Iain McGilchrist is psychiatrist & author of "The Master and His Emissary" on bilateral brain's distinction. John Vervaeke, a cognitive scientist and philosopher at the University of Toronto, has been working on the concept of Cognitive Science of Wisdom.
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- Matthew's Adopt Responsibility podcast: youtube.com/channel/UCzwP_qFSXmDs-79VMFmcQQw
- Garrett's This Could Be Interesting podcast: youtube.com/c/ThisCouldBeInteresting
- Physics Contest: youtu.be/V93GQaDtv8w
- John Vervaeke: youtu.be/3p8o3-7mvQc
- John and Bernardo: youtu.be/UWcTmeAs44I
- John and Joscha Bach: youtu.be/rK7ux_JhHM4
- Iain McGilchrist on TOE: youtube.com/watch?v=M-SgOwc6Pe4
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:44 Iain on the "meaning crisis"
00:09:29 John on the "meaning crisis"
00:15:10 Technology amplifies our lack of wisdom
00:18:26 Rationality and Belief (Iain vs. John)
00:28:35 Imaginary vs. Imaginal
00:37:03 Non-theism vs. Religion (against meditation as spiritual redress)
00:53:38 Not doing vs. Un-doing vs. Being passive vs. Un-Knowing
01:09:22 The way God sees us vs. The way we see God
01:22:06 Sam Harris, Closing yourself off to the Divine, and Terror
01:29:20 The importance of Sangha (community), and how can John's neoplatonism work?
01:40:43 Faith, Whitehead, and Reciprocal Opening
01:47:56 Against "being present"
01:54:58 Marrying a religion
02:04:24 Should we certainly give up on certainty?
02:06:06 On not speaking and the un-making of TOE
02:08:14 John and Iain summate
- Iain McGilchrist Λ John Vervaeke: God, Being, Meaning ( Download)
- The Way God Sees Us | Iain McGilchrist Λ John Vervaeke ( Download)
- God is associated with BECOMING and not BEING - Iain McGilchrist ( Download)
- Iain McGilchrist on Schizophrenia ( Download)
- 2 Questions to get The Meaning of Life 🤔 with John Vervaeke and Theo Von #shorts ( Download)
- What It Means to Be Wise ( Download)
- Iain McGilchrist And Modernity: Are We Losing The Ability To Comprehend Symbols ( Download)
- What the world's made of... | Iain McGilchrist ( Download)
- John Vervaeke on Leaving Christianity | The Tim Ferriss Show ( Download)
- Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Brain and Perceiving the Sacred ( Download)
- 'Making Sense' Part 1, Dr Iain McGilchrist ( Download)
- Dr Iain McGilchrist on Psychedelics, depression and the brain | With Sir Philip Pullman ( Download)
- How to Awake from the Meaning Crisis | John Vervaeke ( Download)
- Spinoza, religio, and the re-conceiving of religion, God and Nature w/ Clare Carlisle ( Download)
- The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist | EP 278 ( Download)
