Mmabatho Montse (S. Africa) and R. Michael Fisher (Canada)
For a recent discussion of my early thoughts about a new metapsychology (metapsychologia-q) and how to think beyond a needs-based paradigm in human development and evolution, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aazvlirjup8&t=266s
note: amongst some other alternative routes beyond needs-based paradigms, I have long ago offered a Fearlessness Paradigm (over-coming the reductionism and distortions of fear-based paradigms generally; see note2). There are lots of my publications on this all over the internet, and/or go to Google Scholar search and look up that term.
note1: there are some other people using "metapsychology" (beyond Sigmund Freud's first coining) and I am critical of their (mis-)naming of what they are doing with it (Gerbode et al.)--but that's another topic for another future blog
note2: this "Fearlessness Paradigm" has roots back to 1989 in my founding the In Search of Fearlessness Project (ISOF Project or Movement)--then, I took this (implicitly) into my graduate education years of gaining an MA in Adult Education and Ph.D. in Curriculum & Pedagogy (1998-2003, Univeristy of British Columbia)--in the doctoral project I refined my work as a "wicked problem" and "meta-problem" (globally) to solve in the world, which has layers and stages (e.g., the DCFV theory intervention) but eventually settled to the problem of what I (loosely) called "Fearless Leadership" (in and out of the 'Fear' Matrix).
note3: my meta-thinking about thinking and especially about "developmental processes" is one that goes in a lot of trajectories--far beyond what the discipline of Psychology can hold (and thus PSI research attempts to hold some of those 'out of the bounds' experimentations and theories about reality and human nature, and psychology itself)--however, even beyond PSI per se, "Creative Systems Theory" and (Weird Theory) like "Novelty Theory" of Terence McKenna (for e.g.) are interesting streams to travel in the argumentation for metapsychology--and, so for e.g., a good metapsychology asks questions like: (a) What happens to Psychology (psychology) when you put it through and see it through the lens of Novelty Theory (e.g., complexity theory+) and same for the lens of Integral Theory (e.g., holistic theory+ of Ken Wilber) and same for the lens of Fearlessness Theory (e.g., fear theory+ of Fisher)??? Things get even more interesting from there... now, put that all together in a concatenation of theories of theories of everything and I am arriving at an emergent Fascination Theory for how the universe works... [p.s. no I am not drugs, ha ha]
note4: my metapsychological thinking showed up in an artist-residency big time while working at a daycare center in the town I live--3 yrs ago and reflections I made on that research project (e.g.,) go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycziFIRIf3c&t=6s
note5: see my diagram of "Psychologies in Battle"
note6: my listening to a Dr. Zak Stein, American contemporary philosopher of education and polymath thinker, lecture on metapsychology is really showing me how independently, him and I have a lot of similarities in core aspects of our pursuit of metapsychology (we also have some significant differences): go to his 2020 basic lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZNDhdKekjg&list=PLoZ5e3aD_LuT1OnbbbLwT8ZbvsD0IXdqC
