by john-vervaeke

Propositional

• I know it because I can state it. A factual statement, like the sky is blue.
• knowing about things
• Semantic knowledge
• tags.known-knowns

• are the maps, which we ever attempt to anchor and nail down to constrain ‘reality’.

Procedural

• I know it because I understand the steps. An outline, like how to tie your shoes.
• knowing how to do things
• develops skills and therefore power
• tags.known-unknowns

• are the objectivities, which externalize by dint of the reliance upon separation of self from context.

Perspectival

• I know it because I've seen the examples. A viewpoint, like Western culture tends to be more individualistic.
• knowing how to perceive the world
• done with presence
• perceptive
• tags.unknown-knowns
• mindfulness makes you appriciate Perspectival knowing and generates insight

• are our subjectivities, mostly hidden beneath the shadow of the dominant subjectivity: ego, The Controller.

Participatory

• I know it because it's my lived experience. An embodied state, like I am part of humanity.
• knowing how to relate to the world
• about being
• being in the right relationship with ..
• being in flow
• become embodied-creator with life
• tags.unknown-unknowns

• is the Indra’s net of quantum foam that we arise from and fall back in to.

• organism and environemnt are coupled/situated together
• gives you affordance with a sense of belonging and attunement with your environment
• agent and arena
• embodiment
• "Knowing by loving" a specific instance of participatory knowing

The Tao is the perpetual snaking dance of all of the above. And this statement is a extremely partial KK representation of the Tao, that holds no destinations but infinite paths.

– https://www.facebook.com/danielschmachtenberger/posts/10159903005186779?comment_id=10159903008776779&reply_comment_id=10159903484341779

Links

• john-vervaeke on 4 ways of knowing
  • https://youtu.be/D4_RSZOTSXw?t=2453
  • https://youtu.be/TvuBjACSItQ?t=1832
• "your skills ultimatly depend on your situational awareness, and your situational awareness of the states of consciousness depend ultimatly on your character"
• https://paulvanderklay.me/2020/01/10/vervaeke-4-ps-of-knowing-via-surok-on-discord/
• Four kinds of knowing: John Vervaeke and a more grounded way to grow
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Prof_John_Vervaeke/comments/crcxg4/ways_of_knowing/
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theory-knowledge/202101/john-vervaeke-s-brilliant-4p3r-metatheory-cognition
• https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/lost-ways-of-knowing-2180a80987d8