The Infinite Space of Unknowing: Paradigm Shift in an Age of Uncertainty
Kuhn described how younger scientists would more readily adopt new frameworks in order to explain the anomalous events (for example in the transition from Newtonian to quantum physics), whereas the older generation were much more hesitant to do away with the framework in which they’d operated their whole lives, and some would live out their careers in the old paradigm even after the majority of their colleagues had moved on.
It makes sense. Paradigm shift is destabilizing. It requires rejecting completely, part and parcel, one’s picture of the world, which is, one’s world. How is one to accept that everything they’ve ever known is--not wrong exactly--but not exactly right or true in the way they thought either?
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This Aquarian moment is about the recognition that each one of us is an integral node in the network of humanity. The Capricornian hierarchy is losing its significance. Each one of us is equally as important. Our inner life, our thoughts, our fantasies, our words, our actions--it all matters. We can’t convince others of anything, we can’t force our way forward in this energy. But we can affect change through inner work, intentionality, spell work, language, action, involvement, and participation.
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