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Paradigms, Domination, and Trance - Bringing It All Back Home - Part 13 - 1 (Summary: Transcending Paradigms)

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Blair Gelbond
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"When you don't have community, you are not listened to...You don't have people to affirm who you are and to support you in bringing forward your gifts...And without the unloading of our gifts we experience a blockage inside, which affects us spiritually, mentally, and physically in many different ways."

Dominator culture has led us into a cul de sac, a dead end, an impasse. We are caught in a Gordian knot of our own making. As we experience 1) personal distress, 2) the failure of social institutions, and 3) the degradation of nature - such as mass extinctions - the need to shift our belief systems is becoming more urgent every day.

[We are currently undergoing what has been called the 6th mass extinction; Serious declines in populations of species are an indicator that the ecosystem is breaking down, warning of a larger systems failure.

Currently, the species extinction rate is estimated between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than natural extinction rates""the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.

Unlike previous extinction events caused by natural phenomena, our current mass extinction is driven by human activity, primarily - though not limited to - the unsustainable use of land, water and energy use, and climate change. Agriculture is also responsible for 90% of global deforestation and accounts for 70% of the planet's freshwater use, devastating the species that inhabit those places by significantly altering their habitats. (worldwildlife.org)]

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Whether we will make the leap beyond dominator culture - or whether our apathy, ignorance - or those who strongly desire to dominate society will prevail - remains to be seen. If the latter occurs, it may mean the extinction or drastic reduction of humanity and the Biosphere.

Trance

It can be helpful to view paradigms from the perspective of "trance."


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I work as a psychotherapist with an emphasis on transformational learning - a blend of psychoanalytic and transpersonal approaches, and am the author of Self Actualization and Unselfish Love and co-author of Families Helping Families: Living with (more...)
 

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