Apr 9, 2023
15 min
After a weather report comparing morning temps in MA and CA, both 58 degrees, Maureen introduces Professor John Vervaeke as a Learning Conversation resource. He is an award winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in psychology, cognitive science and Buddhist psychology.
Vervaeke’s academic interests include wisdom, mindfulness, meditation.... Wait, what? Pierre comments those subjects were not available when he went to school. How times have changed.
A reason the Learning Conversation podcast started is the exploding amount of literature in the field of psychology, mindfulness, somatic health, meditation, yoga, and on and on knitting elements of cognitive science , brain / body science, neurology, ophthalmology all intersecting and illuminating traditional spiritual pathways as developed through meditation, yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, not to mention ancient wisdom through philosophy.
Vervaeke says we (the West) are suffering from a wisdom famine. Parenthetically, Maureen sent Vervaeke a copy of her book: Classic Wisdom for Modern Humans, which relates to the professor's interests in Stoicism and classical wisdom.
Professor Vervaeke’s newest video series is: “After Socrates.” Check him out on YouTube.
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - his 50 part lecture series is also on YouTube.
Enjoy!