Considering the question: "How then, shall we live?"
Fifth World Lifeways are those heart based principles for the next generation of human culture based on a foundation of indigenous permaculture knowledge that affirm life and lead us to live together with excellence, harmony, and grace.
The Fifth World Lifeway Project is a Community gathering place dedicated to combining our diverse cultural knowledge and wisdom to co-create a world that lives up to our potential, our gifts, our responsibility and the Spirit of Life that indwells us.
Philosopher Architect Christopher Alexander offers us a very useful litmus test for Fifth World Lifeway principles to help us discriminate between those thought ideas and experiments that may lead us away from universal coherence and those principles that lead us to affirm wholeness.
Embracing these principles of livingness cause us to create beauty, quality and harmony in all aspects of our lives.
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Fifth World Lifeway Guiding Questions
When considering ideas, principles, or practices
with regards to the question "How then, shall we live?"
We can ask ourselves these litmus test questions
which are all affirmed as YES by Fifth World Lifeway principles for living.
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"Do they generate a greater feeling of life in us?"
"Do they make us more aware of our own life?"
"Do they induce a greater harmony in us, in heart, body, and mind?"
"Do they cause us to feel a greater wholesomeness in ourselves?"
"Considering ourselves as a whole that embraces all our dimensions and our many internal opposites - is this consideration most like our best self; our eternal self?"
"Do they make us feel devotion or inspire devotion in us?"
"Do they cause us to be more aware of Creator or cause us to feel closer to Creator?"
"If we observe the expanding and contracting of our humanity, do they contribute to a greater expansion of our humanity?"
"Do they have more feeling in it or, more accurately, do they cause us to experience a deeper feeling of Unity in ourselves?"
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* The above list of questions have been adapted from the brilliant work of Christopher Alexander as found in Volume I of his four volume series entitled The Nature of Order, pp. 354.