Everything seems to be bigger in the US, incl. the disasters. Really
terrible situation now: two moral worldviews splitting the population in
two halves.
Big hugs to all from Copenhagen,
Lene
On 04-11-2020 15:05, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx wrote:
>
> Hi TOK Folks,
>
> Well, that was an interesting night, huh? Pretty much setting the
> stage for exactly what I hoped would not happen.
>
> The clash of identity that is unfolding before our eyes is epic.
>
> If you get to the end of the UTUA story I shared, I think the lessons
> remain as important as ever.
>
> Try to orient your energy toward love and wisdom in the days to come.
>
> Big hugs to all,
> Gregg
>
> *From:* Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx
> *Sent:* Monday, November 2, 2020 8:00 AM
> *To:* [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> *Subject:* TOK The Quest for the Scepter of UTUA
>
> Hi TOK List,
>
> 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 21^st 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=DwID-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.
>
> 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=DwID-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=V2EfPkxAh-V5lbpMqVpwnhkxs9agPx8Wq-fVAU_Vdv8&e= >).
>
> 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=DwID-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.
>
> Here is the narrated video:
>
> 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=DwID-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=8SuitOQsbWEJCQOO7aoNjeKqHm3RXlKSThcMFpc5vOo&e= >
>
> Here is the adult/educator version that explains the symbolism:
>
> 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=DwID-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=oCzxSuLm1MEzWnAIcZGtWpMxt_qyQix33ouPCi87peQ&e= >
>
> 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).
>
> 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=DwID-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=jeDS1w3pn7xlhEQDx_24ouKvZqZ5D6i5r_7VzMQ9q24&s=PS01ftN5MjyCp--J1XTJfRP7ocXXIMN69TcvhwsCDAY&e= >
>
> A couple of notes if you go first with the narrative.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
> 5^th 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=DwID-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=DwID-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 21^st Century.
>
> This week is an important one. Fingers crossed Humanity still has the
> time we need to be heroes.
>
> Best,
> Gregg
>
> ___________________________________________
>
> Gregg Henriques, Ph.D.
> Professor
> Department of Graduate Psychology
> 216 Johnston Hall
> MSC 7401
> James Madison University
> Harrisonburg, VA 22807
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>
>
> /Be that which enhances dignity and well-being with integrity./
>
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