Paradigm and
Michael Schacker
The paradigm shiftIt is quite clear to those that look at and study trends
that the world has begun a fundamental and dramatic shift in beliefs.
This is call a paradigm shift.
A paradigm is a set of beliefs a person has that "set the tone"
for everything that person believes and what new information the person
will accept. Society also has a paradigm, according to historian Michael
Schacker, who has spent the last 20 years studying Paradigms.
So what is this change, how will it affect you, and what is driving this
shift in our paradigm?
Michael Schacker is a historian who has been studying for 20 years in
libraries all around the world. He has found a new way to look at history.
He has found distinct shifts about every 550 years. These shifts are paradigm
shifts. He says that right now we are at the end of the mechanists paradigm
and that we have started a shift to what he calls an organic paradigm
(some are calling it a quantum paradigm).
The organic paradigm is trust in nature, organically grown crops, an emphasis
on natural healing, a de-emphasis on surgery, and a move to live with
nature as opposed to controlling nature. The antecedent for the organic
paradigm began in the 1920s, with the conservation movements and the 1960s
was the first thrust, according to Schacker. The actual shift has begun,
it started in 1995,and will peek or flip to the new paradigm between 2010
& 2015 (when the old mechanists die out). He calls groups like Green
Peace, Cell Tech, and the Vegetarian Society "tractor points"
because they are actively trying to pull us into the new paradigm.
Everything today is based on the mechanists paradigm or what some call
Newtonian Science. This is the ideal of cause and effect. Nothing happens
unless something causes it to happen i.e. the billiard ball will not move
unless some force acts on it like a cue stick. Medicine looks at our bodies
as nothing but a chemical/physical machine. But evidence has been growing
that the universe is not mechanical like a machine but quantum or organic
like life.
Where the body has mechanical aspects it is steeped in mystery. Read Deepak
Chopra's Quantum Healing. Take the problem of neuropeptides. Aneuropeptide
is a chemical in the brain that tells neurons what to do, and then the
neurons tell the muscles what to do. But how does the non-materiel thought
get translated into just the right neuropeptide which knows just were
to go to start the seemingly mechanical process that tells you to smile
or raise your arm?
Biology is running into the same problem that Physics has run into with
quantum mechanics. Take the problem of people with multiple personality
disorder. It is well documented that different personalities in the same
person have different physiology. For example one personality will be
near sighted but when the person goes to a different personality the eyesight
returns to normal. There is one case where one personality is a diabetic
and within minutes of going to a different personality the blood sugar
returns to normal, and all signs of diabetes vanish.
The Universe, including our bodies, is made from energy (E=mc2). Energy
flows like liquid, meaning that biology (life) may also flow more like
liquid than our perception experiences, or can measure. A group of prominent
physicists are now exploring the possibility that some parts of our brain
may operate like a quantum computer. If true, telepathy would be predicted
by quantum math.
Plato showed 500 years ago that matter was an illusion. This is because
at any size you find matter it can always be divided again. But logic
dictates that there must be an end point, You can't keep dividing forever
so, by logic, in the end matter must turn into energy.
This means that science is limited in what it can learn. So the trend
is to go back to nature, and learn from it. How arrogant of us to believe
that we could make a better baby formula than nature, who honed it over
millions of years of evolution. The naive belief that science will someday
answer all questions is melting into a new level of consciousness and
an appreciation of nature, a new paradigm.
