Psychology professor and cognitive scientist John Vervaeke (@johnvervaeke) joins me to talk about how Neoplatonism (which has provided the worldview "grammar" of Western mysticism) is being revisioned in light of contemporary advances in philosophy, cognitive science, and crosscultural exchange.

0:00 Introduction
1:21 Updating the Perennial Tradition
6:19 A PostTwoWorlds Neoplatonism
12:20 "The One" according to 4E Cognitive Science
20:16 Ascent and Descent
26:05 Complexification as Narrative? Creating a PsychoOntology
36:01 Nonduality, Meaning, and Nihilism
44:30 Death and (Re)Incarnation
53:11 After Life

Watch his Ralston College presentation "Levels of Intelligibility: Neoplatonism and 4E Cognitive Science" here:    • Levels of Intelligibility:  Neoplaton...  

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