Came here to see a dragon...?

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 12:18 PM Deepak Loomba <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Colleagues,
>     Never ever have I bothered about US elections but this time. It is
> really interesting. But I assure my colleagues and friends there will be no
> doomsday any which way, if US democracy is what it has been professed for
> decades. Its just the close call that makes it heart skip moment. Quite
> like 20-20 cricket match!
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>     I think the fact that America voted in hoards is a great sign.
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> TY
> DL
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> On 11/4/2020 7:59 PM, Lene Rachel Andersen - Nordic Bildung wrote:
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> Everything seems to be bigger in the US, incl. the disasters. Really
> terrible situation now: two moral worldviews splitting the population in
> two halves.
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> Big hugs to all from Copenhagen,
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> Lene
> On 04-11-2020 15:05, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx wrote:
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> Hi TOK Folks,
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> Well, that was an interesting night, huh? Pretty much setting the stage
> for exactly what I hoped would not happen.
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> The clash of identity that is unfolding before our eyes is epic.
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> If you get to the end of the UTUA story I shared, I think the lessons
> remain as important as ever.
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> Try to orient your energy toward love and wisdom in the days to come.
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> Big hugs to all,
> Gregg
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> *From:* Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx
> *Sent:* Monday, November 2, 2020 8:00 AM
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> *Subject:* TOK The Quest for the Scepter of UTUA
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> Hi TOK List,
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>   As Zak Stein has so brilliantly noted, one of the most profound ways to
> understand the current metacrises in this time between worlds is to
> consider it a crisis of education and teacherly authority. Zak means this
> in the broadest and deepest senses of the word “education”. As such, it
> becomes akin to socialization and the failing authority is found in the
> institutions that stretch far beyond K-12 schools, and include higher
> education, politics, and the capacity for intergenerational sense and
> meaning making to cultivate the necessary knowledge and practices for
> valued states of being in future generations. The Unified Theory adopts a
> new perspective on knowledge and the human condition and our 21st Century
> cosmic coordinates. It seeks to both serve, to quote Zak Ali, as “the
> ultimate sense and meaning making tool” and to play a role in the
> transitional, kairotic
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wiktionary.org_wiki_kairotic&d=DwMD-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=sol77HbCgLRMeM37s47ZXjUZ1kqz5uQUDIkzeMN_zmw&e=>
> period that that we find ourselves in. The idea here is that we have a
> 20-30 year period to upgrade our mental-cultural operating systems and
> reframe the way we process data into information into knowledge into
> wisdom.
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> Toward that end, I am sharing with you an educational product from what I
> call “The World of UTUA”. It is an educational journey that imagines what
> schooling might look like from the vantage point of the Garden. It is
> structured in a way that is designed to be fun and pull on the archetypes
> of older elementary/middle school kids. As you will see, it is especially
> designed for boys. This is mostly because of the origin of this product was
> a question from my younger brother, Tim, whose three boys were 8, 10, 11 at
> the time it was made. As such, it is clearly titled toward the masculine. I
> make no apologies for this,. Indeed, it is strongly justified in the larger
> context. If there is a center of crisis in education, it is, very arguably,
> found with boys (see, e.g., here
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amazon.com_Boy-2DCrisis-2DBoys-2DStruggling-2DAbout_dp_1942952716&d=DwMD-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=V2EfPkxAh-V5lbpMqVpwnhkxs9agPx8Wq-fVAU_Vdv8&e=>
> ).
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> The prompt for the original slide deck in 2017 was my brother’s question: *What
> does the Unified Theory say is the most significant problem of the day and
> how would it address it?* This product was my answer. I have added a few
> very minor alterations, but what I am sharing is essentially the original
> form (summer of 2017). What is added from the original (here
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gregghenriques.com_world-2Dof-2Dutua.html&d=DwMD-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=f3c7W-TF5ErFmzD92q5rSsj8bCNhuZO2JwvKic2rNso&e=>)
> is a better color scheme and the narration, both on the slide deck itself
> and then the explanation of what the symbolism means. A reason I wanted to
> do this is because over the past 8 months many people have been added to
> the list that have more of an art and technological skill set. One day
> perhaps some one with real skill in those fields will advance this product.
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> Here is the narrated video:
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> The Quest for the Scepter of UTUA
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_file_d_1eayonaemhLL-2DxVibeOfKHcuMbCf-5F2TT0_view-3Fusp-3Dsharing&d=DwMD-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=8SuitOQsbWEJCQOO7aoNjeKqHm3RXlKSThcMFpc5vOo&e=>
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> Here is the adult/educator version that explains the symbolism:
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> Explanation of the Symbolism of the Quest for UTUA
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_file_d_1wzOur2eu5g6aZFI11dYZRlhMpGxbXSyj_view-3Fusp-3Dsharing&d=DwMD-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=oCzxSuLm1MEzWnAIcZGtWpMxt_qyQix33ouPCi87peQ&e=>
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> Here is the no voice slide deck (please note that the font appears off
> here, in the translation in to google slides…happy to email the original
> slide deck in anyone wants it).
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> Quest for UTUA Slide Deck
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_file_d_1a7ec23-5FrRrPOd1IcJkT99MzZPksM9P2X_view-3Fusp-3Dsharing&d=DwMD-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=PS01ftN5MjyCp--J1XTJfRP7ocXXIMN69TcvhwsCDAY&e=>
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> A couple of notes if you go first with the narrative.
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> First, you will see that it is embedded in a political commentary. I want
> to state here, much like I did with my “morning after” letter, is that the
> focus of the commentary is on a single individual and his character. The
> rest of the implicit commentary is on the general state of political
> crisis, and the idea that we need a wise metapolitical position to emerge
> that can help us generate a much healthier political body that can do what
> it is supposed to do, which build common ground to cultivate the
> social-environmental commons that we as citizens participate in. I hope
> that is apparent by the framing.
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> Second, people are often asking: “Well, given your theory, what can you do
> with it?”  I have developed some basic answers. CALM-MO, for example, is a
> quick but also deep entry point to some foundational principles and
> processes of psychological mindfulness. The longer answer is complex. What
> it does depends on what you know and can learn. And it requires that you
> learn. In fact, it is unapologetic in that way. Unfortunately, that is the
> exact opposite of the convenience and efficiency mindset that people have
> been socialized in this culture to expect. After all, we have at our finger
> tips access to so much that is immediately “valuable”. Think of the iPhone.
> With the products of Steve Jobs to compete with, an intimidating, unusual
> knowledge structure that seems to both convey commonsense and offers a
> cathedral of depth that doesn’t promise any immediate reward is not exactly
> well-placed to activate a dopamine squirt and cultivate base investment and
> the eager clicking of more. Oh well. Marketing has never been my thing.
> Indeed, I think marketing and deep knowledge of human psychology is a
> dangerous combination. There are good reasons my intuition has been to wrap
> my theory up into layers that need to be peeled back like an onion over
> time.
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> Third, unlike the pre-adolescent boys that this product is geared for, our
> “test and quest” is not told in twenty minutes, but rather is on the arc of
> 20+ years. As adults on the cusp of profound phase shift, we must be
> engaged in a “long game”. My sense is that there are seers out there who
> are seeing. We need a way to connect them and develop the tapestry of
> understanding that allows us to effectively knit together a frame. The UTOK
> identifies as this kairotic moment as the 5th joint point. As someone
> like Jordan Peterson would quickly note, we face the masculine project of
> “hunting the dragon in the dark”. We have to net him and bring the prize
> home to the tribe. Then, we need to get that understanding to the
> community. This is the feminine project of pulling apart the dragon and
> digesting the story of his conquest wisely for the community/communitas
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Communitas&d=DwMD-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=4VSSy33v-qUHC5gpaXJpYUOJRjJUWvogAduhRgtBOfI&e=>.
> Doing so allows to build the mythos that allows us to remember where we
> have been and what we need to do to avoid disaster in the centuries to
> follow. Finally, after the weave of understanding emerges and is found in a
> community, we need to cultivate the proper nest
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_file_d_1Ol6tQcwZYRtBTDNMumQ1mDYlIqVp1zMZ_view&d=DwMD-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=8PL_9s8PdKRn0E7qD8ZQ4x0HDb0qNsP5dORB6FD7xLE&e=>
> and socialize the children accordingly. This is the long game developmental
> project that allows us to transform the trajectory of mother earth, which
> seems headed for the ultimate Titanic calamity, such that we miss the
> iceberg and sail off in to CALMer seas in the back half of the 21st
> Century.
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> This week is an important one. Fingers crossed Humanity still has the time
> we need to be heroes.
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> Best,
> Gregg
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