Worldview

The Way of the Manifestus seeks to create a spiritual/philosophical system that provides meaning and method to our life while remaining open and adaptable. It emphasizes a worldview that encourages engagement, sustainability and positive transformation.

The Way

Purpose

To engage, create and grow an ongoing Grand Pattern that in the World. The process and result is termed the Manifestus.

Methods

We cultivate it by being present, sustaining ourselves, and positively affect the Manifestus.

Goals

By doing so, we seek to foster a more sustainable, loving, happier and better world for all.

How do we define better? It is that which harmoniously supports our various Facets and evolves the Manifestus day by day. It is needful, functional, practical, beautiful, and humane.

Our Facets

The Manifestus is the Universe. It is analogous to an ever growing, evolving and transforming crystal with various patterns creating ever larger patterns. We call these Facets.

For example, there is the Facet of Being, Rock, Tree and the Stars.

We are part of the Life, Animal and Human Facets.

There are also facets for nations and tribes, families, and the individual. Each may overlap and shape the other. We do not always need to heed them but we must know that a balancing will be required at some point.

These artifices, including your own identity, are constructs. Like nation states, they have a reality but are part of a fundamental reality. They are parts of a whole.

They are simultaneously both individual and components of something greater. They may have a specific form, energy and impetus. They are constantly transforming and then being transformed into Patterns in order to create the Manifestus.

Sometimes people’s facets are in harmony and other times in conflict. Most of the time, they might have little to do with one another. Nonetheless, they all have some effect in the aggregate. Adhere to yours but be aware that you are all in the Manifestus.

Being Human

Our purpose is to be our Human Selves. We grow according to our Facets. We also create patterns within a societal context, for that is Human as well.

Although we may commune with the All, the goal is not to become subsumed into it. You will eventually be one with it anyway. How you currently live is the point.

While it may not be possible to describe the All of Everything, it is possible to describe the pattern of Humanity.

Seek to savor both the “good” and “bad” that life brings. Our goal is to be human and then be something else, as we were something else before we were human.

Some human qualities are to perceive, think, feel, and take action. Experience suffering, joy, contentment and all the attendant effects that are part and parcel of this manifestation.

Know that you are more than Human in the long run. You are part of a Greater Manifestation. You are the Earth, a star, a worm, and much more. The food and water you drink, the energy you give and receive, is “you“, transforming and being transformed into making more Pattern. The boundaries between you and everything else are blurred and in flux. You are part of the Divine. You are part of the Manifestus.

Seek to be present, sustain, and grow within your Facets.