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Breaking Free of Our Trance, Escaping The Gordian Knot: Summary Part 13 - 2 (Transcending Paradigms)

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Blair Gelbond
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"The Clear Bead at the Center changes everything
There are no edges to my loving now.

"I've heard it said, there's a window
that opens from one mind to another.
But if there is no wall
there is no window,
And if there is no window,
there is no need for a latch

"There are no edges to my loving now.
The clear bead at the center
changes everything."

- Rumi, translation by Bly & Coleman

As previously posited: it can be said that the control paradigm functions as a trance - in fact, a global trance generating a spell in which we are caught. It entrances us into unconsciously believing that its assumptions are the only way to organize our world. As already noted, it fits the definition of propaganda and other mind-control methods, which, to be effective, must be hidden to pass as something acceptable.

We need to re-own our thoughtful, critical faculties -- and connect with our inner authority -- by listening and responding to it even when external authorities oppose it. Edgar Morin has discussed in detail our need to transform our current thought processes and learn to utilize "complex thinking". (Homeland Earth and Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future).

PSYCHOTHERAPY AND RECOVERY GROUPS

"I honor those who try to rid themselves of lying

Who empty the self

And have only clear being there."

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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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