Twelve Ways of Seeing the World: Philosophies and Archetypal Worldviews for Understanding Human Consciousness, Hardcover

In Twelve Ways of Seeing the World, Mario Betti strives to make sense of the world through various lenses framed as twelve archetypes; Phenomonalism, Sensualism, Materialism, Mathematism, Rationalism, Idealism, Psychism, Pneumatism, Monadism, Dynamism, Realism, and Humanus. He draws on the research of Rudolf Steiner and his twelvefold typology of human and cosmic thought to explore and validate each worldview from its own unique perspective. In this way he intends to transform dogmatism and enable deeper and more meaningful dialogues.

The book includes a study guide, "World View by World View," comprising templates for lesson structures and questions for discussion gathered by the author and Kathelijne Drenth of the Cloverleaf Foundation in The Netherlands.

"...might well change your life as much as it did mine...empowers us to deal more constructively with the world. Framing one's understanding of the world with the twelve worldviews is extraordinarily powerful, inspiring, and transformative." (from the introduction)

Mario Betti is a former philosophy professor. The burning question which led to writing this book was, "How to develop ways of understanding every person, towards a 'Whitsun' of humanity where all languages will be understood in a community of inquirers." He says "This book is needed because humanity is getting more and more one-sided."