Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction

Book List: 1:21 - The Mindfulness Revolution by Boyce 2:15 - The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom by Ferrari & Weststrate 2:32 - How To Be a Stoic by Pigliucci 4:26 - Meaning in Life by Wolf 4:58 - Transformative Experience by Paul 6:43 - Zombies in Western Culture by Vervaeke, Mastropietro & Miscevic 7:07 - On Bullshit by Frankfurt 31:06 - Supernatural Selection by Rossano 36:38 - Mindsight by Siegel 39:55 - After Phrenology by Anderson 42:53 - Shamanism (2nd edition) by Winkelman 44:27 - The Mind In The Cave by Lewis-Williams 45:30 - Natural-Born Cyborgs by Clark 51:00 - Waking From Sleep by Taylor

Cultivating Wisdom

Three Questions

so here's the three questions that are we're going to keep coming back to again and again and again

1. what is this meaning
2. why do we hunger for it
3. how do we cultivate the wisdom to realize it

<aside> 💡 Self Transcendence

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there's deep connections between meaning wisdom self-transcendence and altered states of consciousness

• what is going on why does intelligence need to be conjoined to an altered state of consciousness and
• why in particular have human beings developed very sophisticated processes for generating harnessing and interpreting these altered states of consciousness

chuyện gì đang xảy ra tại sao trí thông minh cần phải được gắn liền với trạng thái ý thức đã thay đổi

tại sao con người đặc biệt phát triển các quy trình rất tinh vi để tạo ra khai thác và giải thích các trạng thái ý thức đã thay đổi này

connection with shamanism and ritual