Awakening From The Meaning Crisis with John Vervaeke

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Episode 138 - Awakening From The Meaning Crisis with John Vervaeke

Make It Happen with Will Polston is a weekly podcast that consists of a combination of episodes with Mindset Strategist Will Polston and episodes with Will's guests from around the world providing you with insights on how you can transform your excuses into results to benefit yourself, your family, your friends, your community, society, humanity and the universe, what he calls - The Ripple Effect.

John Vervaeke is an Associate Professor, in the teaching stream. He has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 1994.

He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on insight problem solving, cognitive development with an emphasis on the dynamical nature of development, and higher cognitive processes with an emphasis on intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the Psychology of wisdom.

He is the director of the Cognitive Science program where he also teaches courses on the introduction to Cognitive Science, and the Cognitive Science of consciousness wherein he emphasizes 4E (embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended) models of cognition and consciousness.

In addition, he teaches a course in the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health program on Buddhism and Cognitive Science. He is the director of the Consciousness and the Wisdom Studies Laboratory.

He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards. He has published articles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, flow, metaphor, and wisdom.

He is first author of the book Zombies in Western Culture: A 21st Century crisis which integrates Psychology and Cognitive Science to address the meaning crisis in Western society. He is the author and presenter of the YouTube series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

In this episode, Will has John as his guest and they talk about:

• What is ‘Awakening From The Meaning Crisis’?
• The truth about intuition
• The conditions that enable people to get into FLOW state
• The definition of human spirituality
• How he sees the future of the development of humans in relation to technology

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