The Next Paradigm Shift

Posted on March 18, 2008
Filed Under personal development

A paradigm is a philosophical and theoretical framework, a viewpoint from which we see the world. What we know about about previous paradigms is that our paradigms are constantly changing. Paradigm shift was first used by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions..

“The paradigm shift under way today is not just happening in science. It also extends into society and is powerfully impacting our culture. Perhaps the most important shift that is taking place is personal. Over the last couple of decades, many thousands, maybe many millions of people have undergone dramatic transformations in their values, perceptions, and ways of relating to each other and the world”
William Arntz, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente
What the Bleep Do we Know

Let’s look at some paradigms or world views that used to be held. The world is flat.
Can you believe that people used to think the world was flat? Here is another paradigm that used to be widely held. Illness is caused by evil spirits. We now know that illness is caused by germs and viruses. From our viewpoint, its easy to see how we have gained so much information over the last century, we have become so much more sophisticated than our predecessors. This begs the question from a future person’s viewpoint 100 years from now, what will they be saying about us?

“Can you believe that back in the 21st century they believed that ….

What do you think will have changed in our paradigms over the next 100 years? What ideas do you hold as valid, that may be disproved? Are you ready for the next paradigm shift?

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One Response to “The Next Paradigm Shift”

Mick on March 21st, 2008 8:24 am

If you want to gain insight as to how the brain works, join me this weekend when I interview Dr Joe Dispenza from What the Bleep and author of Evolve your Brain on my show; http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thesecretstolife
Cheers

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