It’s extremely difficult to define and perceive a new paradigm if one isn’t aware of the current one. Once you know the current one and you know the signatures of new paradigms/paradigm changes it becomes a fairly easy straight forward rational process to conceptualizing and perceiving the new one.
Here are some of the signatures of paradigm changes:
abundance and its increase
increased freedom, free flowingness/the embracing of process and action
increased human survival, knowledge and productivity in the area of the new paradigm
conceptual opposition to the current paradigm
resistance to and the ending of dominance
integration and application of the truths and only the truths in opposing theories or perspectives
integration to the point of thirdness greater oneness
a new discovery/insight/tool, or a re-discovery of same within a formerly abandoned, rejected or unperceived truth
increased directness and immediacy of effect and removal of arbitrary vias or barriers
crisis/unworkability
resolution and focus on solutions rather than palliatives or mere reforms
iconoclasm (iconoclasm is actually a precursor of paradigm change)
the willingness to drop orthodoxy (iconoclasm), brush past logical absurdity with it, endure and even become comfortable with ambiguity and the ability to create, innovate and visualize a newness, a new pattern