John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJohn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnJohn’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaekeJohn’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Domicide: The Loss of Home00:03:19 The Meaning Crisis as Cosmic Domicide00:06:17 Niche Construction, Baldwin Effect, and Co-Creation of Identities00:08:48 Worldview Attunement: Mutual Shaping of Agent and Arena00:10:00 Conspiracy Theory: An Attempt to Use Mythos to Home Reality00:12:29 Domicide and the Violation of Property Rights00:16:45 Democracy’s Contribution to Domicide00:18:02 The Original Meaning of Violence is “To Violate”00:18:49 Property Consists of the Things Which Constitute Identity00:19:44 Niche Construction: Mediation Between Territory and Property00:21:03 Christianity Turned the Ancient Roman Empire into a Home00:22:25 “Call No Man a Philosopher Who Has Not Alleviated the Suffering of Others”00:23:29 The Ancient Roman Monopoly on Violence00:26:50 “It’s Not the State that Makes Us Persons, It’s Agape”00:28:21 “The Narcissist is Hungry to Be At Home, But Conquers Territory Instead”00:30:09 Inviolable Property is the Immortality of Civilization00:35:37 The Tension Between Time Preference and Presence00:38:11 A Point of Processing Between Ontological Modes00:41:24 The Domicidal Case of the Grassy Narrows00:45:03 The Hellenistic Domicide, Stoicism, and Valorization of The Logos00:48:07 “It’s Not What You Set Your Heart On, It’s How You Set Your Heart”00:50:10 NYDIG00:51:18 “He Who Has a Why Can Bear Any How”00:52:22 Domicide as the Scarcity of Meaning00:58:22 Post-1971 Centralization, Corruption, and Zombie Mythology01:02:23 Zombie Mythology as an Inversion of Christianity01:03:41 Property as a Socioeconomic “Optimal Grip”01:06:06 The Connection Between Self-Ownership and Optimal Grip of Virtue01:08:38 The Paradox of Courage: Water and Wine01:10:19 The Mythos of Moby Dick01:13:17 Zombie: The Symbol of The Meaning Crisis01:15:39 “Of Course They’re Called Zombie Companies!”01:18:22 Secular Religiosity: The Deep Faith In Ideological Stances01:19:54 Philosophy: The Resolution to The Age of Anxiety01:21:27 Christianity as Mediator of “Individuation” and “Participation”01:23:41 Attraction Between The Christian Mythos and Neo-Platonic Logos01:24:46 Wisdom: Transcendence of The Meaning Crisis01:28:30 The Cognitive Conceptual Grammar vs. The Scientific Worldview01:31:06 The Paradox of Religiosity in America: Non-Theist Theism01:33:38 Fundamentalism and Perceived Perfection01:34:49 Nihilism is Fundamentalism in The Scientific Worldview01:36:30 The Paradox of Science: “Science Has No Part of The Scientific Worldview”01:38:49 Transjectivity: Transcending Subject-Object DualitySOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=178435992