Brandon,

  Thanks for this. I enjoyed our conversation the other day, and I welcome you to the list. I encourage people to check out his work on the Enlightened Worldview.

  I like a lot of what you write in your essay, but as I tried to allude to when we spoke, I don't think you fully understand  the UTOK and Garden vision.

In the essay, you state:

In other words, even our best scientific knowledge cannot tell us how psychology is related to biology, nor how psychology is related to sociology, to economics, and to political science, nor how any of the aforementioned social sciences can yield more reliable predictions and clear explanations of the past.  In order to close the enlightenment gap, we will need better ways of understanding the mind and its relation to other planes of existence within the Tree of Knowledge<https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/8-key-ideas/the-tree-of-knowledge>.

This IS what the Unified Theory of Psychology<https://www.gregghenriques.com/unified-theory-book.html>, Unified Approach to Psychotherapy<https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/content/mental-health-psychotherapy-and-values>, Unified Theory of Knowledge<https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/home> and Garden Wisdom Philosophy<https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/content/unified-theory-as-a-garden> does already.

Best,
Gregg



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I wrote a blog post about closing the enlightenment gap, which is based on an excerpt from my forthcoming book: https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/the-enlightenment-gap/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.enlightenedworldview.com_the-2Denlightenment-2Dgap_&d=DwMFAg&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=cWu_uevgAIpIdMxDVRPHZmbR6-dI_F5mlHTLUGzM-sk&s=_DRzQklLy-6M__MhiPrX6kzioaE63lTJ28QLThSdN6I&e=>

My work is intended to tie together a lot of people's work, including Gregg's and many others.  The idea is that all of this fits together into educational tools that can actually make a positive impact and help us address challenges in the world.  Not much of what I'm doing is original, but I think it is important because I'm trying to show how these different pieces come together and I'm trying to tailor the language to people who don't necessarily have a background in philosophy or psychology or science.  It is a work in progress, but the idea is that this would be useful for people who are trying to become more enlightened.

In the post linked above, the idea is to accurately summarize the notion of the enlightenment gap.  I am also tying it in with another notion of "The Great Dilemma", which is kind of an updated version of Husserl's bracketing of the natural attitude and which I got from lectures given by Darren Staloff.  I wrote about that in an earlier post.  I don't want to oversimplify or give an inaccurate summary of Gregg's or anyone else's work.  I wanted to show it to you guys and if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions or corrections, let me know.

Thanks,
Brandon Norgaard
Founder, The Enlightened Worldview Project

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