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Sam Tideman is the host of Transfigured, a profound religious and philosophical thinker, and a Google data engineer.Check out Sam's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@transfigured3673In this podcast, we are talking about the limits of artificial
D. C. Schindler is professor of metaphysics and anthropology at the John Paul II Institute, Washington, DC. He is the author of eleven books, including Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty (University of Notre Dame P
John is a professor of cognitive science and cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto and the creator of "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis." (check out his channel here and the PP and RR integration talk here ).In this podcast, we are
Adam Safron, Ph. D., is a Cognitive Scientist and psychologist who studies the nature of preferences and motivation from mechanistic, developmental, and evolutionary perspectives. Recently, he has proposed a model of embodied agency and free wi
Rick Repetti is a philosophy professor, meditation teacher, and author of several publications on free will (find more of Rick's work below).Rick’s website: https://www.rickrepetti.com/Awaken to meaning: https://awakentomeaning.com/American Phi
Jelle Bruineberg is an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication.Read his paper ‘Adversarial Inference: Predictive Minds in the Attention Economy’: https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/
Matthew David Segall, Phd, is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, teacher, and philosopher applying process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences and to the study of consciousness. He is the Associate Professor in the Ph
The fourth dimension of meaning in life is not reported in the psychological literature but was added by Cognitive Scientist John Veraveke, and this dimension is called ‘depth’. He describes depth as the felt sense of being connected to ‘what i
Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, literary scholar, and the world’s foremost expert on brain hemispheric differences. He has written several significant books, such as The Master and his Emissary: The
Audio essay on the third dimension of meaning in life is called ‘significance’, which has to do with human worth, importance and value.Read the full essay at www.mahonmccann.com Get full access to Wisdom Dojo at www.mahonmccann.com/subscribe
Chris is a philosophical writer with interests in dialogue, symbols, and the concept of self. He is a co-author of several publications, including Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Open Book Publishers, 2017), “Gnosis i
Last week, we looked at the dimension of meaning in life called coherence, and we saw what happens to mythological villains like Sisyphus and Macbeth who don't honestly pursue the adaptation and try to steal meaning in a sense. The result is a
Rafe Kelley is the founder of Evolve, Move, Play, a movement coach, lifelong martial artist and wisdom-seeker.He has been featured on the Jordan Peterson podcast and frequently engaged in dialogues with John Vervaeke on his Youtube Channel.Chec
Last week, I introduced the new ‘Meaning in life’ series on the Wisdom Dojo Substack. As promised, for this first week, we will be dealing with the dimension of meaning in life known as ‘Coherence’. Read the full article: www.mahonmccann.com Ge
Recap of the Series so far. This is the final essay of the philosophical guide to self-development series. To recap what we’ve discussed so far, we began by looking at how the West is undergoing a crisis of meaning due to the collapse of the Ar
An interview with Dublin South FM’s Alison Maccarvil on her show Dramatic Dublin review of my debut stage-play WAITING FOR THE OFFO, preformed in THE NEW THEATRE 2023. Directed by Conan McIvor.Starring Cillian Lenaghan, Liam Bixby, Hazel Cliffo
Igor Grossmann is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he leads the Wisdom and Culture Lab. As a cognitive/social scientist, Grossmann has been working on demystifying what makes up a “wise” judgment in the con
Read the full essay: https://www.mahonmccann.com/In the last essay, we explored Peterson’s solution to the Meaning Crisis and how cultivating wisdom and virtue can help to orient our meaning instinct properly. We finished the last essay with th
Read the full essay: https://www.mahonmccann.com/In the last essay, we looked at Rene Magritte’s ‘The Son of Man’ painting as an image of the fallen, meaning crisis individual. You might notice a similarity between the painting and the cover of
The Criminal Justice Incitement to Violence or Hatred and hate offences Bill 2022 is currently making its way through the Dail and Seanad and is somewhat in my wheelhouse. This bill is designed to update Ireland’s 1989 Incitement to Hatred laws
Part 9 of the Philosophical Guide To Self-Development series. We are now on the downward slope of this essay series. The last three essays will bring together what we have discussed so far and operationalise this worldview within the context of
A fiery conversation with Metamodern writer Brendan Graham Dempsey on Post-modernism, Meaning, Meta-modernity and God.Find more of Brendan's work here: https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/Or subscribe to his substack: https://brendangrahamdemp
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychologist, prominent at the turn of the last century and the creator of depth psychology. Jung is an early proponent of the hero meta-mythology, a discoverer of the collective unconscious and a psychologist who s
Eric Orwoll is a Christian Platonist philosopher and the creator of the Understanding Platonism and Aarvoll youtube channels (check out his channel here)In this podcast, we are discussing Christian Platonist solutions to the Meaning Crisis. Sub
Read the full essay here: https://mahonmccann.substack.com/In this essay, I will show how Plotinus’ philosophical system (Neoplatonism) provides the normative order for a meaningful worldview, based on John Vervaeke’s argument in Awakening From
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