UTOKing with Gregg

Ep 36 | UTOKing with Layman Pascal #2 | The UTOK‘s DSM

In Episode 36, Gregg welcomes back Layman Pascal (see Episode 2). This is a special episode, that will be cross posted on the Integral Stage, which is hosted by Layman and Bruce Alderman. This episode focuses on how the UTOK frames mental disorders. Layman developed a series of questions about how the UTOK frames what mental disorders are and how they frame specific categories, including psychotic disorders, character neurosis, anxiety, depression, and many others, and Gregg runs through the view from UTOK. As such, this episode serves as a useful overview for understanding UTOK's approach to mental illness and psychological well-being and how it both overlaps with and is substantially different from psychiatry's approach as framed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel (i.e., the DSM).

--- ℹ️ Find out more about Layman Pascal ℹ️ ---
previous conversation: Ep 2 | UTOKing with Layman Pascal | The Greatest Conversation in the History of Discourse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5viX0P_Kbrc
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

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

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00:00:01   Intro
00:00:47 What is Pathology / DSM 5
00:07:03 A structural and etiological Model of Pathology
00:18:00 How the UTOK addresses Schizophrenia
00:25:47 Nuances in Pathology
00:31:40 Magalomania, Grandios Ideation & Psychic Inflation
00:40:53 A proper Understanding of Psychosis
00:45:51 personal & inpersonal Pathologies
00:49:49 Borderline Personality Disorder
00:53:18 Psychopaths/Sociopaths & Anti-Social-Personality
01:01:30 What about Serial Killers?
01:04:32 Histrionic Personality Disorder
01:09:45 Conflict between Systems
01:14:17 Personality, Traits & Character
01:19:33 Depression through the UTOK Lense
01:24:41 Manic Depression/Bipolar Personality Disorder
01:29:28 Panic Attacks vs Anxiety Attacks
01:38:08 on Clinical Narcissism
01:47:34 on Dysmorphia
01:53:34 a Metamodern Approach to Psychotherapy
02:00:00 to be continued...

Ep 35 | UTOKing with Michel Bauwens | Toward a Wisdom Commons

In Episode 35, Gregg welcomes Michel Bauwens. Michel is a theorist and developer in the emerging field of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) collaboration. He is also a writer, and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. He founded the P2P Foundation, a global organization of researchers working in open collaboration in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. In this episode, Michel recounts the twists and turns in his professional life and how he developed the vision and structure for the Peer-2-Peer Foundation. He also discusses his strong critique of the "woke" movement and how recent political battles have impacted the direction of the P2P Foundation. Near the end, he and Gregg sync up on a possible vision of a future wisdom commons.

here is Michel's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bauwens
here is the P2P Foundation homepage: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Main_Page
here is the P2P Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

📘 Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26694.Empire

Ep 34 | UTOKing with Robert Cobbold | The Dawn of Conscious Evolution

In Episode 34, Gregg welcomes Robert Cobbold. He is a philosopher, educator, and public speaker who has delivered transformative educational experiences to over 40,000 young people worldwide (see here for more). He is founding editor of Conscious Evolution, an online publication and podcast aiming to disseminate the evolutionary worldview, and kindle an evolutionary transition. In this episode, Robert narrates how he had a spiritual awakening several years ago that prompted him on this journey of discovery and the production of the Conscious Evolution podcasts and webpage. He and Gregg then sync this up with UTOK, and explore ways to weave a conscious evolutionary thread together.    

Here is the Conscious Evolution podcast series: https://www.consciousevolution.co.uk/
Conscious Evolution Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC--Bf2k7Gf3Q5N--NO45ECg

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

🌐 $Beach Token: https://beachtoken.io/

🌐 Prosocial World: https://www.prosocial.world/

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📘 The Evolutionary Manifesto 
by John Stewart: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20341140-the-evolutionary-manifesto
📘 Origin Story: A Big History of Everything 
by David Christian: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204285-origin-story
📘 Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals 
by Robert M. Pirsig: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31093.Lila?ac=1
📘 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress 
by Steven Pinker: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35696171-enlightenment-now
📘 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think 
by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness
📘 Rethinking Humanity: Five Foundational Sector Disruptions, the Lifecycle of Civilizations, and the Coming Age of Freedom (RethinkX Sector Disruption)
by Tony Seba, James Arbib
📘 The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life 
by Barry Schwartz: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36038.The_Battle_for_Human_Nature
📃 Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups
by David Sloan Wilsona, Elinor Ostromc, Michael E. Cox: https://evolution-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Generalizing-the-Core.pdf

Ep 33 | UTOKing with Alex Ebert | On FreQ Theory and Magnetic Zeros

In Episode 31, Gregg welcomes Alex Ebert. Alex is an American singer-songwriter and composer, best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the American bands Ima Robot and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. He has won a Golden Globe Award and appeared on The Colbert Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQQKvEaq1kI). In this episode, Alex shares his narrative of how his musical career and involvement in the "loudness wars" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war) led him to a series of insights about the nature of waves, frequency consolidations, relations between lack and desire, and the nature of emergence from quantity to qualities. He and Gregg then sync this up with UTOK, especially the iQuad coin, memes, and the upcoming singularity.

Here is the episode on podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-enzst-1112d2a

Here is a clip on "MEmes" and the singularity: https://youtu.be/vMxmO-CoNDY

Here is his Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/alexebertofficial

Here is his Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/EdwardSharpe

 

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Resources mentioned in this episode: 📘 Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter by Terrence W. Deacon: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10955059-incomplete-nature

Ep 32 | UTOKing with Darcia Narvaez | Morality starts in the Womb

In Episode 32, Gregg welcomes Dr. Darcia Narvaez. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, and has recently been identified as one of the top 2% of scientists worldwide. She is author of many excellent books and articles, including one of Gregg's all-time favorites, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom. In this episode, she describes her conception of the "Evolved Nest," which maps the key social, physiological, and ecological features that foster healthy human socio-emotional and moral development. They explore how this Nest aligns with the UTOK Tree of Life, and the implications for society and human development. 

Darcia's Homepage: https://darcianarvaez.com/
Darcia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/morallandscapes
Darcia's Moral Landscape PT Blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes
The Evolved Nest: https://evolvednest.org/
Breaking the Cycle - Reclaiming Our Humanity with Our Evolved Nest: https://breakingthecyclefilm.org/
the 6-min. Film is on YouTube with subtitles in 15 languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_f4fzzFc8A
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Ressources mentioned in this episode:
📘 Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom by Darcia NARVAEZ: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378036-neurobiology-and-the-development-of-human-morality

📘 In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101880.In_a_Different_Voice

📘 Ethical Sensitivity: Nurturing Character in the Classroom EthEx Series Book 1 by Darcia Narvaez & Leilani Gjellstad Endicott: https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=1112&SINGLESTORE=true

📘 Ethical Judgment: Nurturing Character in the Classroom, EthEx Series Book 2 by Darcia Narvaez & Tonia Bock: https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=1113&SINGLESTORE=true

📘 Ethical Motivation: Nurturing Character in the Classroom EthEx Series Book 3 by Darcia Narvaez & James Lies, C.S.C.: https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=1114&SINGLESTORE=true

📘 Ethical Action: Nurturing Character in the Classroom EthEx Series Book 4 by Darcia Narvaez: https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=1115&SINGLESTORE=true

📃 Human Flourishing and Moral Development: Cognitive and Neurobiological Perspectives of Virtue Development by Darcia Narvaez: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darcia-Narvaez/publication/313100734_Human_flourishing_and_moral_development_Cognitive_science_and_neurobiological_perspectives_on_virtue_development/links/6075d3384585151ce182e427/Human-flourishing-and-moral-development-Cognitive-science-and-neurobiological-perspectives-on-virtue-development.pdf

📘 The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6968772-the-master-and-his-emissary

🎞️ Breaking the Cycle - Reclaiming Our Humanity with Our Evolved Nest: https://breakingthecyclefilm.org/

📘 Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny by Michael Tomasello: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39217056-becoming-human

📘 Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251387-mothers-and-others

📘 The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of the Human Condition
by Marshall Sahlins: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2430265.The_Western_Illusion_of_Human_Nature

🌐 The Journal of Ecopsychology (JoE): https://joe.nationalwellbeingservice.com/

📘 Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by Richard Louv: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156599.Last_Child_in_the_Woods

📘 Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices introduce 28 Precepts for rebalancing Life on Planet Earth by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690771/restoring-the-kinship-worldview-by-wahinkpe-topa-four-arrows/

📘 Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows: The True Story of an Indigenous-Based Social Transformer by R. Michael Fisher: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37953948-fearless-engagement-of-four-arrows

🌐 Four Arrows ( Wahinkpe Topa) aka Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D, Ed.D: www.fourarrowsbooks.com

📘 Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing by Darcia Narváez, Four Arrows, Eugene Halton, Brian Collier, Brian S Collier, Georges Enderle: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44675209-indigenous-sustainable-wisdom

📘 Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman: 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52879286-humankind

📘 The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55836847-the-web-of-meaning

Ep 31 | UTOKing with Jim Rutt | UTOKing Game B

In Episode 31, Gregg welcomes Jim Rutt. He is the former CEO of Network Solutions and served as Chairman of the Sante Fe Institute from 2009 thru 2012. He is a futurist and leading thinker who is well-known in this space for his podcast and playing a founding role in "Game B." In this episode, Jim Rutt shares his narrative and tells the story of the emergence of Game B. He also discusses his upcoming book, and he and Gregg riff on the relationship and synergy between Game B and UTOK, such that the 5th Joint Point can be framed as "UTOKing Game B". 

Here is the episode on podbean:
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t3p46-10fe8c2

Here is his podcast, the Jim Rutt Show: 
https://www.jimruttshow.com/

Here is the Game B Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/gamebcore/

and the Game-B Homepage:
https://www.game-b.org/

Ep 30 | UTOKing with Robert Conan Ryan | World Systems 3.0

In Episode 30, Gregg welcomes Dr. Robert Ryan. Dr. Ryan holds a PhD in Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh with emphasis on strategic management, business ethics, and organizational learning and human cognition. His scholarly works explore competitive industry dynamics, grey market economics, the history of technology, Neo-Schumpeterian economics, artificial vs. natural cognition, and how sense-making systems evolve and change. In this episode, he lays out the basics of his World Systems 3.0 vision and he and Gregg explore how it aligns with UTOK and the 5th joint point. 

Here is a 15 minute clip on World Systems and the future fluctuations Robert is seeing:
https://youtu.be/qyNDAp5Iiy4

Here is Robert's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/robert.ryan.9279

Ep 29 | UTOKing with Gregg | iQuad Coin Edition | with Bruce Alderman Part 2

In Episode 29, Gregg and Bruce continue to explore the various facets of the iQuad Coin. In this episode they move from the Human Identification Matrix into the four sub-functions of the Coin, which expands the view from the subject into the world. Specifically, this includes the Q2 function (quantity/quality), the Conscious Field Function (the 4 easily accessed fields of conscious awareness), the Q4 function (the quadrant quadratic that bridges Ken Wilber's epistemology with UTOK's ontology), and the Formal Function, which links the subjective experience of the imaginary and real with the complex unit circle that grounds the Coin in mathematical concepts (i.e., i4 = 1). 

Bruce's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/bruce.alderman.14

Bruce on his work on Integral Grammatology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WvnbrKe_aU

Ep 28 | UTOKing with Gregg | iQuad Coin Edition | with Bruce Alderman Part 1

In Episode 28, Gregg welcomes back Bruce Alderman. Bruce is a philosopher and spiritual seeker who has deep knowledge of many Eastern traditions and Integral Theory, and he cohosts the Integral Stage with Layman. In this episode, Gregg starts giving Bruce a tour of the iQuad Coin. The iQuad Coin a key construct in UTOK, as it works with the Tree of Knowledge System to generate a new wholistic metaphysical frame for both first person and third person empirical positions. However, it needs more development and so Bruce is helping Gregg elaborate on the construct. Next week, Part II will be shared, which deepens the tour. The goal is to start metaphorically distribute coins to cultivate the currency of wisdom energy. 

Here is the episode on podbean:

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e5d2d-10e35b1

 

Bruce's Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/bruce.alderman.14

 

Bruce on his work on Integral Grammatology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WvnbrKe_aU

Ep 27 | UTOKing with Kirk Schneider |