Awakening to a New Worldview

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In 1968, I stood at a crossroads. On one side was the promise of football stadium lights; on the other, the darker question I could not put down: “What the hell is wrong with this crazy world of ours?” That question became the anchor of my life.

I soon realized the craziness was not only in wars, assassinations, or political scandals. It lived in the worldviews people carried, the invisible, socially conditioned operating system shaping what they believed was real, valuable, or possible. My own worldview, once bound by sports, school, and community pride, cracked open under the weight of televised wars, marches for justice, and a year later, the moon landing, was just a footnote: Why do we need to do that?

Development: Awakening to Worldview

Worldview matters because it is the lens through which humanity perceives existence. But like looking through a crack in a door, most of us see only fragments. To understand the whole room, this world of ours, requires keys and a wide open door, that’s what I am presenting here with two instruments:

The Psychology of Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control (LPPC), which arranges human perception into twelve levels.
The three aspects of reality: motion, consciousness, and matter, as clarified in the hylozoic mental system.

Together, they reveal a profound truth: our task is not to escape the craziness but to upgrade the fragmented worldviews into wholeness, energized by the will to unity.

Performance: Six Perspectives as Worldview Frames

The mainstream approach to building a worldview encompasses six key perspectives: Earth, People, Domain, Universe, Society, and Life. Each is a worldview frame, carrying assumptions about what matters and why. During the 60s and 70s in the USA, the worldview looked like this:

Earth: Planetary rhythms as reference: day/night, seasons, climate. Oil shocks in the 1970s demonstrated the fragility of these systems when overstrained.
People: Human diversity of culture and tradition. Civil Rights marches reframed the worldview of justice and equality.
Domain: Interests and spheres of pursuit: science, art, technology. The Vietnam War and Watergate shook confidence in authority and knowledge systems.
Universe: Cosmic awe. The moon landing in 1969 expanded the collective worldview: now the universe was no longer unreachable.
Society: Institutions, norms, and narratives. Television became the new loop of perception, reprogramming societal worldview daily.
Life: Personal narrative. Each person balances their favorite reference signals: belonging, identity, and meaning. The turbulence of the 1970s made these loops more fragile, more urgent.

These perspectives, however, are insufficient on their own. They collide, producing wicked problems when reference frames misalign, creating instability, polarization, and mind pollution. A systemic perspective of the psychology of lifespan performance and perceptual control (LPPC model) reveals why: internal feedback loops without coordination and coherence tend to spin toward error.

Research: LPPC and the Evolution of Worldview

The LPPC model clarifies that perception is hierarchical: from sensations to system concepts. At the personal level, it explains how a bowler adjusts the release angle. At the collective level, it describes how societies adjust policies.

With one's worldview in harmony with the systemic, cyclical, hierarchical thinking organism (the human body), we find that at lower levels it shapes sequential habits of daily life; at higher levels, it frames our principles and system concepts: freedom, justice, unity. But when worldviews fragment, principles collide, and systems fail.

The Hylozoic Contribution

The question now becomes: how does one's worldview coexist with the human organism? Well, we need to expand our knowledge by adding the hylozoic mental system, found in the lessons from 2,700 years ago, shared by the famous Greek mathematician/scientist, Pythagoras, which gives us the essential knowledge most humans ignore:

1. Levels of Being Human:

Physical-Etheric: Our bodies and vitality, bound to Earth's rhythms.
Emotional: Our desires and reactions, which can either attract or repel.
Mental-Causal: Our reasoning mind and higher causal intuition, which can guide us toward unity.

2. Three Aspects of Reality:

Motion/Energy/Will: The dynamic force behind all change, from neuronal firing to planetary motion.
Consciousness: spirit and awareness that interprets and learns, whether in a bowler, a community, or a civilization.
Matter: The substrate that carries forms, from bodies to institutions to ideas to planets.

By combining these principles, the calculation shows that, from the perspective of the three aspects of existence, we find the worldview must be joined by a life view: (1) having a coherent worldview, the objective perspective of motion and matter, is not optional. And (2) to live well as a human within the three nested envelopes also requires one to create a life view, interpreting reality from the subjective perspective of consciousness. The task is to move beyond humanity's dominant form of thinking: fragmented emotional desires. And to develop our mental awareness of perspective and systems thinking.

Reflective Invitation: Toward the Will to Unity

In 1968, my worldview cracked under the weight of fragmentation. Decades later, these cracks have widened into openings. The question remains: What the hell is wrong with this crazy world of ours? The answer is not that the world itself is imperfect, but rather, as shown above, our worldviews are not yet fully developed. So we are unable to moderate our craziness resulting from our inability to self-activate our potential as human beings.

The hylozoic mental system posits that existence is shaped by three inseparable aspects: motion, consciousness, and matter. And:

Teaches that the human kingdom comprises three worlds, or cosmic dimensions: the physical-etheric, the emotional, and the mental-causal.
Reminds us that development is each individual evolving self-consciousness from partial to self-activated integrity.
Identifies the movement from fragmentation to causal intuition, through ever-higher levels of self-consciousness and energy as the will to power, the will to love, the will to reason, and the will to unity.
There needs to exist harmony between the worldview and one's life view.

The will to unity is not an abstract ideal but the first step in the universal goal of a single-pointed purposiveness. Some people say this world is given. And what we work up to make it ours is something we co-author. Each perception, each action, each life view choice writes into humanity's collaborative ledger, and the promise of individuals reaching the level of Causal Self.

The invitation is simply to utilize the esoteric keys and the wide-open door. See the Earth not as a natural resource, but as a system; see society not as a battlefield, but as an opportunity for dialogue; see your life not as an isolated story, but as a shared evolution: Step into the worldview and create your life view that honors the three aspects of existence: matter, consciousness, and motion/energy/will; that is the first step toward the dimension of self-consciousness at the energy level of will to unity.

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