Brandon Norgaard is a researcher, writer and founder of the Enlightened Worldview, a project described in short as a quest to promote peace through societal understanding and inner awareness. In this episode he shares with Peth about the perks of building an organization that will help people improve self-awareness and mindfulness. 

Norgaard explains the project seeks to “promote a new enlightenment”, implementing the premises given in Hanzi Freinacht books The Listening Society and Nordic Ideology and based on Game B as well as “Bildung”, a concept that refers to how individuals and groups of people learn and thrive through education and personal development to cultivate skills, habits and values that contribute to society. 

This would be made possible through software development to encourage people to come together, have leadership structures and coordinate local face-to-face events and networks structured to strengthen communities, improve their quality of life and add value. “There's a way to do it that is entertaining to people while they are also getting sense making and awareness capabilities and meeting spirituality by being a part of these communities and these circles”, he says.

“What gives me hope  is looking at local Game Change, local developments of community circles, a deeper integration across aspects of public life and social experiments in that regard and using technology to benefit people's lives”. Timestamp for video: 32:42 - 33:55

Some of the topics:

• What is Enlightened Worldview

• Metamodern Hackers Collective

• Adult lifelong learning

• Enlightenment Worldview platform

• Artificial Intelligence

• WTF is Game B

• WTF is Metamodernism 

• Relationship between Game B & Metamodernism

• Downtown San Francisco homelessness issue

• Local game change and development of communities and circles

• His advice to MetaGame

Resources:

• Enlightened Worldview project twitter

• Enlightened Worldview project website

• Brandon Norgaard on Facebook

• Lene Rachel Andersen on Twitter

• Lene Rachel Andersen’s book Bildung: Keep Growing (2020)

• The Archdisciplinary Research Center 

• Gregg Henriques’ Unified Theory of Knowledge

• Roy Bhaskar’s Critical realism and the ontology of persons

• Ken Wilbers’s Integral Theory

• The Listening Society

• Nordic Ideology

• 12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life

Hanzi Feinacht books:

• The Listening Society

• Nordic Ideology

• 12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life