360 - John Vervaeke - The Cognitive Science of Ritual

360 - John Vervaeke - The Cognitive Science of Ritual

John Vervaeke and I discuss the cognitive science of ritual: the many different aspects of ritual and its importance even in the pursuit of reason, among sacred and secular spaces, to mark time and identity, to establish transformation, and more! John is truly making headway in giving us the concepts and vocabulary to understand symbolic and ritual participation across different participatory levels. Enjoy!

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Coming up
00:51 - Intro music
01:17 - Introduction to Cognitive Science
04:16 - Ritual and an advent of the sacred
06:18 - Meaningful ritual
08:23 - Why work against ritual?
14:07 - Replace religious with civic
15:47 - Hermeneutics of suspicion
18:24 - Progressive rituals
23:23 - Transformation
27:51 - Marking identity
36:17 - Ritual as space

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My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson.

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