Parallels
in Time
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Shift
Phase (Time)
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Mechanistic
Paradigm
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Organic
Paradigm
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Conception
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1543
Copernicus
- Heliocentric
theory leads to the scientific quantification of time and space
- The world/universe
imagined to be like a clock
- Human-made
machines become the primary analogy for understanding reality
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1781
Immanuel
Kant
- Critique
of Pure Reason: PhenomenaNoumena view of reality reveals unknowable
whole; leads to scientific quantification of consciousness, life, culture
- Living
systems become the primary analogy for understanding reality
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Scientific
& Philosophical Revolution
150+
years
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1550
- 1700
- Humanism
develops
- Scientist/artist/humanist
lifestyle emerges
- Early
physics experiments (Stevin, Gilbert)
- Bacon,
Descartes, Kepler, Galileo, Spinoza, Liebnitz, Newton, Locke
- Bruno
burned at stake for astronomical views
- Concepts
of democracy and parliament grow stronger
- Power
derived from the people; change
is possible!
- Scientific-mechanistic
agriculture
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1790
- 1955
- Pacifism,
Feminism, and Abolition movements develop
- Blake,
Goethe,
Romantics,
Bohemians
- Emerson
and Thoreau: voluntary simplicity and civil disobedience
- Shelley,
Hutton, Condorcet, Lamarck, Lyell, Marx, Darwin, Wallace, Haeckel, Bergson,
Smuts, Einstein, James, Heisenberg, Hubble, Whitehead, J. Huxley,
Goedel, Gamow, Bethe
- Cultural
anthropology, x-rays, conservation, New Thought
- Organic
agriculture
- Teilhard
de Chardin: Theory of Reverse Entropy; predicts Internet
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Early
Enlightenment Phase
25
Years
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1700
- 1725
- New ideas
of freedom and equality shock aristocratic society; wave of "free
love"
- Concept
of happiness for all men
- Hard liquor
invented
- New music,
new libertine ways
- Wild,
extravagant dancing
- Voltaire
explains NewtonianCopernican revolution
- Change
becomes series of fads and fashions
- New mechanistic
science quantifies time and space in great detail
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1955
- 1979
- New ideas
of feminism and civil rights shock mechanistic society; wave of "free
love"
- New libertine
ways,
rock-n-roll drug culture, new left: antiwar movement
- New organic
paradigm becomes mainstream movement
- Rachel
Carson, ecology symbol, New Age movement
- Change
becomes series of fads and fashions
- Gaia:
a creative biosphere
- Ilya Prigogine
quantifies life, evolution, and culture with negative entropy; Chaos
Theory
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Conservative
Backlash
15+
Years
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1725
- 1740s
- Conservative
counter-reaction in both religion
and politics
- George
II / Louis XV
- First
"Great Awakening"
- Secular
and political change held back, yet new mechanistic science continues
to develop
- George
Whitefield and other preachers began attacking each other, movement
self-destructs except in American colonies in the south
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1980
- 1995
- Conservative
counter-reaction in both religion and politics
- Thacher
/ Reagan-Bush
- Mega-church
movement
- Systemic
poltical, educational, and economic change held back, yet new organic
science continues to develop
- Jimmy
Swaggart, Jim Bakker scandals, TV preacher movement self-destructs to
large extent except in southern and rural U.S.
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Intensive
Phase
20+
Years
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1740
- 1760
- New mechanistic
philosophers become enormously popular through new medium of cheap books,
tracts; publishing boom
- New paradigm
politics/economics develop
- Common
agenda emerges among mechanistic philosophers
- New activist
generation emerges
- Voltaire
writes a new history of the world discrediting the medieval
worldview and power structure
- Diderot
publishes the first Encyclopedia, transforming the way
people could access knowledge
- "Flip
point": 1755 - 1765
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1996
- 2020 (est.)
- New organic
philosophers becoming very popular through new medium of Internet
- Online
publishing boom; broadband
- New paradigm
politics develops
- Common
agenda emerging among organic philosophers
- New activist
generation emerges (Strauss and Howe's "Millennials")
- The Great
Story - a new history of the world - destabilizes the
foundation of mechanistic society
- The
Internet transforms the flow of information and restructures
consciousness
- "Cultural
Creatives" grow in numbers and influence
- "Flip
point": 2015 - 2025 (est)
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Transforming
Phase
40
Years
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1760
- 1800
- American,
French, European democratic revolutions
- Industrial
revolution
- Mechano-mimicry
transforms technology, politics, economics, education, and theology
- The mechanistic
paradigm becomes the dominant worldview; the generally accepted understanding
of reality for next 200+ years
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2020
- 2060 (est)
- Global
democratic revolutions
- Environmental
revolution
- Bio-mimicry
transforms technology, politics, economics, education, and theology
- Global
spiritual revival as the world's religions mature and awaken to their
greatness by integrating and celebrating an organic view of reality
(as nested creativity) and an immanent view of God
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Adapted from: The Organic Shift ©2001 - Michael David Schacker
(845) 679-3717
mschacker@hvc.rr.com
http://e-changesolutions.com
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