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Paradigm analysis - Part 2
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-Paradigm analysis
Perhaps the greatest barrier to a paradigm shift, in some cases is the reality of paradigm paralysis: the inability or refusal to see beyond the current models of thinking. This is similar to what psychologists term Confirmation bias.
Examples include rejection of Galileo's theory of a heliocentric universe, the discovery of electrostatic photography, xerography and the quartz clock... ***
Date: 1/2/2014 5:58:00 PM ( 10 y ) ... viewed 8202 times A paradigm is a standard, perspective, or set of ideas.
A paradigm is a way of looking at something.
A paradigm shift is a new way of looking or thinking about something is needed. This word comes up a lot in the academic, scientific, and business worlds.
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A new paradigm shift:
In business could mean a new way of reaching customers and making money.
In education, relaying on lectures is a paradigm: if you suddenly shifted to all group work, that would be a new paradigm.
In personal life, this can lead to a much improved life!
Because when you change paradigms, you're changing how you think about something. This is the real future...
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In the history of the mankind; most of the people have existed in a paradigm where they were basically locked in!
This type of action has served the establishment well...
The world leaders were happy to keep the everyone in their place.. This is the paradigm of history!
Which is still alive today in nations, education systems, business and politics...
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*** How do you get a Paradign Shift in your life!
- The first step is to recognize where and what has you limited or locked up! What is your paradigm?
- Next is the need to seek a path to change your direction and future!
- Your opportunity is based upon the choices you make!
- This is how and where you get your Paradigm shift!
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- Paradigm analysis:
This is where you have several choices to make! The most important item is that which is most needed in your life...
Unless you seek the proper guidance, your shift will not be sufficiant or be a major movement!
Prayer is the key piece to gaining your total paradigm shift...
Because without the proper guidance; life is not worth living!
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WHAT IS A PARADIGM SHIFT?
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In 1962, Thomas Kuhn wrote:
The Structure of Scientific Revolution, and fathered, defined and popularized the concept of "paradigm shift".
Kuhn argues that scientific advancement is not evolutionary, but rather is a "series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions", and in those revolutions "one conceptual world view is replaced by another".
Think of a Paradigm Shift as a change from one way of thinking to another.
It's a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change.
- For example, agriculture changed early primitive society. The primitive Indians existed for centuries roaming the earth constantly hunting and gathering for seasonal foods and water. However, by 2000 B.C., Middle America was a landscape of very small villages, each surrounded by patchy fields of corn and other vegetables.
- Agents of change helped create a paradigm-shift moving scientific theory from the Plolemaic system (the earth at the center of the universe) to the Copernican system (the sun at the center of the universe), and moving from Newtonian physics to Relativity and Quantum Physics. Both movements eventually changed the world view. These transformations were gradual as old beliefs were replaced by the new paradigms creating "a new gestalt".
- Likewise, the printing press, the making of books and the use of vernacular language inevitable changed the culture of a people and had a direct affect on the scientific revolution. Johann Gutenberg's invention in the 1440's of movable type was an agent of change.
With the invention of the printing press, books became readily available, smaller and easier to handle and cheap to purchase. Masses of people acquired direct access to the scriputures. Attitudes began to change as people were relieved from church domination.
- Similarly, agents of change are driving a new paradigm shift today. The signs are all around us. For example, the introduction of the personal computer and the internet have impacted both personal and business environments, and is a catalyst for a Paradigm Shift.
- We are shifting from a mechanistic, manufacturing, industrial society to an organic, service based, information centered society, and increases in technology will continue to impact globally. Change is inevitable. It's the only true constant.
* In conclusion, for millions of years we have been evolving and will continue to do so. Change is difficult. Human Beings resist change; however, the process has been set in motion long ago and we will continue to co-create our own experience. Kuhn states that "awareness is prerequisite to all acceptable changes of theory".
- It all begins in the mind of the person. What we perceive, whether normal or metanormal, conscious or unconscious, are subject to the limitations and distortions produced by our inherited and socially conditional nature. However, we are not restricted by this for we can change. We are moving at an accelerated rate of speed and our state of consciousness is transforming and transcending. Many are awakening as our conscious awareness expands.
*** Reference: Kuhn, Thomas, S., "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", Second Edition, Enlarged, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1970(1962)
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- WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS
- HAVING A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
- WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS
- HAVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Make you Paradign shift:
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Following from AWMI.ORG
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For a Stronger Faith
Which Mountain Will You Move?
* Matthew 17:20—"If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."
Here three of Jesus’ disciples had just descended from the Mount of Transfiguration where they had witnessed a picture of Christ’s kingdom, seeing, in vision, Jesus in discussion with Moses and Elijah. They found the other disciples at the base of the mountain unable to cast out a demon from a young boy. They wondered why they could not do so. Jesus said it would take faith—like a grain of mustard seed—and they could move the power of this mountain—the Mount of Transfiguration, the kingdom—to "yonder place," where the child was now, and they could accomplish the miracle.
* Mark 11:23—"For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that these things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith."
In this instance, Jesus and his disciples are on the side of another mountain, the Mount of Olives, where Jesus had shortly before cursed the fig tree. This miracle represented the casting off of the nation of Israel. Like all other prophecies it required faith to believe in the fulfillment of an action yet in the future. So today there are many Bible prophecies still unfulfilled. If we have faith as a grain of mustard seed—infinitesimally small—we can believe that not only the judgment of Israel, but all of God’s prophecies—those of blessings as well as those of judgment—will come to pass.
* Luke 17:6—"And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you."
Here we find Jesus outside the house of a Pharisee. There was no mountain to point to, so he pointed to a nearby sycamine, or mulberry tree. His lesson had been forgiveness, even as often as seven times in one day. His disciples’ response was, Lord, increase our faith. Pointing to the sycamine tree he uttered these words. The sycamine tree has the unique quality that when a branch is cut another grows very quickly in its place. The lesson was that if they were cut—offended—by the words of another, they should forgive and God would quickly heal the wound, and new blessings would branch out in the place of the wound.
Which mountain will you move? Or will you find mountains of your own that faith can move?
Mountains of fear,
Mountains of doubt,
Mountains within,
Mountains without—
Whatever your mountain,
YOU CAN MOVE IT if you only have
Faith As A Grain Of Mustard Seed!
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- Where is your Paradign Shift?
- It is possible through the Faith and Belief in Jesus Christ!
- Because Jesus Christ made the greatest Paradigm shift in the history of the world!
When are you going to make a Paradigm Shift in your life?
Move toward the positive truth that lies before you; and not the fickle world pathway most of the people!
AMEN!
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