What is a worldview, how does its ossification occur, why is it dangerous, and how can it be avoided?

Each person has a worldview that they create and continuously develop themselves. Our worldview should succinctly reflect everything that happens to us and around us. Many people cannot accept other's opinions or unexpected situations. They subconsciously strive either to destroy the source of stress or to escape from it or to destroy themselves. I have met people with a very rigid worldview. If the degree of rigidity exceeds a certain limit, it is easier for a person not to develop their worldview but to defend its immutability.

A worldview should be flexible. While maintaining its structure, it should change and develop, that is, be both destructive and stable simultaneously. The less love a person has, the more rigid their worldview.

How does the ossification of our worldview occur?

When we feel that God is the Creator, from whom everything originates, then we understand that He is primary. We all came from the Creator and are secondary to Him. Therefore, our model of the world, our worldview, our perceptions of the world should constantly adapt to the will of the Creator, which we cannot fully know. We must be ready to change and develop our worldview. As soon as a person feels that they are primary and God is somewhere far away, the process of ossification of the worldview begins. Every living being wants to live; for this, it needs to preserve its «self». As soon as a person feels the primacy of their «self», their personality, their worldview becomes primary for them, and there is a desire to keep it unchanged. But only God is eternal. Everything that was born must die. All human values must be destroyed.

We subconsciously feel that our worldview cannot be complete, cannot reflect the Universe in all its diversity. Our worldview will always be imperfect and doomed to destruction. When we try to keep it unchanged and make it eternal, we inevitably enter into conflict with the Universe. A person who has lost the sense of the primacy of the Divine violates the first commandment. Sooner or later, he comes to violate the second commandment: «Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image…».

A person begins to worship what is external in this world, which cannot be eternal, and they experience fear of loss, aggression, and depression. The Almighty is the source of everything; without Divine energy, no living being can survive. Any creature that internally renounces God begins to lose vitality and dies. According to the biblical legend, the devil is a creature that thought itself above God, felt its primacy, and began to fight against the Divine will. God is one, everything is from God, so the devil is also from the Almighty. The devil is a tendency of imperfection, inherent in all living things. There is a tendency towards devilry, but there is no devil as a real being.

A rigid worldview is conditioned, in part, by our incorrect understanding of mythical biblical characters, reflecting certain tendencies in our development and thinking. Only God is eternal, and God is love. We should respond to everything happening only with love. We should strive to perceive any stress with inner joy. To do this, we must remember that there is no devil. Only God is eternal, and only He is present everywhere and in everything every second.