The Meaning Crisis Thread

Seven ideas tracing John Vervaeke's diagnosis — from relevance realization to wisdom, ritual, and the sacred.

John Vervaeke's work on the meaning crisis argues that modernity has not merely removed old answers but has broken the cognitive machinery by which humans find anything meaningful at all. This lectio follows his thread from the foundations — how relevance works, why knowledge alone fails, how ritual was misunderstood — through to his constructive vision: a secular structure for the sacred, grounded in participatory knowing and self-transcendence. A single-observer deep dive for anyone ready to sit with the problem before reaching for solutions.