John Vervaeke

John Vervaeke is a professor of cognitive psychology and science at the University of Toronto.

He recently completed a 50-episode lecture series on Youtube: Awakening From the Meaning Crisis.

The series is an integration of cognitive science and ‘spirituality’.

He develops a framework for understanding what wisdom is. How its central to the cultivation of wisdom in societies of the past.

He shares how the usurpation of wisdom by knowledge leaves us adrift in a meaningless world where we are captive.

One way of thinking about the meaning crisis is as a crisis of darkness and light. The monasteries and churches of charity were replaced by the legal charity of governments who exercise authority. gone, the commodification of schools is diluting what passes as ‘education’ to mere preparation for uncertain labor markets; where else do we go for wisdom?