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Episodes: 262
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 131.0k subscribers
Page updated: Oct 28, 2026 · How we check this data
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eric@upfiredigital.com
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John Vervaeke - Philosopher and cognitive scientist whose work explores wisdom, meaning, relevance realization, consciousness, spirituality, and the meaning crisis.
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Christopher Oldfield - Intentional Communal Living, Metaphysics, Personhood, Participation, Shared Spiritual Practices, And Communal Maturation.
Elizabeth Oldfield - Intentional Communal Living, Friendship, Shared Practices, Spiritual Formation, Relational Life, And Modern Individualism.
Corey Anton - Mortality, Death Acceptance, Spirituality Without An Afterlife, Grief, Embodiment, Psychedelics, Dignity In Dying, Artificial Intelligence, And The Meaning Crisis.
Ethan Hsieh - The Kyoto School, Nihilism, The Sacred, Zen, Post-christian Meaning, Grief, Shame, And Transformation.
Kyle Koch - Nature Connection, Embodied Practice, Relational Presence, The Senses, Shared Meals, And Reconnecting With Reality.
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No Bad Parts? Dick Schwartz and John Vervaeke on IFS, the Self, and Spiritual Guides (hosted by Seth Allison)
October 25, 2026
What happens when the founder of Internal Family Systems and a cognitive scientist of meaning sit down to compare notes on parts, Self, and the guides that show up when the inner world quiets? In this Lectern dialogue, psychotherapist Seth Allison takes the host chair so John Vervaeke can talk peer to peer with Dick Schwartz, the creator of Internal Family Systems (IFS). Dick tells the origin story: a 1980s outcome study with bulimic clients who kept talking in the language of parts, a cuttin...
Philosophy and the Daimonic: A Dialogue with Charles Stang (Charles Stang Dialogue 3)
October 15, 2026
What if becoming wiser requires a relationship with a "divine double" within you? In episode three of the series, John and Harvard's Charles Stang move on from Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes to Apuleius' 2nd-century text On the God of Socrates, which imagines philosophy as a kind of daimonology that begins and ends with two daimons: the daimon that is your soul and the daimon that is your double. Apuleius presents daimons as intermediaries between dispassionate gods and passionate humans, ...
Socrates, Daimons, and the Space In-Between (Charles Stang Dialogue 2)
October 09, 2026
What was Socrates actually hearing when his daimon spoke, and why might the space in-between, neither purely inside us nor fully outside us, be the key to discerning spirits today? In part two of the Lectern series on the daimon, Charles Stang and John Vervaeke move from Plato to Socrates' other witnesses, Xenophon and Aristophanes. Charles shows that the indictment against Socrates charged him with not worshipping the gods of the state (theoi) and with bringing in novel divinities (daimonia)...
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