Ep.15 Awakening From The Meaning Crisis with John Vervaeke, Professor - University of Toronto

<p><strong>ABOUT JOHN VERVAEKE:</strong></p><p><strong>LinkedIn Profile: </strong>https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-vervaeke-a910992/</p><p><strong>Twitter: </strong>https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john </p><p><strong>Website: </strong>http://johnvervaeke.com</p><p><strong>Videos: </strong>https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke </p><p><strong>JOHN VERVAEKE Bio:</strong></p><ul><li>Associate Professor at University of Toronto</li><li>John Vervaeke is an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto where he teaches courses in three areas:</li><li><strong>1. Cognitive Psychology </strong>on thinking and reasoning, higher cognition, and cognitive development</li><li><strong>2. Cognitive Science </strong>program on integrating the work done in psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguists, and philosophy to try and tackle central problems about the nature of cognition.</li><li><strong>3. Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health program</strong>on the intersection between Buddhism and Cognitive Science, and on the scientific basis of mindfulness meditation.</li><li>Has 50 episode series called “Awakening From the Meaning Crisis” on YouTube</li><li>His work constructs a bridge between science and spirituality in order to understand the experience of meaningfulness and the cultivation of wisdom so as to afford awakening from the meaning crisis.”</li><li>He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards including:</li><li>the 2001 Students’ Administrative Council and Association of Part-timeUndergraduate Students Teaching Award for the Humanities</li><li>the2012Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. </li><li>He has publishedarticles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness,metaphor, and wisdom.</li><li>His abiding passion is to address themeaning crisis that besets western culture.<br /> </li></ul><p><strong>SHOW INTRO:</strong></p><p><strong>"I’m sitting across the room from my son who is listening to a Ted talk. As I listen I’