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John Vervaeke

Spirituality and Responding to the Meaning Crisis Part 4: Why Meaning Can Be Put at Risk

July 6, 2015July 24, 2014 by John Vervaeke

How can our sense of meaning and identity in the world be threatened, and why is our particular historical situation so threatening to it?

Categories Free Tags absurdity, alienation, depression, existence, meaning, mystery, philosophy 7 Comments

Spirituality and the Meaning Crisis Part 3: The Cognitive Science of meaning and why that meaning is spiritual

July 6, 2015March 20, 2014 by John Vervaeke

Relevance realization is an inherently spiritual process … it is so fundamental to our agency and identity, it is something in which we participate, and it is foundational to how we connect to ourselves, each other, and the world.

Categories Free Tags cognition, meaning, mind, science 1 Comment

Spirituality and the Meaning Crisis, Part 2: The Emergence of the crisis.

January 10, 2016January 20, 2014 by John Vervaeke

John Vervaeke explores how the meaning crisis emerged in Western Culture…

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Spirituality and responding to the Meaning Crisis, Part 1: The Meaning that was lost

November 27, 2015October 24, 2013 by John Vervaeke

Western society is facing a meaning crisis that spirituality must address. But what it the nature of this crisis?

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