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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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"Where Control culture nurtures competition and war, Integrative culture opts for communication and cooperation.

"Women are devalued in Control culture; in integrative culture women are valued. Change is ordered from above in Control culture. Integrative culture comes down on the side of spontaneous evolution."

Philip Slater

Introduction

I wrote this series to explore and share what I could discover about our current world situation. In summarizing this series, the first question that arises goes like this:

"I am only one person. The interdependent world difficulties are vast. Can I make any difference at all?"

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The following is what I concluded:

Our entire globe is convulsed with chaos. There is massive confusion over values, a loss of ethical certainty, and a bewildering lack of consensus about almost everything. The recent speed of social change has put an intense strain on our adaptive capacities. Incivility and chaos are erupting as the old system is breaking down and a new one has not taken hold.

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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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