Comparative Method For Identifying A Dominant Worldview

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Example: First compare the 4 major worldviews.

Question 1 (Materialism or Spiritism): Are you more influenced by the view that everything, including thoughts and emotions, comes from physical matter and natural laws, or are you more convinced that there is a deeper spiritual reality behind everything?
answer: Spiritism

Question 2 (Idealism or Realism): Are you more influenced by the view that ideas and higher ideals give life its meaning, or are you more convinced that the external world is real and exists independent of our thoughts, whether we fully understand it or not?"
answer: Idealism

Since Idealism and Spiritism are favored, these two are now compared.

Question 3 (Idealism or Spiritism): "Do you see life as meaningful because of the power of ideas and higher ideals, or are you more convinced by spiritual theory, that true reality exists only in the spiritual?"
answer: Idealism

Idealism is found to be dominant followed by Spiritism. Between them is Psychism, with Psychism more closely connected to the favored Idealism, so Idealism and Psychism are compared next.

Question 4 (Idealism or Psychism): "Are you interested in the ideas and higher ideals that give life meaning, or are you more interested in the beings who think and experience ideas?
answer: Psychism

conclusion: The dominant worldview is Psychism.

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