What is the dominant worldview and what are the supporting worldviews, if any, in this article?
Twelve Worldviews
Materialism
Spiritism
Realism
Idealism
Mathematism
Rationalism
Psychism
Pneumatism
Monadism
Dynamism
Phenomenalism
Sensationalism
The World Only Happens When You Meet It
People say the world is “out there” — fixed, factual, indifferent to what we think or feel. But that’s not quite true, is it? Because the moment I look away, that tree no longer shines with the same green. That conversation from yesterday sounds different now. Even my own past shifts depending on who I am when I recall it.
We like to pretend the world exists apart from us. But everything we know, everything we value, is filtered through how it appears to us in the moment. What we call “reality” is not an object — it’s an encounter.
This is not a call to solipsism. It’s a call to honesty. We cannot access a world untouched by consciousness. Every color, every sound, every moral dilemma enters our life as experience, not data. The world becomes real only when we meet it, when it arises in perception, in presence, in feeling.
This doesn’t mean freedom is an illusion. In fact, it’s the opposite. Freedom begins when we stop acting as though our knowledge is neutral or mechanical. When we realize that our experience is the starting point, then we also realize that we are responsible — not for creating the world, but for how we interpret, shape, and respond to it.
The world comes to meet us, but never without our participation. That’s where freedom begins: not in escaping appearance, but in meeting it awake, recognizing that perception is not passive. To know the world is to co-create the moment in which it becomes knowable.
No ideology or system can take that burden from us. Because life is not a prewritten script. It’s a stage that appears only when we step into it — and the spotlight is our consciousness.
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