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Harman There are some other things you can say about the new
world-view. One is that it's much more holistic than the old one.
In the conventional scientific world-view ultimate reality is
fundamental particles and everything ultimately gets explained
in terms of that. The emerging world-view seems clearly to deal
with wholes. Whole organisms, whole human beings, a much more
holistic view of everything, ecological systems, every part relating
to everything else and so on.
Another indication of a change underway is the increased appreciation
for the world-view of the indigenous people, the Native North
Americans, the Australian aborigines, because there's a respect,
that simply wasn't there a couple of generations ago. Respect
for that other way of relating to nature and viewing the world.
And there's much more attention paid to some kind of inner authority,
inner knowing. Less faith in external authorities, more faith
in the inner authority.
A third aspect of it which is much more subtle, has to do with
causality. In science you expect that cause will ultimately come
from physics and chemistry and so on. In the emerging world-view,
the mind is much more causal and it has to be taken into account.
With those characteristics emerging, if you start to think that
the assumptions underlying the modern world are pretty much rooted
in a world-view that doesn't contain those characteristics, what
does that really mean? It means that those basic assumptions are
all in question in a way that they haven't been for generations.
Metaphysics 1,2,3
Willis Harman I think that we really do have several different
world-views competing at the same time. We have the scientific
world-view which is basically a materialist one. We try to understand
consciousness through neuro-biology, we try to understand it in
terms of what's going on in the brain and so on. Then there's
a dualistic kind of world-view in which you say, yes, there's
the materialistic world but then there's also the spiritual, so
you have two basic natures of reality that somehow interact. I
think you could put a lot of the traditional religions more or
less in that world view.
But then you have this new one emerging, that's been around before,
thousands of years ago, but it's always been esoteric, it's always
only been held by a very small fraction of society, at least most
societies that I know about. And this is a world-view in which
consciousness, or spirit or whatever label you give to it, is
the fundamental reality and within that you have evolution, the
material world, everything else. That has never, certainly in
Western history, been a world-view that dominated, but it looks
as though it may.
Celestine Prophesy (and Other Indicators)
Is this shift in world-view that you're
talking about anything to do with the massive appeal of a book
like The Celestine Prophesy?
Willis Harman Essentially it leads the reader to believe
in the creative power of mind and to believe in synchronicity,
the inter-relatedness of everything and so on. Not only is that
book selling, but it's selling because of word of mouth, it's
being recommended by people who've read it, to others, and I think
it's quite an indicator of how radical the shift of beliefs actually
is.
Is this connected with the idea that we're
somehow each co-creating our reality. That's quite a widespread
belief, now.
Willis Harman Part of the emerging belief is that we do
create our own reality, but that means more than one thing. It
means different things at different levels. Many people would
accept that we create our perceptions, that what goes on in the
mind affects the way we perceive, but it's quite another thing
if the nature of reality as such, that what goes on in my mind,
is actually causal - somehow really does affect reality. So for
example there's a theologian in the United States, a man called
Philip Heffner, who published a book recently putting forth the
definition of a human being as a 'God-created co-creator'. Now
that's going farther than most people, theologians or not, would
care to go, but I think that probably is part of the new picture.
That somehow we are co-creators of all the reality that we see
around us. That's more radical than simply the observation that
what goes on in my own conscious mind affects my perceptions.
But maybe that latter belief smoothes the pathway so the more
radical one can come in!
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