Parallels in Time

Shift Phase (Time)
Mechanistic Paradigm
Organic Paradigm
Conception

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

1781

Immanuel Kant

  • Critique of Pure Reason: Phenomena–Noumena view of reality reveals unknowable whole; leads to scientific quantification of consciousness, life, culture
  • Living systems become the primary analogy for understanding reality

Scientific & Philosophical Revolution

150+ years

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

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

Early Enlightenment Phase

25 Years

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 Newtonian–Copernican revolution
  • Change becomes series of fads and fashions
  • New mechanistic science quantifies time and space in great detail

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

Conservative Backlash

15+ Years

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

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.

Intensive Phase

20+ Years

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

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)

Transforming Phase

40 Years

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

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

Adapted from: The Organic Shift ©2001 - Michael David Schacker
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