In Episode 5, Baron and Gregg talk justification. Specifically, the help frame the domain of Mind3, which is the self-conscious portion of the human mind. They explain why the human mind has been shaped by the problem of justification, and why people have an ego and a persona that strives to maintain a justified state […]

In Episode 4, Baron and Gregg discuss how we can map mindedness using the Map of Mind. The Map of Mind divides the territory of mindedness into Mind1, Mind2, and Mind3. Mind1 refers to mindedness, defined as the functional awareness and responsivity exhibited by animals with brains and complex active bodies. It is further divided

In Episode 3, Baron and Gregg continue their discussion of how to extend the view of the natural world, this time by framing the layers of nature in terms of the days of the week. Monday sets the stage, with Void-Darkness Day. Then, Tuesday represents the birth of existence as Energy-Information Day. The next four

In Episode 2, we look to reframe the Enlightenment Gap with a new vision of the world given by UTOK’s Tree of Knowledge System. The ToK System tracks the emergence and evolution of behavioral complexification in nature that starts with an Energy-Information Implicate Order which then gives rise to a Matter-Object plane of existence at

Welcome to the Mindedness Revolution! In this opening episode, Drs. Gregg Henriques and Baron Short introduce themselves and provide an overview of the series. They share their respective backgrounds in clinical psychology and psychiatry, and explain why science is largely “mindblind”. They describe why this is the case. The scientific Enlightenment resulted in an Enlightenment

In this episode, Layman returns to the show for the seventh time to discuss his recently published book, Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds. In it, Layman recounts Gurdjieff’s fascinating life and approach to spirituality and why the book was a “hyperpersonal” endeavor that was appropriate for the metamodern age. Layman also clarifies some common

👉 Available Now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ6TSKZT?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520 Since the dawn of modern science, we have struggled to effectively place mind in relationship to matter and align the natural sciences, the human psyche, and the collective wisdom traditions into a coherent system of understanding. This is called the Enlightenment Gap, and a chaotic, fragmented, pluralistic landscape of knowledge has

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In this episode, the cognitive neuroscientist and author of The Romance of Reality (see here for Gregg’s review), Bobby Azarian joins the program to discuss his “unifying theory of reality” and vision for bridging science and religion. Bobby explains how he interprets the universe through a universal learning algorithm and shares what this means for

My contemplative interview with Life Itself is now live: https://news.lifeitself.org/p/wisdom-of-the-second-renaissance Thanks to Life Itself and John Oliver from www.interiortruth.com