That is I am an applied philosopher…because paradigms are concepts/ideas that are applied and so their aspects become our individual and temporal universe realities. Paradigms over time become anomalous, that is they don’t work the way they were discovered/designed/supposed to work, and paradigm changes are nothing more and certainly nothing less than new applied concepts/ideas that resolve the anomalies of the current paradigm of the system or systems under analysis.

My discovery, not necessarily due to such great intellect, as that discovery came about as the result of an early childhood mental decision/postulate I luckily made after an emotionally disturbing experience (hearing my mother’s reaction to finding out that her father had just died in an automobile accident) and numerous additional lucky experiences and decisions that coalesced around that postulate; was to recognize the paradigm concept behind every historical paradigm change IOW the paradigm of paradigm changes…which is the natural philosophical concept of grace…and specifically the aspects of grace known as nowness, newness and continual flowing and integrative mental and temporal universe change itself. Grace is the Nadia Comeneci of paradigms and paradigm changes, and understanding/experiencing its multitudinous aspects can lead to perfect 10’s of increase upon increase both individually and to whatever system one may chose to apply it to.

Steve Hummel 03/09/2026