There are many who are promoting this metaphysical teaching, like Tom McCallum (and A Course in Miracles) etc... saying that only two worldviews or paradigms exist, and one can follow:
Love or Fear ... this diagram is from https://tommccallum.com/2022/07/23/what-is-love-the-absence-of-fear/
Note: added Oct. 24/24- Although this is somewhat interesting as a metaphysics of the Love vs. Fear dynamics (or ecology), which is archetypal and metapsychological, there is still so much missing from this McCallum image/theory and that's a longer post I'd be glad to talk about if anyone is interested. To say the minimum here, you will have to study my own take on the Love and Fear dynamic (Fisherian Metaphysics of meta-motivations) and you'd have to study my recent explorations into metapsychology (i.e., my theorizing of metapsychologia). As well, you'd have to understand (at a minimum) my trialectic model (Love-Fearlessness-Fear) and my Uni-Bicentric Theorem, and my four meta-motivational diagram and my A-D/ness Thesis (i.e., an affective-aesthetic metaphysics). So, it's taken me 35 years to discover these things and map them and yet, sadly, I have not yet written a book on them per se. Fisher's Metaphysics is likely the basic title of that book to come soon in the years ahead.
Also, my title for this posting is "Love: The Negativa Way"--which is a bit abstract at first and so, let me briefly explain where I draw upon from the literature to name this metaphysics being shown here. My source is the x-Dominican theologian Matthew Fox, a brilliant thinker whom I have followed off and on since the mid-1980s. His dissertation work I believe was on the "mystical path", which is his summary of all his reading of the mystics (especially, Christian ones through time and across cultures). He outlines the meta-ways of knowing involved in the mystical path of knowing: (a) via positiva, (b) via negativa (c) via creativa (d) via transformativa. This is online to study if you want to. I'm seeing the base structure of the Love vs. Fear metaphysics (e.g., A Course in Miracles teachings and McCallum) as involving an emphasis, and rightly so, on the oppositional force of Fear. Some metaphysicians would say Fear in this model is also complementary--and, dialectical to Love. And, I would agree. However, to the short of the point here, the via Negativa path says that to know Love you have to also know Fear and to become Love you have to de-become Fear. If that makes sense. Simply put as a dictum with this affective metaphysics is: "To love is to let go of fear." You may have heard of that statement before.
To see more on my metaphysics (focusing on Fearlessness, with the Love vs. Fear) go to:
https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/blog/fearlessness-paradigm-inklings-from-metaphysics
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