Worldview 101
101 Entry Level Looks at Life on Earth
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Both fascination and awe characterize the universe
As our physical eyes become increasingly opened to our reality – though it is the mind that is opening as well – we are always sure to be impressed with the fireworks that accompany the everyday events and occurrences of life.
The fact is that this life is completely filled with the wonder of little and large points of interest; they abound on every side of us. When we are looking to see them, we find these things, because they seem to always be out there, waiting in the wings for their discovery to take place.
From an awakened state, we feel that we are always just starting to see what life is all about. The fascination and awe that describe it almost cries out for its unveiling. This thing is a natural match to the ever-opening mind of any modern scientific or spirituality-seeking being.
When it is suggested that we are fascinated with life, we sometimes also remember to file a self-reminder that this is not going to be something to always jump out at us. Like anything else worthwhile and good, we will have to do some probing to bring it out into the open.
But when we do? Oh, boy!
The Hubbell telescope pictures show the magnificence of life “out there.” As these words are being scribbled, better viewing mechanisms still are being built at this point in history. We are most certain to soon see still more. It’s incredible. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every one of us could see and sense how incredible it all is?
Amazingly, while some train an outward eye towards the stars of space, hi-tech microscopes probe inner space to continue to tell of a world that exists on the vastly micro level never before understood in this amount of detail.
It turns out that this inner “trip” is also an endless one.
Inwards, and outwards, both traveling journeys are roads to forever, and we can never end the excursions that take us in either direction. This is a state of awe in action. To this fact, we can all readily agree.
So we always remain fixed and fascinated with life. Maybe it makes us a bit square, and maybe this thought is a “high” that does not “work” for someone else, but it doesn’t take much to arouse our excitement in a variety of directions. This is partially from the cultivation of life-long habits, and also true because life naturally lends itself to such examination.
It’s an amazing world; any observing person will see that very quickly as they look either in or out at it. How someone else manages to become bored with life, and how another can be overcome with monotony in the midst of all of this, should be beyond the realm of our comprehension.
There is such a lure in the direction of fascination for us. There is simply too much awe to tire of it.
This world is filled, and brimming over, with the wonder and amazement that make each day worth examining in careful detail.
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All of life is some kind of miracle
When we take a positive view of life, it becomes clear to us that all of it is a miracle in progress. This is true, or not true, according to the way we have chosen to look at it.
Before (in a time when we understood less of what we do now) we were not accustomed to seeing life as the miracle it undoubtedly is. We find that once we become acclimated to a life that is routine, regular and normal, then we also stop looking deep into it and seeing it as this.
Unfortunate results can be produced when we trivialize this miraculous thing called life. This is how so many who live on the face of modern earth choose to see it.
As much as it is regrettable that many of us do this, the condition remains reversible; we can start to see it in a new way, which is just one more way that we can know it as a miracle.
When we are ready to do this, it is waiting for us. Life seems to exist, at least in part, for such revelations.
“Do you believe in miracles?” one might ask.
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About the Book
In truth, just about anyone of us can scribble out a book about personal answers to the many questions of life. Worldview 101, or, “What is most basic and true to my own reality as a human upon the earth?” is my own response to a number of different concerns and issues in life.
You might think of this writing as a personal “Plato’s handbook,” a general set of responses to the many questions of life. As it’s writer, it is only a part of the representation of my most current worldview (I say “current” because how we see the world is always in a state of movement).
Concerning the book, as you read it, do so with the approach that you are first taking into account my way of seeing things, thinking about it, and then re-shaping more of how you personally view things.
See if you relate to “we think this,” or “we came to know that.” If you do, adopt the idea as your own. If not, move on.
In picking and choosing your position on the issues presented here, you will probably come to know more of what you are all about – more of what you know you know.
And what will that do? It will give you a perspective in higher thought – which is a good sort of perspective to possess. This, you can hopefully use to govern your own life more personally.
…It can be very difficult to acclimate to this world of ours. Perhaps the thoughts in this book will help change or reshape your overall acclimation to life for the better. Knowing more never really stops. If life is meant for anything, for some reason that we don’t really know about, it seems meant for us to learn more about being.
In the end, it is this being part of us that relays a story. It also tells to others in our world who and what we are or were.
Our lives are personal narratives, and play out as such for each of us. Life speaks to our innermost parts; what is it saying to you? We can hear the messages if we listen carefully.
About the Author
Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut has been writing/publishing for many years, but trying to figure out the meaning to life’s deepest questions for much longer than that. With several decades of experience in education, business and real-life circumstances behind him, the questions, in his mind, still far outweigh the answers.
Michael has spent many years piecing together a worldview that is effective and reasonable. Failing to find this from the religious and cultural communities, he set out on an eclectic path of personal enlightenment.
Philosophy of everyday life is important for everyone. Michael understands that, and has actively written books in an effort to create a pattern of anthological thought that will provide his readers with all of what they need to encounter life in a successful way.
Michael divides his time between homes in the