Exploring Worldviews: A Reflection on ‘The Illusion of Democracy’ and the Path to Inner Harmony

Yesterday, I shared my blog post about the Illusion of Democracy with my Seeking Celestial Grace and Awakened Little Souls newsletter subscribers. It received the most opens of all my newsletters (60.9% when I average 42.3%), but it also received the most unsubscribed contacts (5). One “reason” stood out to me the most: “Way to play right into the hands of the facists (sic)” is what it said.

I think she missed my point, and by doing so, she also proved my point about how dangerous the Left has become. Anyone who does not participate in worship on that side of the political spectrum is an enemy. Anyone with a free thought that goes against that political group deserves to be canceled, quieted, and shut down. It’s the same divisive mentality that the government helped to push the us against them movement during C0v1d. And, in case it’s not clear to anyone else, it’s literally fascism.

I didn’t think it needed to be said, but I don’t stand for or support any political party. I can’t even vote where I live because I’m not a national. I don’t believe any government leaders, and I don’t trust anyone who follows a government leader or party with such vigor or passion. Any group of people who do not welcome commentary, dialogue, or criticism about their group is a cult, and I will not become a member. Recognizing when a group is using you for their own means and not giving loyalty to such a group is a learned skill. Recognizing when outside players are trying to distract you from focusing on the Ascension of earth is a learned skill. Recognizing when you defend groups using their anger and when they would not care if you ceased to exist (or would turn on you should you come to question their practices) is a learned skill.

As I mentioned in my blog post yesterday — if it was read in its entirety and not used to trigger lizard defense mechanisms which is a note from the playbook of cults — is that it is all a distraction meant to pull you from a path of peace and inner harmony (and the unsubscribe with the comment is evidence that it is working). Why would anyone willingly choose to align with a group that asks you to become a mouthpiece for their anger? Do not carry someone else’s anger; that’s how cults work. Your political position is not your worldview, so do not let it dominate how you navigate the world (and your spiritual path).

With that being said, I started (and finished) a new book yesterday called What Is Your Worldview by James N. Anderson. It’s an interesting book because it asks you a series of philosophical questions and plays out like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book, where depending on where you stand on certain topics and ideas, your worldview will adjust to change it, finally ending on where you “best fit.”

It was an interesting text because it brought me down some paths that I didn’t anticipate, and it encouraged me to – and the book encourages you to – rethink many of your ideas and positions. After arriving at the “best aligned worldview” for your positions on philosophical questions, it then challenges you by saying where that worldview falters, asking you, do you really believe that? Do you really align with that? Don’t you see that there may be a problem with that?

That being said, it’s a heavily biased text as it’s written by a Christian author, and all the “challenges” seem to push you back into the hands of a Christian worldview. The challenge presented for Christianity is simply, “You need to believe that Jesus is the Son of God who resurrected – full body – from the dead.” It accepts The Bible as fact, and it doesn’t address other challenges with a Christian worldview (sin, the problem of evil – it’s ignored through Jesus, faith and science, and moral absolutism vs. cultural relativism, etc.).

Anderson admits his bias in his book, even saying that everyone thinks their worldview is superior, he wrote the book (and you didn’t), so of course he’s going to try and bring everyone to that worldview. If you can read this book while simultaneously ignoring that and being aware of where he highlights faults in other worldviews in a non-Christian lens, then it is actually very interesting and thought-provoking. If an overarching bias doesn’t bother you, it’s definitely worth a read.

I ended up in a few worldviews I didn’t anticipate (Platonism, Judaism), and a few I did (Pantheism, Mysticism). I learned more about these worldviews and the challenges within them, and I also learned more about myself in the process. Like a political party, I cannot align with complete loyalty to a single worldview; there are faults within all of them that can’t be swept under a rug.

At a foundational level, my beliefs are simple: there is good and evil, there is a Supreme Source and Creator, evil is the creation of fallen human Ego and not Source, spirituality is infused in all, people are connected to this Source/God, and we must choose goodness, peace, beauty, and Truth (which is not subjective but objective) in this life, and we must live a life that aims to better the Collective. The rest is mere distraction.

It’s a book that’s easier to read in paperback format (obviously, with the flipping back and forth), and again, it’s one I do recommend checking out despite the bias. If you do give it a read, please leave your “Worldview Results” in the comments.

xx C