The Wisdom Famine, Lifelong Questioning & Integrating God | Guro Hansen Helskog

Guro Hansen Helskog is a professor, author, and researcher whose work explores the philosophy of education, wisdom research, and how philosophical dialogue can be integrated into all levels of education. She is the author of "Philosophising the Dialogos Way Towards Wisdom in Education" — an analysis of different approaches to philosophical practice and how they can be integrated holistically to facilitate everything from critical thinking to spiritual contemplation.In this conversation we explore the distinction between knowledge and wisdom and why it matters, Dialogos as an integration of different philosophizing approaches, and John Vervaeke's engagement with the Dialogos process.We get into the experiences that uprooted Guro's atheistic beliefs, how the word "God" is useful to the degree that it opens perception, the six dimensions of wisdom-oriented pedagogy, Bildung and transforming education, and the wisdom famine — why we are collectively starving for genuine wisdom and why we fear philosophy.We also explore why children should philosophize, developing the capacity for lifelong questioning, integrating God into humanity, why wisdom is transpersonal, and a free-flowing Dialogos exploring good, evil, synchronicity, polarization, and the meta-crisis.🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES 🔗Philosophising the Dialogos Way Towards Wisdom in Education — Guro Hansen Helskog John Vervaeke's "After Socrates" lecture series The Yoga of Conversation with Guy Sengstock Meister Eckhart On the Aesthetic Education of Man — Friedrich Schiller Bildung Emile or on Education — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Matthew Lipman Maps of Meaning — Jordan Peterson, in-depth book summary🕰️ TIMESTAMPS 🕰️0:00 - Introduction1:42 - What sparked Guro's interest in philosophizing and Dialogos4:57 - Knowledge vs wisdom13:53 - Dialogos as an integration of philosophizing approaches22:50 - John Vervaeke's work with Dialogos26:00 - What brought Artem to philosophizing, Dialogos and Circling31:50 - The experiences that uprooted Guro's atheistic beliefs42:00 - The word "God" is useful to the degree that it opens perception48:25 - The six dimensions of wisdom-oriented pedagogy1:00:45 - Bildung and transforming education1:07:28 - Facilitating the Dialogos process1:15:32 - The wisdom famine and fear of philosophy1:18:00 - Why children should philosophize1:26:12 - Developing the capacity for lifelong questioning1:28:41 - Integrating God into humanity1:38:08 - Wisdom is transpersonal1:42:18 - A free-flowing Dialogos exploring good, evil, synchronicity, polarization and the meta-crisis*Subscribe to my YouTube channel to watch the video versions of the Elevating Consciousness Podcast *Subscribe to the Insighter Substack to get in-depth articles on the theory and practice of human transformation through a post-conventional