a professor is his ability to sew ideas across lectures, weaving back and forth between concepts without ever compromising his arch of 30+ lecturers.
Contemplating your t-o/ F-G model in the early morning hours, i had one of the strongest awakenings of my life. 5-10 minutes pure non-duality nothingness & fullness. I saw that i am everything and life will go on forever (pure conciousness can‘t die). There was no fear of death or any fear at all. Thanks man, your teaching is a blessing!
Just astonishingly rich and deep. I've been practising Buddhism for five years but never appreciated all the ways it works as much as I do after watching these last two episodes.
John, this is such an incredible series. Thank you sooo much. The depth you provide, all perfectly explained with so much passion. Simply incredible. This gets better and better. Love from Germany
Wow! We live in an optimized state of flowing relationship between meditation and contemplation. @JohnVervaeke lays out the most powerfully explanatory and insightful description of mindfulness that I have ever encountered. Brilliant work!
This is one of my favourite lessons yet. Interestingly enough, as a person without any training in and little experience of meditation, I experienced this at-oneness whilst having a deeply profound psychedelic experience in which I was flowing between the perspective of the Universe, my consciousness, and the "world" of natural laws and (sub)atomic particles, led by my breathing. In and out. It was a wonderful experience I still bring with me after all those years, though it can be hard to "remember" that kind of being. The most effective (non-psychedelic) way to remember that state is by getting into a flow of intense physical exercise.
@@MattFRox suppose that means, at least in integral theory terms, that on postmodern stage of consciousness (green) you are differentiate all previous stages, but all of these become equivalent, and nothing is better and nothing is worse, do whatever you want and so on. And that is some sort of confusing chaos.
Mr. Vervaeke, I am a computer engineer from India. I am also deeply interested in psychology and philosophy. This series is inestimably insightful for me. I am very grateful for your efforts. It is really helping me understand a lot. I have been practicing meditation for last six years and this is the first time that I get an scientific explanation for mindfulness. Thank You very much and keep up the good work.
I'm grateful this is public. I'm going to have to watch this one a few times. I'm so stoked about a thing I miss some details at the beginning of the next. Thank you so much for everything you've put in to this. It is excellent.
This was the hardest one for me to grasp but after re watching i think its because, its the most abstract. Can't believe how illuminating these are. Amazing job man!
I mean, this particular lecture was one of the most transformative for me. I have kept thinking about this particular lecture and his you have described this systematic set of insight. This flow state between scaling up and down. Thanks for this lecture series, they are really shifting a paradigm inside me.
just returned to this lecture couple of months later. wow! i find it the best of the series so far. the idea of continuum between pure consciousness event and flow is such a revolutionary connection, at least for me. and the relation to meaning. thank you John!
To not just repeat all the praise here about the importance of these talks and how beautifully they are woven together, I wanna point out for a minute the astonishing fact that this is all done with a board, a pen and a cup which makes it even more precious and special
As a practitioner of mindfulness and a daily meditator this was right in my wheelhouse. I’ve had a psychedelic mystical experience and that was the last time I did them. The awakening that I had made such an impact that was the last time I partook.
John, you give lectures in the 'flow state'. And that's what makes the adoption of insights and ideas so receptive and open. Thank you for all your inspiring work!
I have no words for this it just hit me straight to my soul. It threw me into an altered state of conciousness. I've heard people calling him Jesus now I see that this is an appropriate comparison. Peterson bridged the gap between science and religion and Vervaeke is leading the path to awakening. These are miraculos times.
I had a profound realisation when you were talking about how altered states can feel more real than the waking state. It's hard to put into words what that realisation was, as trying to rationalise and conceptualise it is like trying to grab a puff of smoke. What I think is at the heart of these experiences feeling more real than our objective reality is in surrendering the concept of 'self'. Nothing feels more real than the absence of 'self'.
To have cracked 'enlightenment' through a scientific lens? Pure genius. I love how many of these concepts resonate with my design training and what I taught pre-architecture students about design principles and design process. Bravo John - already in this episode this series has deepened the understanding of my own path of awakening and gives me precise distinctions that I can employ in the 'coaching' I now do. May we all help each other awaken!!
WOW..that was amazing John! Clear and concise. I have embrace east/west practice through Self Realization fellowship for many years and feeling stuck with the techniques i looked for other ways/language to help me understand. Your lecture was brilliant! It is like i have xray vision with techniques being explained now. I want to watch this one again and look forward to your other sessions! Big thanks from your hometown Hamilton. Well done!
After some years of practicing meditation, only after watching this lecture I finally realised what I was trying to do. Vervaeke has increased the possibilities of those who practice meditation exponentially with this video. Because from this one on you meditate with insight.
I was practically living this lecture 4 years ago as it was published. It captures my experiences and outcomes of the experiences quite accurately and lends me deeper appreciation for my meaning recovery process. Beautiful
Thank you John for these lectures! I grew up in the christian church, and while I'm no longer a christian I absolutely crave these aspects of spirituality, meaning, and philosophical insight :). I've been trying to quit nicotine for four years now and I'm hoping your reflection of transformation will help. Keep up the great work, I'm excited to explore the mine of intellectual wealth you've carved out for us!
I love how this episode makes your meditation course more meaningful, and how your meditation course gives this episode deeper meaning, how it makes it come alive. Makes one almost grateful for the other crisis.
Came across your work from your podcast with Peterson. Cannot thank you enough for the work you do sir, it is so astounding, I can’t turn this series off. Thank you🙏🏼
I came to these lectures from Jonathan Pageau's work. I'll be honest, the instant you talked about mystical experiences in breaking down and building up frames, I thought of the Jesus Prayer, and how it combines the two. The moment you mentioned a combination of the two states (divine darkness) was pure synchronicity.
40:30 Bravo! Best sound bite on *actual* Awakening practice I've heard in ages. Similar to Jhana teacher Shaila Catherine's book title, "Wisdom Wide AND Deep"
thank you for this wonderful series. Just by way of clarification, the word that has been commonly translated from Sanskrit/Pali to English as "meditation" is bhāvanā, and does not mean "moving to the center", but cultivating, developing, producing; it is very important to understand the term bhavana when referring to Buddhist systems of "meditation."
Thank you so much for all of your research and for providing these free and insightful lectures. I became aware of the meaning crisis for the first time after reading Nietzsche and understanding what he meant by the Death of God. My path took me from there to exploring the various forms of Buddhism and also Advaita Vedanta, and yes, I have been fortunate enough to experience the 'states' of consciousness you spoke of in the lecture, and they do make life better and more meaningful. Your lectures have helped me to renew my interest in Platonism - I started reading Arthur Verslius' book Platonic Mysticism today - and I can definitely recommend it to anyone watching this. Your lectures also helped me to a much greater appreciation of Artisotle and Socrates. I realized how much of an Aristotelean I am even though I did not know it. Your lectures are sending me back home to the west now even though I am now living in the east. I am looking forward to the rest of the series. Thanks again!
To make a mechanistic understanding of attention and insight suddenly makes understanding why psychedelics tend to produce insight very easy. Fascinating lecture.
Beautiful explanation of meditation. Having spent a couple weeks total in seated meditation, this is one of the greatest intellectual explanations of meditation I have witnessed! Thank you again John for such wonderful work!
Fantastic lecture series, makes my Fridays. So thrilled to listen to a cognitive science approach that integrates such a variety of theories of knowledge. From various religions, buddhism, mysticism, and our modern secular attempt to rename these ideas and practices, Mr. Vervaeke is a perfect accompaniment to the public intellectual superstars that are emerging from alternate media ("intellectual dark web"). Such gratitude to Jordan Peterson, Jonathon Haidt, Jonathon Pageau, Eric and Brett Weinstein, and many others for re framing both contemporary and ancient knowledge with such careful attention and integration.
During my second year of university I had what I can only describe as a psychedelic experience brought about by a shamanic meditation session. To this day, the insights I gained from that session are something I go back to and draw meaning from.
Spirituality saved me from myself. I had severe OCD and depression for about 1.5 years. Then I went to a doctor( general family doctor), he told me he also had OCD and understood my problem really well. He prescribed me prozac( the lowest dose possible) and the main thing that he did was told me to practice mindfulness, get exercise and eat healthy. Mindfulness was a game changer. I took that Prozac for only about like 2-2.5 months, then I stopped. And I could feel that my OCD was receding. This saved me. But I think that people who haven't really suffered enough do not show much interest in it. But people need to do this so that they don't suffer too much when that time actually comes in their life. The work that Prof. Vervaeke is doing is of paramount importance. It is the epitome of helping human kind. Integrating science and spirituality is not an easy task because of spirituality having all its irrational notions.
At the end of this lecture, I don’t know why but my mind has created this scenario: The universe or the cosmos is our parents, we think that we got lost in a marketplace or in a crowded area but actually they are watching us from a distance and waiting us to come back. They are yelling and calling our names, saying “you are not alone! Look I am here” but we can’t hear them (the call) yet OR some of us already hearing them but can’t figure out which direction should they go, yet. And John is the old wise man with long white beard among that crowd, trying to show us the way with his wand (in this case his marker) Thank you for being light to us ❤
After listening this second time look what I realised about scaling up and down: I was driving while I was listening and using the map! Think about Maps application that we all use everyday, think how we zoom in to see the street itself and zoom out to see the route? Scaling down and up! Both are fundamentally important features to stay on our route/ path whatever you choose. This is the analogy that popped up in my mind and wanted to share with you!
“ I am AWAKE” “He moves from talking about an identity he can HAVE to a fundamental way of BEING.” We need this understanding and mentality more then ever. As part of the meaning crisis I see our current culture trying to answer meaning by engaging in an identity crisis. But it is the wrong frame of reference, we should be looking into ourselves and our way of being. Brilliant stuff here.
Great lecture. It reminds me of how the two wings of enlightenment; Wisdom and compassion are cultivated together. The pursuit of wisdom through vipassana helps us cut to the ultimate reality of emptiness and see the interdependence of all phenomena including our primordial purity. As we flow back to the conventional reality we are reminded of our spontaneous presence. We see that we are embodied beings living in a world of karma and we must develop compassion (skillful means) to overcome cyclic existence. Tying these two realities together requires that our mind and heart are equally engaged. This is Dzogchen: the pinnacle of all Buddhist practice. Love to hear your thoughts on Dzogchen practice. Would love to collaborate with you on some of your research. I work in child adolescent psychiatry in NY.
Dear John, I'm mind blown by this one in particular. Every lecture seems better than the previous, but this one was just wow. I practice Vipassana (Goenka) and it resonated so much, especially the way you talk about the being mode and nonduality. Thanks a lot for this!
I know I'm going to have to re-watch this series once I'm through. This pushes the limits of my thinking, and I'm sure I haven't gotten everything out of this that I can. I'll also have to re-watch some JP lectures.
The descriptions of awakening are closely aligned with an experience diagnosed as a manic episode. True, it came at the end of 3 continuous 24 hours of non-sleep...This was nearly 30 years ago and today I am floundering in the Meaning Crisis. I can't help but wonder if my trajectory would have changed dramatically if my experience had not been written off as "delusions of god-hood"....It took me many years to appreciate that I did need intervention and I ended up writing off my experience as well. I have trouble meditating. I hope I am not now too old for this shit. Peace out.
Thank you for these lectures John. May I ask how you feel about hearing or perhaps even knowing that you're a real educator worth listening? A philosopher among other great philosophers in history who can explain themselves clearly. If we humans could continue our progress without hitting limits we have on Earth, your teaching among some others might have evoked a new age of how we live and appreciate other beings or things around us. Internet is one of the greatest inventions humans have created and you're using it to spread important information and reclaim its best potential by sharing invaluable wisdom everywhere for free. It's a rare sight to see when greed has given a price to many things and blinded us from seeing what real riches there are in this world that cannot be priced.
That was really something. Your distinction between meditation, contemplation and doing both in flow really deepens the understanding of my own spiritual practices. Greetings from a german katechumen
We can only hope these blow up as well as the Peterson lectures.
I have faith that they will.
This is the most profound series I have ever come across. Feeling so lucky
Share it to 3 people you think are ready for it
You could always post links to these from Jordan's videos.
@@rightsidetv4235 keywords "ready for it" !!
Thanks so much for all the great professors who share their lectures online with people who don’t want to drown in student loan or didn’t have the chance to go to university
Do you have some more recommendations besides JBP? :)
@@MekkiTekki The channel Awakentheworldfilm is also quite interesting in my opinion. The movie Samadhi has quite some overlap with both Vervaeke's work and JBP.
@@MekkiTekki I also recommend Awakentheworldfilm! Both films: "Samadhi" and "Inner worlds, outer worlds"
Aho!
@@MekkiTekki Wheaton College philosophy course lectures - I enjoyed watching those a lot. It’s a bit more old-school, but I really enjoyed this more traditional rendition.
Powerful work. This year, I am watching one episode per week. I am only on week 9 and I have already decided to re-enroll in university. Finishing my degree in Theatre but going to double Major in Philosophy, and hoping to one day make connections between the Performing Arts, the Shamanistic Traditions, and Western Philosophy. Wish me luck, y'all
come to nyc
@@williamtsanders On my way there in January :)
I wish you luck and hope to see or here from you!
Theater and it's double, Antonin artaud
Molokai lo m ok
Bravo sir! As someone who has had a psychedelic revelatory experience, and has been on a lifelong quest for meaning ever since, your clarity of expression in these talks is resonating right through me. Inspirational.
Second this all the way
Meaning is average, and you'll have a rage getting a clean canvas back after this shit finds it a custom moving average for each vantage point...
Succumb to magical consciousness structure?
Inflate the ego till its so big and close it looks like it's gone?
Spiritual flat earth disguised as transcendence via conceited delusion?
Find an anti narcissists organ?
Regulate an internal state with the external world?
Turn the sword into a plow after worldly conquests prove tedium delightful?
Regret for others to open pandoras box like you did and talk em out of it?
Say the apple isn't worth the fuss to eve?
Realize hells deceptive beauty in the spirit realm and beg everyone to differ?
Turn away from omnipotence to enjoy the focal point you were put in?
When is it just a personality disorder and a brain toad being a squirming bad example...
Should 4 o clock make 8 doubt half it's self?
I don't see the advantage...
It's a situation...
How was this experience, please?
This man just scientifically described my spiritual reality.
Bingo.
rationally
yep kinda
That is the thing right?
Dear John. Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya. Thank you for your lectures. I am learning so so much as I have been on the path of searching for meaning in my life esp now that my two children have left the nest. Namaste
Tuko pamoja 😁😁😁
I’m watching these in order, and so far, I think what makes John most deserved of making his living as a professor is his ability to sew ideas across lectures, weaving back and forth between concepts without ever compromising his arch of 30+ lecturers.
The best explanation and description of mindfulness that I've ever come across. Thanks again.
The only explanation and description of mindfulness that I've ever come across.
Agreed
These lectures deserve to be a framework for a social protocol to replace the void of outdated religious paradigms.
Have you thought about something in a different technological format? E.g. analogous (or complimentary) to Sam Harris' Waking up app
Contemplating your t-o/ F-G model in the early morning hours, i had one of the strongest awakenings of my life. 5-10 minutes pure non-duality nothingness & fullness. I saw that i am everything and life will go on forever (pure conciousness can‘t die). There was no fear of death or any fear at all. Thanks man, your teaching is a blessing!
Just astonishingly rich and deep. I've been practising Buddhism for five years but never appreciated all the ways it works as much as I do after watching these last two episodes.
This was such an insightful lecture. This series is blowing my mind. I can feel both anxiety and exhiliration.
Thank you, John!
John, this is such an incredible series. Thank you sooo much. The depth you provide, all perfectly explained with so much passion. Simply incredible. This gets better and better. Love from Germany
Thank you so much for doing this John :) I am a former student of yours who has been missing your teaching! All the best
Wow! We live in an optimized state of flowing relationship between meditation and contemplation. @JohnVervaeke lays out the most powerfully explanatory and insightful description of mindfulness that I have ever encountered. Brilliant work!
This is one of my favourite lessons yet.
Interestingly enough, as a person without any training in and little experience of meditation, I experienced this at-oneness whilst having a deeply profound psychedelic experience in which I was flowing between the perspective of the Universe, my consciousness, and the "world" of natural laws and (sub)atomic particles, led by my breathing. In and out.
It was a wonderful experience I still bring with me after all those years, though it can be hard to "remember" that kind of being.
The most effective (non-psychedelic) way to remember that state is by getting into a flow of intense physical exercise.
Best one yet
True......
I didn't think it possible to beat the Plato one, then I watched the Aristotle one and changed my mind. Now this!
@@cedcob I so happy to see that other Vervaeke Nerds exist!
This series is AMAZING. Priceless. Thank god I found you, Mr Vervaeke.
This one gave me words for something I didn't know I'd been exploring :) thank you
Would u care to expand?
@@MattFRox suppose that means, at least in integral theory terms, that on postmodern stage of consciousness (green) you are differentiate all previous stages, but all of these become equivalent, and nothing is better and nothing is worse, do whatever you want and so on. And that is some sort of confusing chaos.
In the name of God r u sure u posted this reply to me where u meant to post it? I’m sincerely trying to make sense of it but can’t.
This is the best christmas present I ever got. Thank you, John, you are a mindblowing lecturer!
Mr. Vervaeke, I am a computer engineer from India. I am also deeply interested in psychology and philosophy. This series is inestimably insightful for me. I am very grateful for your efforts. It is really helping me understand a lot. I have been practicing meditation for last six years and this is the first time that I get an scientific explanation for mindfulness.
Thank You very much and keep up the good work.
I'm grateful this is public. I'm going to have to watch this one a few times. I'm so stoked about a thing I miss some details at the beginning of the next. Thank you so much for everything you've put in to this. It is excellent.
This was the hardest one for me to grasp but after re watching i think its because, its the most abstract. Can't believe how illuminating these are. Amazing job man!
I mean, this particular lecture was one of the most transformative for me. I have kept thinking about this particular lecture and his you have described this systematic set of insight. This flow state between scaling up and down. Thanks for this lecture series, they are really shifting a paradigm inside me.
just returned to this lecture couple of months later. wow! i find it the best of the series so far. the idea of continuum between pure consciousness event and flow is such a revolutionary connection, at least for me. and the relation to meaning. thank you John!
To not just repeat all the praise here about the importance of these talks
and how beautifully they are woven together, I wanna point out for a minute the astonishing fact
that this is all done with a board, a pen and a cup which makes it even more precious and special
As a practitioner of mindfulness and a daily meditator this was right in my wheelhouse. I’ve had a psychedelic mystical experience and that was the last time I did them. The awakening that I had made such an impact that was the last time I partook.
This talk was amazing, and I will return to it again and again. Thank you, John (& team) for setting this feast-like table for us to learn.
John, you give lectures in the 'flow state'. And that's what makes the adoption of insights and ideas so receptive and open. Thank you for all your inspiring work!
Thank you John for providing a path to wisdom.
John next to the songs and poetry of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen your talks are the best things to come out of Canada. A BIG THANK YOU JOHN!
I have no words for this it just hit me straight to my soul. It threw me into an altered state of conciousness. I've heard people calling him Jesus now I see that this is an appropriate comparison. Peterson bridged the gap between science and religion and Vervaeke is leading the path to awakening. These are miraculos times.
I had a profound realisation when you were talking about how altered states can feel more real than the waking state.
It's hard to put into words what that realisation was, as trying to rationalise and conceptualise it is like trying to grab a puff of smoke. What I think is at the heart of these experiences feeling more real than our objective reality is in surrendering the concept of 'self'. Nothing feels more real than the absence of 'self'.
As the Buddha said, "Where the self is, truth is not"
Unless the self turns itself truth.
"I am the truth, and the path and the life"
To have cracked 'enlightenment' through a scientific lens? Pure genius. I love how many of these concepts resonate with my design training and what I taught pre-architecture students about design principles and design process. Bravo John - already in this episode this series has deepened the understanding of my own path of awakening and gives me precise distinctions that I can employ in the 'coaching' I now do. May we all help each other awaken!!
This is the most important lecture in human history.
You magnificent, glorious, super flowing Master. Viva the Ver. Viva!
Thank you for every episode
WOW..that was amazing John! Clear and concise. I have embrace east/west practice through Self Realization fellowship for many years and feeling stuck with the techniques i looked for other ways/language to help me understand. Your lecture was brilliant! It is like i have xray vision with techniques being explained now. I want to watch this one again and look forward to your other sessions! Big thanks from your hometown Hamilton. Well done!
The more I study these lectures the better they get! Amazing!
After some years of practicing meditation, only after watching this lecture I finally realised what I was trying to do. Vervaeke has increased the possibilities of those who practice meditation exponentially with this video. Because from this one on you meditate with insight.
John, your lectures are fantastic. I've struggled with nihilsm since my teens and your way of communicating meaning is brilliant.
Man, this is special, so far this series has been like the glue thats making sense of and expanding upon all my thoughts...
So entirely grateful for you, everything you share and the wisdom you so kindly give out. Thank you deeply.
I was practically living this lecture 4 years ago as it was published. It captures my experiences and outcomes of the experiences quite accurately and lends me deeper appreciation for my meaning recovery process. Beautiful
So much to learn, to explore, yet only a life time. Truly awakening!
Wow, such clarity, you are a blessing John to share your gift for us all.. Thank you!
Thank you John for these lectures! I grew up in the christian church, and while I'm no longer a christian I absolutely crave these aspects of spirituality, meaning, and philosophical insight :). I've been trying to quit nicotine for four years now and I'm hoping your reflection of transformation will help. Keep up the great work, I'm excited to explore the mine of intellectual wealth you've carved out for us!
This series is amazing. My university experience has been lacking, to say the least.
Thank you so much for sharing these lectures on TH-cam! They are so enlightening and enriching. 🙏
These lectures are great-I will now spend the rest of my week looking forward to the next one. Thanks!
Better spend the rest of the week meditating and contemplating :D
I love how this episode makes your meditation course more meaningful, and how your meditation course gives this episode deeper meaning, how it makes it come alive. Makes one almost grateful for the other crisis.
Hooked on these almost as much as the Peterson lectures! Maybe even more!
Thank you so much for this brilliant content!
Muchísimas Gracias. So far these lectures have been the most thrilling I’ve attended in any way.
I have been there and came back many times now. I see what is possible and what we are.
Wow... Gonna do a repeat listen right away!
Came across your work from your podcast with Peterson. Cannot thank you enough for the work you do sir, it is so astounding, I can’t turn this series off. Thank you🙏🏼
I came to these lectures from Jonathan Pageau's work. I'll be honest, the instant you talked about mystical experiences in breaking down and building up frames, I thought of the Jesus Prayer, and how it combines the two. The moment you mentioned a combination of the two states (divine darkness) was pure synchronicity.
40:30 Bravo! Best sound bite on *actual* Awakening practice I've heard in ages.
Similar to Jhana teacher Shaila Catherine's book title, "Wisdom Wide AND Deep"
thank you for this wonderful series. Just by way of clarification, the word that has been commonly translated from Sanskrit/Pali to English as "meditation" is bhāvanā, and does not mean "moving to the center", but cultivating, developing, producing; it is very important to understand the term bhavana when referring to Buddhist systems of "meditation."
Thank you so much for all of your research and for providing these free and insightful lectures. I became aware of the meaning crisis for the first time after reading Nietzsche and understanding what he meant by the Death of God. My path took me from there to exploring the various forms of Buddhism and also Advaita Vedanta, and yes, I have been fortunate enough to experience the 'states' of consciousness you spoke of in the lecture, and they do make life better and more meaningful. Your lectures have helped me to renew my interest in Platonism - I started reading Arthur Verslius' book Platonic Mysticism today - and I can definitely recommend it to anyone watching this. Your lectures also helped me to a much greater appreciation of Artisotle and Socrates. I realized how much of an Aristotelean I am even though I did not know it. Your lectures are sending me back home to the west now even though I am now living in the east. I am looking forward to the rest of the series. Thanks again!
love this episode so much to unpack and you have done a fabulous job of it
These explanations are just brilliant. Thank you!
I feel this is great for the complete integration of so many different topics. Love this and learning more about myself at same time. This is gold .
Man im so grateful for this series!!
To make a mechanistic understanding of attention and insight suddenly makes understanding why psychedelics tend to produce insight very easy. Fascinating lecture.
Beautiful explanation of meditation. Having spent a couple weeks total in seated meditation, this is one of the greatest intellectual explanations of meditation I have witnessed! Thank you again John for such wonderful work!
Vervaeke's lectures are truly golden!
Fantastic lecture series, makes my Fridays. So thrilled to listen to a cognitive science approach that integrates such a variety of theories of knowledge. From various religions, buddhism, mysticism, and our modern secular attempt to rename these ideas and practices, Mr. Vervaeke is a perfect accompaniment to the public intellectual superstars that are emerging from alternate media ("intellectual dark web"). Such gratitude to Jordan Peterson, Jonathon Haidt, Jonathon Pageau, Eric and Brett Weinstein, and many others for re framing both contemporary and ancient knowledge with such careful attention and integration.
Non Dual Tantrik Yoga ( Hareesh Wallis) brought me here. Effing wonderful . Thank you sir
During my second year of university I had what I can only describe as a psychedelic experience brought about by a shamanic meditation session. To this day, the insights I gained from that session are something I go back to and draw meaning from.
If each of this series' episodes was delivered in a different language, I'd learn all of them.
Spirituality saved me from myself. I had severe OCD and depression for about 1.5 years. Then I went to a doctor( general family doctor), he told me he also had OCD and understood my problem really well. He prescribed me prozac( the lowest dose possible) and the main thing that he did was told me to practice mindfulness, get exercise and eat healthy. Mindfulness was a game changer. I took that Prozac for only about like 2-2.5 months, then I stopped. And I could feel that my OCD was receding. This saved me. But I think that people who haven't really suffered enough do not show much interest in it. But people need to do this so that they don't suffer too much when that time actually comes in their life.
The work that Prof. Vervaeke is doing is of paramount importance. It is the epitome of helping human kind. Integrating science and spirituality is not an easy task because of spirituality having all its irrational notions.
Hands down the most incredible explanation of meditation I have ever seen.
Sati/ Satie- that's intentional, yes?
I absolutely appreciate YOUR time JV ❤️🍄 so much respect for the work you put into this for the whole world
Fantastic...thank you for posting and sharing your wisdom!
How well and how frequent the initial concepts come back and play in order to create the full picture is really and truly astounding.
What an utterly brilliant description of meditation.
At the end of this lecture, I don’t know why but my mind has created this scenario: The universe or the cosmos is our parents, we think that we got lost in a marketplace or in a crowded area but actually they are watching us from a distance and waiting us to come back. They are yelling and calling our names, saying “you are not alone! Look I am here” but we can’t hear them (the call) yet OR some of us already hearing them but can’t figure out which direction should they go, yet. And John is the old wise man with long white beard among that crowd, trying to show us the way with his wand (in this case his marker) Thank you for being light to us ❤
After listening this second time look what I realised about scaling up and down: I was driving while I was listening and using the map! Think about Maps application that we all use everyday, think how we zoom in to see the street itself and zoom out to see the route? Scaling down and up! Both are fundamentally important features to stay on our route/ path whatever you choose. This is the analogy that popped up in my mind and wanted to share with you!
And one more : People who do Micromanagement. They are staying at scale down state😊.
That was exceptional.
Brilliant John. Thank you
“ I am AWAKE”
“He moves from talking about an identity he can HAVE to a fundamental way of BEING.”
We need this understanding and mentality more then ever. As part of the meaning crisis I see our current culture trying to answer meaning by engaging in an identity crisis. But it is the wrong frame of reference, we should be looking into ourselves and our way of being. Brilliant stuff here.
I wish you had to comment if you dislike a video. Great work, thanks for that Q&A and these seminars.
That's such a good idea!
Thank you, John! This whole series is fantastic!
Great lecture. It reminds me of how the two wings of enlightenment; Wisdom and compassion are cultivated together. The pursuit of wisdom through vipassana helps us cut to the ultimate reality of emptiness and see the interdependence of all phenomena including our primordial purity. As we flow back to the conventional reality we are reminded of our spontaneous presence. We see that we are embodied beings living in a world of karma and we must develop compassion (skillful means) to overcome cyclic existence. Tying these two realities together requires that our mind and heart are equally engaged. This is Dzogchen: the pinnacle of all Buddhist practice. Love to hear your thoughts on Dzogchen practice. Would love to collaborate with you on some of your research. I work in child adolescent psychiatry in NY.
This, like everything else I've watched or read on the topic, is clear as mud.
What the hell was that! WOAH that was good. I'm speechless...
Dear John, I'm mind blown by this one in particular. Every lecture seems better than the previous, but this one was just wow. I practice Vipassana (Goenka) and it resonated so much, especially the way you talk about the being mode and nonduality. Thanks a lot for this!
I know I'm going to have to re-watch this series once I'm through. This pushes the limits of my thinking, and I'm sure I haven't gotten everything out of this that I can. I'll also have to re-watch some JP lectures.
This one is definitely a pretty chewy talk for me.
The descriptions of awakening are closely aligned with an experience diagnosed as a manic episode. True, it came at the end of 3 continuous 24 hours of non-sleep...This was nearly 30 years ago and today I am floundering in the Meaning Crisis. I can't help but wonder if my trajectory would have changed dramatically if my experience had not been written off as "delusions of god-hood"....It took me many years to appreciate that I did need intervention and I ended up writing off my experience as well. I have trouble meditating. I hope I am not now too old for this shit. Peace out.
Today I learned the word “gestalt”. Very cool series btw! I excited to see where you go with all this.
So profound! Thank you Doctor.
Thank you for these lectures John.
May I ask how you feel about hearing or perhaps even knowing that you're a real educator worth listening? A philosopher among other great philosophers in history who can explain themselves clearly.
If we humans could continue our progress without hitting limits we have on Earth, your teaching among some others might have evoked a new age of how we live and appreciate other beings or things around us.
Internet is one of the greatest inventions humans have created and you're using it to spread important information and reclaim its best potential by sharing invaluable wisdom everywhere for free. It's a rare sight to see when greed has given a price to many things and blinded us from seeing what real riches there are in this world that cannot be priced.
Once again, Thank you!
Wow! This one had me on the edge of my seat!! 🤯 I can't wait to work my way through the rest! I'm actually digging his angry delivery now as well! 😂
Genuinely learned something new from this episode. Looking forward to the next.
Wowww, thank you John... it "means" a lot
That was really something.
Your distinction between meditation, contemplation and doing both in flow really deepens the understanding of my own spiritual practices.
Greetings from a german katechumen
The join the dots puzzle waas really interesting because watching this has helped me to join many dots in my thinking and learning. Amazing stuff