Many thanks, Ali.

 

I do sometimes feel slightly self-conscious about my “incessant swearing,” and hope it does not turn too many people off. For the record, swear words connect to embodiment (e.g., “shit”, “fuck”), and thus they connect for me to the coherent, integrated and interconnected stack of the psyche and its “flow”, as opposed to the superego’s tendency to regulate out the animalisitic id, which then creates the potential for defensive filtration. This is, of course, not a generalizable justification for swearing, but it does represent how I think about and experience it.

 

Best,
Gregg

 

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All,

 

Nik - thanks for your reflections. I hope your email gets a response!

 

Took me a few days to get through this (as my work has picked up). Might stop with the note taking strategy (as I have less time to engage with UTOK in this way)...but here are my personal highlights:

 

- Dryness of academic knowledge = antidote is John Verveake's Four Ways of Knowing

- On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt

- Gender as aspirational process = becoming new person with different values

- Transformative Experience by L.A. Paul

- Authority and standard-making process lie within one's future self

- Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard

- John Verveake as a "philosophical midwife"

- "Peer to Peer Rejection" = a new business model for Rachel as proposed by Gregg (satire regarding uselessness of extreme relativism) 

- "Relational value and social influence is absolutely essential for us to feel embedded, embodied in the social world and isone of the most crucial nourishing necessities for mental health"

- "Psychic-stacked injury" = cult trauma

- Adolescence = one's body becomes ready for a new kind of investment

- 1:27:00 = outline of the way in which the trans experience can be co-opted in unhealthy and problematic ways

 

Just as a side note, I found myself wanting to hear more of Rachel's "translation" of Gregg's theory at multiple points. Maybe a Part II with that kind of focus? 

 

Appreciate the content, Gregg's incessant swearing, and virtual dialogue. 

 

Warmly,

 

Ali

 

 

 

 

 

 

El mar, 1 mar 2022 a la(s) 05:43, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx ([log in to unmask]) escribió:

Hi Folks,

 

  I am very happy to share this UTOKing episode I did with Rachel Hayden. Please check it out when you have the time:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40OBkzcDmO8

 

Episode 48: UTOKing with Rachel Hayden                                                 February 28, 2022

Title: Gender and Embodied, Transformational Living Through UTOK

In Episode 48, Gregg welcomes Rachel Hayden. Rachel is a leader in the Peer-to-Peer community and is working to translate metamodern and Game B ideas into real world practices. She also has recently transitioned and has developed a Socratic aspirational framework on transformation that incorporates the work of L.A. Paul on transformative experience and the work of Agnes Callard on aspiration, provides a better model. In this episode, she and Gregg explore gender, the current state of the world, and the kind of transformative practices that are needed and the ways UTOK might be able to provide a necessary conceptual framework. 

Here is the episode on podbean.

 

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