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A New World View is Needed

By Kim Michaels

If you are serious about finding your personal answers to life's deeper questions, you can benefit greatly from developing a new world view.

There are several reasons why a new world view is needed:

The world view held by most people has been obsolete since 1905. Most people cling to a pre-Einsteinian world view based on a dualism. The Theory of Relativity made this world view obsolete.
If your present world view cannot answer all of your questions about life (and if it could, why would you be reading this?), you must expand or refine that world view. If you are not willing to do so, you must give up trying to find answers.
If you grew up in the West, you have been exposed to a schizophrenic world view that is the product of a conflict between two opposing belief-systems, namely religion (specifically orthodox Christianity) and science (specifically scientific materialism). This conflict makes it extremely difficult for anyone to construct a consistent and coherent world view that can answer all of our questions about life. If you are serious about finding personal answers, you need to look beyond this conflict.

You must continually refine your world view
The How to find answers section of this site explains that every human being needs a foundation for his or her journey through the material universe. This foundation is a set of facts, ideas and beliefs that the person considers valid and reliable. These elements form the person’s world view and this view affects how we see ourselves, the world and our relationship to that world.

The key to improving any aspect of life (from bringing forth a new invention to solving a personal problem) is to increase your understanding of the problem. Therefore, the very essence of any kind of personal growth is that you must expand and refine your world view.

As we grow in our understanding of the world, new ideas continually emerge, and you can benefit greatly by incorporating some of these ideas into your personal world view. History has clearly proven that while human beings can delay the emergence of new ideas, they cannot stop these ideas. Therefore, new ideas continue to emerge. Some people refuse to accept such ideas, while others embrace them and use them to improve their lives. Usually, a small group of people accept a new idea long before it becomes accepted by the general population.

To be open or not to be open
During a lifetime, most people will be confronted with several new ideas. You can take two approaches to dealing with such ideas:

The closed-minded approach. People who take this approach refuse to consider new ideas and they cling to their existing world view. If their existing world view cannot answer their questions, they have no other option than to stop asking those questions. Such people often close their minds to any new idea, or they start a life-long quest to discredit any new idea in an attempt to prove why they don’t need to refine their existing world view.
The open-minded approach. People who take this approach are willing to consider new ideas and they accept that life is a process of learning, whereby you continually refine and expand your personal world view. If these people’s present world view cannot answer a question, they keep looking for new ideas until they find a satisfactory answer.

The key to personal growth is to take the open-minded approach, but to do so by activating your intuitive faculties. In other words, do not simply accept an idea based on a statement from some authority figure outside yourself. Use your intuition to gain a deeper, personal understanding of the idea. Then, use that inner understanding to refine your world view.

What is the idea’s explanatory power?
When evaluating a new idea, you might find it helpful to apply a technique used by many scientists. When you first come across a new idea, your lower mind has a tendency to make an immediate judgment about that idea based on how the idea compares to your existing beliefs. To take the open-minded approach, you need to neutralize this tendency, or you will reject any idea that goes beyond your present beliefs.

Therefore, when confronted with a new idea, make a conscious decision that you will not attempt to judge whether the idea is true. Instead, you will open-mindedly consider whether the idea might explain something that your existing world view cannot explain. In other words, you are simply investigating the explanatory power of the new idea.

By making this commitment, you can avoid feeling threatened by a new idea. You can, so to speak, bypass the judgmental lower mind and its attachment to your existing beliefs. By neutralizing the tendency to judge, you have a much better foundation for using your intuition to evaluate the idea. You can now apply your intuition in a sincere and objective attempt to gain a deeper, personal understanding of the idea. Once you have this understanding, it becomes much easier to evaluate whether you should incorporate the idea into your world view or simply ignore it and move on.

Time for a new world view
History has proven that it often takes a long time before a new discovery (be it in the field of science or spirituality) is accepted by the general population and incorporated into people’s world view. This explains why most people, including most scientists, have not let go of the dualistic world view which was proven incorrect by Einstein in 1905.

It is now time to let go of this dualistic world view and embrace a new view based on the fact that everything is energy. This fact has profound implications for every aspect of our lives, especially for personal growth.
The dualistic world view is based on the senses. Our senses tell us that the world is made from two distinctly different elements, namely an ever-moving element (energy) and a stable, non-changing element (matter).

Our senses also tell us that we live in a world with boundaries and barriers. We see barriers between matter and energy, between matter and mind, between mind and body. Our senses cannot penetrate these barriers, and they cannot detect anything beyond the material universe.

Fortunately, human beings have a unique ability to reach beyond the senses or the surface consciousness of the lower mind. By activating this ability, we can gain a deeper understanding, even if it contradicts the world view based on sensory perception.

Throughout history, people from every civilization have attempted to reach beyond the sensory view of the world. It was this drive for deeper answers that led Einstein to the Theory of Relativity. It is time for you to activate your ability to go beyond surface appearances and to see how you can use the Theory of Relativity to refine your world view and thereby enhance your self-help efforts and your spiritual growth.

To discover why it is so important to adjust your world view based on the fact that everything is energy, click here.

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