约翰·维瓦克与吉姆·罗杰斯在“觉醒于意义危机”系列节目中探讨了意识的改变状态、现象学作为功能的线索、流畅性、削弱自我中心主义、实践生态、所罗门效应、复杂化、佛教对寄生处理的干预、对苦难的修正解读、亚历山大大帝与后亚历山大时期的人口灭绝、斯多葛主义作为治疗方法、爱欲与博爱、圣奥古斯丁的大综合、托马斯·阿奎那对两界神话的巩固、伽利略对宇宙的毁灭、启蒙运动与浪漫主义、真我的种族灭绝含义等等。

🤔 **意识的改变状态：** 维瓦克和罗杰斯深入探讨了意识的改变状态，包括冥想、幻觉剂和精神体验。他们认为这些状态可以为理解意识的本质和功能提供宝贵的线索。他们强调了这些状态如何帮助人们超越自我中心主义，并更深入地理解世界。

🧠 **现象学作为功能的线索：** 他们认为现象学可以作为理解意识功能的线索。通过观察意识体验的直接现象，我们可以洞悉意识的运作机制。这种方法强调了意识的动态和经验性质，而不是将其视为一个静态的实体。

📚 **实践生态：** 他们强调了实践生态的重要性，即人们在特定环境中进行的活动和互动。这些生态系统塑造了人们的价值观、信念和行为。他们认为，理解实践生态对于理解个体和社会如何应对意义危机至关重要。

🙏 **佛教的干预：** 他们讨论了佛教如何干预寄生处理，即人们如何被自己的思维模式和情感所控制。佛教强调觉知和正念，帮助人们摆脱这些模式的束缚，获得更大的自由和清晰度。

🌌 **伽利略对宇宙的毁灭：** 他们探讨了伽利略对宇宙的毁灭性影响，即他将宇宙从一个以人为中心的体系转变为一个以自然为中心的体系。这种转变导致了意义的危机，因为人类在宇宙中的地位不再是中心。

🤔 **真我的种族灭绝含义：** 他们探讨了真我的概念如何导致种族灭绝。真我的概念强调个体独立性和自我中心主义，这可能导致对其他人的剥削和压迫。他们认为，我们需要重新思考真我的概念，以创造一个更具包容性和可持续性的社会。

John Vervaeke joins Jim for the third of a five-part series examining the ideas put forward in Vervaeke’s popular YouTube series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis...John Vervaeke joins Jim for the third of a five-part series examining the ideas put forward in Vervaeke’s popular YouTube series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. They discuss altered states of consciousness, phenomenology as clue to functionality, fluency, weakening egocentrism, ecologies of practice, the Solomon effect, complexification, Buddhism's intervention in parasitic processing, a corrective reading of dukkha, Alexander the Great & post-Alexandrian domicide, Stoicism as therapy, eros & agape, St. Augustine's grand synthesis, Thomas Aquinas's solidification of two-worlds mythology, Galileo's murder of the universe, the Enlightenment & Romanticism, genocidal implications of the True Self, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS EP143 - John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis JRS EP144 - John Vervaeke Part 2: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis "From housing to homemaking," Brian Walsh How the West Really Lost God, by Mary Eberstadt JRS EP106 - Michael Strevens on the Irrational History of Science Spinoza, by Michael Della RoccaJohn Vervaeke is an Associate Professor, in the teaching stream. He has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 1994. He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on insight problem solving, cognitive development with an emphasis on the dynamical nature of development, and higher cognitive processes with an emphasis on intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the Psychology of wisdom. He is the director of the Cognitive Science program where he also teaches courses on the introduction to Cognitive Science, and the Cognitive Science of consciousness wherein he emphasizes 4E (embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended) models of cognition and consciousness. In addition, he teaches a course in the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health program on Buddhism and Cognitive Science.He is the director of the Consciousness and the Wisdom Studies Laboratory.  He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards including the 2001 Students' Administrative Council and Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students Teaching Award for the Humanities, and the 2012 Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. He has published articles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, flow, metaphor, and wisdom. He is first author of the book Zombies in Western Culture:  A 21st Century Crisis, which integrates Psychology and Cognitive Science to address the meaning crisis in Western society. He is the author and presenter of the YouTube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.