Host Michael Taft speaks with professor John Vervaeke about relevance realization—the method by which we determine what matters in any given situation—and its application to meditation, how we gain an increased sense of meaning in life, and why there isn’t a panacea in practice. John also answers the query: what’s a sensible person?
John Vervaeke is an award-winning lecturer on the University of Toronto in Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Buddhist Psychology. His areas of interest include wisdom, mindfulness, meditation, relevance realization, general intelligence, rationality. He’s the creator of the Youtube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and co-author of Zombies in Western Culture: A twenty first Century Crisis.
You may learn more about John’s work at: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke
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