Hi TOKers,
Just wanted to highlight the latest Voices with Johnny V episode, where John welcomes Rich Blundell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfbqaj5Gxyo
I found this episode interesting because Rich is an ecologist who starts with Big History and then does the “journey inward” so to speak and arrives at a participatory inside-out/outside-in view of the world. And he reached out to John
to build that bridge. From a UTOK vantage point, Rich IS pointing to us being properly aligned via the Tree and the Coin.
So, just so that we are clear: The Tree of Knowledge System gives us the proper Big History descriptive metaphysical ontological scientific naturalistic behavioral position that properly frames the levels and dimensions of complexification.
It “fixes” the normal big history view, which posits eight complexification thresholds, leading to a ninth.
As this article makes clear (and made even clearer in a chapter in my current book), the standard Big History frame is not adequate for a holistic philosophy
because it CLEARLY fails to even see, yet alone resolve, the problem of psychology. And, it also fails to realize that complexification is a function of both levels of part-whole-group across scale AND different dimensions of complexification networked together
by information processing/communication systems that make the shift form chemistry to biology different and “more” than the shift from physics to chemistry (which remains within the Matter dimension). Here is the relevant vision logic:
With that picture of big history corrected, we can now shift from the vantage point of natural science to the vantage point of each of our unique particular psyches. Specifically, we can experience the field of our awareness as material
entities, organisms, animals at the animal-mammal-primate level (i.e., pleasure pain, mind’s eye, attachment/relational heart), and person (justifying ego-persona) and transpersonal-spiritual dimension (5th joint point, Elephant Sun God as iconic
of right relation to transcendent wisdom).
This brings us back directly to Brendan’s mythopoetic narrative and metamodern spirituality which we shared last week and generated this symbol:
The point is that we are in an Energy-Information Complexification Web that we can see now both from the vantage point of (a) the psyche (subjective), (b) natural science (objective), (c) transjective pragmatism and (d) relational-intersubjective
(create common ground into social construction/justification systems in context). This is iQuadratic Aspect Monism:
We have the right frame at our finger tips. The problem is now a problem of translation and bridging.
Big hug to all,
Gregg
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