Jun 26, 2026
What is applied metatheory - and why might it matter for ordinary people trying to make sense of reality, meaning, spirituality, and complexity?
In this live Q&A from The Lectern, Ethan Hsieh speaks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about metatheory, meaning-making, complexity, and the spiritual task of learning to feel at...
Jun 26, 2026
What happens when wonder is reduced to curiosity, and curiosity becomes a drive to master everything?
In this second conversation with William Desmond, John Vervaeke returns to the question of astonishment: not as a passing emotional state, but as a deeper opening of the mind to reality. Desmond frames scientism as a...
Jun 19, 2026
What happens when a society possesses extraordinary technological power but lacks a shared sense of what that power is for?
John Vervaeke, Jordan Hall, Guy Sengstock, and Christopher Mastropietro reunite for a sustained inquiry into normativity: the structures by which human beings perceive direction,...
Jun 5, 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...