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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.

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