John Vervaeke’s Lectern

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John Vervaeke, PhD is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is an associate professor and award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto, teaching in the Department of Psychology. His work and research is far-ranging, including topics such as human intelligence, rationality, wisdom, and AI. Dr. Vervaeke has been a leading intellectual observer of the modern meaning crisis: the loss of a spiritual worldview in the West, and the decline of wisdom traditions that help individuals find meaning in their lives. His online lectures and practices integrate teachings from many different disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, religion, and cutting edge cognitive science. Join the Lectern to support John's work.

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John Vervaeke’s Lectern

No Bad Parts? Dick Schwartz and John Vervaeke on IFS, the Self, and Spiritual Guides

Philosophy and the Daimonic: A Dialogue with Charles Stang (Charles Stang Dialogue 3)

Part 3: How Reading Can Transform You | Charles Stang on the Divine Double

Part 2: What Is a Daimon? Charles Stang on Plato, Spirit, and the Higher Self

Socrates, Daimons, and the Space In-Between (Charles Stang Dialogue 2)

Part 1: Is Your “Higher Self” Divine or Deceptive? | Charles Stang

Why Is Wisdom So Hard to Access?

What Is a Daimon? Charles Stang on the Higher Self, Socrates & Divine Guidance

Cognition, Religion, and the Trust Apocalypse Are More Connected Than You Think

Grief Is the Way Back to the Sacred | John Vervaeke & Ethan Hsieh (Part 3/3)

Communal Living as Spiritual Practice: Friendship, Formation, and Renewing the Senses

Nihilism Is Not the End | John Vervaeke & Ethan Hsieh (Part 2/3)

The Philosophical Trap You Don’t Know You’re In | John Vervaeke & Ethan Hsieh (Part 1/3)

How Nonbeing Haunts Being: Corey Anton on Death, Spirituality, and the Meaning of a Finite Life

Notes on No-Thing: John Vervaeke on Nihilism, the Kyoto School, and the Sacred

Reconnect to the Real: Vervaeke, Sengstock, and Koch on Nature, Circling, and Socratic Practice

Parenting, Meaning, and Reconnecting with the Real

John Vervaeke & Guy Sengstock: Why Modernity Can't See the Sacred Anymore

Why AI Cannot Produce Living Insight with William Desmond

What Happens When a Culture Loses the Sacred?

The Difference Between a Tourist, an Explorer, and a Pilgrim

William Desmond and the Philosophy of the Between

Are We Losing Our Taste for the Real?

Brendan Graham Dempsey: How Meaning and the Sacred Evolve Over Time

From Flow to Mystical Experience

Zen Neoplatonism: Healing the Meaning Crisis Between East and West

Who is Ethan Hsieh Beyond the Facilitator? | Teaching, Play & What TIAMAT is For

Why You Need Both Zen and Science to Understand Reality

Predictive Processing, Prayer, and the Ethics of Practice | Q&A with John Vervaeke & Mark Miller

Taylor Barratt in Facilitation: Revealing the Really Real