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Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
youtube.comAwakening from the Meaning Crisis
youtube.comthe decentering of human life from its cosmic significance, a decline in our sense of purpose, and a sensation of having lost the soul that gave earlier human societies their adaptiveness and vitality. It seems we are left with a feeling of having lost our place in the world along with a sense of who we are and what we ought to do with ourselves.
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Vervaeke clip on Tim Ferris: The church, the temple, and the mosque used to be places where an “ecology of practices” had a home. It was less about socializing, or communicating, but communing. People would mutually conform to set of rituals and words that would transform themselves, enhancing religio, sacredness, and an awareness of the depths of
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Alan Watts | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom • Tweet
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
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.