Ep. 9 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Insight

We can only hope these blow up as well as the Peterson lectures.

This man just scientifically described my spiritual reality.

Thanks so much for all the great professors who share their lectures online with people who don’t want to drown in student loan or didn’t have the chance to go to university <3

Powerful work. This year, I am watching one episode per week. I am only on week 9 and I have already decided to re-enroll in university. Finishing my degree in Theatre but going to double Major in Philosophy, and hoping to one day make connections between the Performing Arts, the Shamanistic Traditions, and Western Philosophy. Wish me luck, y'all

Dear John. Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya. Thank you for your lectures. I am learning so so much as I have been on the path of searching for meaning in my life esp now that my two children have left the nest. Namaste

Bravo sir! As someone who has had a psychedelic revelatory experience, and has been on a lifelong quest for meaning ever since, your clarity of expression in these talks is resonating right through me. Inspirational.

The best explanation and description of mindfulness that I've ever come across. Thanks again.

I’m watching these in order, and so far, I think what makes John most deserved of making his living as a professor is his ability to sew ideas across lectures, weaving back and forth between concepts without ever compromising his arch of 30+ lecturers.

Contemplating your t-o/ F-G model in the early morning hours, i had one of the strongest awakenings of my life. 5–10 minutes pure non-duality nothingness & fullness. I saw that i am everything and life will go on forever (pure conciousness can‘t die). There was no fear of death or any fear at all. Thanks man, your teaching is a blessing!

Best one yet

Thank you so much for doing this John :) I am a former student of yours who has been missing your teaching! All the best

John, this is such an incredible series. Thank you sooo much. The depth you provide, all perfectly explained with so much passion. Simply incredible. This gets better and better. Love from Germany

This was such an insightful lecture. This series is blowing my mind. I can feel both anxiety and exhiliration. Thank you, John!

This one gave me words for something I didn't know I'd been exploring :) thank you

This is one of my favourite lessons yet. Interestingly enough, as a person without any training in and little experience of meditation, I experienced this at-oneness whilst having a deeply profound psychedelic experience in which I was flowing between the perspective of the Universe, my consciousness, and the "world" of natural laws and (sub)atomic particles, led by my breathing. In and out. It was a wonderful experience I still bring with me after all those years, though it can be hard to "remember" that kind of being. The most effective (non-psychedelic) way to remember that state is by getting into a flow of intense physical exercise.

This series is AMAZING. Priceless. Thank god I found you, Mr Vervaeke.

This is the best christmas present I ever got. Thank you, John, you are a mindblowing lecturer!

Just astonishingly rich and deep. I've been practising Buddhism for five years but never appreciated all the ways it works as much as I do after watching these last two episodes.

These lectures deserve to be a framework for a social protocol to replace the void of outdated religious paradigms.