UTOKing with Gregg

Ep 73 | UTOKing with Rick Repetti | Determined to Be Free

In episode 73, Gregg welcomes Professor Rick Repetti. Rick is a philosopher who has long standing interests in meditation, the self, agency, and free will. He was previously on an Inside UTOK conversation with Gregg, where his shared his views of the meaning crisis, work with John Vervaeke, and his development of a new vision for truth systems call the Knowledge Coin. In this episode, he and Gregg talk about the concept of free will in relationship to Robert Sapolsky’s new book, Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will. Both Gregg and Rick agree that Sapolsky provided a very weak argument, one that was lacking in philosophical sophistication and was anchored to an outmoded, reductive view of scientific knowledge. In addition, his conclusions about how we justify blame and responsibility are poorly defined and dangerous. UTOK provides a much clearer view on how to understand human agency and processes of justification pertaining to blame and praise.

 

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Homepage: https://www.rickrepetti.com/

ℹ️ - - - Find out more about Gregg Henriques - - - ℹ️
Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd
Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

 

🌳 - - - The Unified Theory of Knowledge - - - 🌳
Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/
Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system

Ep 72 | UTOKing with Rafe Kelley | Cultivating Our Selves as Embodied Primates

In episode 72, Gregg welcomes Rafe Kelly. Rafe is a movement coach, founder of Evolve, Move, Play, and frequent interlocutor with John Vervaeke. In this episode, Rafe recounts his journey from gymnastics and martial arts into parkour and finally into the Evolve, Move, Play vision. He also explains how we became interested in Jordan Peterson’s work and then moved into syncing up with John Vervaeke. Near the end of the discussion, Gregg explains how UTOK’s vision of humans as primates and persons results in deep alignment with Rafe’s observations and experiences.

 

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Evolve Move Play Homepage: https://www.evolvemoveplay.com/

 

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Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd

Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

 

🌳 - - - The Unified Theory of Knowledge - - - 🌳

Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/

Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system

Ep 71 | UTOKing with Steven Mandel | Treating Depression with Ketamine

In episode 71, Gregg welcomes Dr. Steven Mandel. Steven is an internationally recognized expert and pioneer in the use of ketamine infusion therapy to treat mental health disorders and chronic pain. He has more than 40 years of experience utilizing ketamine as a board-certified anesthesiologist. He also earned his master’s degree in psychology. He is the founder and president of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles, a leading ketamine infusion therapy clinic in Southern California. In this episode, he shares how he became involved in treating mental illness with ketamine, Gregg and he discuss what depression is, and why the combination of ketamine and psychotherapy might be a particularly powerful approach.

 

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Dr. Mandel’s clinic: https://ketamineclinics.com/

 

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Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd

Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

 

🌳 - - - The Unified Theory of Knowledge - - - 🌳

Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/

Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system

Ep 70 | UTOKing with Bonnita Roy | Notes on Transcendent Naturalism

In episode 70, Gregg welcomes Bonnita Roy. Bonnita is an award-winning author, philosopher and insight guide. She is well-known in this corner of the internet and currently runs the Pop-Up School, an innovative online educational platform. In this episode, Bonnita shares with Gregg her analysis and critique of the Transcendent Naturalism Cognitive Science Show Series that Gregg has been doing with John Vervaeke. She raises some questions and possible critiques of the concepts of emergence and transcendence, and Gregg offers some clarifications. They also discuss Bonnie’s vision of “Fierce Naturalism” and her analysis of language, communication, and the nature of abstraction. This conversation adds richness and diversity to the picture that Gregg and John have been laying out in the TN series and there likely will be additional conversations with Bonnie going forward. 

 

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Substack: https://substack.com/@bonnittaroy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bonnittaroy

 

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Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd 

Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

 

🌳 - - - The Unified Theory of Knowledge - - - 🌳

Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/ 

Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge 

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system

 

Ep 69 | UTOKing with Iris Stammberger | The Wisdom Project

In episode 69, Gregg welcomes Dr. Iris Stammberger. Iris is trained as systems engineer, a family systems therapist, a mindfulness teacher, and an organizational change consultant. A self-described "tool lady," she has always been in pursuit of those tools that facilitate systemic and systematic change at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and extrapersonal level. She is the founder of the Wisdom Project, which integrates what she has learned and offers it to those who are seriously committed to changing the ways we address the complex challenges of today's world. Her motto is "one project at a time, we can all become wiser." In this episode, she shares with Gregg her journey and they sync up the insights from the Wisdom Project with UTOK.

 

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The Wisdom Project: https://wisdomproject.community/

 

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Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd

Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

 

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Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/

Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system

Ep 68 | UTOKing with Dan Fishman | A Pragmatic Vision for Psychology and Psychotherapy

In episode 68, Gregg welcomes Professor Dan Fishman. Dan is an emeritus professor of clinical psychology at Rutgers University, and is editor-in-chief of the online journal, Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy. His scholarly contributions span interests in the systematic case study method, pragmatic psychology, philosophy of science, cognitive behavior therapy, program evaluation, community psychology, organizational psychology, and professional psychology training. In this episode, Dan shares his journey toward a pragmatic philosophy for psychology and psychotherapy, and Gregg shows how it aligns with the vision afforded by UTOK. The convergence is significant and points to ways in which UTOK might be productively aligned with case studies in psychotherapy.

 

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Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd

Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

 

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Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/

Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system

Ep 67 | UTOKing with Howard Bloom | The Blooming Universe

In episode 67, Gregg welcomes Howard Bloom. Howard is a polymath who has lived an amazing life. He was a music publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers such as Prince, Billy Joel, and Michael Jackson. He has published six books, including an autobiography, How I Accidentally Started the Sixties, and three books on human evolution and group behavior: The Genius of the Beast, Global Brain, and The Lucifer Principle. Howard was always fascinated by science and developed a rich framework for understanding the world. In this episode, Howard recounts his amazing biography, and he and Gregg show how their respective theories line up. In particular, Howard’s vision of a “blooming universe” is deeply aligned with the Tree of Knowledge System.

 

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Homepage: https://www.howardbloom.net/
Substack: https://howardxbloom.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile
Twitter: https://twitter.com/howardxbloom

 

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Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd
Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

 

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Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/
Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system

Ep 66 | UTOKing with Ethan Kobayashi-Hsieh | Bridging the Sciences and the Humanities

In episode 66, Gregg welcomes Ethan Kobayashi-Hsieh. Ethan works at the intersection of actor training and 4E cognitive science. He is a Life Coach, Yoga Instructor and Bodywork Healer with coaching clients in China, Thailand, and Australia. He has developed the Integrative Approach and Methodology of Active Transformation (TIAMAT) through practice-as-research with the company, conducting workshops in five countries around the world. In this episode, they discuss Ethan’s analysis of how acting and theater can illuminate participatory frameshifts, multi-perspectival knowing, and what he calls “sapiential processing.” Gregg brings the UTOK lens and the two show how their histories, expertise and perspectives give rise to interesting bridges, complementarities, and intersections between the sciences and the humanities.

 

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-kobayashi-hsieh-828a63240/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ethan5tmintl/?hl=en

Tiamat Ecology of Practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLA7mTxPEf8

Theatre-ritual-movement ecology of practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orpqXNw3R0w

Building Practices to Cultivate Wisdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAjg7G0wS0

 

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Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd

Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

 

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Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/

Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system

Ep 65 | UTOKing with Layman Pascal (6) | Spirituality and Constructive Opponent Processes

In Episode 65, Gregg welcomes back Layman Pascal. This is Layman’s sixth time on the podcast, so he needs no introduction. Both Gregg and Layman have been following John Vervaeke’s After Socrates, and in this episode they sync up to explore some of the key concepts, such as constructive versus destructive opponent processes and its implications for clinical psychology and spirituality.

 

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Substack: https://laymanpascal.substack.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liquidsyntax

The Integral Stage on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaA4zkLRnR3lGm8Y7c5Tvdw

 

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Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd

Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

 

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Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/

Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system

Ep 64 | UTOKing with John Vervaeke | Consilience, Wisdom, and Fellowship in Philosophia

In this UTOKing with Gregg, John Vervaeke returns to the program, and they share the developments in their work. John’s major effort has been focused on developing the After Socrates series, which Gregg has been following. Gregg shares the beauty he has seen in watching the series, and how he found the way John framed After Socrates to be illuminating and inspiring. In addition, Gregg explains why he found the connection between the “dialectic into dialogos” and participatory knowing that John highlights to be profound. Gregg’s major achievement has been the release of his book, A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap. John shares why he found the book to be so inspiring and important. Specifically, he shared how it lays out a plausible, intelligible account for understanding the mental across virtually all domains, and thus achieves what he calls a “synoptic integrative” view of psychology. He reiterates what he said in his review of the book, which is that he sees Gregg as a kind of modern day Aristotle who is generating a taxonomy and metatheory that can revolutionize psychology. In addition, two upcoming events. First, they discussed the upcoming conference that Gregg is organizing and for which John will give a keynote address. Called Consilience: Unifying knowledge and Orienting Toward a Wisdom Commons, it will be held March 17-18th from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Eastern. It will consist of over 45 presentations, and will be free to the public. Finally, they discussed the plans for the next cognitive science show series, Transcendent Naturalism, where they will work to show how their joint visions can provide a naturalistic framework for orienting toward the transcendent and thus provide the groundwork a new “religio” for the 21st Century.

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John's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpqDUjTsof-kTNpnyWper_Q

John's Facebook is here: https://www.facebook.com/VervaekeJohn

 

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Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd

Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

 

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Homepage: https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/

Medium: https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_knowledge_system