A paradigm is a generally held idea and the intellectual and moral justifications attending it. The primary reason a new paradigm is difficult to perceive is that the old paradigm’s mental generality almost naturally makes it habitually accepted, and hence reality of any other alternatives to it is very slight. Then, with  all of the mental and moral justifications that accumulate around it the old paradigm gets almost soldered in emotionally and mentally.

New paradigm perception and understanding, like self actualization, requires the mental work known as contemplation, elaboration and visualization. A new paradigm is not nearly so much a destructive process as an integrative and trans-formative one. It is also a mental inversion of primacy with the old paradigm (as in the Copernican Helio-centric paradigm change) and a concentric ascension of truths because no realities are lost or denied. Instead they are made new by both the integration of the opposing truths and the resulting ethical/survival improvement.

Examples of this are the paradigm change from hunting and gathering to agriculture, from the dominance of the Catholic Church to the Reformation, the Copernican cosmological paradigm change noted above and the one we are beginning to become conscious of presently the change from the monopolistic monetary paradigms of Debt, Loan and For Production only to a new paradigm of monetary gifting.  And again, a new paradigm does not destroy or obliterate the old paradigm, it is a new and thorough integration with the truths of the old paradigm that creates a thirdness, oneness and wholeness within the sphere of human activity and thought the new paradigm applies to.