What this blog is about
The Worldview Community Blog is a place in cyberspace to meet and share your views with fellow travellers in your journey towards the higher reaches of consciousness. It is moderated by Terry, the co-owner of the Worldview Centre and a student of consciousness development, and is intended as a vehicle to explore and debate perspectives on the issues, puzzles, roadblocks and challenges you encounter in your efforts to be all you can be in this lifetime.
It’s about the big questions in life… who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? How should we treat each other? And what’s the point of it all anyway?
Beyond that, it’s about searching for an understanding that is adequate to the incredible complexity of modern life. I am swamped with so many choices between so many bizarre and intense experiences, and it seems ridiculous that they are all meaningless and without lasting value. So if there is meaning in amongst this hurricane of phenomenon, how do I find it?
In the end, this blog is about Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and putting it to the test in the real world. The claim is that Integral Theory is “The Theory of Everything”. It claims to make sense of everything from spirituality to politics, from the environmental crisis to the reason Bill Clinton couldn’t keep his zipper up. Well, so far, that appears to me to be true. I’m hoping this blog will put that to the test.
What I’ve posted here are some views i have that arise out of studying integral for a dozen years or so. In some cases, I’m at the edge of my own exploration and my ideas are still cooking. The value I place on ideas is not so much whether are they true, but whether are they useful. Please add your comments on what value (if any) you find, or what alternate view you believe helps to unravel the mysteries of modern life.