THE SPECTRUM OF TRADITIONAL HUMAN WORLDVIEWS
Click on the categories below to see each paradigm’s conclusions. On smaller screens, scroll to the right to see the whole chart. Click here for a printable pdf version.
EIGHTH Paradigm | SEVENTH Paradigm Left Systematists |
SIXTH Paradigm Left Marginalists |
FIFTH Paradigm Left Middle Marginalists |
FOURTH Paradigm Middle Marginalists |
THIRD Paradigm Right Middle Marginalists |
SECOND Paradigm Right Marginalists |
FIRST Paradigm Right Systematists |
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GALACTIC | UTOPIAN | PROGRESSIVE | LIBERAL | MODERATE | CONSERVATIVE | BI-PARTISAN | AUTHORITATIVE |
Higher Manifestation
Cosmology
COSMOGENISIS | EMMANATIONISM “CONSCIOUSLY” “ENFOLDED” INTO ‘MATERIAL’ MANIFESTATION BY ETERNALLY-EXISTING INFINITELY-UN-BOUNDED “SEA” OF TOTALLY UN-“DIFFERENTIATED” CONSCIOUSNESS |
DEITY – CREATED COSMOS | AUTOMATED (“NATURAL”) “CONDENSATION” FROM PRE-EXISTING “SEA” OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
PRE-“BIG BANG” ORIGIN YET TO BE SCIENTIFICALLY ASCERTAINED | CIVIL-RELIGION “GOD” “GOD”-CREATED UNIVERSE |
PERPETUAL SELF-CONTAINED, SELF-EXISTING COSMOS |
ENTIRELY UNEXPLAINED “BIG BANG” ORIGIN |
Teleology
We are evolving, incarnation-by-reincarnation, progressively toward DIS-‘Incarnate’ CONSCIOUSNESS |
POST-CONSCIOUSLY ENFOLDED-INTO- MATERIAL MANIFESTATION MOVEMENT TO “THE “ESCHATON” |
POST-DEITY-CREATED NATURAL LAW FUNCTIONING BUT HUMAN-“INTENTION” “QUANTUM” CO-CREATED UNFOLDING | ENTIRELY “NATURAL LAW” FUNCTIONING | POST-ULTIMATE EXPANSION CONDITION (and TELEOLOGY) YET TO BE SCIENTIFICALLY DETERMINED | THE PERPETUALLY-OSCILLATING HUMAN WILL-INFLUENCED-UNFOLDING OSCILLATING COSMOS |
THE PERPETUALLY-OSCILLATING MECHANICALLY PRE-DETERMINED COSMOS (THE ETERNAL RETURN) | TIME-LIMITED EXPANDING & CONCURRENTLY TOTALLY DISINTEGRATING COSMOS -UNTO NO-“THING”-NESS (ENTROPY) |
Ontology
We, as a Human Family, Must Now Integrate The Fact that “Consciousness” “evolves” elsewhere in our Universe VASTLY BEYOND the state of Materially-“Incarnated” Consciousness that OUR VERY MOST-EVOLVED “Human Beings” have EVER attained (including Jesus; Buddha, Mohammad & THE MACHTI) | Every Inchoate Quantum Field is a “HOLO-GRAPHIC” “Nodal” or “Micro-Cosm” of The Eternal “Cosmic Consciousness” “joined” in constant intimate communion with ONE BEING | “Consciousness” is the experience directly experienced by an adequately-complex confluence of “Mass” & “Energy” of a subtle electro-magnetic “Field” that “bonds together” every Inchoate Quantum Field in The Entire Universe into ONE, UNIFIED & HARMONIOUS WHOLE | “Consciousness” is a “Point of Focused Intuitive Attention” From the “Perspective” from which an “entity” can intuit data “relative” to the “self” experienced by that”entity” | Certain Things (or “Entifications” of Mass and Energy”) Manifest “Consciousness” (which appears, Scientifically, to be Some Type of “Electro-Dynamic” Phenomenon) BUT this requires more Scientific Research to Determine What “Consciousness” is | “Consciousness” is an “Integral” “Third Element” of “Material” Reality with “Mass” & “Energy” | “Consciousness” is a Mechanical Epi – Phenomenon of The Physical Inter-Action Between “Mass” & “Energy” “generated” by an Adequately Complex Mechanical “Confluence” of “Mass” & “Energy” |
PANPSYCISM
Every “Thing” in The Universe is More – or Less “Conscious”, Merely to a Greater or Lesser Degree |
Epistemology
We Human Beings NOW have access to the NEW Information Provided by The Extra-Terrestrial Species to “Supplement” our Human Knowledge | We Human Beings CAN RELIABLY GIVE CENTRAL IMPORTANCE TO the “data” that we discern through the exercise of TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (or “Prayer”) to add to the data obtained via our Human Intuition – as a “factor” having EQUAL VALUE to the data that we come to KNOW via the direct experience of Our Five Physical Senses; via The Traditions Conserved By Our Ancestors & And Via Our Utilization of “The Scientific Method” – because we are CONFIDENT NOT ONLY that our Human Intuition IS the function of some merely as yet NON-Scientifically – Confirmed “Biological Faculty” …much like “Seeing” or “Hearing” or “Tasting” or “Smelling” BUT ALSO that we Human Beings possess YET ANOTHER Human “Faculty” that is able to directly “access” THE INFINITE & ETERNAL “SEA” OF UN -DIFFERENTIATED CONSCIOUSNESS | We Human Beings CAN RELIABLY GIVE CENTRAL IMPORTANCE TO the “data” that we discern through the exercise of our Human Intuition – as a “factor” having EQUAL VALUE to the data that we come to KNOW via the direct experience of Our Five Physical Senses; via The Traditions Conserved By Our Ancestors & And Via Our Utilization of “The Scientific Method” – because we are CONFIDENT that our Human Intuition IS the function of some merely as yet NON – Scientifically Confirmed Biological Faculty …much like “Seeing” or “Hearing” or “Tasting” or “Smelling” | We Human Beings CAN RELIABLY “supplement” the data that we come to KNOW via the direct experience of Our Five Physical Senses; via The Traditions Conserved By Our Ancestors & And Via Our Utilization of “The Scientific Method” THROUGH the partial integration into our “rational” analysis of our HUMAN INTUITION – which MAY HAVE some as-yet NON-“Scientifically”- Confirmed Validity | We Human Beings CAN “KNOW” data – but ONLY data that which has been subjected to – and generated by – “The Scientific Method” | We Human Beings can also KNOW data that has been “conveyed” to him BY HIS TRADITIONS CONSERVED BY THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE | We Human Beings (In Addition To The Direct “Sense Data” That We Directly Experience Via Our FIVE [ONLY] Physical Senses) CAN ALSO Subtly “Discern” The Eternally On-Going DUAL-istic Dynamic Taking Place in Our Oscillating Cosmos | Each Human Being can TRULY KNOW only The Direct “Sense Data” That He or She Directly Personally Experiences Via His or Her FIVE (ONLY) Physical Senses |
Mode of Ethical Reasoning
We must “Take Into Account” in Determining What is “Best” for Us, As a Species, to Do
How This Choice Affects Our Relationship With This Extra-Terrestrial Civilization |
Seeking to Comport One’s Own Personal Conduct In Accordance With The Perfect ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE of THE CREATOR OF The Universe – And To Assist, By Way Of One’s Own Personal Example, Our Human Family to Voluntarily Do The Same Collectively | Seeking To Comport One’s Personal Conduct In a Manner That Most Perfectly “Harmonizes” With The Natural Order of The Universe – and To Attempt to Persuade, By Reasoned Argument | Continuing to utilize “The Scientific Method” as the means of determining “Fact” and continuing to “supplement” that data by giving “ancillary” weight to data obtained thru “Intuition” BUT Remaining “open” to increasing the “weight” to be given to intuition-generated data if that data calls for treating “The Least Well Offer” even BETTER | Insisting upon subjecting all propositions of fact to The Scientific Method BUT GENUINELY & OBJECTIVELY Exploring “Revolutionary” Theses, Including the prospect that we human beings possess “other ways of knowing” than the presently-“scientifically-acknowledged” “senses” | Remaining supportive and “avocational” of “Traditional” values, customs & insight BUT Respecting and being willing to “feather in” CONSTRUCTIVE progressive “amendments” | Making all decisions by remaining “open” to the CONSTRUCTIVE Dialectical Dynamic of the TAOIST inter-action between TWO only apparently “conflicting” Energies | Making “AuthoritTATIVE but NOT AuthoritARIAN leadership decisions in the interests of the entire “community” of people – as though they were ALL one’s personal family |
Philosophy
PanenTheism | Radical Monism | Pythagoreanism | Aristotlianism | Nathan Adler | Lao Tsu | Heraclitus |
Political Philosophy
Democratic Theocracy | Gnosticism | Spiritual Communitarianism | Pure Democracy | Republic | Two-Party Democracy | Authoritative Autocracy |
Mode of Spiritual Expression: World Religion
Mysticism | Zen Buddhism | Islamic Sufism | Monastic Christianity | Kabalistic Judaism | Taoism | Pantheism |
Social Order
Utopian Planetary Representative Theological Council | Progressive Global Multi-Continental Intuition-Guided Council | Idealistic Inter-Continental Bio-Regional Social Democracy |
Moderate Continental Bio-Regional Democracy | Conservative Multi-Bio-Regional Nationalism |
Bi-partisan Bio-Regional-ism |
Authoritative Intra- Bio-Regionalism |
Modern Exponent
The Dali Lama, Desmond Tutu, Dom Helder Camara |
Deepak Chopra | Vaclav Havel | Jimmy Carter | King David of Israel | King Leonidas of Thermopylae | Auda Abu Tayi of the Howeitat Bedouin Arabs |
Lower Manifestation
Cosmology
William Stroeger | Keppler | Steven Hawking | Copernican | Eternal Oscillation | Entropy |
Teleology
Teilhard de Chardin: Eschatology |
Max Plank | John Locke | Scientific Logical Perfectionism | Kierkegard | Frederick Hegel Dialectical Progression |
Charles Darwin: Random Evolution |
Ontology
Spinoza Heidegger Speculative Realists |
Mme. Helen Blavatsky | Plato “Plato’s Ontology or Philosophy of Being/Reality” |
Aristotle’s Ontology (See: stromatais.blogspot.com/2011/02/ aristotles-ontology.html) |
Newton’s “Scholium” in his Naturalis Principia Mathematica (See: “Newton’s Neo-Platonic Ontology of Space” by Edward Slowik at philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4184/) | Dialectical Ontology John Scottus Eriugena |
Daniel Dennett “Dan Dennett on Patterns and Ontology” at www.replicatedtypo.com/dan-dennett-on-patterns-and-ontology/10849.html) |
Epistemology
Theology | Philo | Thomas Aquinas | Emanuel Kant | David Hume | Epicurus |
Mode of Ethical Reasoning
Voluntarily comporting one’s conduct – and openly advocating that our collective conduct be comported – pursuant to the effectuation of the teleological objective of The Infinite & Eternal Sea of Entirely Un-Differentiated Consciousness Having Enfolded Into Material Manifestation The Material Universe | Voluntarily comporting one’s own conduct – and openly advocating that our collective conduct be conducted – in sympathetic resonance with – the vibrational frequency of the Unitive Phenomenon of The Universe | Seeking “The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number” – While, at the same time, At Least Something For The Least Well-Off John Rawles |
Seeking “The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number”: Mechanical Non-“Transcendent” Principle Compromise Between Extremes
John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham |
The Assertion of One’s WILL To Promote The Interests of One’s NATION over an “Other” Nation | The “Vanquishing” of The Ultimate Other” To Promote The Interests of One’s TRIBE (or Race) | Immediate Self Interest Seeking of One’s Own Personal Gratification in the form of POWER, RICHES OF MATERIAL GOODS, SEXUAL SATISFACTION & FAME (sometimes in the service of one’s personal FAMILY) |
Philosophy
Theism | Radical Monism | Pythagoras | Aristotelianism Aristotle |
Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre |
Dialectical Materialism Karl Marx |
Hedonism Thomas Hobbs |
Political Philosophy
Utopian | Natural Law (Progressive) |
Social Democrats (Liberal) |
Representative Democracy (Moderate) |
Republicans (Conservative) |
Neitzsche, Adam Smith, Karl Marx (Reactionary) |
Machiavelli (Authoritarian) |
Theory of Human Psychology
William James | Carl Jung | Cognitive Jean Piaget |
Humanistic Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers |
Socio-Cultural/Behavioral B.F. Skinner |
Psycho-analytical FREUDIAN Erik Erikson |
Neuro-scientific Structuralism |
Mode of Spiritual Expression
Gnosticism | Occult Theosophy | Pythagorism, Platonism | Scholastic Catholicism | Israeli Judaism | Secular State Religion | Voodooism |
Social Order
Theocratic | Honestly-Educated & Objectively – Selected Meritocracy | Alexandrian Philosopher King & Meritocratically – Elected |
Representative Bicameral Parliamentarian Democracy |
Religious Monarchism | State Capitalism vs. State Communism |
Authoritarian Dictatorship |
Modern Exponent
Evelyn Underhill | Vaclav Havel | Z. Brzezinsky | Mario Cuomo | Samuel Huntington | Henry Kissinger | Richard Perl |
Faculty | Soul | ESP | See | Hear | Smell | Taste | Touch | |
Musical Key | B | A | G | F | E | D | C | |
Verb | Am | Intuit | Communicate | Love | Think | Will | Act | |
Chakra | Crown Chakra | Brow Chakra | Throat Chakra | Heart Chakra | Solar Plexus Chakra | Sacral Chakra | 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 | Buddhist | Mental | Astral | Physical | |
Scope | Trans-Cosmic | Cosmic | Planetary | Continent | Nation | Tribe (Race) | Family |