Spirituality & the Sacred Panel Discussion | Richard Tarnas, John Vervaeke, Andrew M. Davis

Spirituality & the Sacred panel discussion featuring Richard Tarnas, John Vervaeke, and Andrew M. Davis at the conference Metaphysics and the Matter with Things: Thinking with Iain McGilchrist.
Metaphysics and the Matter with Things: Thinking with Iain McGilchrist was a collaborative conference put on by the Center for Process Studies (CPS) and the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in March of 2024. This three-day conference brought leading process thinkers across various disciplines, including physics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and theology into critical dialogue with McGilchrist’s work in a collegial effort to assess, question, extend, and apply it. For more information on the conference and to purchase recordings, please visit ctr4process.or...
About the panelists:
Richard Tarnas, PhD is the founding director of the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at CIIS. He teaches courses in cultural history, archetypal studies, depth psychology, philosophy, and religious evolution. Formerly the director of programs and education at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, he is a graduate of Harvard University (AB 1972) and Saybrook Institute (PhD, 1976). He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern widely used in universities. His second book, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network, and is the basis for the documentary film Changing of the Gods. He is a past president of the International Transpersonal Association and served on the Board of Governors for the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.
John Vervaeke, PhD is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He currently teaches courses on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on cognitive development, intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the psychology of wisdom. Vervaeke is the director of UToronto’s Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory and its Cognitive Science program, where he teaches Introduction to Cognitive Science and The Cognitive Science of Consciousness, emphasizing the 4E model, which contends that cognition and consciousness are embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended beyond the brain. Vervaeke has taught courses on Buddhism and Cognitive Science in the Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health program for 15 years. He is the author and presenter of the RUclips series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis” and his brand new series, “After Socrates.”
Andrew M. Davis, PhD is an American process philosopher, theologian, and scholar of the cosmos. He is program director for the Center for Process Studies where he researches, writes, and organizes conferences on various aspects of process-relational thought. An advocate of metaphysics and meaning in a hospitable universe, he approaches philosophy as the endeavor to systematically think through what reality must be like because we are a part of it. He is an author, editor and co-editor of several books including Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy which was nominated for the International Society of Science and Religion’s 2022 Book Prize and most recently, Metaphysics of Exo-Life: Toward a Constructive Whiteheadian Cosmotheology (SacraSage, 2023). Follow his work at www.andrewmdavis.info
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[@mills8102]

McGilchrist asking a question from the audience is a treat.

[@geoffreyah]

Question for John Vervaeke: How can AGI's be parasites? It's just a computer program with algorithms designed to copy human intelligence. It is supposed to be able to teach itself. It is both qualitative and quantitative. What AGI can do is dependent on how sophisticated the program. Archetypal programing is what I would like to see. If open AI chat GPT was taught to have an intuition or limit it's thinking to a system of first principles and if an idea does not conform to them it must be wrong, Uranus archetype, I will bet it would think for itself. This would be very useful. I would not be able to stump it the couple of times I have. We all need information and knowledge and are therefore parasites at some point of our lives.

[@geoffreydawson5430]

Give.

[@rsandy4077]

The answers politically driven biased.

[@MusicMissionary]

Trump represents the Trickster archetype doesn't he? Injection of noise into a stuck system.

[@narendrasomawat5978]

No he's much more like revolutionary masculine hero against woke matriarchal sympathy which going on in our society.

[@He.knows.nothing]

​@@narendrasomawat5978 A long history of criminal records, scams, fraud, Epstein connections, indictments, lawsuit payouts, and his personality trend of mixing half truths within hyperbole and blatant lying would say otherwise. There are no heroes at work here.