The Institute of Applied Metatheory is proud to introduce the Unified Worldview Initiative (UWI) — a bold and timely effort to help close one of the most critical rifts in modern civilization: the Enlightenment Gap.

For centuries, humanity has struggled to unite our understanding of mind and consciousness with that of matter and mechanism, leaving our worldviews fractured and our collective sense-making incomplete. The UWI is a response to this fragmentation—a transdisciplinary effort to build a more coherent, complete, and Integrative worldview for the 21st century.

Led by Dr. Gregg Henriques (originator of the Unified Theory of Knowledge), and supported by an esteemed team of integrative metatheorists, the UWI aims to synthesize three of the most powerful frameworks for understanding human nature and reality:

• Integral Theory
• Critical Realism
• The Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK)

This ambitious integration will unfold in three key phases:

1. Metatheoretical Mapping & Synthesis
   A rigorous comparative analysis of ontologies, epistemologies, and developmental logics, culminating in a comprehensive white paper.
2. Dialogical Deepening through Symposia
   A series of high-level conversations with leading thinkers to explore, refine, and challenge the emerging integration.
3. Worldview Activation & Dissemination
   A book-length treatment, public dialogues, and accessible media to bring this new synthesis into wider awareness and action.

Why it matters:

We are living through a planetary inflection point—what some call the metacrisis — marked by runaway complexity, existential uncertainty, and the breakdown of shared meaning. At the heart of this turbulence lies an incomplete picture of who we are and how we fit into the cosmos. The UWI seeks to provide a more unified ontological and epistemological frame that can support better science, deeper meaning, and more humane systems.

This is not just theoretical work. It’s the groundwork for a civilization capable of meeting complexity with clarity, fragmentation with integration, and despair with purpose.

Get Involved

If you are committed to worldview integration, transdisciplinary synthesis, or re-enchanting the sciences:

• Join our upcoming symposia series
• Collaborate with us as a scholar, institution, or thought leader
• Support the effort through partnership, critique, or amplification

Together, we can help build the scaffolding for the next stage of human understanding.

About Dr. Gregg Henriques
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. Dr. Henriques is author of three books, UTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge (2024), A New Synthesis for Solving the Problem of Psychology: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap (2022), and A New Unified Theory of Psychology (2011), and he has published many professional papers in the field’s top journals. He also has a popular blog on Psychology Today, called Theory of Knowledge, which has over 500 essays and received over 10 million views. Dr. Henriques is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the 2022 President of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, and is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia. He teaches classes in psychotherapy, personality, personality assessment, cognitive psychology, and social psychology. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Vermont and did his postdoctoral training under Aaron T. Beck at the University of Pennsylvania.