Within myself, I have a pulse; I call this pulse the pulse of freedom, now I know that this is quite an abstract statement, and one that I might need to explain. My pulse of freedom is both a feeling about myself and about the world I live in. My mind likes harmony and congruence between thoughts and beliefs, and so to avoid any personal dissonance that might challenge my pulse of freedom, I would like to find a space in myself and in the world where everything just seems to work right.

My pulse of freedom is dependent on finding a way in which I can make sense of the world and then may be if I could find others who share that sense or view of the world, we could create a state of freedom.

Trying to make sense of a complex, chaotic and at times a bewildering world, I might take a psychological view, understanding how individuals and groups grow and developed, or I might take a more philosophical or even spiritual view. I may look to science to explain the world or politics or religion. I may look to the wisdom and knowledge from my family or my culture.

Whichever view I take, I will search out others who share my view of the world, and together we will create a worldview.

The question now is how do I hold on to my worldview that allows me feel my pulse of freedom.

By telling everyone, how great my view of the world is and how they should follow it. Do I only see freedom in terms of proof of how the world works or do I open up my view to other views so that I have a multi-view with each view just as honest and valuable as the next, where no view is better then any other.

Am I still free, in one view I am free because there has been a boundary created in which freedom can exist. Because as psychology tells us we use boundaries to define our deepest sense of self and the meaning we make in our world.

Therefore, I have fundamental faith in a worldview that expects me to act by following the rules on how to think, what to believe, and how to pray, because the boundaries have been laid down for me I am free to express freedom as long as I stay within the boundary.

But knowing how the world works and having hard and fast proof frees me from the dogma of faith and its pathology, fundamentalism. I am free to explore how I can take control of the world leading me to be in charge of my own boundaries.

Then there is the view that offers freedom as an internalisation of the boundary through an expression of dialogue, diversity, and shared consensus. I am free to express myself, just as you are, because in this worldview we are all working hard to understand the context of the expressions of individual and collective freedoms, and this can only lead to living in peace and harmony with all views.

In the 21 Century, all of these views are being enacted, traditional, modern, and postmodern, and sometimes these views are active not just in the same country but the same city, town, or neighbourhood, or the same family, and it is also possible to say within the same person.

Each view rejects the others views and it is through fear of the other and sometimes even through violence that we express the cognitive and moral dissonance we feel.

And yet all the worldview have proven to be inadequate, we have learned so much about ourselves and the world we live in, we are able to control so many aspect of our lives, and we are able to control so many accepts of nature.

With faith, knowledge, and shared understanding do we feel our pulse of freedom, have we addressed the rights for all humans to have, even just, their basic needs met.

Why is their still so much inequality in the world? Why is it possible on one side of the world to throw food away because it is “past its best” and on the other side of the world people starve for want of food?

Why do we still feel the need to blow each other up in the name of my worldview?

Do we still fight each other because we have not been able to deal with our psychological personal or collective shadow, meaning we still see monsters in the world, and others still see us as invading monsters?

In the fight between the objective evidence of science and the old time religion that still holds to the truth of a symbolic metaphor to explain how we came to be, can we ever find a true understanding of the world? When there is a growing conflict about who gets and controls the fast dwindling resources of the world.

When we are unable to, love thy neighbour as they self, because we have forgotten how to love ourselves. When we live in a world in which we feel ourselves to be separate from the world and not part of the world, when we still see forgiveness as being weak. How have we lost connection to our pulse of freedom.

We are fighting on one side for our own personal ecology and on the other the ecology of the world, when in fact both are part of the same ecology. The alethic truth is we are all the same; we are humans who are part of the eco-noetic system call the Earth.

Ultimately my freedom is depended on your freedom; therefore, I need to work towards a view that offers the best chance for global freedom.

Freedom is not something out there to be achieved, nor is it something that comes from the lack or absent of something. We do not need to think about our experience as free from something, nor judge what we need to be free from; no, freedom is a real thing, just as a tree is, the moon is, or you and I are. Freedom has a structure and a way of working. It is our actions that block the flourishing of freedom just as eating the wrong food block the arteries and slows down our pulse, so do our egoic self-centred action slow down our pulse of freedom.

For over 150 years, there have been a growing group of visionary who have held the belief that to be truly free we need to integrate. We need to work to find a way in which we can honour worldviews for what they bring, and to realise that within the views there are beliefs that no longer has efficacy in todays world, because the world has evolved. Yet, we also have to open to the realisation that beyond the worldviews there is a real world waiting for you and I to know. If only we would let go of our judgement and experience and open our minds, hearts, and wills, to work towards absenting that which block or holds you and I back from knowing real, alethic, freedom.

These visionaries, from science, politics, philosophy, psychology, cultural anthropology, system theory, and spirituality, had one thing in common, they were, and are exploring how we can make the world a free and fair place for all.

This is not just a thought experiment; it is an inquiry into a fully embodied individual and collective call to action.

In the closing part of the last century a map began to emerged, we could call it a metaMap, and Integral Map, or a Interdisciplinary Map, whichever name we give the map it is a map that bravely chart the beginning of a worldview that transcends and includes worldviews that have gone before.

Interdisciplinary cartographers, Ken Wilber, Don Beck, Roy Bhaskar, Michael Murphy, and many others have been drawing on their desire for world freedom and human emancipation, providing ways in which their desire could become realised.

This interdisciplinary view now has mapped a way in which we can begin the task of creating a free and fair world. It is a simple map and yet far reaching in its application and it is a map that has already started to help bring freedom to many, and over the next few decades will continue to evolve to ensure that the prime directive of a free and fair Earth is achieved.

We are at a tipping point, either we hold on to out dated ideas or we evolve what this new interdisciplinary map offers into new ways of communicating, new ways of interacting, new ways of understanding and new ways of being.

We cannot go back, we are driven be personal, social, cultural and natural evolution to move forwards, the interdisciplinary map will help that move forward be a movement towards you and I as the world knowing and living from the pulse of freedom.

With a new map, I believe that my pulse of freedom has the best chance of becoming the pulse of freedom for all.