Institute of Applied Metatheory

A social action think tank applying integrative epistemology to transformational leverage points in order to promote human flourishing.

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

Ecological collapse, technological disruption, existential despair, geopolitical anarchy, social fragmentation — the co-arising metacrisis.

The old stories can't carry us through alone. A new one is taking shape, big enough to hold the whole.

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[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

“Mapping an Ecology of Integrative Approaches to Addressing the Metacrisis” - https://t.co/ZpjaDtso8d
https://t.co/ZpjaDtso8d

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

“Mapping an Ecology of Integrative Approaches to Addressing the Metacrisis” - https://t.co/ZpjaDtso8d
https://t.co/ZpjaDtso8d

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

Everything that exists unfolds layer by layer.

From the structuring of matter to the flowering of culture, the universe builds itself through distinct levels of organization, each emerging from​—​but never collapsible into​—​the one below it.

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[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

Integrative metatheory 2.0 is the attempt to recover big-picture thinking without repeating modernity's totalizing mistake.

Full conversation with Robb Smith, Nick Hedlund, and Brendan Graham Dempsey → https://t.co/fJ9qjzhhsb

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

Robb Smith, Nick Hedlund, Brendan Graham Dempsey introduce Integrative Metatheory 2.0, bringing the most rigorous big-picture frameworks, including critical realism, integral, process philosophy & metamodernism, into sustained dialogue with each other.
https://t.co/Gp6ndxQDVg

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

“Mapping an Ecology of Integrative Approaches to Addressing the Metacrisis” - https://t.co/ZpjaDtso8d
https://t.co/ZpjaDtso8d

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

We start our story with the first pattern, or lens — that of Depth.

Everything that exists unfolds layer by layer — from the structuring of matter to the flowering of culture — each level emerging from, but never collapsible into, the one below → https://t.co/BFLTfcEtWf

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

5/5 The discussion takes on the hard questions this project has to face: how to hold scientific rigor alongside genuine spiritual depth, and why the conditions for doing this work may be uniquely available right now.

Watch in full here:
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[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

1/5 The metacrisis runs deeper than most accounts suggest. Beneath the visible crises of governance and climate lies a more fundamental problem: the fragmentation of knowledge itself.

[Institute of Applied Metatheory @IAMetatheory]

4/5 The goal is practical: to develop a worldview coherent enough to help policymakers and leaders navigate planetary-scale problems, with outputs including books and textbooks grounded in this synthesis.