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John Vervaekes Lectern · Sentinel

John Vervaekes Lectern

John Vervaekes Lectern

@johnvervaeke•130K subscribers•705 videos

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About John Vervaekes Lectern

John Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist and award-winning educator at the University of Toronto, where he has taught in Psychology and the Cognitive Science Program since 1994.

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John Vervaeke’s Lectern Episode Catalog

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Grief Is the Way Back to the Sacred | John Vervaeke & Ethan Hsieh (Part 3/3)

3.1K356

Communal Living as Spiritual Practice: Friendship, Formation, and Renewing the Senses

6K6620

Don't Come Just for Yourself. Come for Your Kids.

1.7K614

This Is NOT a Vacation. It's a Pilgrimage.

960291

How Tracking Made Us Human

933426

Nihilism Is Not the End | John Vervaeke & Ethan Hsieh (Part 2/3)

1.1K3810

The Philosophical Trap You Don’t Know You’re In | John Vervaeke & Ethan Hsieh (Part 1/3)

9053921

Silk Road Seminar | Andrew M. Davis and Matt Segall

693352

How Nonbeing Haunts Being: Corey Anton on Death, Spirituality, and the Meaning of a Finite Life

1.6K7626

Notes on No-Thing: John Vervaeke on Nihilism, the Kyoto School, and the Sacred

5490

Live Q&A with Brendan Graham Dempsey

457112

Silk Road Seminar | Bryan Brown and Douglas Hedley

836314

Reconnect to the Real: Vervaeke, Sengstock, and Koch on Nature, Circling, and Socratic Practice

330198

Parenting, Meaning, and Reconnecting with the Real

1.6K6818

John Vervaeke & Guy Sengstock: Why Modernity Can't See the Sacred Anymore

1.1K5323

Silk Road Seminar | Zevi Slavin and John Vervaeke

1.5K5213

Live Q&A with Brendan Graham Dempsey | Questions, Dialogue, and the Pursuit of Wisdom

598163

Why Wonder Is More Than Curiosity with William Desmond

2.4K9427

What Happens When a Culture Loses the Sacred?

1.9K10539

Pilgrimage Is More Than Travel. It Changes How You See Reality

1.4K6521

William Desmond and John Vervaeke: Why Transcendence Still Matters

4.6K15143

Lectern Live Q&A (05.21.26)

1.2K484

Are We Losing Our Taste for the Real?

1.4K3757

Brendan Graham Dempsey: How Meaning and the Sacred Evolve Over Time

1.6K3926

From Flow to Mystical Experience

2.5K9023

Zen Neoplatonism: Healing the Meaning Crisis Between East and West

2.5K8533

Silk Road Seminar: Edward Slingerland

1.6K4615

Who is Ethan Hsieh Beyond the Facilitator? | Teaching, Play & What TIAMAT is For

8032415

Why You Need Both Zen and Science to Understand Reality

1.8K6323

Predictive Processing, Prayer, and the Ethics of Practice | Q&A with John Vervaeke & Mark Miller

1.8K5932

Taylor Barratt in Facilitation: Revealing the Really Real

1.2K3916

Silk Road Seminar with D.C. Schindler and James Matthew Wilson II

2.2K6011

John Vervaeke in Practice: Moving Beyond and Seeing Through Propositions

2.7K8933

Why a “Good Life” Might Be Built on Self-Deception

2.8K9922

Poetry Wakes You to Reality | John Vervaeke & Adam Walker

8.5K36974

Upcoming Lecture course in Toronto

3.7K13526

XXAre We Losing Our Taste for the Real? John Vervaeke, Guy Sengstock, Kyle Koch

483122

Poetry as a Spiritual Practice | John Vervaeke & Adam Walker

26.2K1.1K152

Silk Road Seminar with James Matthew Wilson and D.C. Schindler

3.3K10610

Lectern Live Q&A with Mark Miller (03.29.26)

1.1K254

Can Zen and Neoplatonism Solve the Meaning Crisis? Vervaeke and Hsieh

3.8K12433

Is Reality Incomplete? Desmond, Sengstock, and Vervaeke on Meaning and Being

5.6K21564

Is Your Brain Built to Mislead You? The Science of Happiness with Mark Miller

4.4K16929

Lectern Live Q&A with Mark Miller (02.28.26)

1.4K4416

Deep Calls to Deep | Poetry, Prophecy, Philosophy in Ibn Gabirol

2.8K9031

Is Matter Alive? Ibn Gabirol and Divine Desire

3.7K12846

Finding Faith: A Conversation on Therapy, Trust, and Transformation

5.6K17345

Lectern Live Q&A (02.04.26)

1.3K533

Exploring Predictive Processing and the Science of Happiness with Mark Miller

3.6K12221

Ecologies of Practice: Cultivating Transformation in a Fragmented World | Lectern Q&A

1.5K5022

The Cognitive Science of Jung

7.4K24692

Dante, Blake, and the Power of the Imagination

7.5K27768

Silk Road Seminar with J.P. Marceau

2.4K7012

Silk Road Seminar with J.P. Marceau (Introduction)

413100

Cultivating Virtue in Educational Practice with Ethan Hsieh

1.1K388

Silk Road Seminar - Nicole Baden

5.2K16524

LIVE TIAMAT X Q&A with Ethan Hsieh

1.6K4612

Lectern Live Launch Event — Reflections, Updates, and a Major Announcement

3K1103

Cultivating Virtuosity: Integrating Philosophy into Everyday Life

3.8K10738

A Thorough Critique of Popular and Psychological Accounts of Meaning in Life | A Video Essay

14.7K457147

Silk Road Seminar - Jonathan Pageau

15.1K452123

How to Turn a Philosophical Understanding Into a Way of Life. | Ethan Hsieh and the TIAMAT Process

6.4K23679

Silk Road Seminar - Elizabeth Oldfield

5.4K21048

Exploring Jewish Neoplatonism: The Life and Philosophy of Solomon Ibn Gabirol

5.2K19254

Why Reason Needs Spirit | John Vervaeke

21.8K934165

Silk Road Seminar - Rick Repetti

3K9927

Navigating the Trust Apocalypse: Examining Collective Agency and Distributed Cognition

10.1K374180

Silk Road Seminar - Bishop Maximus

11.4K422113

The Philosophical Silk Road: A Journey to Rediscovering Theosis and Sacred Pluralism

9.7K34496

Agency, Communion, and the Dialogical Self

5.1K14838

The Crisis of Being

8K25351

Seeing God Again for the First Time Q&A

2.7K8739

Embarking on the Philosophical Silk Road: Exploring Pilgrimage and Theosis

8.1K24286

The Return of the Sacred: Mysticism, Tradition, and the Challenge of Modernity

10K34657

Seeing God Again for the First Time

7.4K27866

What AI Can Never Be | John Vervaeke

45K1.6K291

Silk Road Seminar - Zevi Slavin

5.7K19631

Sacredness After Deconstruction

17.2K741228

AI Safety Career Advice! (And So Can You!)

74.9K5.4K700

Hacking Humanity: Data, Desire, and the Future of Free Will

8.9K343127

Can ChatGPT Respond to Philosophy Paradoxes?

912.5K42.6K8.3K

Silk Road Seminar - Khalil Andani

6.9K23138

Live Q&A - Virtuosity in Action: A Dance with Knowing and Being

1.7K389

Lectern Q&As: The Virtue of Love | Featuring John Vervaeke, Ethan, and Ellie

3K10820

Autonomy, Authenticity, and the Fragmented Self

7.1K21149

Virtuosity in Action Intensive

1.8K5211

God and the Between course annnouncement

1.2K362

John Vervaeke: William Desmond on God | ENROLMENT OPEN

3.2K8113

Silk Road Seminar with Tom Cheetham

3.4K14731

AI and the Meaning Crisis | Redefining Human Flourishing

12K438123

God and the Between, John Vervaeke & William Desmond | ENROLMENT OPEN

7.5K19540

Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History

325.4K7.3K1.9K

New Course at Haklyon Academy - God and the Between: the philosophy of William Desmond

5.1K17338

Neoplatonism and the Ground of Relationality

9.1K33396

Silk Road Seminar with D.C. Schindler

6.2K19841

Reconnecting to the Real | A Transformational Retreat

2.7K8615

The Interwoven Mind | Plotinus, Contemplation, and the Structure of Reality

7.8K27038

Realizing the Imaginal Public Q&A LIVE

2.5K9514

Realizing the Imaginal Public Q&A LIVE

1.3K3520

Rethinking Divinity: The Limited God and the Fine-Tuned Universe

8.7K302102

Silk Road Seminar with Gregg Henriques

3.9K14533

Reconnecting with the Real retreat

2.3K6628

Introduction to the Socratic Search Space

4.8K16232

How Jhana Meditation Facilitates Insight and Cognitive Flexibility

7.2K26774

New Course on The Lectern | Realizing the Imaginal: The Cognitive Science of the Imagination

4.3K18437

Lectern Dialogues: Philosophical Connections: Relational Ontology and the Modern Crisis

9.4K303102

LIVE Q&A: Einstein and Spinoza' God with John Vervaeke

4.5K13528

Lectern Dialogues: Decoding the Enigma of Consciousness | Evan Thompson

10.2K29662

Lectern Dialogues: The Concept of Daimon in Pre-Platonic and Platonic Thought | Charles Stang

15.2K543123

Metaphysics of Mattering | John Vervaeke on Life’s Deep Connections

12.9K53174

The Lectern: Einstein and Spinoza's God

6.4K28237

The Lectern | An Online Classroom for Transformational Education

6.8K26044

Exploring Adolescence and the Meaning Crisis with IFS Therapy | Kasra Mirzaie & Dr Robin Barre

4.4K12419

Beyond Atheism: Finding Meaning in the Secular Age

18.5K560191

From Monasteries to Boardrooms: Integrating Spirituality and Leadership | Nicholas Janni

4.9K14654

Metamodern Christianity Part 2: Evolving Spirituality and the Sacred Universe

5.4K16395

Vervaeke Foundation: Ecology of Practices

3.2K1338

Are Hallucinations Popping the AI Bubble?

434.4K20.7K2.9K

Saintliness and the Philosophical Silk Road | Christopher Mastropietro & Andrew Sweeny

5.7K15875

Is IFS a Path to Self-Knowledge or Self-Deception? Insights from Kasra Mirzaie

8.5K26488

Transforming Identity: The Power of IFS Therapy and Ancient Wisdom | Paul Vander Klay

19K561220

Rediscovering Plato's Beauty | Thomas Jockin

6K20777

Inside the Mind: Marc Lewis on Transformative Healing with Internal Family Systems Therapy

8.9K28295

Philosophy, Spirituality, Esotericism & the Meaning Crisis | ‪@TheEsotericaChannel @SeekersofUnity ‬

12.7K488100

Transpersonal States: Awakening, Enlightenment, and the Ego | Vivian Dittmar

9.5K34292

The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron

1.1M35.4K7.4K

AI passed the Turing Test -- And No One Noticed

489.7K21.7K3.9K

Science and Spirituality Unite | Transcendent Naturalism #14 with Henriques, Alderman, and Layman

4.7K13056

I don't think we can control AI much longer. Here's why.

396.8K15.2K4.2K

Reviving Faith with Metamodern Spirituality and the Future of Christianity | Brendan Graham Dempsey

12.6K364166

AI Won't Be AGI, Until It Can At Least Do This (plus 6 key ways LLMs are being upgraded)

194.3K7.4K986

The future of AI looks like THIS (& it can learn infinitely)

293.4K8.8K800

Insights from UTOK 2024 on Naturalism and Emergentism

6.9K182103

AI Hype is completely out of control - especially since ChatGPT-4o

225.8K10.9K2K

Transforming Lives Through Relational Practices | Tataya Bailey and Rachel Hayden

3.2K10438

Gen AI gone wild... how artificial intelligence keeps failing us

914.8K42.9K2.7K

Could AI Help Solve the Meaning Crisis?

5.9K18476

Generative AI Has Peaked? | Prime Reacts

228.9K4.6K845

The Philosophical Silk Road: Exploring the Intersections of Philosophy and Spirituality

11.1K340134

The Blind Spot in Perception: Cognitive Science, Asian Philosophy, and Mystical Insight

18.6K538108

This is What Limits Current LLMs

103.5K4K248

Exploring the Connection Between Wisdom, Love, and the Really Real

11.4K357108

Conversations at the Crossroads of Nature and Wisdom

3.8K12967

Illuminating the Interplay: Emotion, Physicality, and the Path to Healing

3.9K12151

Literature of the Meaning Crisis Live Q&A with John Vervaeke

4.9K15926

Mentoring the Machines: Setting the Course for the Future of Artificial Intelligence

3.6K12639

Attention in transformers, step-by-step | Deep Learning Chapter 6

4.2M85.5K2.4K

Dialogues on Transformation: The Journey of Insightful Healing with Terri Dentry and Tim Adalin

3.1K7926

The Literature of the Meaning Crisis

3.5K15334

Consciousness, Intelligence, and the Quest for Meaning with Vervaeke, Henriques, Levin, and McSweeny

6.8K24945

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