
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

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 Touko 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 Touko 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 Touko 1h 28min

Who is Taylor Barratt? | Practice, Theory & the Ethics of Facilitation
What does it mean for practice to become "really real" - and how does theory help keep that experience honest? In this episode - the second in a live-recorded three-part series with Taylor Barratt, E...
1 Touko 1h 11min

Silk Road Seminar: John Vervaeke with James Matthew Wilson and D.C. Schindler
Thank you for joining us for this Silk Road Seminar from The Lectern. In this second conversation, John Vervaeke is joined by poet, critic, and philosopher James Matthew Wilson and philosopher-theolo...
28 Huhti 1h 57min

Bridging the Gap: Theory, Practice, and Trust
What happens when our need for certainty quietly disconnects us from the very meaning we're trying to find? In this episode, live-recorded first session of a three-part conversation series with Taylor...
23 Huhti 1h 9min



















