John Vervaeke, de bekende cognitieve wetenschapper, stelt dat onze obsessie met feiten en argumenten ons blind maakt voor diepere vormen van weten—en hij heeft een punt.
Lees hier waarom: https://www.drtomonline.org/nl/wanneer-kennis-blind-maakt/
#filosofie #psychologie #wijsheid #johnvervaeke
Wanneer Kennis Blind Maakt – drTomonline
John Vervaeke, the renowned cognitive scientist, argues that our obsession with facts and arguments blinds us to deeper forms of knowing—and he has a point.
Read here why: https://www.drtomonline.org/en/when-knowledge-blinds-us/
#philosophy #psychology #wisdom #johnvervaeke
When Knowledge Blinds Us – drTomonline

The Complete Consciousness Iceberg | 2 Hours of Obscure Consciousness Theories Explained
YouTube"Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" Video lecture series by John Vervaeke
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ&si=rMKndyWombq-nnT8
Very informative, enlightening.
#johnvervaeke
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”One of my besetting sins is that I often prefer to spin through theory space a little too much…”
—John Vervaeke
”We tend to just start playing different language games… It's very hard to bridge that I would say.”
—Bonnitta Roy
https://youtu.be/NBafKC5NqNI?feature=shared&t=4073#johnvervaeke #bonnittaroy
Ecologies of the Self: Transformational Practices w/ John Vervaeke and Bonnitta Roy
YouTubeI am impressed by the way Daniel Schmachtenberger facilitated this conversation with Iain McGilchrist and John Vervaeke.
https://youtu.be/uA5GV-XmwtM?feature=shared&t=3420#DanielSchmachtenberger #IainMcGilchrist #JohnVervaeke
The Psychological Drivers of the Metacrisis: John Vervaeke Iain McGilchrist Daniel Schmachtenberger
YouTubehttps://lateboomersden.blog/2023/09/24/the-reason-why-zombies-are-everywhere/Why so many zombie movies over the last few years? I think John Vervaeke is correct that they represent meaninglessness, which says something about how we've been feeling lately.
#civilization,
#JohnVervaeke,
#LastofUs,
#Meaning,
#Mythology,
#NightoftheLivingDead,
#Philosophy,
#Western Civilization,
#zombies 
The reason why zombies are everywhere
Just watched another zombie movie last night, Zombieland. Not an extremely serious movie as most of them are not. I’ve seen some genuinely good zombie stories and shows, played for camp or ot…
Late Boomer's Denhttps://lateboomersden.blog/2023/08/04/acceptance-last-stage-of-grief-over-christianity/Just had a little bit of insight into why I was such an angry guy when I became an atheist - and why I think a lot of Christians are angry these days: grief.
#Culture,
#Religion #Acceptance,
#Anger,
#atheism,
#Christianity,
#Dawkins,
#Grief,
#Identity,
#JohnVervaeke,
#JulianCope,
#Memes 
Acceptance – last stage of grief over Christianity
Julian Cope – Saint Julian I’ve been thinking back on the “edgy online atheism” phase I went through in the early ’00s and why I quit doing it. Not that I became relig…
Late Boomer's Denhttps://lateboomersden.blog/2023/07/09/harnessing-the-full-potential-of-science-fiction/Found an interesting talk on science fiction and how it might help with the meaning crisis. I focused on the last portion because it felt relevant to me in particular. Maybe some others can identify.
#Books,
#Culture,
#Science,
#ChinaMieville,
#DamienWalters,
#Fantasy,
#Futurism,
#HardScienceFiction,
#HugoAwards,
#IsaacArthur,
#JeffVandermeer,
#JohnCWright,
#JohnVervaeke,
#LarryNiven,
#Mythology,
#NKJemisin,
#SciFi,
#Science,
#sciencefiction #SF 
Harnessing the full potential of science fiction
Science fiction helped keep me sane when as a kid. Whatever troubles might be going on in my life, I could dive into a book and be halfway across the galaxy. But science fiction is more than just a…
Late Boomer's Den@mounderfod @whitequarkI think it says more about society than it does sci fi. I haven't read it yet, but
#JohnVervaeke co-wrote a book proposing that the proliferation of zombie movies is a manifestation of a loss of meaning a lot of us feel today. That makes sense to me.
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0113 
Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis
Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture.