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Gregg, pretty sure this is a link to your Dad's talk.

Waldemar, thanks for that note. I sure hope it is.  :)

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:14 PM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Folks,

  I realized it was still “restricted” so folks might have had trouble opening it.

 

Here is the full link to Rob’s talk:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TVuRYKVrZFuME69bEPwfB0bcpWFMQrbf/view?usp=sharing

 

Gregg

 

 

 

 

From: Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 8:21 AM
To: '[log in to unmask]' <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: TOK: A brilliant, beautiful frame for interior epistemology and wise living

 

Hi TOK Folks,

 

  We had a great session last night. Rob Scott walked us through his Fundamental Shift model. It was AWESOME! Here is the link, please check it out:

 

Rob Scott’s TOK Session on

The Fundamental Shift

 

  There are several reasons I am super psyched about this model, but I will cut right to the central issue here. As Ken Wilber has long pointed out, there is a fundamental difference between viewing the world from the interior position as opposed to viewing it from the exterior position. One of the most central features of MENS knowledge is that it makes this shift, such that modern science is a language game grounded in the exterior empirical epistemological position. This however, is a problem for science in that it then has struggled enormously to account for the interior empirical position (the first person subjective experience of being). Virtually all of psychology’s struggles as a science are because of this “epistemological gap”. Moreover, the problem of psychology makes it clear that MENS knowledge is limited in this way, even though it tries to claim it explains everything (Who would have thunk it? MEN claiming they can explain and control more than they can in reality…I have never heard of such a thing 😉).

 

We obviously need epistemologies grounded in the interior empirical position. Of course, Eastern traditions have long known this. Enter Rob’s Fundamental Shift (and Identity shifting). Grounded properly in his own powerful story (where else are we going to find such a frame for an interior epistemology?), Rob shows us in this visually stunning presentation how we can wake up to the ‘isness’ and sort out the lenses by which we think about that isness. By differentiating pure experience from thoughts about that experience and highlighting the role of where the witnessing function directs its attention, Rob takes us through the process of how one makes a fundamental shift to wake up to the meaning making lenses that shape so much of our mental life. Like the proverbial fish who wake up to being in water, Rob calls on us to wake to our lenses and open up to the fact that much of our existence may well be largely delusional—wild constructions of the past, future and imaginal world, that pulls us out of experiential being in the present. With his “identity shifting,” Rob then takes this a wise step further and then asks us to then employ identities that foster the right relation between person and situation that lead to valued states of being.

 

  The great challenge of the 21^st Century is to solve the Enlightenment Gap and bridge the sciences with the humanities. In other words, we need to bridge a wise humanistic interior epistemology with a coherent holistic exterior scientific epistemology. Bridging this gap will allow us to move toward a much needed and more mature Wisdom Oriented MENS knowledge system in the decades to come. Rob Scott is showing us a profoundly important key to this puzzle, and I thank him deeply for his wonderful presentation last night.

 

Best,

Gregg

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Gregg Henriques, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Graduate Psychology
216 Johnston Hall
MSC 7401
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
(540) 568-7857 (phone)
(540) 568-4747 (fax)

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