No, the best use of internet technology would have been if this information was presented as an exocortex, a navigable knowledge graph others can use fluently. It's still splendid, presenting through video is quick and direct, gets the job done, gets the point across. We hear it, we understand, we review sections, but how much do we actually remember long-term? How much do we use and live with? Too little. It's not the right form for that. This stuff should be like a semantic wiki of flashcards, where you can ask a question of the oracle and dive into a topic from any end, get a spatial awareness of where it fits in, what it's connected to, how central or peripheral it is, supporting arguments, problems and so on. But authoring something like that is much harder.
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@@leeroyescu did iOS yp ya yeiei terra’s t strata te yer t ou to teeters is pt sarsari teit I t de it o tree t Stars ty grass attoritotdi out toy I o test qtsot I drfyeiseott you rarest teysotat yossitoottt t to sitting estates try I te a yp t ye is totitor starts I retreat tat OST’s o tat otti ot t o test ya see tyrotoyat ayat at totoe was peoo fa tat
Usually I'm quite impatient and want to rush through every series in order to finish it, but now it feels quite good that there are so many more episodes left.
I was attending a retreat in Ivory Rock Australia held by my teacher Prem Rawat. I met a man who offered to help me with my Bags I asked him where he was from. He spoke English with an accent. He said to me, brother the day has come we no longer need to ask where Each other come from . We are from the same source. then he said I was born in Greece. In that moment, I realized a transcendent cosmic connection with the universal essence of life .Your lectures are providing clarity for those in search of wisdom. Know Thy Self
I'm so thankful that even with the vicious censorship that RUclips regularly engages in, and with the decimation higher education that has taken place over the past decade, there are still gems like Vervaeke this that synthesize so much wisdom in a single lecture.
I've discovered you as a result of your recent discussion with JBP. I haven't been this consumed by a lecture series since the first time I watched the JP biblical lectures.
John, I want to express my sincere gratitude for sharing all your sublime work on this platform. I feel 'blessed' to have known you (I met you just a few days ago). The dimension of the positive impact your work can have on people is immeasurable. I hope that many more people can get to know you. Because of you, I now feel compelled to learn English perfectly so I can listen to you without the need for subtitles... ha ha. From the bottom of my heart, thank you very much for the work you carry out.
28:45 A lightbulb went off in my head. When god reveals his name he says: ""I will be what I will be." - I am the god of the open future, and you can participate with me in this ongoing creation of the future because you can shape it. You can cause it to go to resolution but you can also cause it to go off course." This to me is why we should always be in the right moral position. Absolutely enlightening lecture, John. Thank you.
Excellent video. I watched this episode 2 times. First time just watched through and realized how many different ideas are discussed. Then re watched, took notes, stopped at important points. I've tried to digest all ideas, discuss it with myself and argue with it. It took me quite lot of time. I've googled lot of stuff. Because I could not easily believe to what I've heard. I am astonishingly impressed. Also, this series are good advertisement for books for sure. I am convinced to buy all of that books. I read one from first episode and I am really want to read all of them.
@@ramdanebenbouabdellah6597 The Awakening from Meaning Crisis series are really good source for materials related problems of the cognitive science and I re-watch some of the videos time to time. Also, I have read the most of the books presented in the series and found books with opposing ideas. I do like ideas of John Vervaeke and he is definitely a wise man and he makes a lot of good points. However, to truly grasp the topic, it is important to see other ideas too. For example, I think the works of the Daniel Dennett are good contrast to what is presented in this channel. Nevertheless, these series had a powerful influence to me and the way I view the life. Must watch.
@@ラヒム旬 What about Dennett's work contradicts these lectures? I'm asking genuinely. I am wondering what the opposing ideas are that you are alluding to in relation to the meaning problem.
Great series professor, thank you for lecturing us undereducated people from all over the world who are not lucky enough to attend worlds top universities so they spend their leisure learning useful things online
God this is so out of this world. It is so deep and brilliant it is a miracle someone actually touched on it and even more, presents it in a comprehensible manner for the large public. This is such a work of genius it takes effort to realize it actually exists. I did not even conceive it was passible to go so deep into these matters, but he did and he mastered it and teaches it to us. This is beyond everything I have imagined. Thank you for everything prof. Vervaeke ♥️
After watching three episodes, I feel changed-for the better. This integration of historic, cultural and cognitive information has an impactful and enlightening effect. I greatly appreciate the citations and the passion delivered during the lectures. Thank you again, John, for sharing your erudition and wisdom in such an engaging manner.
Saw the interview on Rebel Wisdom and now I'm binge watching these videos which have triggered a state of flow in me because they are so mindblowingly awesome! Thanks so much for sharing.
If the Bronze Age gave us endless cycles, and the Axial Age gave us a lienear storyline, the combination of these two would be a Spiral, which is an accurate depiction of actual planetary motion, as the solar system is in motion around the galaxy etc. And as the great Humanist Astrologer, Dane Rhdyar said, a repeating cycle is the same “only in its structure but not its contents.” The contents would be subject to our free will, even as we are consciously aware of the cyclical nature of time. This lecture has given me the key. Astrology must be viewed as a pre-axial age technology. Later It was integrated with and in some ways contaminated with Platonic and Neoplatonic elements. In the modern west at least, it has been merged with an axial participatory approach. And this then means that it “covers all the bases.” It is a prime example of the “continuous cosmos”, and as you say, science is bringing us back to this truth. On another point, This Reconciliation this great tension is exactly what Neitszche was talking about at the beginning of Beyond Good and Evil when he spoke of the pulling back of a “great bow of tension” in the European mind. And how we “might have the strength and, who knows, even the goal to aim at.”....
John said he has a tattoo that reads "meditate". That should tell you a lot. We ought to meditate and digest all this information so it becomes wisdom. This is practical rather than intellectual knowledge. Meditation is key.
Bit emotional watching these again, will get through the course this time. It was calling me back. Ive been in the world you describe. Meaningless, dead and no purpose. This is helping me remember the real world.
Around 10 years ago I decided to no longer be bored. This triggered something and I spent a couple of weeks in a state where everyone was beautiful to me, even people I would usually consider ugly. That state still occasionally returns to me.
Thank God for these beings especially these older men, that are ahead of me in my journey. They help people like us make gigantic leaps forward. Thank you so much God
Brilliant insights. The prophet is not somebody who predicts the future, but rather, somebody who can signal that you how you are off course in the present which will lead to a bad outcome.
I saw your discussion on free will then found this series. I had a transformative psychedelic experience a few years ago. I used to drink heavily and took psychedelics regularly. After this last time in 2018 I had a complete personality change and quit drinking and haven’t taken psychedelics since. I’ve seen enough. I think of the experience constantly in the back of my mind. It was almost what people describe who have near death experiences. I had studied Buddhism and meditation before the experience and have always had an interest in theoretical physics and philosophy. So your channel is right up my alley and I’m thrilled to have discovered it. Thank you for sharing!
The only critique I have on this is modern works on contributions of Egypt, starting with the named Greeks that went there to study and learn much of that they knew. Though a perrenialist, Dr. Algis Uzdavinys (in the vein of Hadot) argues powerfully regarding the similarities between Egyptian and Hindu thought, and it's impact on Greek culture. Likewise, a recent anthology "Universe and the Self in Early Indian and Greek Thought" edited by R Seaford collects academic works in this vein as well. I think you could safely push these revolutions in thought back to 400BCE-ish at the latest regarding the major Greeks and a bit further in the cases of India and Egypt. Other than that, brilliant lecture!
Dear professor Vervaeke, thank you. I've been thinking along these lines for years. I believe my search for meaning prompted me to study Indology, which further pushed me into this line of thinking. In the past few years I've been acutely aware of the division between the scientific worldview and the meaningful, mythic worldview both in our present-day culture and within my own mind. When I first realised how similar science and organised religion are in that they both seek to be a sole authority of truth, I was shocked, but that was in many ways a deeply awakening experience. Since then, I'd say the crises I go through every now and then arise when I begin to doubt my own realisations - simply because noone around me thinks that way. I suppose in my case the transformation is happening slowly, so I can perceive the change taking place, observe how the systems clash within my own mind. As much as I appreciate the process and would not give it up for anything in the world, sometimes it feels like many small deaths happening one after another. Then, the feeling of isolation is really hard to endure. To hear you articulate all this in such a clear, calm, rational and informative manner helps to lessen that. Just knowing that I'm not alone in this keeps me going.
I had a world class undergraduate education (Jesuit), and these lectures are absolutely fanTAStic. These evoke the same sort of "Oh, Wow" in me that Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth did years ago.
Ah, faith being the word to describe an awareness of our participation with the unknowable. Knowing, not knowing, like folding layers with dough. I like that a lot.
I like the idea that that progress, is bound to history, to prevent the cycle repeating. Unchecked progress, is to go "off course" and will lead us back into the Earth.
There are a lot of similarities and overlaps with Dr Vervaeke's content and Dr Peterson's content yet they contextualize the points they make with different psycho- technological language tools.(Heideggerian?) U of T psych department has some phenomenal conversations.
Finally! I´ve been waiting whole day for this upload checking my phone. So excited about this video series! Thank you for all the work you put in making these. They are really well made and I am really appreciating the book recomendations for every video.
Tom knows that no One can speak without vowels. The vowel is what resonates "The🎺🎯 Word", subject to the speaker. When the 🔊 speaker🕴️ is subject to the written word the speaker is subject to the Print🌎 World. The Sound 🎶 World 🌎 came 1st, then 📚the Print World. The Divine Octave can only come through the Sound of the Cosmos.🌌
I love that there are so many timestamps! I often have to replay just the last part to make sure Ive grasped everything, and so many timestamps surely come in very handy. Thank you
I’m rewatching this many years later and your comment “please keep going” made me chuckle. He made 48 more since you left your comment. Be careful what you wish for… lol. Cheers!
Another amazing lecture. Had some difficulty with processing the new (old) meaning of words but the amount of insights this lecture taught me are huge. I also like the recap of past lectures
Do you actually experience the universe as a cosmos? What a great question. And yes, with each of these inspirational talks the experience of beauty and cosmos can unfold. So much wonder and enthusiasm in these lectures. Thank you John Vervaeke for this great and deep work!
I love this guy…. He has helped lead to life changing insight for me and my future. I have analyzed the past and see how my future can be better a little more clearly becaue of this series. I listened to the pod cast twice, contemplated going going on to episode 4-or to press pause and try to compartmentalize my thoughts about how I should live my life in the future. How does my past help reduce the existential crisis I live everyday? I realize this is all encompassing of my anxiety These are thoughts I need to put together, to share with people going through an identity crisis. I have contemplated the cosmos since I was 18, when I left to live in another country and started working in merchant ships-I traveled all of my life, and have spent thousands of nights staring at the stars-watching us move within. I took celestial navigation and that is what helped shape my view of the world-everyone is delusional but the enlightened. I realized there was cosmos indeed, and it so very beautiful. Thank you John for providing a Spot-on discourse for people like me. I hope my anxiety does not capsize this vessel once again. I have always thought metaphorically, and I noticed most peopl in my relationship do not understand the metaphors. I feel the jnticmacy I need to be set free when I can speak metaphorically with another human being, leaving another longing for more knowledge. Which was interesting how John spoke of the knowledge-sex context of ancestral past. Metaphorical today-but certainly the truth. Metaphors alone are life transforming! I can’t wait to here from John about Fasting… and the affect it had on the enlightenment and the psyche. # sea-psyc # psycho-sailor # psychosailor86 That’s me! Wayne E. Henry.
Wow. I’m three lectures in and am so stoked to see that I have fourth-seven more to watch. This work is astounding and enlightening. Congratulations Dr. Vervaeke you have yourself a subscriber and a life-long student.
I am a recent arrival at this temple of knowledge and am enthralled and uplifted by the on-going experience. While watching this episode, the thought occurred to me that we do use sexual intercourse and its consequences as metaphors for cognizance, cognitive processes and comprehension beyond the much misunderstood metaphor of Adam 'knowing' his wife. We do so in everyday thinking and conversation, oblivious to the Biblical origin of such ideas, and many others. Such metaphors are ubiquitous in both Biblical and everyday discourse. We talk about biological and mental conception as totally unrelated issues, yet the similarities between biological conception, its outcomes on one hand and mental conception (often conflated with perception) and its possible outcomes on the other. We conceive an idea, which in the vast majority of cases leads to nothing, metaphorically a misconception, or a miscarriage. The word 'intercourse' as meaningful conversation pre-dates its use for biological sexual union, as it originally referred to the deeper notion of interpersonal exchanges of the contents of consciousness between two or more individuals. That notion was transferred to our understanding of the process of copulation, now gentily referred to as sexual intercourse, precisely because of their startling parallels in metaphorical terms. Lakoff and Johnsen's "Metaphors We Live By' is a book which fell into my lap as a lifelong student of metaphors like metaphorical 'manna from heaven."
How on earth did this ever get made for RUclips, for free??? John, thank you, and also, what motivates you to do this and give it away?? "Freely you've been given, so freely give?" What state of consciousness makes you work this hard and still be able to give it away?
People get stuck in life, and never fully realize their promise, for reasons other than bad choices or lack of character. Injustice is real, and people’s lives get ruined by others’ malicious acts. My life was completely ruined by academic bullying for example. Professors in a human helping field no less, retaliated against me after Deans held them accountable for bullying me and others. I exposed them, and I paid a huge price. Life is full of such injustices, and many talented people remain unrealized because a wall is put in front of them blocking their potential. It could be as simple as being born into terrible circumstances, of which there are countless examples
Fatter pen, better lighting, better camera. So many options. Perhaps he's having trouble working out if it's a failure of cyborg-technology or psycho-technology.
Wisdom and power are both emotional awareness, the forces we must master on the path of individuation. This is when a person finds themselves at one with the greatest power and force of nature, unity.
47:45 John claims that the Greeks invented mathematics, specifically geometry. This is quite a stretch. Even without the historical record of Pythagoras having received his education in Egypt, we'd have the art and architecture of that civilization as monuments to their deep understanding of geometry. I know John's point is that the Greeks brought mathematics to a new stage metacognitively, which is probably true, but this is an important point not to get wrong about human history.
Yeah there was actually a lot going on before the Greeks. Egypt had already found out what would eventually become the Pythagoras theorem, Mesopotamia had developed some early algebra before the Greeks, India too... The difference is that the Greeks centered their worldview on that, in a way, by giving so much importance to abstract thought.
This is excellent! Thank you for sharing your gift❤. Can we integrate the more linear vs cyclical timeline into a spiral? History is in cycles, but as we come back around, we are farther along? (Let’s get this man some new markers 😂)
There is nothing more beautiful and cosmetics than this ❤️❤️ I really can't thank you enough. it's really hard to reconnect with reality and especially in 3rd world country like syria, but you really moved something deep within.
31:43: Kairos was *not* developed by Tillich. He rehabbed it for modern audiences, but it's a presocratic concept. Our boy Gorgias. I felt compelled to write this before continuing to listen the rest of the way through cause I was so shocked to see one of my favorite words in the wilds beyond my scholarly readings.
These are so very hard to understand, but it's exciting to at least try to grasp the essence of life and stumble along toward something better. I myself have great difficulty grasping such ideas, but nonetheless, Thank you again for these lectures, very much thank you. And indeed I am grateful for all others who pursue such things to enrich our world.
The symphony, mosaic, kaleidoscopic universe is made of small pieces. Like it or not you are playing a part. Truth, you matter more than you could ever possibly fathom.
The Pythagorean theorem was first known in ancient Babylon and Egypt (beginning about 1900 B.C.). The relationship was shown on a 4000 year old Babylonian tablet now known as Plimpton 322. It is said Pythagoras studied in Egypt, so perhaps he leaned someone about triangles when he was there. He certainly didnt invent the theorem.
@@Rannsack Thinknof a child in a geometry class who could describe to you the Pythagorean theorem versus the child who can prove it. I am talking about the second. Science is not just true description it is argumentative explanation. I relationship was know before the Greeks. The proof was not.
@@johnvervaeke Thank you for the clarification, that's a very interesting development. But we can have truths for which we have no explanation, and we can have very logical rationalizations that are in fact not true. The modern world relies too much on the rational at the expense of the truth. (I haven't finished your lecture series so I hope that is addressed at some point). Thanks for the very interesting series. I already know i'm going to be listening to it several times to absorb all the points fully.
This is the best use of internet technology ever. Thank you for this series.
No, the best use of internet technology would have been if this information was presented as an exocortex, a navigable knowledge graph others can use fluently. It's still splendid, presenting through video is quick and direct, gets the job done, gets the point across. We hear it, we understand, we review sections, but how much do we actually remember long-term? How much do we use and live with? Too little. It's not the right form for that. This stuff should be like a semantic wiki of flashcards, where you can ask a question of the oracle and dive into a topic from any end, get a spatial awareness of where it fits in, what it's connected to, how central or peripheral it is, supporting arguments, problems and so on. But authoring something like that is much harder.
@@leeroyescu
This is part of you're you're asking for.
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@@leeroyescu did iOS yp ya yeiei terra’s t strata te yer t ou to teeters is pt sarsari teit I t de it o tree t Stars ty grass attoritotdi out toy I o test qtsot I drfyeiseott you rarest teysotat yossitoottt t to sitting estates try I te a yp t ye is totitor starts I retreat tat OST’s o tat otti ot t o test ya see tyrotoyat ayat at totoe was peoo fa tat
@@leeroyescu invent that.
Usually I'm quite impatient and want to rush through every series in order to finish it, but now it feels quite good that there are so many more episodes left.
“They’re symbolic stories about perennial patters that are always with us” -Myths. Beautifully put.
As JP puts it, those stories become myths BECAUSE they are true.
Exactly this.
Joseph Campbell spoke about this first, and better. I refer viewers to the PBS series, "The Power of Myth".
This is Jung 101 is not like something new
Thats a take home message, I liked it
I was attending a retreat in Ivory Rock Australia held by my teacher Prem Rawat. I met a man who offered to help me with my Bags I asked him where he was from. He spoke English with an accent. He said to me, brother the day has come we no longer need to ask where Each other come from . We are from the same source. then he said I was born in Greece. In that moment, I realized a transcendent cosmic connection with the universal essence of life .Your lectures are providing clarity for those in search of wisdom. Know Thy Self
This man is a historical treasure.
Thank you. That is very kind and encouraging.
I really appreciate Vervaeke's recap of the last lecture when he starts a new lecture. Its really helpful.
Big fat markers may increase the cognitive fluency of this lecture.
Hate missing all these drawings!
Yeah, you would need to be in the room within 10 feet given the size and color contrast.
true.
If you max your display and diagrams become visible. The fluency is still not as good as it can be of course.
Feeling like Tom
BLACK MARKER FOR A WHITE BOARD. BEST VISIBILITY
I'm so thankful that even with the vicious censorship that RUclips regularly engages in, and with the decimation higher education that has taken place over the past decade, there are still gems like Vervaeke this that synthesize so much wisdom in a single lecture.
I finally understand “be transformed by the renewing of your mind”
I've discovered you as a result of your recent discussion with JBP. I haven't been this consumed by a lecture series since the first time I watched the JP biblical lectures.
Me too. Exact same path.
Me three! Same same!
Me too
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I love this rabbit hole 💓😇🧘🏻🙌🏻
No, thank YOU for your time to explain this! This series is one of the best things I have seen on the Internet.
One of the most important videos on the internet.
John, I want to express my sincere gratitude for sharing all your sublime work on this platform. I feel 'blessed' to have known you (I met you just a few days ago). The dimension of the positive impact your work can have on people is immeasurable. I hope that many more people can get to know you. Because of you, I now feel compelled to learn English perfectly so I can listen to you without the need for subtitles... ha ha. From the bottom of my heart, thank you very much for the work you carry out.
I am looking forward to the shamanic ceremony at the end of this series
John "We're gonna talk about that" Vervaeke
Yes
gave me a good chuckle :)
28:45 A lightbulb went off in my head. When god reveals his name he says: ""I will be what I will be." - I am the god of the open future, and you can participate with me in this ongoing creation of the future because you can shape it. You can cause it to go to resolution but you can also cause it to go off course." This to me is why we should always be in the right moral position. Absolutely enlightening lecture, John. Thank you.
What I wouldn't give to have you as a professor when I was 18. You are doing important work, Dr. Vervaeke.
Excellent video. I watched this episode 2 times. First time just watched through and realized how many different ideas are discussed. Then re watched, took notes, stopped at important points. I've tried to digest all ideas, discuss it with myself and argue with it. It took me quite lot of time. I've googled lot of stuff. Because I could not easily believe to what I've heard. I am astonishingly impressed.
Also, this series are good advertisement for books for sure. I am convinced to buy all of that books. I read one from first episode and I am really want to read all of them.
I tried to read the katakana in your name and got ヒ("he") confused with と ("toe").
I am in 100% agreement, just where to start, so many good books and never enough time.
Where and how far up are you removed now in your epistemic quest, if I may ask?
@@ramdanebenbouabdellah6597 The Awakening from Meaning Crisis series are really good source for materials related problems of the cognitive science and I re-watch some of the videos time to time. Also, I have read the most of the books presented in the series and found books with opposing ideas. I do like ideas of John Vervaeke and he is definitely a wise man and he makes a lot of good points. However, to truly grasp the topic, it is important to see other ideas too. For example, I think the works of the Daniel Dennett are good contrast to what is presented in this channel. Nevertheless, these series had a powerful influence to me and the way I view the life. Must watch.
@@ラヒム旬 What about Dennett's work contradicts these lectures? I'm asking genuinely. I am wondering what the opposing ideas are that you are alluding to in relation to the meaning problem.
This is better than Game of Thrones.
I love the passionate, dramatic John Vervaeke the best.
I get in flowstate when I listen to you man.
This material is so cool. I don’t have anything more intelligent to say.
Great series professor, thank you for lecturing us undereducated people from all over the world who are not lucky enough to attend worlds top universities so they spend their leisure learning useful things online
God this is so out of this world. It is so deep and brilliant it is a miracle someone actually touched on it and even more, presents it in a comprehensible manner for the large public. This is such a work of genius it takes effort to realize it actually exists. I did not even conceive it was passible to go so deep into these matters, but he did and he mastered it and teaches it to us. This is beyond everything I have imagined. Thank you for everything prof. Vervaeke ♥️
After watching three episodes, I feel changed-for the better. This integration of historic, cultural and cognitive information has an impactful and enlightening effect. I greatly appreciate the citations and the passion delivered during the lectures. Thank you again, John, for sharing your erudition and wisdom in such an engaging manner.
Saw the interview on Rebel Wisdom and now I'm binge watching these videos which have triggered a state of flow in me because they are so mindblowingly awesome! Thanks so much for sharing.
John's often in Flow when lecturing, totally walking his talk. I reckon you're picking up on that. Resonating. Grooving. etc.
@@stephen-torrence , grokking too 😉
What interview?
This is continually blowing my mind and we are only on part 3 🤯
This lecture series is an axial revolution in its own right. It integrates so much of our experience and knowledge.
If the Bronze Age gave us endless cycles, and the Axial Age gave us a lienear storyline, the combination of these two would be a Spiral, which is an accurate depiction of actual planetary motion, as the solar system is in motion around the galaxy etc. And as the great Humanist Astrologer, Dane Rhdyar said, a repeating cycle is the same “only in its structure but not its contents.” The contents would be subject to our free will, even as we are consciously aware of the cyclical nature of time.
This lecture has given me the key. Astrology must be viewed as a pre-axial age technology. Later It was integrated with and in some ways contaminated with Platonic and Neoplatonic elements. In the modern west at least, it has been merged with an axial participatory approach. And this then means that it “covers all the bases.”
It is a prime example of the “continuous cosmos”, and as you say, science is bringing us back to this truth.
On another point, This Reconciliation this great tension is exactly what Neitszche was talking about at the beginning of Beyond Good and Evil when he spoke of the pulling back of a “great bow of tension” in the European mind. And how we “might have the strength and, who knows, even the goal to aim at.”....
John said he has a tattoo that reads "meditate". That should tell you a lot. We ought to meditate and digest all this information so it becomes wisdom. This is practical rather than intellectual knowledge. Meditation is key.
„Living up to your promise“ involves reaching for the higher ideals we long to serve. This is what gives our lives meaning.
Bit emotional watching these again, will get through the course this time. It was calling me back. Ive been in the world you describe. Meaningless, dead and no purpose. This is helping me remember the real world.
How has it been after the whole series?
you can't imagine how your lectures is changing the way i see things now... very insightful ❤️
This is one of the best lectures I have ever had the pleasure to listen to. Thank you very much for your work, John, this is absolutely gold material.
Thank YOU very much for your time.
I sincerely love and appreciate this academic journey we’re going on with you John.
Coming back to this years later & it's really beautiful to see how many other people have also been helped by this series since then. Very cool.
Just thank you, thank you for pulling all of this together and putting it out into the world.
This is exactly the kind of stuff I love. Fabulous.
Around 10 years ago I decided to no longer be bored. This triggered something and I spent a couple of weeks in a state where everyone was beautiful to me, even people I would usually consider ugly. That state still occasionally returns to me.
Thank you for sharing +pzorstar …
I like this perspective. Taking curiosity to the next level.
What made you think of that experience? Something in the lecture?
Thank God for these beings especially these older men, that are ahead of me in my journey. They help people like us make gigantic leaps forward. Thank you so much God
Brilliant insights.
The prophet is not somebody who predicts the future, but rather, somebody who can signal that you how you are off course in the present which will lead to a bad outcome.
I saw your discussion on free will then found this series. I had a transformative psychedelic experience a few years ago. I used to drink heavily and took psychedelics regularly. After this last time in 2018 I had a complete personality change and quit drinking and haven’t taken psychedelics since. I’ve seen enough. I think of the experience constantly in the back of my mind. It was almost what people describe who have near death experiences. I had studied Buddhism and meditation before the experience and have always had an interest in theoretical physics and philosophy. So your channel is right up my alley and I’m thrilled to have discovered it. Thank you for sharing!
The only critique I have on this is modern works on contributions of Egypt, starting with the named Greeks that went there to study and learn much of that they knew. Though a perrenialist, Dr. Algis Uzdavinys (in the vein of Hadot) argues powerfully regarding the similarities between Egyptian and Hindu thought, and it's impact on Greek culture. Likewise, a recent anthology "Universe and the Self in Early Indian and Greek Thought" edited by R Seaford collects academic works in this vein as well. I think you could safely push these revolutions in thought back to 400BCE-ish at the latest regarding the major Greeks and a bit further in the cases of India and Egypt. Other than that, brilliant lecture!
Dear professor Vervaeke, thank you. I've been thinking along these lines for years. I believe my search for meaning prompted me to study Indology, which further pushed me into this line of thinking. In the past few years I've been acutely aware of the division between the scientific worldview and the meaningful, mythic worldview both in our present-day culture and within my own mind. When I first realised how similar science and organised religion are in that they both seek to be a sole authority of truth, I was shocked, but that was in many ways a deeply awakening experience. Since then, I'd say the crises I go through every now and then arise when I begin to doubt my own realisations - simply because noone around me thinks that way. I suppose in my case the transformation is happening slowly, so I can perceive the change taking place, observe how the systems clash within my own mind. As much as I appreciate the process and would not give it up for anything in the world, sometimes it feels like many small deaths happening one after another. Then, the feeling of isolation is really hard to endure. To hear you articulate all this in such a clear, calm, rational and informative manner helps to lessen that. Just knowing that I'm not alone in this keeps me going.
I had a world class undergraduate education (Jesuit), and these lectures are absolutely fanTAStic. These evoke the same sort of "Oh, Wow" in me that Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth did years ago.
Ah, faith being the word to describe an awareness of our participation with the unknowable. Knowing, not knowing, like folding layers with dough. I like that a lot.
I like the idea that that progress, is bound to history, to prevent the cycle repeating. Unchecked progress, is to go "off course" and will lead us back into the Earth.
That point about cognitive fluency was fascinating. Speaks to how much of an outsized influence a good story teller can be.
There are a lot of similarities and overlaps with Dr Vervaeke's content and Dr Peterson's content yet they contextualize the points they make with different psycho- technological language tools.(Heideggerian?) U of T psych department has some phenomenal conversations.
Yep. Who knew the University of Toronto's Psychology Departmenet would help millions across the world. Amazing.
Finally! I´ve been waiting whole day for this upload checking my phone. So excited about this video series! Thank you for all the work you put in making these. They are really well made and I am really appreciating the book recomendations for every video.
Amazing lecture
Myth is neither fully scientific nor fully metaphor. Yes! I love this!!! Brilliant stuff.
Tom knows that no One can speak without vowels. The vowel is what resonates "The🎺🎯 Word", subject to the speaker. When the 🔊 speaker🕴️ is subject to the written word the speaker is subject to the Print🌎 World. The Sound 🎶 World 🌎 came 1st, then 📚the Print World. The Divine Octave can only come through the Sound of the Cosmos.🌌
I love that there are so many timestamps! I often have to replay just the last part to make sure Ive grasped everything, and so many timestamps surely come in very handy. Thank you
Please keep going John, this synthesis is so helpful. I'll be here each week and share this stuff. Thanks for your book too.
I’m rewatching this many years later and your comment “please keep going” made me chuckle. He made 48 more since you left your comment. Be careful what you wish for… lol. Cheers!
Another amazing lecture. Had some difficulty with processing the new (old) meaning of words but the amount of insights this lecture taught me are huge. I also like the recap of past lectures
Do you actually experience the universe as a cosmos?
What a great question. And yes, with each of these inspirational talks the experience of beauty and cosmos can unfold. So much wonder and enthusiasm in these lectures.
Thank you John Vervaeke for this great and deep work!
I love this guy…. He has helped lead to life changing insight for me and my future. I have analyzed the past and see how my future can be better a little more clearly becaue of this series. I listened to the pod cast twice, contemplated going going on to episode 4-or to press pause and try to compartmentalize my thoughts about how I should live my life in the future. How does my past help reduce the existential crisis I live everyday? I realize this is all encompassing of my anxiety These are thoughts I need to put together, to share with people going through an identity crisis. I have contemplated the cosmos since I was 18, when I left to live in another country and started working in merchant ships-I traveled all of my life, and have spent thousands of nights staring at the stars-watching us move within. I took celestial navigation and that is what helped shape my view of the world-everyone is delusional but the enlightened. I realized there was cosmos indeed, and it so very beautiful. Thank you John for providing a Spot-on discourse for people like me. I hope my anxiety does not capsize this vessel once again. I have always thought metaphorically, and I noticed most peopl in my relationship do not understand the metaphors. I feel the jnticmacy I need to be set free when I can speak metaphorically with another human being, leaving another longing for more knowledge. Which was interesting how John spoke of the knowledge-sex context of ancestral past. Metaphorical today-but certainly the truth.
Metaphors alone are life transforming!
I can’t wait to here from John about Fasting… and the affect it had on the
enlightenment and the psyche.
# sea-psyc # psycho-sailor # psychosailor86
That’s me!
Wayne E. Henry.
Wow. I’m three lectures in and am so stoked to see that I have fourth-seven more to watch. This work is astounding and enlightening. Congratulations Dr. Vervaeke you have yourself a subscriber and a life-long student.
I am a recent arrival at this temple of knowledge and am enthralled and uplifted by the on-going experience. While watching this episode, the thought occurred to me that we do use sexual intercourse and its consequences as metaphors for cognizance, cognitive processes and comprehension beyond the much misunderstood metaphor of Adam 'knowing' his wife. We do so in everyday thinking and conversation, oblivious to the Biblical origin of such ideas, and many others. Such metaphors are ubiquitous in both Biblical and everyday discourse. We talk about biological and mental conception as totally unrelated issues, yet the similarities between biological conception, its outcomes on one hand and mental conception (often conflated with perception) and its possible outcomes on the other. We conceive an idea, which in the vast majority of cases leads to nothing, metaphorically a misconception, or a miscarriage. The word 'intercourse' as meaningful conversation pre-dates its use for biological sexual union, as it originally referred to the deeper notion of interpersonal exchanges of the contents of consciousness between two or more individuals. That notion was transferred to our understanding of the process of copulation, now gentily referred to as sexual intercourse, precisely because of their startling parallels in metaphorical terms. Lakoff and Johnsen's "Metaphors We Live By' is a book which fell into my lap as a lifelong student of metaphors like metaphorical 'manna from heaven."
Listening to angry philosphers barking at me must be one of my top 10 favorite pastime activites.
I've been on the edge of my seat waiting for this. Thank you so much for sharing your incredibly thoughtful and important work.
I have just started to explore Vervaekes work and i feel he is the top intelligent human being.
I am so happy this lecture series exists! So enlightening, thank you very much!!
Covering a lot of ground in human evolution, Dr. Vervaeke! Cheers
How on earth did this ever get made for RUclips, for free??? John, thank you, and also, what motivates you to do this and give it away?? "Freely you've been given, so freely give?" What state of consciousness makes you work this hard and still be able to give it away?
Hope this was answered for you around ep16 👌
This series is pure gold, thank you for putting it together John
This is one of those videos that makes so much sense and connects so many dots you wonder why you didn’t realize it to begin with
This series is a gem. Thank you John.
This series is blowing my mind! Giving me hope In what’s personally and globally a tough time.
Thanks a bunch, John! Phenomenal work consolidating these ideas.
A definition of wisdom that I like is knowledge plus experience.
People get stuck in life, and never fully realize their promise, for reasons other than bad choices or lack of character. Injustice is real, and people’s lives get ruined by others’ malicious acts. My life was completely ruined by academic bullying for example. Professors in a human helping field no less, retaliated against me after Deans held them accountable for bullying me and others. I exposed them, and I paid a huge price. Life is full of such injustices, and many talented people remain unrealized because a wall is put in front of them blocking their potential. It could be as simple as being born into terrible circumstances, of which there are countless examples
The teacher I have been searching for all my life! Thank you very much sir! I deeply admire your work.
I love your lectures but we can't read the white board.
That hampers my cognition.
Fatter pen, better lighting, better camera. So many options. Perhaps he's having trouble working out if it's a failure of cyborg-technology or psycho-technology.
@@con_sci Brilliant!
This is a very high quality lecture. Beautiful use of language, music to my ears 🤗💛
Love what you're doing John
A breath of fresh air. Love hearing your talks John. Thank you!! Isabel
Brilliant! Wisdom provides the leap from an „illusory“ to the „real“ world. We want to be enlightented.
So happy episode 3 is up. Thank you so much for sharing these!
Ive been looking forward to this more than anything on youtube. I cannot wait for you to continue
Wisdom and power are both emotional awareness, the forces we must master on the path of individuation. This is when a person finds themselves at one with the greatest power and force of nature, unity.
I remember J Campbell referring to myths as "mythos" as a way to disambiguate the cultural baggage of "fake stories."
47:45 John claims that the Greeks invented mathematics, specifically geometry. This is quite a stretch. Even without the historical record of Pythagoras having received his education in Egypt, we'd have the art and architecture of that civilization as monuments to their deep understanding of geometry. I know John's point is that the Greeks brought mathematics to a new stage metacognitively, which is probably true, but this is an important point not to get wrong about human history.
Thank you for the clarification. I also like your own thoughts that help clarify
Wonderfully put.
He should watch/read John Anthony West.
A masterful series which involves a significant stretch of all of recorded human history is bound to paint in rather broad strokes.
Yeah there was actually a lot going on before the Greeks. Egypt had already found out what would eventually become the Pythagoras theorem, Mesopotamia had developed some early algebra before the Greeks, India too... The difference is that the Greeks centered their worldview on that, in a way, by giving so much importance to abstract thought.
This is excellent! Thank you for sharing your gift❤. Can we integrate the more linear vs cyclical timeline into a spiral? History is in cycles, but as we come back around, we are farther along? (Let’s get this man some new markers 😂)
I dedicated a notebook for this series
Thanks for your time & Lessons, Professor, Regards from Costa Rica.
There is nothing more beautiful and cosmetics than this ❤️❤️ I really can't thank you enough. it's really hard to reconnect with reality and especially in 3rd world country like syria, but you really moved something deep within.
31:43: Kairos was *not* developed by Tillich. He rehabbed it for modern audiences, but it's a presocratic concept. Our boy Gorgias. I felt compelled to write this before continuing to listen the rest of the way through cause I was so shocked to see one of my favorite words in the wilds beyond my scholarly readings.
The notion of "psychotechnologies" is really mindblowing
This is amazing, so happy Jordan Peterson brought me here. Gonna finish this whole series!
These lectures keep getting better and better. Thank you so much Sir.
These are so very hard to understand, but it's exciting to at least try to grasp the essence of life and stumble along toward something better. I myself have great difficulty grasping such ideas, but nonetheless,
Thank you again for these lectures, very much thank you. And indeed I am grateful for all others who pursue such things to enrich our world.
Absolute superb material thanks for the joy.
The symphony, mosaic, kaleidoscopic universe is made of small pieces. Like it or not you are playing a part. Truth, you matter more than you could ever possibly fathom.
Been looking forward to Friday all week for this. Ordered your book today and can't wait to read it!
Great job Prof. The lectures to this point have been outstanding. Really great work thank you so much for sharing them on RUclips.
The Pythagorean theorem was first known in ancient Babylon and Egypt (beginning about 1900 B.C.). The relationship was shown on a 4000 year old Babylonian tablet now known as Plimpton 322. It is said Pythagoras studied in Egypt, so perhaps he leaned someone about triangles when he was there. He certainly didnt invent the theorem.
@@Rannsack Thinknof a child in a geometry class who could describe to you the Pythagorean theorem versus the child who can prove it. I am talking about the second. Science is not just true description it is argumentative explanation. I relationship was know before the Greeks. The proof was not.
@@johnvervaeke Thank you for the clarification, that's a very interesting development. But we can have truths for which we have no explanation, and we can have very logical rationalizations that are in fact not true. The modern world relies too much on the rational at the expense of the truth. (I haven't finished your lecture series so I hope that is addressed at some point). Thanks for the very interesting series. I already know i'm going to be listening to it several times to absorb all the points fully.
This channel deserved one million subscribers, at least