Brendan Graham Dempsey | Metamodern Spirituality | Updating Neoplatonic Spirituality (w/ John Vervaeke) @BrendanGrahamDempsey | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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 cross-cultural exchange.

0:00 Introduction
1:21 Updating the Perennial Tradition
6:19 A Post-Two-Worlds Neoplatonism
12:20 "The One" according to 4E Cognitive Science
20:16 Ascent and Descent
26:05 Complexification as Narrative? Creating a Psycho-Ontology
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: youtube.com/watch?v=Lbk3lA6zCic

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