For example, you’re watching a gripping Western movie. The cowboy in the lead role has a story set in the Wild West. He walks in a certain way; he has certain beliefs, goals, and a way of life. Life in the Wild West is also in the background. This movie conveys certain worldviews.
The screenwriter and director of this movie have a direct influence on it. We perceive this movie as real and immerse ourselves in that world.
This is a paradigm. A paradigm is a story, a way of life. It is a set of specific views, belief patterns, and goals. There are as many paradigms as there are people in the world.
Just as individuals have their own paradigms and worldviews, the societies they live in also have shared paradigms. For example, marriage, company employees and customers, a political viewpoint, a music group and its fans, an association, a neighborhood, a professional group, a school, and a religious community are all examples of shared paradigms.
Every paradigm has an energy field and a frequency. This frequency is shaped by the mental states, lifestyles, and balances of the people who make up these paradigms, and it radiates into the environment as an energy field. Whenever these paradigms resonate with harmony, commitment to life, and love, the collective frequency increases. Whenever there is greed, competition, argument, conflict, control, domination, and harm, the frequency decreases.
Yes, as complex as human coexistence may seem, the higher the self-awareness, consciousness, frequency, reality, and love of individuals, the higher the collective energy of society becomes.
In that case, on our journey of evolution, starting with individuals, we must educate those who wish to learn. What should this education entail? Education in wisdom is just as essential as science education. We must not overlook the spiritual aspect or the arts. Taking into account individuals’ potential, strengths, talents, and dreams—and incorporating the principles of wisdom—we must design personalized educational programs.
What do we mean by wisdom? It begins with a person’s self-knowledge and understanding of their nature. As levels of reality are elevated, key topics include energy centers and their functions in life, meditation, philosophy, psychology, logic, the history of religions and their esoteric aspects, literature, music, art, mathematics, the natural sciences, and sports.
Wisdom is not encyclopedic knowledge: it is practical experience and mastery—learned and applied through real-life examples.