John Vervaeke & Guy Sengstock: Why Modernity Can't See the Sacred Anymore
What does it mean to "see God again" after modernity has taught us to look for the sacred in all the wrong ways? In this special Lectern conversation, John Vervaeke is joined by Guy Sengstock for a de...
10 Heinä 1h 44min
Live Q&A with Brendan Graham Dempsey | Questions, Dialogue, and the Pursuit of Wisdom
What is applied metatheory - and why might it matter for ordinary people trying to make sense of reality, meaning, spirituality, and complexity? In this live Q&A from The Lectern, Ethan Hsieh speaks w...
26 Kesä 1h 25min
Why Wonder Is More Than Curiosity with William Desmond
What happens when wonder is reduced to curiosity, and curiosity becomes a drive to master everything? In this second conversation with William Desmond, John Vervaeke returns to the question of astonis...
26 Kesä 1h 32min
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 Kesä 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 Kesä 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 Touko 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 Touko 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 Touko 1h 21min
