This World of Ours: A Systemic View

(Page Update 9/30/25)

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 operating systems 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 worldview.

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

Performance: Six Perspectives as Worldview Frames

The world can be approached through six perspectives: Earth, People, Domain, Universe, Society, and Life. Each is a worldview frame, carrying assumptions about what matters and why it matters.

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 reference signals: belonging, identity, and meaning. The turbulence of the 1970s made these loops more fragile yet more urgent.

These perspectives are not enough on their own. They collide, producing wicked problems when reference frames misalign: climate instability, polarization, pollution. A systemic view reveals why: feedback loops without coordination 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.

Worldview is what organizes these levels into coherence. At lower levels, it shapes how we categorize daily life; at higher levels, it frames our principles and system concepts — freedom, justice, unity. When worldviews fragment, principles collide, and systems fail.

The Hylozoic Contribution

The Hylozoic worldview adds two essential dimensions:

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: The 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.

Together, these principles show why worldview is not optional. To be human is to live within nested envelopes of being, interpreting reality through the three aspects of existence. The task is to move from fragmented emotional dominance toward integrated mental-causal awareness — from incoherence to clarity.

Activation: From Fragmentation to Cosmic Worldview

Humanity’s crises are not just technical failures; they are worldview collisions. Science versus religion, East versus West, profit versus planet — these are worldview battles, each defending partial references.

A new worldview must emerge, one that integrates systemic feedback with the Hylozoic structure of existence. The PIE triad of the First Self (human beings) provides the grammar:

Purpose: To ask why, at every level: why bowl, why build, why live at a certain human level.
Integrity: To align systems with declared purposiveness. Without integrity, worldviews fracture into hypocrisy.
Experience: To recalibrate through feedback, not denial. History shows the cost of ignoring error signals or worlds.

From this, a cosmic worldview begins to take shape:

Personal: Notice and question your own worldview assumptions.
Collective: Harmonize conflicting worldviews through higher-order references (justice, unity, planetary survival, reconnecting with Earth).
Cosmic: Recognize that humanity is one envelope in a solar system, itself an envelope in a universe.

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 wrong, but that our worldviews are fractured.

The Hylozoic worldview posits that existence is comprised of three inseparable aspects: motion, consciousness, and matter. And it teaches that the human kingdom contains three worlds: the physical-etheric, emotional, and mental-causal. And it reminds us that development means evolving from partial to integrated awareness, moving to ever-higher levels of consciousness and energy: the will to power, the will to love, and the will to unity, from fragmentation to causal clarity.

The will to unity is not an abstract ideal but the universal goal of life. Some people say this world is given. And what we give to make it ours is something we co-author. Each perception, each action, each worldview choice writes into humanity’s ledger and the promise of individuals reaching the level of Causal Self.

The invitation is simply to utilize the 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 a dialogue; see your life not as an isolated story, but as a shared evolution: Step into a worldview that honors the aspects of existence: matter, consciousness, and motion/energy/will. Step into the realm of self-consciousness at the level of will to unity.

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