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What´s my worldview?

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First off: I don’t know every one of Leo’s videos and blog posts by heart. So if my questions are answered in one of them, I’d be happy to be directed there. 

In Leo’s teachings, worldview plays a central role. On the one hand, a worldview is an unreflective, socially mediated perspective or answer to central questions of existence. On the other hand, and above all, it serves the survival of the collective and the individual, legitimizes (unconsciously) selfish, biased behavior, and feeds the ego’s fantasies. 

How do I figure out my worldview? 

One problem I often have with Leo is that the examples he chooses are exaggerated and obvious: Of course I see and understand that Trump, Netanyahu, fundamentalists, ideologues, or some left-wing lunatics are trapped in their own self-referential logic. But I’m not one of them.     
Of course, I have political opinions and have been indoctrinated by family and society with a worldview and a notion of right and wrong. But I see that this is relative. I am open to the fact that reality is not made up of atoms, that consciousness does not die after my death. It’s just that I don’t know; I have no direct experience that gives me certainty.

When I ask myself how my worldview—that is, my basic assumptions about reality—justifies my survival and my self-serving actions, I find nothing. I am not a banker who must believe in something in order to earn millions of dollars; I am not a university professor who must publish to keep his job.    
Of course, in order to be accepted by my fellow human beings, I have to hold certain opinions. If I go to work tomorrow wearing combat boots and a side part, I’ll probably get fired. I see these subtle signposts—but that certainly doesn’t determine my worldview. 

Often, when I ponder existential questions, I find myself thinking: “Well, I just don’t know; I have no direct experience.” And so I go about my life with a worldview that doesn’t really feel like any particular one (which makes me very suspicious), open to other opinions and perspectives, but also without any real sense of absolute truth.   
 

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I found this pretty interesting, normal and relatable. The worldview that's hardest to see might be the one that feels like "just being reasonable."
I have things I can hope of reality, that I sensed in some moments, like that everything is equally meaningful and important, both devoid of meaning and ultimately infinitely meaningful, but I usually don't feel or operate that way. Then there's the spiral dynamics stages, where identifying as a particular stage ascribes a certain world view. I guess nondualism is also a worldview, something I was more preoccupied with before, but now holds more as a useful lens from time to time, not pursing the realization per se. Sometimes I glimpse or recall how much normality I have covered myself up with, but it doesn't get me excited to pursue just Truth for its own sake anymore. Perhaps I'm scared that I would become homeless again? I kind of felt like 'the matrix' pooped me out of ordinary states of being and living when I was on the spiritual track.


Civilization has outgrown its coordination infrastructure : an open essay on why, and what the design pattern might look like: The Coordination Imperative

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Worldview is fixed until one is an adult. Then I don't need to like it or lump it like before. I can leave it and embrace what I please. The world is my oyster. In my case, I lived half my life in UK and half in US. I thus deconstructed the myopic worldview handed me that UK is the Great Empire, the Lingua Franca and Heaven's Choice. The goggles came off and I could find more objective and salutary views, I'm not of the white race but the human race.

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