Description
‘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.’
Kathelijne Drenth MA, Chair of the Cloverleaf Foundation, The Netherlands, Introduction
‘Helps perceive the intrinsic value of all world views’
Professors Robert McDermott and Matt Segall, California Institute of Integral Studies, Foreword
The Book
In his book, Twelve Ways of Seeing the World, Mario Betti strives to make sense of the world through different lenses framed as twelve archetypes; Phenomonalism, Sensualism, Materialism, Mathematism, Rationalism, Idealism, Psychism, Pneumatism, Monadism, Dynamism, Realism and Humanism. Betti draws on the research of Rudolph Steiner and his twelvefold typology of human and cosmic thought to explore and validate each world view from its own unique perspective. In this way he means to transform dogmatism and enable a deeper dialogue.
The book includes a study guide World View by World View which comprises of templates for lesson structures and questions for discussion put together by the author Mario Betti and Kathelijne Drenth of the Cloverleaf Foundation, The Netherlands.
This translation was generously supported by the Cloverleaf Foundation, The Netherlands.
The author
Mario Betti was born in Lucca, Italy in 1942.  As a young man, he loved the decathlon and  wanted to learn ten languages so as to understand people. Teaching philosophy at Alanus University in Germany, he enabled students to explore different  world views. The burning question which led to writing his book Twelve Ways of Seeing the World 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.’
