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XXAre We Losing Our Taste for the Real? John Vervaeke, Guy Sengstock, Kyle Koch
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1:04:48Now PlayingIs reality becoming optional? John Vervaeke, Guy Sengstock, and Kyle Koch confront the loss of the real in modern life.
What happens when screens, simulation, and AI begin to mediate not just our attention, but our very sense of what is real? In this conversation, John Vervaeke, Guy Sengstock, and Kyle Koch explore why the modern world is eroding our taste for the real and why recovering personhood may require more than ideas alone.
They discuss the second Reconnecting to the Real retreat and the practices it is designed to cultivate: nature connection, relational presence, and Socratic dialogue. The deeper question running through the conversation is whether human beings can recover contact with truth, beauty, goodness, and belonging before the virtual becomes our default world. What is at stake is not simply well-being, but our capacity to remember how reality calls to us, transforms us, and asks something of us.
Guy Sengstock is the co-founder of The Circling Method and has spent decades developing relational practices that deepen listening, presence, and peer-to-peer communication. Kyle Koch is a nature connection practitioner whose work draws on tracking, bird language, and embodied routines to restore a lived sense of belonging in the natural world. Together with John Vervaeke, they are helping lead the Reconnecting to the Real retreat in Whistler, British Columbia.
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