#7 - John Vervaeke: Wisdom vs Foolishness Amongst a Meaning Crisis

08/07/21 • 92 min

In this episode, I'm joined by one of my favorite contemporary thinkers, John Vervaeke, a professor at the University of Toronto where he lectures on psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhism. John has a phenomenal series on Youtube called 'Awakening From the Meaning Crisis,' where he explores how science and spirituality have lessons of ancient wisdom and knowledge that can help us through our epidemic of depression, ennui, and nihilism. We explore concepts from this series heavily, which includes an exploration of the culture wars, religion, video games, the flow state, and much more.

You can also find his recent co-authored book: Zombies in Western Culture.

Hosted & Produced by: Steven Parton - Twitter - Instagram

You can also find his recent co-authored book: Zombies in Western Culture.

Hosted & Produced by: Steven Parton - Twitter - Instagram

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#6 - Justin Murphy: The Intellectual Who Left Academia for the Internet

(Originally recorded in the Spring of 2020)

In this episode we sit down with social scientist and political theorist, Justin Murphy, who spent five years as a lecturer at the University of Southampton before realizing that academia was ironically stifling his ability to be a truly creative and productive freethinker. Upon this realization, he set his focus on online content creation. This resulted in a very active presence on Twitter, as well as a Youtube channel, a podcast, a book about French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and now an exclusive and burgeoning online community specifically created for independent and ambitious thinkers.

Our conversation in this podcast deals heavily with this journey of Justin's, his thoughts on the pros and cons of academia for the young and ambitious, as well as the many lessons he's learned along the way. If you're looking to get insight into what works and doesn't work in the world of online content creation, especially for intellectuals, then this might be one for you.

Find Justin on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jmrphy.

Hosted & Produced by: Steven Parton

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#8 - Donovan James: Randomly Selected Philosophical Questions

In this episode, my good friend Donovan returns to answer questions randomly selected from a list of philosophical questions we found online. This takes us on a meandering tour through topics such as self-deception, self-actualization, immortality, suffering vs meaning, religion's place in the world, the downfall of human civilization, binary thinking, climate change, the failures of our government, the culture wars, and much more.

Hosted & Produced by: Steven Parton - Twitter - Instagram