John Vervaeke

John Vervaeke is an Associate Professor and award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in Psychology, Cognitive Science and Buddhist Psychology. He is the director of the Consciousness and the Wisdom Studies Laboratory. He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards including the 2001 Students’ Administrative Council and Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students Teaching Award for the Humanities, and the 2012 Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. His academic interests include wisdom, flow, mindfulness, meditation, relevance realization, general intelligence, rationality. He is the author of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Youtube series and co-author of Zombies in Western Culture: A 21st Century Crisis.