Eneroth Lectures, med John Vervaeke
Associate Professor John Vervaeke, University of Toronto, talar om "Religio: how can humanity reconnect to deep life while entrapped in the Meaning crisis?" inom ramen för föreläsningsserien Eneroth Lectures vid Psykologiska institutionen.
Eneroth Lecture #4 äger rum den 1 juni 2026, kl. 15.00–16.30 i Hörsal 6, Albano.
Kontakt, till exempel om du önskar Zoom-länk till seminariet: Pehr Granqvist, professor i psykologi, innehavare av Enerothska professuren.
Föreläsningen hålls på engelska.
Läs mer om John Vervaeke (på engelska)
Associate Professor John Vervaeke, University of Toronto.
Sammanfattning (på engelska)
This talk will argue that we have a fundamental need for connection. That need has three dimensions: the way we are connected to ourselves in our agency, the way we are connected to each other for collective agency, and the way both those forms of agency are connected to reality. The talk will then argue that this connectedness follows from the fact that we are beings constituted by our ability for anticipatory attunement in relevance realization. Anticipatory attuning relevance realization is in no way optional for us – it is binding on us and binds us to ourselves, each other and the world.
This religio expresses itself as the two meta-desires Plato discussed, viz., our desire for inner peace and our desire to be in contact with reality. We do not experience this binding as compulsion but as the voluntary necessity we feel calling us in love, beauty, flow, and reason. This is the sense of meaning that has been undermined in the meaning crisis and our sense of entrapment is the loss of meaning’s attendant sense of appealing to us – calling us. We face a kind of existential inertia as we try to break free and a sense of existential ignorance about the transformation needed. Once we understand this functionality and phenomenology of meaning this talk will argue that we need non-propositional kinds of knowing structured into an ecology of practices with dimensions of dialogical practice, imaginal practice, mindfulness practices and embodied practice to recover meaning.
Additionally, this ecology must be educated by a meta-practice of pilgrimage that properly orients us to responding to the meaning crisis and affords an advent of the sacred that takes seriously the participatory nature of meaning.
Om Eneroth Lectures
Eneroth lectures är en föreläsningsserie vid Psykologiska institutionen. Den utgörs av akademiska föreläsningar av internationella forskare i forskningsfronten. Eneroth lectures ges ungefär en gång per termin. De är öppna för allmänheten och äger rum på campus Albano, med eller utan digitalt stöd i Zoom.
Senast uppdaterad: 2026-05-22
Sidansvarig: Psykologiska institutionen