Much more than that — Mythos expands into Worldview
And a correct worldview requires metacognition practice
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
A Mythos then, being the excellence of the storytelling mechanism is, as presented previously (see part 1 and part 2 of the Mythos), the organizing principle of the mind’s story.
The ensemble of our stories organized under the canopy of the mythos, together with all our sense impressions, beliefs, ideas and their consequences are said to be our worldview.
A world view or Weltanschauung in turn can be described as a predisposition, inclination or orientation, a sort of compass if we like.
The wide array bias system through which we perceive the world , our place in it and our interrelations.
What a worldview gives us is the map of relations between all that we know, all that we are and all that there is (at least to the extent that we can perceive and describe it). In this sense a worldview must per definition be a conscious aware activity of our minds.
In a certain sense, a worldview is the sum total of our perspectives, an amalgam of our perceptions filtered through our belief system and fueled by our desires.
The constellation of our personal values is the result and intersubjective interaction of our worldview.
Just as we have multiple personas, multiple selves (at times even multiple minds, as subminds) we have as a consequence multiple worldviews, holding different perspectives.
Not all of the worldviews we hold, and not all of the worldviews that exist are equivalent in their approach. Some are more correct than others and some are more productive than others. We can also say that some are less wrong than others and some are more efficient and applicable than others (but that is for a different discussion).
When we parse our own worldview/s as part of our mythos make , we need be careful to construct within it a correct approach, since it will eventually define our beingness and actions in time.
As beingness, defined as a pattern of potentialities infers, we need the mythos to define the options in the world by which these potentialities can come into fruition.
The worldview we are constructing is the actual map from which we derive the structures of our thoughts.
A correct approach in a worldview is differentiated by being a framework of thought and for thought and not a ready-made answer or absolute paradigm or belief system.
There is no off the shelf algorithm for solving the equation of mind, and no universal technique. What there is however is a much more powerful insight, stating that the worldview is an intuition skeleton or scaffold or better yet, a context of thought and not an answer.
A process of thinking and not an end result.
That is crucial and fundamental, thought is not a noun but a verb.
We continuously and erroneously ascribe ‘separateness’ to a thought. A thought can no more stand on its own as a wave can be separated from the ocean of which it is an activity.
In a metaphorical fashion then we could say that a worldview is the map of (or set of descriptions) pertaining to the ocean (mind) in which thoughts (waves) happen.
“A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.”
Neil Postman
The more ‘less wrong’ such a set of descriptions (aka our worldview) is the more capable our mind is to contain (and act accordingly) the multiple realities we exist in.
A more correct or less wrong worldview is therefore a framework of thought, and for thought. It is open and allows for natural intuition to flow into universal expansion. It allows for emotional stability and simultaneously provides a continuous exercise of our own seeking for self-knowledge (meta cognition). It is inherently an approximate map and so is per definition provisional. Such a worldview perceives the interconnectedness of all life and so accepts as its fundamental tenet the non-separateness of all life forms. The correlativity of unique individuals to their species and from there to all life allows for a self-priming activity in which one continuously adapts and refines her model of reality (or multiple realities dancing in tandem).
I think of it this way: Mythos is the meta story and Worldview is its meta cognition technology of mind actuation.
It is now time to move into the construct of a less wrong worldview. (coming soon)
Thank you for reading
