Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. 16-21

This event series will be exploring John Vervaekes groundbreaking YouTube called Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

The Intellectual Explorers will be meeting weekly to discuss assigned videos of Johns series. This week ...

-Christianity and Agape: https://youtu.be/Jbwm03djuJc
-Gnosis and Existential Inertia: https://youtu.be/mXfK4nicygA
-Plotinus and Neoplatonism: https://youtu.be/ITfUCL1yTQQ
-Augustine and Aquinas: https://youtu.be/mRh4lwtgfVE
-Death of the Universe: https://youtu.be/lWrqdUo5W4Q
-Martin Luther and Descartes: https://youtu.be/x90XKjhcu4w

From John's Patreon:

"The Meaning Crisis is at the root of modern crises of mental health, the response to environmental collapse, and the political system. We are drowning in bullshit--literally "meaninglessness". We feel disconnected from ourselves, each other, the world, and a viable future.

I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home. When I was fifteen, I read books that introduced me to Jungian, Hindu, and Buddhist philosophy. These shattered my commitment to Christianity because they introduced me to alternate world views. But they merely opened my mind without satisfying my heart because they didn't give me a course of education and development. I felt lost for years--fallen down a chasm between the world I had left and the world I had not yet entered. I went to university hoping to find a solution to this deep crisis of meaning I was experiencing. When I encountered Socrates, I suddenly found my life purpose in pursuing wisdom as a response to the meaning crisis.

Let's figure out what we can do about the Meaning Crisis together."

Source: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaeke