If church was like this, I would go everyday.

That moment when you realize John's lectures have you in a flow state

This work is so important to me. I can't thank you enough John. You are what education is supposed to be and I am so grateful for you doing this and putting it out for free. This deserves way more recognition.

"You can't lie to yourself, but you can bullshit yourself." So many pearls of wisdom in these lectures. As a mental health therapist, I'm tempted to just direct all my clients to these lectures and call it a day.

Holy shit what is this? This is the MOST interesting educational content I have ever learned in my entire life, including all those years at school and those countless hours watching youtube videos about Quantum Physics, Engineering, Space, Psychology, Philosophy. I am so gratefull to have found this series. Thank you soooo much! ××××

It's 630 am. I started listening at 330 on my way to work. 3 hours that stood still at the speed of light. Bravo john. It's not so much that the info is new. But all the themes are shown as congruent. Many thanks and blessings, John.

I majored in Philosophy as an undergraduate 40 years ago and this was one of the best lectures I've ever heard on Socrates and some of the pre-Socratics. You wrapped up better in one hour what my professors weren't able to accomplish in an entire semester. Sure, they went over the names and the history, but none of them ever captured the relevance of these ideas to one's life the way you have. Looking forward to viewing the remainder of your series. Thanks again for the excellent work.

This is some of the best education I've ever got from the internet. It's explaining evolution of the brain! Just wish the algorithm would catch on to the things I'm watching and quit giving me all the "junk" suggestions! Thank you John for offering this content for free. Your students must LOVE you!

John Vervaeke is the man that our youth need.

Marvelling at the way you tell the etymology of these words! Each word is a story within itself.

I’m only half way through and I’m in tears that wisdom and education like this can be treated to us. It makes me feel less alone and more willing to continue the journey. My spirit can’t unfeel what’s it’s been through. Thank you for shedding light and sharing this with us.

I never thought an ancient Greek Philosopher could be presented in such a vivid, human and relevant way. These lectures are little gems! Thank you!

I have been listening on Spotify but there's no way for me to express gratitude there. I came here to say - thank you John. I have been listening while I drive and the amount of "WOAH" moments that have happened have been invaluable. We are so privileged to be able to receive all of this carefully synthesized work. It's clear how much you have invested in this body of work and we are so lucky to have it shared in such a meaningful and enriching way.

Thank You, John!

God I wish I had just one professor like this in college. Took 5 years of philosophy courses and ended up dropping out because of my frustration with academic philosophy.

I am also having an "ahw". The lectures dont just catch me intellectualy but also emotionally. Too much info in each to bingewatch for sure. Thanks a lot.

I absolutely love this guy. So fun to listen to too as well E

Good enough quality for me to watch in my living room on the telly like the one dimensional man that I am. God bless you Vervaeke. Live long and prosper.

"The truth(wisdom?) will set you free, but first it will piss you off"

I'm currently re-watching this series after 2 years (I think). I came across you, John, after watching the biblical series from JP. I can't express how much this series has helped me to get a better grip and perspective on (my) life and how it has opened me up to other ways of thinking and being. Thank you!

Absolutely loved this lecture! Thank you for making us smarter without leaving us in debt. You are a hero!

I find it absolutely fascinating how relevant Plato and Socrates are even 2400 years later. I love reading Plato because it is a great way to realize what is truly important and even the tools to get there. His focus on wisdom, the sacredness of our universe, self-examination, and living a good and just life is exactly what our culture needs right now. But I think more than ever we need John Verveake to remind us that there is a profound body of writings througout history that can supplement our current knowledge to help us live more meaningful and good lives with the focus on cultivating wisdom and understanding. Philosophy changed my life there was a point when I did not want to live anymore and I come here when I lose sight of my true path. Your the man John! I appreciate that he not only provides the theory but also the practice. Very rare, everyone has the answers but no direction to get there. Thank you.

Best lecture series I’ve ever seen, unimaginably invaluable. One small criticism though, I wish you talked more about Socrates sentencing. He had the chance to escape, and was allowed to live if he just fled to another city, but instead chose to stay and die. I was really hoping you would talk about this and it’s significance (if it had any, which I think it did) to the meaning crisis and how Socrates was such a pivotal figure because of living up to what he preached. Still, fantastic series.

Incredible value in having an unreasonably educated man tell us all the things he feels are important.

Not another cliffhanger!, now I have to excruciatingly wait for the next episode to come out…..oh here it is sitting right underneath…..click!❤

Know thyself=Understanding how you operate🙌🙌

3rd time I’m going through this, and I’m learning new things, it’s almost as if I didn’t listen the first and second time, but I think it’s more like I’ve integrated the parts that registered and now I’m able to level up more. Thanks again ❤

Beyond excellent!

Socrates was a bad ass! Excellent episode. Thanks for all you put into your delivery.

What a salient lecture lol. My heart is racing from the passion. No bs my resting heart rate is around 48 to 50 and its way past that after this. The word that comes to mind is, invigorating. His passion and energy really invigorate me and this topic in general. Imagine being in one of his classes!

This lecture series helped me answer some questions I did not even know I had, and it's only been 4 lectures

Has nobody else made the connection between Adam knowing his wife, and John's know thyself tattoo? No? Was I the only one that laughed out loud when he revealed his tattoo?

Wow. So informative and current, even three years later. Proves that ancient knowledge are keys to your own being. Thank you so much for your telling

I am barely finding out how amazing Socrates really was. My life is changed forever

This is gold. First heard of John when he appeared on the Intellectual Explorers Club podcast.

When John says "liar" at 36:59, the subtitles show "lawyer." 🤣

As a westerner this series is vital in helping me get in touch and understand my own tradition and culture. Without your culture life will feel meaningless and empty.

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and Jungian archetypes within me.”

48:27 The Socratic Method! This is the experience I've had with several friends. I wasn't judging them, I was asking questions and being honest with them. I didn't understand their negative reactions at the time. Thank you!

Jordan Peterson brought me here. I'm so thankful 🙏

I've been asking "what do you mean by that?".... Jordan Peterson's maps of meaning, Paul VanDerKlay & now this?! Pure BLISS! THANK YOU!

Thank You John, you are so generous sharing this series: priceless!

Just incredible. Thank you.

The Sophists sound like an ancient precursor to lawyers. Rethoric is quite important to both. And they both worry less about bullshit.

V.S. Ramachandran demonstrated in “A Brief Tour of Consciousness” that sometimes we do remain intentionally blind to threatening ideas like one of our arms is gone (admittedly this is a tragic instance and that’s why the self deception is possible.) Under hypnosis, the patients would admit that they had lost an arm. It’s like the left hemisphere (Broca & Wernicke’s area) can help keep the autobiographical self intact by keeping out non salient info. However sometimes the ego keeps out information that would cause negative emotion and necessitate a reformulation of the self vis a vis the world and reality, as it were. Thanks for this series. Priceless value for free

Again, in pure love! Your work is truly inspiring

This is simply amazing. These need many more views! Thank you sir. Wonderful content.

Thanks for putting the words onscreen.

In discussing the Oracle of Delphi, you say that there isn't a way to predict the future. But there is a way to make some future more likely to occur than another. You can envision the future, form an insight, offer a perspective. And if the others pick up on it (and agree with it), they will act out this vision. And so in a way, you can predict the future. Not exactly what will happen, but the myth/boundaries/framing within which things will happen. (Relistening/rewatching now the 4th time, and I am still struck by how good of a lecturer you are. As I understand you prefer dialogues, but your monologues are very skillfully put together.)

I appreciate YOUR time JV ❤️🍄

Well after so many years I've finally discovered the term that explains my problem, I'm in a state of APORIA. I've realized that the goals that I was pursuing didn't mean anything. Using your words, I only enjoy bullshit and I'm aware of that fact. I feel that I have two options: accepting the bullshit and stop trying to live an examined life, or force me into a path that may lead to self-destruction. If I don't have any Socrates to get me out of the hole I suppose I'll have to keep watching.

“This is the notion of bullshit” - that was fun to hear..

Thank you

Rick Roderick would smile wryly at this presentation

Thank you for this series, I’m so enthralled.

“Wisdom is to keep your truth machinery and your relevance machinery tightly coupled together so that you don’t bullshit yourselves.”

Last time i watched this series i stoped at episode 15. Now i am going back to better understand evrything John is talking about. Thank you John for your work, the wrold needs it!

I can think of no higher praise than to say that this is not bullshit. This is a crucially needed renaissance of philosophy. Thank you.

Thanks John. I am always in awe in which that which I am struggling comes a wisdom. Keep the faith.

Outstanding! I’m an acting teacher from Mexico City. What you said about not bothering belief, but work with our concentration, really helps to have insight in what an actor does

Thank you Mr. Vervaeke. Your work is incredibly important and appreciated!

Brilliant! Thank you John Vervaeke. I feel like having received a gift after each episode

This lecture series puts me in a state of flow and bombards me with epiphanies

Amazing.. John always delivers. I love this style of eclectic lessons.

I love it when I stumble on good content! Thank you for posting.

Absolutely brilliant series, John. Loving it so far, thank you for sharing.

"What you have to pay attention to with Thales is not what he is saying, but what he is not saying, which - admittedly - is quite a lot." That's what I hoped John would say.

Thank you for making this series. This provides a lot of answers to what im searching for!

Love this series, eye opener for me. Appreciate the improvements in audio over earlier episodes, I mostly listen in while commuting.

Thank you, John. This is profoundly beautiful teaching.

Loving these! Truth with relevance.

Very thankful to JP for brining me here. This is to me the essence of great thinking and great teaching: Being able to look at established accounts and narratives and point out a revelatory key point. The Points on Socrates were truly profound. Thank you sir!

Excellent lecture

As far as thales goes, remember he is a thousand times more brilliant than we are. We are not the advanced ones. We are the ones that have fallen away from perfection

Wow, so powerful and passionate, as always!

My alternative interpretation (just for fun, don't take too seriously); Everything flows. (All is the moist) Everything attracts/repels. (The loadstone has psyche) Everything is Consciousness. (Everything is filled with gods)

Man.... this is good stuff! Really enjoying it.

Thanks John! This is completly mind blowing!❤

A beautiful delineation of the quest for knowledge. With such clarity, you've succeeded in presenting the relationship between Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. And, indeed, Pythagoras. These are typically familiar names but we're mostly limited in our knowledge of the connecting dynamics around them. I see how the series is building up to the central premise on Meaning. Thanks, John.

Preparing for my meeting with Sarah later today; watching this again but this time I was in tears by the end, when you mentioned Plato and Socrates' death. That's how deep the love you caused for these two philosophers has grown . ❤

Thank you very much for these lectures John.

This series being available for free is one of the true jewels of the internet. Episode 4 and i'm quite certain that i'll finish it. Thank you. P.S Socrates must've been annoying as fuck.

What a wonderful series. Amazing that this is free for anyone to view at their leisure.

Oh how I wish I’d found this content 3 years ago… Then again the things I’ve learned on the journey to get here have been well worth it. Because now I “get it,” whereas I probably wouldn’t have back then… Thank You for this work. 🙏🏽

this. THIS. This is what philosophy is about. These lectures are downright genius and I feel like I am learning some of the core lessons about being human and about life.

Absolutely tremendous. All glory to God for Christ's return in humankind.

This talk is beyond brilliant!

I have been caught up in this self deception bullshit spiral of meaningless salience my entire life. You just gave me a lifelong needed insight. Your content is surreal, John, simply amazing. 4 episodes in and I can say that I have never encountered a more important series to watch. Massive respect

Was introduced to John Vervaeke through Beyond The Fundamentals KZfaq Channel. Amazing stuff on both channels. Thank you John, if I may! I share in the sentiment of others when they say "I cannot believe this is free".

Mind blown as always, thank you.

Thank you John. That's profound.

Absolutely Brilliant !! real path to wisdom.

I'm loving this! Any help to understanding and breaking up my thought patterns is humbly appreciated. What I don't understand is the seven thumbs down that are haunting his lectures... Does he have seven ex-wifes???

Absolutely Brilliant. Just Brilliant. Brilliant.

Thank you for these!

Thanks, John. Really appreciate this work. I'm a university student and I find this work a necessary complement to my formal studies, it speaks directly to the work, stories and meaning that animates what is closest to my heart in a way that studies inside the formal academy are unable to. And its just so god damn fun and interesting! Hope you are well and engaged with whatever is closest to your heart as well.

Thank you John. And thank you Socrates!

This series is fu*king fabulous!!!

thank you for this epical lecture on wisdom!!!