About the Seminar
The Enlightenment gave rise to modern science and transformed humanity's understanding of the natural world. Yet it also left unresolved a fundamental challenge: how to coherently integrate objective scientific knowledge with consciousness, culture, meaning, and human values. This talk will explain how the Tree of Knowledge System works as a framework for addressing this “Enlightenment Gap.” The Tree of Knowledge organizes reality into four planes of existence (Matter, Life, Mind, and Culture), connected by key explanatory “joint points”. The System also includes Justification Systems Theory and a Tripartite Model of Human Consciousness which provides a new understanding of self-reflective awareness and human culture that creates a bridge from the natural to the social sciences. The presentation will conclude by summarizing how these ideas offer humanity a new worldview that integrates science, consciousness, and systems of meaning in the 21st century.
About the Speakers
Dr. Gregg Henriques, Professor of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University, is a clinical and theoretical psychologist. He is the founder of UTOK, the Unified Theory of Knowledge, which is a new system of understanding that bridges the sciences and humanities into a coherent whole. He is the author of three books, many professional articles in top journals, a popular blog on Psychology Today, a fellow of the American Psychological Association, and former President of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. He teaches classes in cognitive, personality, and social psychology, as well as psychopathology, personality assessment, and psychotherapy.
Marcia Henriques, MA, is an independent scholar of the Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK). Her work spans professional publications on UTOK's application to psychotherapy, public-facing writing on Psychology Today, Medium, and social media, and a role in organizing UTOK's annual conference. She holds a masters degree in Clinical Psychology from Western Carolina University, North Carolina, and a obtained her undergraduate training in psychology from the University of South Florida.
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