PART 3 - The Flow State and Meaning | Dr. John Vervaeke, Bishop Maximus, and Archimandrite Patapios

Part 3 of the panel discussion with Dr. John Vervaeke, a well-known Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Bishop Maximus of Pelagonia, a Visiting Instructor at the Seminary, and Archimandrite Patapios Hagiogrēgoritēs, Dean of the Seminary, is now available!
In this third installment of the panel discussion, the conversation delves deep into the topic of the flow state and searching for meaning in life.
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Dr. Vervaeke Bio: Dr. John 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 taught a course in the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health program on Buddhism and Cognitive Science for fifteen years. 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 KZbin series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, and the series After Socrates.

[@crazykyy]

As an academic in the sciences who has just begun his journey into orthodoxy this year, these talks between one of my professional heroes (Vervaeke) and senior members of the church have been so incredibly useful to improve my understanding. I still have a long way to go, but I am beginning to see things more clearly with the help of these collaborative productions by SPOTS. I pray that they may continue.

[@TheMeaningOfWorship]

These conversations are so incredibly life giving. Literally inspired the title of my book and help me delineate even the order of the chapters. Thank you to all who make these possible!

[@dalibofurnell]

Oh my gosh, this is amazing! Thank you ❤

[@NickRedmark]

Such an important conversation!

[@UpCycleClub]

Thank you! 🙏

[@scottjrowan]

Really brilliant! Thank you 🙏

[@MrAljab]

Bye bye Kant ❤

[@Shotzeethegamer]

wonderful!

[@ramyafennell4615]

Great...and flow states of spiritual practices are augmented by selfless service to society.

[@TheMeaningOfWorship]

I’d also say the following: it seems to me that the union of the two natures and the healing of adversarial opposition was accomplished in Christ certainly, but specifically in “Christ’s life lived.” This is to say, if adversarial opposites are to be reconciled in our own time, they must be reconciled firstly in our own lives. This is only possible if and when one lives like Christ - for his life is the only which achieved atonement. Naturally, we cannot will ourselves into Christ’s life. The good news is that because he is God, he gives us power and his Spirit to, indeed, live a life that is filled with “reconciling power” as our father Paul says. Indeed, by his mercy and according to his great joy, one of life’s great sources of meaning is to become an agent of reconciliation - first, over our own selves (microcosomos), and then reality itself (macrocosmos) for the life of the world.

[@TheGerogero]

What would the world be if flow was a regular experience for all humans...

[@WhiteStoneName]

32:34 “If I were to be a Christian, I would be an Orthodox Christian for A lot of the arguments that have been articulated here” Is a Christian one who self-identifies with ideas that they like or think are true? This is the further question behind the approval or disapproval of what Dr. Vervaeke said here. Original vs FinalParticipation in Barfieldian terms.