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Love tells me I am everything.
Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
Between these two,
my life flows.
          Nisargadatta

   
The Shift In Thinking
 

 

 -20th Century Thinking- 
Knowledge will eventually eradicate uncertainty and paradox.

  • Our world is rooted in an understanding of Reality as an objective phenomena that can be measured, manipulated and ultimately known.
  • This thinking yields a multitude of amazing results, including the technologies allowing you to surf the net and end up reading these words.
  • Paradoxically, these technologies are simultaneously re-inventing the thinking and culture that produced them.
  • Today's fast pace, decreased float time, massive information flow, information smog, lack of information boundaries, constant uncertainty, and never-ending stress showcase the urgency for another way to understand our experience of Reality.
  • Rather than creating certainty and clarity, the Information Age is increasing our uncertainty, confusion, and feelings of being overwhelmed. 

 -21st Century Thinking- 
Uncertainty and Paradox are
integral aspects of Reality.

  • Parts of Reality previously seen as eventually knowable and predictable are now held as ultimately unknowable and beyond conscious understanding and control.
  • This notion invites the Mysterious, dressed in the modern-day garb of uncertainty, to re-enter the picture as a suddenly relevant and unavoidable part of the process. 
  • At a very deep level, this idea disturbs and disrupts our current sense of reality and evokes the need for a radical reorganization of the way we look at, listen to, and move within our world.
  • Concerns with Reality have traditionally been left to philosophers and poets, scientists, mystics, and visionaries.
  • All we needed to do was follow their lead. 
  • Now the lead is in our hands as well as theirs. 

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