A person’s worldview, through which they view the world, is of great importance in life.
Imagine that every person is wearing glasses, and they look at everything around them through them.
We live in a virtual reality of the mind, where there are many distortions, including mental ones, many emotional hooks, and traumatic life stories that greatly narrow the big picture.
And because of this, we don’t see a lot.
Especially when a person focuses on everything positive, operating on the principle of the 3D world, where one thing opposes and mutually excludes another, and then the negative is ignored.
Many people have my favorite mutual exclusion “either/or” sitting inside them — either with the smart ones, or with the beautiful ones. And it rarely occurs to them that they need to look for an option where you are both smart and beautiful.
Your focus is already limited, and it gets even narrower due to what you believe, due to your beliefs, often unconscious, because they come from childhood, from traumatic experience.
Your general idea of what the world is, what it’s like, and how everything works in it is of great importance.
Let’s talk about where the popularization of spirituality has led and what the misconception about positive thinking is.
Pros and Cons of the Popularization of Spirituality
Right now, I see how the popularization of spirituality, psychology, and channeling has played, on the one hand, as a plus, because more people are entering the topic and can use the opportunities it provides.
But on the other hand, there is a colossal downside with that superficial consumption of information, the fragmented knowledge that people have, because they don’t go deep, they don’t lay the foundation for what forms the basis of their worldview.
Firstly, not everyone understands what values they have, and therefore they live by others’ imposed values.
And secondly, there is a lack of the deepest, most fundamental things.
A huge number of people simply don’t read. On the other hand, there are people who read books, but popular ones, where there is no depth, just some snippets. Few people bother to start putting together the puzzle of how everything works.
We started with the classics of the late 19th – early 20th century. I will never forget Max Heindel, whom I read literally one paragraph at a time, because after him my brain would melt and I needed to digest and let something in.
Take a look at the bookshelf of the Keys of Mastery project; there we have gathered recommended literature that will help you assemble your worldview.
How Your Own Worldview is Assembled
What do we have as a result of this popularization of spirituality?
I assume that speakers are still more advanced, more experienced, and they have some kind of holistic picture. Let’s accept that by default. And they broadcast to people what they themselves believe.
There is a lot of information now; people go to different places, consume this information, and it is very often contradictory in nature.
I have seen this many times. As soon as we write something in our channel, after some time, similar questions on that topic come in to double-check. There are only a few people I subscribe to who constantly answer questions. And when, you know, after three or four days a question appears on the topic you just talked about, that’s amazing to me.
If I ask here and ask there, what will I get as a result? There is no main link and no main element, it doesn’t connect into a single, cohesive picture.
Imagine an almost completed puzzle missing some pieces; as you get each piece, you see if it fits into your worldview or not.
If it fits, great; if it doesn’t, you most likely toss it aside. Or it might be a reason to reconsider—maybe your worldview is inaccurate and needs some adjustments.
But most people don’t assemble this puzzle and don’t draw conclusions.
Let’s take chakras as an example. Some say there are seven chakras, others say nine, others say twelve, and in our courses we work with 54 chakras. And a person’s hair stands on end: “I don’t know what to believe, where to throw myself, or into what.”
See also: How to choose tools for self-knowledge and what approaches to use them
Example with the 12 Days of Creation practice
The same thing happens with any topic.
Many years ago, even before the Keys of Mastery, together with Larisa Artamonova, we had a project called “New Tools of the Spirit.”
From Michelle Eloff’s channelings, we learned about the 12 Days of Creation. We tested and verified these 12 Days of Creation, where you record certain things during the first 12 days of the new year.
And later, in some course, we started sharing this.
Now it’s floating around the entire internet, and everyone has adapted it to the tool they use. Does that mean the tool doesn’t work? No, it doesn’t.
But it does mean that the results will vary greatly, depending on how this tool is used and on the person using it.
In this case, a person’s worldview, their individual picture of the world, matters a lot.
That’s why it’s become harder to convey information now—because people lack a foundation, they have no base at all, only fragmented, superficial thinking, and much goes right past them.
In life, something seems to change, but in reality, no serious shifts happen, because they don’t reach transformation, they don’t go deep, they don’t do the inner work. They just want to sit, smile, admire the flowers—it’ll sort itself out. It doesn’t sort itself out.
See also: Spiritual growth—where to start. What those who have just “awakened” need to know
Why you can’t just sit and radiate
This is where the misconceptions come from, brought by the wave of spirituality and accumulated over the years, when people take a phrase out of context—that you need to sit and radiate.
That’s true, but only if your foundation is laid and cleared, your basement is cleaned out.
People often refer me to Svetlana Dobrovolskaya: “she says: ‘sit and radiate.'” But in her courses, what does she make you do? Write things out, journal, dig deep, integrate.
And if you tear out only that final rosy part from the context, then in a moment of failure, of setback, when something knocks you off balance, you fall into the basement, to the lowest level available to you.
The only way to stop falling all the way to the bottom is to raise that bar higher and higher. And just by smiling and radiating, it’s impossible to do that.
If there are traumas and limiting beliefs inside (you’re stupid, I’m bad, I’m worthless), smiling and radiating won’t help.
If you’ve encountered a situation that knocked you off your feet, you still need to deal with it, and then sit and radiate, rather than pretending.
Are there ready-made recipes to become happier?
The first time I encountered this was when someone wrote on the topic of happiness: “Here I am, sitting, pretending I’m happy, but I’m not getting any happier.” And they asked for step-by-step recipes.
Every time someone writes a review or detailed feedback about completing a course and finally feeling happy, I recommend not deluding yourself into thinking that you will have the same result after these steps.
Because we don’t know what that person worked on before, what steps they took, and the fact that this shift happened as a result of the course is just the final point.
It doesn’t mean that you will take our course and become happier. There is no guarantee here.
It means that for this person, the course was the last straw that was missing.
The Misconception About Positive Thinking
Along with the popularization of spirituality and psychology, many are preoccupied with positive thinking. Here too, I see a misconception in people.
Positive thinking does not mean closing your eyes to negativity, denying the crap that unfolds around you, forcing yourself to think positively.
It’s not ignoring, not filtering, when you choose the white from the black and white. The black doesn’t disappear from that.
It’s about harmony and balance within yourself, when you lift yourself to such a height, or rather depth in the heart, where you maintain a neutral state. No matter what happens, you hold onto that state because your inner well-being is infinitely more important.
Most people take the pretty wrapper from what they hear, ignoring everything else.
Ignoring the fact that you need to work, muster self-discipline, have the courage to dive into where it hurts, especially when you encounter resistance.
If you take only the pretty wrapper from all of this, which will remain at the end, it would be strange to be surprised that setbacks, collapses, and crashes happen again and again, because the basement is still there, just as it was.
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So, returning to the topic of forming a worldview, make sure you insert the missing elements. If something doesn’t fit, discard it. A worldview is assembled slowly, meticulously.
What steps do you take to understand your values, and by what criteria do you form your worldview?
The article is based on broadcast #17 Ask KM