This page looks at broad-brush characteristics of the 7 major worldviews currently embraced by humanity. The upper half of the chart represents the “higher” manifestations of the worldviews, the bottom half represents the “lower” manifestation. The people and ideas here represent the archetype of that particular worldview aspect, not necessarily meaning that they represent that worldview as a whole.
| Left Systematists | Left Marginalists | Left Middle Marginalists | Middle Marginalists | Right Middle Marginalists | Right Marginalists | Right Systematists | |
| World Religion | Mysticism | Bhuddism,
Intuitive Monism |
Islam | Christianity | Judaism | Taoism | Animism |
| Religious Manifestation | Mystical Deism | Theosophy,
Anthroposophy, Great White Brotherhood |
Pythagorian,
Platonism, Sufism |
Trinitarian
Christianity |
Kabalism | Shaolian
Taoism |
Animist
Shamanism Pan Psychism |
| Modern Exponent | Nelson Mandela
Desmond Tutu Dom Holder |
Vaclav Havel
Gorbachov |
Jimmy Carter | ||||
| Social Order | Utopian | Progressive
Intuitonism |
Idealistic | Moderationism | Conservationism | Reactive | Authoritative |
| Political Style | |||||||
| Political Theory | Gaiaism | ||||||
| Philosophy | Rudolph Steiner | Karl Popper | Bertran Russel | ||||
| Mode of Ethical Reasoning | |||||||
| Teleology | Deepak Chopra,
Charan Kalsa, Conscious Evolutionism |
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| Psychology | Stan Grof | ||||||
| Epistemology | Teresa di Avila | Evelyn Underhill | |||||
| Ontology | Ken Wilber | ||||||
| Physics | E. Shroediger | ||||||
| Cosmology | David Bohm | ||||||
| Faculty | Soul | ESP | Know | Hear | Smell | Taste | Touch |
| Musical Key | B | A | G | F | E | D | C |
| Verb | Am | Will | Communicate | Love | Think | Feel | Act |
| Chakras | 7th
Crown Chakra |
6th
Brow Chakra |
5th
Throat Chakra |
4th
Heart Chakra |
3rd
Solar Plexus Chakra |
2nd
Sacral Chakra |
1st
Root Chakra |
| Function | Being | Intuition | Communication | Love | Power Assertion | Procreation | Survival |
| Form of Matter | Spirit | Quantum | Subatomic | Atomic | Gaseous | Liquid | Solid |
| Body | Divine | Monadic | Atomic | Buddhic | Mental | Astral | Physical |
| Scope | Galactic | Interplanetary | Planetary | Continentalist | Nationalistic | Racial | Tribal |
| Cosmology | William Stroeger | Keppler | Pythagoras | Steven Hawking | Galileo
Copernicus |
Eternal
Oscillation |
Entropy |
| Physics | Einstein | Newton | |||||
| Ontology | John Paul II | Mme. Blavatsky | Plato | Aristotle | Descartes | Johann Fichte | Daniel Dennett |
| Epistemology | Theology | Philo | Thomas Aquinas | Emanuel Kant | David Hume | Lucretius
Epicurius |
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| Psychology | Jung | Freud | |||||
| Teleology | Teilhardain
Escatology |
Max Plank | John Locke | Scientific Logical
Perfectionism |
Kierkegard | Hegel | Charles Darwin
Daniel Dennett |
| Mode of Ethical Reasoning | Hans Kueng | Stoicism | John Rawles | John Stuart Mill
Jeremy Bentham |
Jean Paul Sartre | Nietzsche | Self-Interest |
| Philosophy | Deism | Monism | Platonism | Aristotelianism | Existentialism | Dialectical
Materialism |
Materialism |
| Political Theory | Theocracy | Stoic Natural Law | Social Democrats | Democrats | Republicans | Adam Smith
Karl Marx |
Thomas Hobbes |
| Political Style | Theocratic | Progressive | Liberal | Moderate | Conservative | Reactionary | Totalitarian |
| Social Order | Medieval Royalism | Senatorial City
Stateism Alexandrian Philosopher King |
Representative
Bicameral Parliamentarian Democracy |
Secular
Monarchism |
State
Capitalism Communism |
Facism | |
| Modern Exponent | Bryan Hehr | Vaclav Havel | Z. Brzezinsky | Mario Cuomo | Samuel Huntington | Henry Kissinger | Richard Perl |
| Religious Manifestation | Medieval
Catholicism |
Occult Theosophy | Pythagorian
Platonism |
Medieval
Scholastic Catholicism Scientific Positivism |
British Angelicanism | State Calvinism | Tribal Voodoism |