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Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
There is some controversy about dating Homo sapiens, but conservatively we have existed since at least 200,000 BCE. Around 40,000 BCE a radical change occurred within this evolutionary continuum. We have come to call it the Upper Paleolithic transition. Human beings began doing things they were not doing before. They began to make representational
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Ignorance is a lack of knowledge, whereas foolishness is a lack of wisdom.
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
As C. G. Jung once wrote, one of the perils of having a soul is the risk of losing it.14
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Wisdom is ultimately about how to generate and enhance this meaning. Wisdom is about realizing. This means that cultivating wisdom generates realization in both senses of the word: becoming aware and making real. Wisdom is about realizing meaning in life in a profound way.
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Foolishness occurs when your capacity to engage your agency or pursue your goals is undermined by self-deceptive and self-destructive behavior. This behavior is a perennial vulnerability in your cognition.
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Ignorance is a lack of knowledge, whereas foolishness is a lack of wisdom. Foolishness occurs when your capacity to engage your agency or pursue your goals is undermined by self-deceptive and self-destructive behavior. This behavior is a perennial vulnerability in your cognition.
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
We will begin with the Upper Paleolithic transition, which occurred around 40,000 BCE. Many people think of this period as the time when humanity—as we now define it—came into form. While we wouldn’t be able to relate to these ancestors culturally or linguistically, we would nevertheless recognize their kind of humanity as akin to ours, a humanity
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Each of these movements is responding to a crisis of meaning, a disorienting sense that we have forgotten some essential dimension to reality and lost our relationship to what is good, true, and beautiful.
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
flow,11 a state of heightened attention that sharpens our consciousness and competence while deepening our participation in the world—the feeling of “being in the zone.”