Brain We Are Cz

John Vervaeke is an Assistant Professor at the department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. His main field of study is cognitive psychology, wisdom, its traditions, and meaning-making. He has made 50-hour long video series on the meaning crisis and how to awaken from it which is very much our focus of this podcast. John is special, because he does not only an incredible academic work, but he also walks the talk as you'll hear on the podcast.   We've talked about what lead John to his field of study and such a passion for it? What are the lost ways of knowing. How to cultivate wisdom and how does it help with the "waking up" from the meaning crisis? What role does mindfulness and insight play? What are John's daily routines to cultivate wisdom and meaning? Please enjoy this wide ranging conversation with nonother than John Vervaeke. John is an author of a book Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis. Subscribe to John's Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp