Mahon McCann

Audio essay on the third dimension of meaning in life is called ‘significance’, which has to do with human worth, importance and value . Read the full essay at www.mahonmccann.com Get full access to Raising the Cross at www.mahonmccann.com/subscribe

Chris is a philosophical writer with interests in dialogue, symbols, and the concept of self. He is a co-author of several publications, including Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Open Book Publishers, 2017), “Gnosis in the Second Person” (in Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds, Perspectiva Press, 2021) and “Dialectic into Dialogos and the Pragmatics of No-thingness in...

Last week, we looked at the dimension of meaning in life called coherence, and we saw what happens to mythological villains like Sisyphus and Macbeth who don't honestly pursue the adaptation and try to steal meaning in a sense. The result is a pointless life, which we want to avoid, so how can we have a point in our lives? A purpose? A valued goal? A vision of the good to orient us in the chaos an...

Rafe Kelley is the founder of Evolve, Move, Play , a movement coach, lifelong martial artist and wisdom-seeker. He has been featured on the Jordan Peterson podcast and frequently engaged in dialogues with John Vervaeke on his Youtube Channel. Check out his workshops: https://www.evolvemoveplay.com/ Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rafekelley/ Get full access to Raising the Cros...

Last week, I introduced the new ‘Meaning in life’ series on the Wisdom Dojo Substack. As promised, for this first week, we will be dealing with the dimension of meaning in life known as ‘ Coherence’ .  Read the full article: www.mahonmccann.com Get full access to Raising the Cross at www.mahonmccann.com/subscribe

Recap of the Series so far.  This is the final essay of the philosophical guide to self-development series. To recap what we’ve discussed so far, we began by looking at how the West is undergoing a crisis of meaning due to the collapse of the Aristotelian Christian worldview. We argued the Aristotelian Christian worldview collapsed because of the scientific revolution and increasingly global multi...

An interview with Dublin South FM’s Alison Maccarvil on her show Dramatic Dublin review of my debut stage-play WAITING FOR THE OFFO, preformed in THE NEW THEATRE 2023. Directed by Conan McIvor. Starring Cillian Lenaghan, Liam Bixby, Hazel Clifford and Terry O'Neill. Thanks for reading Mahon's Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work: www.mahonmccann.com Get full acce...

Igor Grossmann is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he leads the Wisdom and Culture Lab. As a cognitive/social scientist, Grossmann has been working on demystifying what makes up a “wise” judgment in the context of revolving societal and cultural changes. His chief work aims to uncover misconceptions about wisdom and societal change and to identify cultural and...

Read the full essay: https://www.mahonmccann.com/ In the last essay, we explored Peterson’s solution to the Meaning Crisis and how cultivating wisdom and virtue can help to orient our meaning instinct properly. We finished the last essay with the latest research on the science of wisdom and the two core conceptions of meta-cognition and moral grounding, which we will explore in this essay on how t...

Read the full essay: https://www.mahonmccann.com/ In the last essay, we looked at Rene Magritte’s ‘The Son of Man’ painting as an image of the fallen, meaning crisis individual. You might notice a similarity between the painting and the cover of my last book, ‘The Man with a Mirror Face’, which presents an intermediate character of the conscience that reflects our character like a mirror, which we...

The Criminal Justice Incitement to Violence or Hatred and hate offences Bill 2022 is currently making its way through the Dail and Seanad and is somewhat in my wheelhouse. This bill is designed to update Ireland’s 1989 Incitement to Hatred laws mainly because Social Media has outdated them. There is an increasing call for regulation on Social Media, and this is what my literature is focused on, an...

Part 9 of the Philosophical Guide To Self-Development series. We are now on the downward slope of this essay series. The last three essays will bring together what we have discussed so far and operationalise this worldview within the context of the problems for a modern individual. This essay is going to be mainly problem-formulation, focusing on Postmodernism, The Meaning Crisis, and The Fall of...

A fiery conversation with Metamodern writer Brendan Graham Dempsey on Post-modernism, Meaning, Meta-modernity and God. Find more of Brendan's work here: https://www.brendangrahamdempsey.com/ Or subscribe to his substack: https://brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/ Get tickets to my upcoming play in Dublin: https://thenewtheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873644249 Watch the full conversation...

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychologist, prominent at the turn of the last century and the creator of depth psychology. Jung is an early proponent of the hero meta-mythology, a discoverer of the collective unconscious and a psychologist who spent his life cataloguing the universal symbols of the mind through dreams and active imagination. Jung attempted to respond explicitly to the meaning crisi...

Read the full essay here: https://mahonmccann.substack.com/ In this essay, I will show how Plotinus’ philosophical system (Neoplatonism) provides the normative order for a meaningful worldview, based on John Vervaeke’s argument in Awakening From The Meaning Crisis. Firstly, we will introduce Plotinus and his ideas. Then we will show how he utilises Aristotelian science, Stoic Spiritual exercises,...

Gregg Henriques is an American psychologist. He is a combined-Integrated Doctoral Program professor at James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, US. He has just released a new book “A New Synthesis: Solving the problem of psychology” (get the book here ) where he is addressing the mind/body problem, what the mind is and provides a complete epistemology to bring together a divided discip...

We are continuing our exploration of a philosophical guide to self-development with the therapeutics of the stoics. This essay is part of our project to examine the components of neo-platonism as a theory of human development and draw parallels with the hero meta-mythology and Jungian psychology. Tim Ferris, the author of the 4-hour work week, described Stoicism as: "An ideal operating system for...

D. C. Schindler is professor of metaphysics and anthropology at the John Paul II Institute, Washington, DC. He is the author of eleven books, including Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017) (get his books here ). In this podcast, we are discussing his book ‘Plato’s Critique of impure reason’, reading dramatic literature as philosoph...

Latest essay in the philosophy of Self-Development series, looking at Vervaeke's work on Aristotle's theory of Growth & Development, Virtue Ethics & Living up to potential, and the Hero-Meta Mythology, Rationality and becoming wise. Check out the full article here: Get full access to Raising the Cross at www.mahonmccann.com/subscribe

Delighted to have Dublin Videographer, photographer, and all-round legend, Hannah McGlynn back for the second time to discuss quitting drinking . In this podcast, we are talking about insights and inspirations for staying off the drink, reflecting on the year I just did sober (and Hannah’s last 6!), confronting bad drinking habits, changing consciousness, flow states, creativity, casual alcoholism...

Part 4 of the series, exploring the life of Socrates, Plato's philosophy, escaping the Cave and mapping out personal transformations. To read the full essay visit: https://mahonmccann.substack.com/ To listen to the Awakening From The Meaning Crisis Episodes mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhl51bZQlM8&ab_channel=JohnVervaeke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neDutbcedUY&ab_channel=JohnVerv...

Sebastian Watzl is the associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo, author of 'Structuring Mind: The Nature of Attention and how it Shapes Consciousness' and one of the foremost philosophical thinkers on attention in the world today. Get his book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Structuring-Mind-Nature-Attention-Consciousness/dp/0199658420 In this podcast, we are talking about attention,...

Part 3 of the current series discusses the Meaning Crisis, Jordan Peterson's Hero Meta-mythology and Relevance Realisation. Read the full article here: https://mahonmccann.substack.com/ Get full access to Raising the Cross at www.mahonmccann.com/subscribe

Thoughts on the Meaning Crisis, Virtue Ethics & Cultivating Character. Read The full article here: https://mahonmccann.substack.com/ Get full access to Raising the Cross at www.mahonmccann.com/subscribe

Brett Anderson is an Evolutionary psychology PhD researcher and author of the 'Intimations of a New World View' Substack (you can subscribe below) In this podcast, we are talking about Brett’s work answering the meaning crisis with Jordan Peterson’s Meta-mythology, a new grounding of value in science, providing a naturalistic argument for God, Zombie Christianity and more! Watch the full podcast o...