Episode 95
Stealing the Culture & Solving the Meaning Crisis
We live in times where information is rife but wisdom is in short supply, where ideologies abound but meaning is scarce, and the time for taking mediating actions on the abundant crises we face is limited.
In this conversation with cognitive psychologist John Vervaeke we explore the symptomology of the meaning crisis, how we create meaning and lie to ourselves, the “religion of me”, the potential of wisdom practices and solving the meaning crisis.
In this podcast we talk about:
02:15 The symptomology of the meaning crisis
09:30 How we lie to ourselves
13:45 The power of salience
22:45 The meaning crisis and agency
26:00 How we create meaning
34:20 Salience landscaping and identity
40:00 An ecology of wisdom practices
45:05 The language of training vs explaining
50:45 Shifting our own way of being
58:20 The religion of me vs true wisdom inquiry
01:06:20 Stealing the culture
01:11:30 The impact of the scarcity mentality
01:13:40 The power of the imaginal
Resources Mentioned:
Tatjana Schnell