# #46 John Vervaeke - Escaping the Meaning Crisis

An episode of [Within Reason](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1458675168), 4 Dec 2023, 1 h 33 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/10a220e88/podcast/play/109253912/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-9-5%2F408715704-44100-2-98a314c6070ae100.mp3

John Vervaeke is an award-winning professor of psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist psychology at the University of Toronto. He is the creator of a fifty-hour series on YouTube called "Awakening From the Meaning Crisis". Dr. Vervaeke joins me to discuss why people are struggling to find meaning, how we might solve this problem, and whether death poses a series problem for believing in meaning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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