The Paradigm Conspiracy

• The Global Crisis of Addictions
  • Caught in Deadly Processes
  • Addict-Making Systems
• The Paradigm Conspiracy
  • Enter Paradigms
  • Development Within a Paradigm
  • Paradigm Shifts
  • The Paradigm Cause of Soul-Abusive Systems
  • The Paradigm of Control-and-Power-Over
  • Soul: The Big Threat
  • "Get Rid of The Troublemakers"
  • Two Paradigm Conspiracies
• Making The Shift - By Death or Recovery?
  • Plan A - Death
  • Plan B - Recovery
  • The Limits of Micro Discovery
  • Getting to the Paradigm Cause of Social Illness
• What Recovery Is, and Isn't
  • Paradigm Shifting is:
    • Holistic
    • Not About "Fixing Bad People"
    • Not About "Getting Rid of Bad Habits"
    • Not About "Becoming Normal"
• Not Blame But Accountability
  • Blame vs. Responsibility
  • The Blame Dodge
  • The Infamous Triangle Shirt Company Fire
  • Paradigm Accountability
• Personal Recovery as a Personal Paradigm Shift
  • Experiencing soul pain as our paradigm in crisis and acknowledging it as such
  • Spiritual Awakening
  • Creativity
• Not Stopping With Personal Paradigm Shifts
  • Soul-violating family systems
  • Soul-violating social systems
  • We can't recover alone
• Time for "Normal Science" or "Extraordinary Science"?
  • The Control Paradigm response to addiction
  • A Paradigm-Shift response
  • Support from Systems Thinking
• Cashing in on a Paradigm-Systems Perspective
  • Listening to parts as reflective of the whole
  • Everyone is abused
  • Systems are not outside us
  • Is it human nature or our paradigms?
• The Personal paradigm shift goes public
  • Changing paradigms changes everything
  • Making a paradigm shift in a social systems
    • Tracing social pain back to its paradigm origins
    • Spiritual awakening
    • Creativity
      • Creativity narrowed by control-paradigm structures
    • Exercising out paradigm-shifting powers
• Paradigm Anatomy 101
  • What makes up a paradigm?
    • Assumptions
    • Strategies
    • Responses
    • Goals
  • Integral systems
  • Partial shifts don't cut it
• The Three-fold Rhythm of Shifting Paradigms
  • Where are we and where are we going?
  • How do we get there from here?
  • How can we make the shift and go for change?
• Ancient Steps of Transformation
  • A twelve-fold path of shifting paradigms
  • The twelve-sided foundation plan of civilized prder
  • The Iroquois Peace Confederacy
  • The Twelve Cycles of Truth
• Pain and the Power of Shifting Assumptions
  • Confronting Pain - Making Assumptions
    • Assuming "misery as usual"
      • Example: Competition
      • The cost of accepting the competition assumption
      • We pay the price
      • "Hard work brings hard rewards"
      • Working hard on ourselves
      • Vintage methods of enforcement
  • Shifting Assumptions
    • Assuming that misery is a message
    • A message that we need
    • A message that our systems need
  • Claiming Our Power
    • Acknowledging misery's message empowers
    • The power of naming where we are
  • "Normal Science" : Justifying Misery
    • Assumptions that defend the old order
    • Assuming systems and problems are separate
  • "Extraordinary Science": Learning the Truth
    • Naming the system sources of pain
  • The Price of Not Confronting Pain-Makers
    • Social systems in crisis
    • Big business, banking and Congress
    • It's not just  a few jerks
  • From the Control Assumption to Insatiability
    • Born into the control assumption
    • Control isn't everything: it's the only thing
    • Control leads to insatiability
    • Control worlds don't work
  • Struggling with the Control Assumption
    • Autonomy vs. the Control Model
    • More Control doesn't protect us
    • Playing the control game doesn't work better either
    • Making the invisible visible
  • Shifting Assumptions - The Fool's Leap
    • The Fool: An antidote for control
    • Fools: Extraordinary scientists
    • Assumptions about the universe
    • Assumptions about human beings
  • Flexing Our Assumption-Shifting Powers
    • The tools of transformation
    • What's within our power
    • Using what's in our power - or not
    • Open to Evolution
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