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Power in a Unified Universe (Transforming Paradigms - The Recovery of Humanity) Summary Part 13 - 2/3

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Blair Gelbond
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And have never seen.

Is what I see true? Say 'yes' quickly,

If you know, if you've known it

From before the beginning of the universe."

Rumi

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What these eminent scientists are saying is that our usual understanding of our universe - (and therefore, our daily lives and planetary social problems) - is flawed. Based on premises from an outmoded Newtonian paradigm, our approach to solving our planetary conundrum is bound to fail.

Our current need is to examine and move beyond our well-worn assumptions. Yet, we need to do more than change our cognitive commitments. We need to transform our very being, consciousness and sense of being a person. It is only then that we will be able to have the option of successfully solving the "world-problematique". We truly need a new Copernican Revolution.

To repeat Bohm's contentions:

"We are internally related to everything, not [just] externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole: we take in the whole, and we act toward the whole. Whatever we have taken in determines basically what we are. Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality, then reality will respond coherently to us...

"Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole."

RE-EVALUATING THE PROCESS OF CHANGE

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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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