The Meaning Crisis and the Role of Movement Practice with John Vervaeke: EMP Podcast 17
b'The society we live in today is the safest and most prosperous society that has ever existed on the planet. The likelihood of dying due to illness, murder, or starvation have dramatically plummeted in the last 100 years. More people are being lifted out of abject poverty now than ever before, while the everyday technologies we hold in our hands grant us the full extent of human knowledge and entertainment with just the tap of a finger. \\n\\nYet, there\\u2019s a problem.\\n\\nAnxiety, depression, PTSD, adolescent suicide, and many other mental health ailments have skyrocketed in the last decade. In this age of prosperity, humans are feeling more disconnected from themselves and their communities, more detached from the natural world, and are having incredible difficulty finding a sense of meaning in their lives. \\n\\nThis week on the Evolve Move Play Podcast we are very excited to have with us John Vervaeke, a cognitive psychologist/scientist at the University of Toronto who has made it his mission to understand and remedy the meaning crisis; and it just so happens that the way we look at our movement practice may play a key role in developing our ability to transcend the bullshit and find the meaning we are striving for in life. \\n\\nSo grab a pad and pen, sit back, and get ready to take a trip into the realm of our cognitive psychology to see how the very mechanisms that make us susceptible to bullshit also provide us the ability to transcend ourselves, tap into flow states, and maybe even find enlightenment while we\'re at it. \\n\\nTOPICS COVERED:\\n00:00 - Intro\\n02:12 - Interview Start\\n03:19 - The Meaning Crisis\\n08:44 - The Many Ways We Learn\\n14:36 - Relevance Realization\\n25:30 - JV\'s Core Points\\n30:18 - Bullshit\\n36:13 - Connection & Coherence \\n41:06 - The Death of God and Self Trancendance\\n45:40 - Updating our Systems\\n52:33 - The Role of Movement Practice\\n01:07:43 - "Don\'t tell me what you believe, tell me what you practice"\\n01:11:28 - Reclaiming Sacredness \\n01:18:38 - Flow, Nutrition v. Stimulation\\n01:25:38 - Modal Confusion\\n01:32:13 - Hope\\n01:35:16 - Resources and Book List\\n\\nJOHN\'S BOOK LIST:\\n\\u201cZombies in Western Culture: A 21st Century Crisis\\u201d - Chris Mastropietro, Filip Miscevic, John Vervaeke\\n"What is Ancient Philosophy?" - Pierre Hadot\\n"Platonic Mysticism" & "Perennial Philosophy" - Arthur Versluis\\n"The Kyoto School: An Introduction" - Robert Carter\\n"Religion and Nothingness" - Keiji Nishitani\\n"Flow" - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi\\n"Trying Not to Try: The Ancient Art of Effortlessness and the Surprising Power of Spontaneity" - Edward G. Slingerland\\n\\nLEARN MORE @\\nyoutube.com/johnvervaeke\\nwww.johnvervaeke.com\\n\\nSUPPORT US @\\nwww.patreon.com/rafekelley\\nwww.evolvemoveplay.com\\n\\nAlso don\'t forget to like, subscribe, and leave a review for us on iTunes. \\n\\nThanks a lot everyone! Happy moving!\\n\\n-The EMP Team'