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meaning

A Reason-Oriented Perspective on Meanings and Values

October 27, 2016 by Gleb Tsipursky

Social circles provide a venue for reflecting and a way to help others find clearer answers to life’s questions…

Categories Free Tags community, ethics, humanism, meaning, morals, purpose, reason, secular, values Leave a comment

The Smart Way to Work With Purpose

May 26, 2016 by Gleb Tsipursky

Job fulfillment and connections with others…

Categories Free Tags life meaning, live your purpose, meaning, meaningful life, purpose, purpose-driven life 2 Comments

A Biologist Looks at Religion, the Humanities, and Our Compulsive Sociability

March 19, 2015 by Brock Haussamen

What is the true purpose of sociality, religion, and the humanities in human existence?

Categories Free Tags existence, humanities, meaning, purpose, religion, ritual Leave a comment

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

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