Dr. John Vervaeke
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Episodes: 245
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Male
Location: USA
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John Vervaeke - John Vervaeke is a well-known philosopher and educator focused on reconstructing Socratic and dialogical practices, exploring transcendence and meaning, and applying philosophical insight to transf...
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Recent Guest Discussions
Ish Peregrino - Pilgrimage As A Meta-practice; The Sacred/beyond-human; Transformation, Attention, Grief, And Integration; Pilgrimage Vs Tourism/exploration; God/sacredness And Cultural/relational Change.
William Desmond - Strong Transcendence After Modernity; Platonism As Living Tradition; The Metaxu (between); Participatory Knowing; Philosophy As Transformative Practice; Connections To God/daoism And Pilgrimage/theoria.
Kyle Koch - Tracking/nature-connection Routines; Belonging To The Natural World; Reconnecting To The Real And Building Practical Skills For Everyday Life.
Guy Sengstock - Circling Method Practice; Improving Peer-to-peer Communication And Relational Listening; Reconnecting To The Real As A Response To Virtual Mediation.
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Episodes
Ish Peregrino: Pilgrimage Is More Than Travel. It Changes How You See Reality
June 05, 2026
What if pilgrimage is not primarily about reaching a destination, but about learning how to be addressed by reality again? In this episode of Lectern Dialogues, John Vervaeke speaks with Ish Peregrino, a practitioner, facilitator, and pilgrim whose very chosen name carries the meaning of pilgrimage. John met Ish during his own pilgrimage in Spain, and their conversation returns to the question of what pilgrimage makes possible: spiritually, psychologically, relationally, and culturally. Ish b...
William Desmond and John Vervaeke: Strong Transcendence, Plato, and the Between
May 28, 2026
Can transcendence still make philosophical sense after modernity? John Vervaeke speaks with philosopher William Desmond about Platonism as a living tradition, the meaning of strong transcendence, and Desmond's philosophy of the metaxu: the between. The conversation builds from John's proposal that relevance realization and transjectivity are philosophically grounded in Desmond's ontological account of the between. John begins by distinguishing modern psychological accounts of transcendence fr...
Reconnect to the Real: John Vervaeke, Guy Sengstock, and Kyle Koch Announce the Whistler Retreat
May 21, 2026
Why is the modern world making us lose our "taste for the real," and can ancient practices like animal tracking and Socratic dialogue actually save our personhood from the "virtual matrix" of AI? John Vervaeke, Guy Sengstock, and Kyle Koch announce their second "Reconnecting to the Real" retreat and outline what each will teach: Kyle offers nature-connection practices such as tracking and bird language to cultivate belonging; Guy brings Circling Method relational practices to deepen listening...
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