Why We No Longer Know What We Should Do with Jordan Hall, Guy Sengstock, and Christopher Mastropietro
What happens when a society possesses extraordinary technological power but lacks a shared sense of what that power is for? John Vervaeke, Jordan Hall, Guy Sengstock, and Christopher Mastropietro reun...
19 Jun 1h 40min
Ish Peregrino: Pilgrimage Is More Than Travel. It Changes How You See Reality
What if pilgrimage is not primarily about reaching a destination, but about learning how to be addressed by reality again? In this episode of Lectern Dialogues, John Vervaeke speaks with Ish Peregrino...
5 Jun 1h 19min
William Desmond and John Vervaeke: Strong Transcendence, Plato, and the Between
Can transcendence still make philosophical sense after modernity? John Vervaeke speaks with philosopher William Desmond about Platonism as a living tradition, the meaning of strong transcendence, and ...
28 Mai 1h 37min
Reconnect to the Real: John Vervaeke, Guy Sengstock, and Kyle Koch Announce the Whistler Retreat
Why is the modern world making us lose our "taste for the real," and can ancient practices like animal tracking and Socratic dialogue actually save our personhood from the "virtual matrix" of AI? John...
21 Mai 1h 4min
Brendan Graham Dempsey: Matters Over Time
What if the question is not simply whether life has meaning, but how our capacity for meaning develops? In this Lectern conversation, Ethan Hsieh speaks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about his upcoming ...
18 Mai 1h 21min
From Flow to Mystical Experience
What if flow, insight, and mystical experience are different scales of the same underlying process? In this standalone Lectern episode, John Vervaeke speaks with Hüseyin and Daniel about their recentl...
15 Mai 1h 26min
Who is Ethan Hsieh? | Teaching, Play & What TIAMAT is For
What does it mean to say the world is fundamentally open for play - and why does it take something to even have to say it at all? In this episode - the third and final in a live-recorded three-part s...
8 Mai 1h 12min
Silk Road Seminar: John Vervaeke with Edward Slingerland
Thank you for joining us for this Silk Road Seminar from The Lectern. John Vervaeke is joined by Edward Slingerland for a live, unscripted dialogue exploring wisdom, cognition, spontaneity, ritual, a...
8 Mai 1h 28min
