62. UTOK and Metamodern Alchemy (w/ Gregg Henriques)

Gregg Henriques and I talk about the release of his new book UTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge through Sky Meadow Press. We discuss how this book is different from other works Gregg has written, its aesthetic nod to the classic alchemical tradition, and the arc of his journey from hard-nosed materialism to metamodern metatheoretical mythopoeia. We talk about UTOK through the lens of personal mythology and religio and the grand takeaway about the nature of meaning and the sacred from such a system.

The book is available at https://www.skymeadowinstitute.org/press

0:00 Introduction

0:28 UTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge Published by Sky Meadow Press

2:56 An Accessible, Aesthetic Primer for UTOK

6:32 Big Picture Thinking and Metamodern Alchemy

16:27 From Modern Materialist Reductionism to Metamodern Emergent Mythos

22:20 Life and Calling: Personal Myth and "Building the Cathedral"

27:08 Avoiding the Pitfalls of Imaginal/Archetypal Projects

34:10 Relating to Meaning and the Sacred

38:32 Mythos and Logos: Waking up to a New Worldview

44:21 Ritual and Praxis in a Time Between Worlds

48:07 UTOK as Framework for Religio

50:44 Mythopoeia admidst the Desire for Tradition

56:46 UTOK...? So What? The Miracle of Self Knowing the World

1:07:09 Conclusion