There are a number of ways in which the Paradigm-A worldview can be understood and described. We depend on our more insightful friends for these more profound images. Historian Will Durant is one such person. “When we see ourselves as parts of a whole, when we reform ourselves and our desires in terms of the whole, then our personal disappointments and defeats, our varied suffering and inevitable death, no longer sadden us as bitterly as before; they are lost in the amplitude of infinity.”[i]
A neuro-physiologist sees reality differently than an historian. Sir John Eccles is a Nobel Prize winner who studied the mechanics of perception. “There are no colors in the real world, or smells, textures, or scents; they are structured in our awareness. Such perceptions are leading to the overthrow of the ‘superstition of materialism’ that the world is made up of matter and contains objects that are separated from each other in space and time. Everything is ultimately made up of atoms made up of particles moving at lightning speed around empty spaces. These particles are not material objects, but fluctuations in a field of energy. The cells communicate with each other through the language of neuropeptides, which are the biochemical equivalent of thought.”[ii]
And that’s only the beginning of divergent thinking about the Truth of where we are.
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Supplemental Reading: Implicate Order, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 1
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[i] Durant, Will. Our Oriental Heritage. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954, p. 436.
[ii] Smith, Robert A. “Medicine’s Magic Bullets’ Miss the Mark.” Venture Inward. July/August, 1993, p. 31.
