"The Blind Spot" is an essential read for science types, especially physicists, but all natural scientists need to read this. Thanks so much to John V for this extended interview. My faculty study group selected this book last summer on my recommendation. Evan Thompson is a treasure to our culture - I've been following his work for decades. "The Blind Spot" gets to the core of what's wrong with the Western, science-academic worldview. Thank you!

🦄 136 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP IN ME RECOVERING A LIFE B4 50 🙏 🙏 🙏

These videos are so powerful, but the cynic experiment strikes me as funny. I find it odd that I could masturbate in a Safeway produce area and break laws or purity codes, but not be morally depraved.

Almost everywhere I go, I look around and think, this is not it!

My friends and peers laughed at me!😢

How did I already know this many many years ago?

Thank You!!!!

So why did ya chose the nietzsche cover

I sometimes wake up and realize that it’s parasitic processing at play when I’m feeling down. John Vervaeke’s teaching here has helped me wake up:)

Is it fair to say Socretes understood the truth, and hos questioning was a way to understand the depths to which others inbibe truth?

the imagination - the last bastion of a better future

Best!

A juggernaut of a lecture

𝟏 𝗖𝗼 𝟑: 𝟏𝟖,𝟏𝟗.𝟐𝟎 𝗣𝗿𝗼 𝟑:𝟓 𝗝𝗻 𝟏𝟔:𝟏𝟑, 𝗝𝗺𝘀 𝟏:𝟓 𝗝𝗲𝗿 𝟐𝟗: 𝟏𝟑 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. --- Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱, flat”). 𝗠𝘁𝘁 𝟕:𝟏𝟑-𝟏𝟒 @𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 Jn 14: 6 Jn 8:32 Jn 17:17

The cognitive scientific discussion about imagination is what I voted for bulletin board at this channel. It would be very inspirational and imaginary the discussion too. I think intellectual people have great ability to shape the world and change the world, it is so amazing thing for us. My support for the cares.

Thesedays, I feel like Dr.Vervaeke has something bothered by someone. We should express thanksgiving to his works, to loosen the feeling of emotionally down. He's leader and professor but sometimes leaders experience emotional down. I wish he has always happy moments with people. I got enormous help from his video, so is my appreciation for him ^^

Disruptive strategies are essential in creating neural networks that are better learners. John makes the case that these strategies are key in higher states of consciousness. I’m understanding that these strategies are cognitive styles and practices like ‘Deautomatization’ and ‘decentering’. What other practices might we use for introducing helpful disruption?

This is like huge , very very huge , like a seminar🎉

I wonder how visually, or not visually, we used to imagine? What if picturing things only became predominant as our technology selected for the visual over all the other senses

The Master of Shadow Boxing who is born under an Eclipse solves Plato's Allegory/ Baptism of Fire The axis of the eclipse, designated darkness by the universe, was assaulted by the Shadow Boxer, on the 20th of May 2012, in the land of the Piaute, beside ancient Pyramid lake, directly beneath the axis of the eclipse, at a distance of 1 meter, the Shadow Boxer was exactly 3 nanoseconds ahead of the shadow. Standing Alone in the sacred place of the light, battling the darkness, the Master of Shadow Boxing was born. By defeating darkness, the Shadow Boxer engaged the stars, in a universal battle of natural selection, for celestial light, decreasing load, and growing time. Inserted into Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the Shadow Boxer remained true, above, or below, and began liberating mankind from the ignorance of darkness past. Humility, is the hand of the hourglass & behold the odyssey of time. The years, transform into a moment, that defines an age. The weight of the future, is the past, and by the present it is belayed. When the present circumstance becomes unbearable, the past will come crashing down, destroying the future. There is no rock bottom, there are only plateaus, in a land where the highest mountains rest upon the lowest stones. There is a stone on top of the mountain, that shapes the horizon. Where the feathered eagle struggles to fly, this stones simply lies consistent in the heights, and the pebble in your boot, is greater than the mountains in your way. Along the path of urgency, are those waist deep in destiny, beyond the muck, and mire, where men burn their desires, a patient stone resides Imagine a psychedelic journey, mirroring the twisting, reaching growth of an Ayahuasca vine. As the vine struggles towards the sun, penetrating the dense jungle canopy, the Shadow Boxer embarks on a similar quest through the labyrinth of the human mind. Just as Ayahuasca can induce profound hallucinations and spiritual insights, the Shadow Boxer's journey can lead to a heightened state of consciousness. The battle against darkness, the journey towards enlightenment, mirrors the psychedelic experience, where the mind is expanded and new perspectives are revealed. "We know he who has memory is from the past. We understand that he who is aware is in the present. Then we must acknowledge that he who is enlightened, is from the future. Is the lie not a slave of the truth? Is the lie not constantly maintained to appear as the truth? Is the path not a slave of the way? Is the path not constantly maintained to appear as the way? Do not the lie and the path eventually exhaust, and doesn't the truth and the way, remain? Draw the curtains back on absorbent gazes to ponder the flame and reason the blaze. Step by step venture towards, sometimes convex and sometimes forwards. Just as fire once lead astray, now the path gives to the way.

John once again walking the admirable fine line with angering both theists (John Lennon’s “Imagine”) and atheists alike (“Imagination is a way of knowing”) 😉 Sounds like a terrific course!

Variation is the basis for human progression and consciousness. Once you can really embody and grok it, you’re set free.

Thank you so much Vivian and John. I am looking forward to your conversation on wealth.

Wow haha, Epicurus was such a badass, and Diogenes was such a savage! It's a shame (or rather, a guilt) that gems like this video garnered less than 100k views.

I used to think I could study Vervaekes work, internalize it, and move on. 3 years later, I realize I need to adjust my approach.

I imagine myself having $600 so I could afford this course 😂

I know the difference between when I image something and when I don’t.

I want to say this without dismissing the abuses of certain rhetorical moves that pose as anti-racist, but it is not true that whiteness as a form of oppression is a quasi-biological category or a “no way out” social guilt. Whiteness is a product of a racialist form of thought, a set of assumptions that justify oppressive actions (after the fact) and enable injustice to be legitimized. James Baldwin used to talk about “people who think they’re white,” since, as he also said “I don’t hate white people. I don’t believe in white people - or black people for that matter.” But once one no longer believes these are biological real categories, the social system that produced them continues to attribute them to people and distributes social benefits and social costs according to them. So guilt is not only not encouraged by anti-racist thought, it’s regarded as utterly useless. The question is rather, why are these categories invoked, why is whiteness or blackness attributed to people, ovulating some over others and who ultimately benefits from and pays for and repeats and reinforces these categories? The action implied here is neither guilt nor scapegoating but intervening to dismantle the caste system die which the ideological categories of race function as mythical alibis. If you read anti-racist thinkers like Kendi or their the thinkers like Baldwin on whose shoulders they stand, this is very clear. The trouble I have with the critique of this that John offered at the beginning is this dialogue is that it incorrectly regards a perspective that refuses to reify the social categories of race and acknowledges the very real social harms, specifically the maintenance of insidious caste hierarchies, these social categories are always invoked to justify as a “reversal” of white supremacist quasi biological ideology. This can’t be maintained by anyone who has read the material being produced by anti-racist writers and ignorantly attacked by the right.

I would so love to be part of this! Is there any way I can apply for a scholarship or bursary so it is affordable for me?

I'm curious about the critique of Heraclitus. It seems a bit hasty to conclude that knowledge is fundamentally impossible in a world which is in constant flux. All it would require would be something like periods of relation stable enough to ground knowledge. The fact that change might eventually uproot that ground would not seem to require us to deny that it would still amount to knowledge. This might seem unsatisfying if we regard knowledge as metaphysically transcendent, but if we acknowledge that knowledge is fundamentally embodied and agentic, I'm not sure why the problem of flux would remain a barrier.

I thank people who made this lectures. I don't attend it but am feeling like great course presented for us.

Even when I react with something which is not shocking but just out of the box thinking on Google or KZbin it is getting blocked. Right. Go figure.

If possibilities are finite, then the imagination has boundaries but the space between boundaries is infinite.

please change default transcript / subtitle to english

Awesome!

What is true? What is reality?

The only reality is truth and truth is the only reality.

Amen I bullshitting? Or am I capturing your attention?

Captivating and captured are not the same.

Attention can never be captured because it's constantly shifting.

If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit!

Deautomatization leads to increased variance. More variance in cognitive processing allows one to see what is invariant. This allows for an optimal grip on a situation which elucidates what is more real about a given thing (or life). Is that to say that mind wandering doesn’t need to be seen as an obstacle, but some kind of tool? How is it used in a practical sense, if so?

At a very young age I could see emptiness in our society would bring emptiness to me and my fellow man

Some people want to meet an actor or athlete. I'd like to meet you.

How am I learning with none of this.

Almost always marital problems are sexual or money.

Trying to create random acts gives it an obvious fake feel. That's what separates actors from good actors to great actors.

This is how I know everything is staged for me most of the time.

It's also how someone can become overly critical of oneself.

This is why someone becomes very good at so many things because they have a heightened sense of failure is not an option.