Tracking Vervaeke's evolution to public intellectual (outside the academy)

Vervaeke and Vervaeke foundation seem to be spinning up a fair few new activities. It also signals the continuing shift away from academia to a more full-time participation in the public-intellectual / teacher sphere.

This is an evolving thread to track some of what is going on.

Course with Peterson Academy on the Primacy of Beauty

One interesting example is Vervaeke is doing a course for Jordan Peterson’s new platform (everyone seems to be getting a platform!) called the “The Primacy of Beauty”:

Twitter profile and tweets

On his twitter profile Vervaeke is promoting his book and course sign-up.

Which links to John Vervaeke's Lectern Letters

Most tweets now link through to courses

Most tweets now link through to various courses e.g.

For example the recent Realizing the Imaginal

Awaken to Meaning

Then there’s Awaken to Meaning https://awakentomeaning.com/

Though that seems to have been sold/spun-off (??):

Awaken to Meaning was a project of the nonprofit Vervaeke Foundation and is now owned by Emergent Developmental Concepts Inc. Some of the practices here are under special license to ATM from Vervaeke Foundation. ATM’s goal is to provide a safe, rigorous place of practice for wisdom cultivation, rooted in strong science and available to many. We are not affiliated with any religion or corporation.

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ATM transferred, that’s interesting.

Found http://emergentdevelopmentalconcepts.com/ which is a tiny leadership development consultancy. Might have heard Taylor’s name before. I see ties to Authentic Relating.

My guess would be, he/they have been involved in ATM already, had energy to keep it going, and VF lost interest and decided to give it away. (This is just a wild guess based on nothing)