Paradigm shift definition / reasons/causes/conditions for 21st century paradigm shift / dominant paradigm / made easy meaning paradigm shift / economic recession / Leap of change out the ritual rythms of life

The total of human reality is space. Human Reality comes in different densities: black hole, black star, star, meteorite, planets, clouds, energy fields, DNA, paradigms, ...atoms, electrons, ... Human reality is completely 'centered around' DNA, DNA is an archive of evolution and creates a superparadigm. Paradigms are cultural filters, kind of gravity fields in the brain, and are try outs towards more DNA. Paradigms always are there, only your own standpoint changes. Don't confuse paradigms and 'conceptual schemes', paradigms consist of behaviors and schemes are 'theory'.

Major paradigms are 'sticky', addictive. To be in such a paradigm is like being a tiny insect in a soap bubble, whose reality is filtered. The 21st Century economic recession is a sign that concepts likes 'me' and 'you', 'mind', 'understanding', 'individualism', ...seriously need revision. Some major paradigms are very old, and became like fog fields consisting of trillions of micro paradigms that paralyze many humans.
Until the 20st century major human cultures succeeded in staying 'independent' for a large part. Being succesful in your own paradigm was 'sufficient'. In the 21st century being able to 'play' with paradigms has become a necessary condition of human life. Like being able to appreciate mixes of different drugs, without getting addicted.
Since many thousands of years Ways of Life for humans started as ritual, religion, science, ...(conceptual schemes). Ritual, religious, rational, ...behavior (obeying some conceptual scheme) became a major paradigm when a whole culture started considering own rituals, religion, rationality, .... as order (the way things are). ALMOST without being able anymore to sense something outside their 'frozen' view on life (law and order).

Definition for paradigm shift: Leap of survival (abrupt change) out of a 'blurring paradigm' of life.
A paradigm shift doesn't change science, but results in a NEW 'science'. The last major paradigm shift (that of Jesus, away from the Hellenistic Aristotelian Paradigm) used the infrastructure of the Roman Empire to spread quickly (roman highways). The same infrastructure also smothered the social change. By very fast suppression (law and order) through a system of local spies combined with fast execution orders from Rome. Ending in instruments like 'Inquisition'. So we are still stuck in the Aristotelian Paradigm
In the 21st century we see alarming similarities. Internet facilitates rapid change, but also gives a false sense of change while in the Western World we do nothing (facebook, twitter, ..). And defense by way of internet grows at high speed. What happens to Wikileaks is alarming. Internet can bring change, but was is needed is active involvement. Evolution moves by way of change.

Conditions for a major paradigm shift

1) the Way of Life (paradigm) is dying and became a threat. 'Law and order' became paralysis and kills change.
2) truth vacuum: defense in dominant Way of Life ('war on terrorism') smothers new ways.
3) absolutism: irrefutable indications ignored, that the Way of Life that is desperately defended is a dying paradigm .
A paradigm shift to a stable subreality starts when 'the young' get fed up and challenge 'law and order' with new skills (like internet). Acceleration might be some prophet with fitting vision, and who with an ethical-thunderbolt shocks the dominant way of life. Very hesitatingly researchers start to see new ways (or die with their Way of Life, ferociously fighting 'terrorism').

Conditions for paradigm shift in 'US + Western Europe' = 'Rational Way of Life':
1) increasing signs that 'understanding' is only a logical tool and currently utterly fails.
2) 'Rational World (World of Understanders) desperately fights an increasing number of 'outbursts' as incidents;
3) 'Understanders' (politicians, captains of industry + scientists) got 'stuck' (paradigm paralysis).

How to stop paradigm paralysis and shift paradigm?: stop fighting against change. Accept that English has become the new world language, stop worrying about career, about individual profit, about death, .. and start living in a world that is not only of the rich and powerful. Ancient Maya Culture vanished after people quite physically sensed (paradigm shift) that local nature was overexploited and would never revive. In the 21st century the whole earth is suffering over-exploitation, so fleeing is no solution.

The Way things are = PARADIGM (Standpoint for looking into Space)

A "paradigm" (like: 'mind' rules over matter) is culturally accepted as 'the way things are' (like: reality is 'rational).
It becomes our invisible 'subreality in reality'. Most people never manage to look outside the subreality, and deny this 'handicap' fanatically when confronted with it. The windows in this subreality block part of reality, and transforms and filters the rest.
On earth human reality is already filtered in common sense, so local human common sense also is a paradigm (a layer in SUBspace) that dominates:
Paradigm-behavior = What we see in our subreality = truncated, transformed and filtered reality.
Training of paradigm-behavior to handle sense experience (religion = training of emotional spasm like 'ratio') and
Doubt of common sense (when it doesn't fit the inherent conceptual scheme of the paradigm)

Practicioners of Western Science (generally called 'scientists') have invested their entire being in mastering the scientific window as conceptual scheme in the box Rational Paradigm that their earlier colleagues have created with 'scientific laws' within the bigger box Aristotelian Paradigm since Kant, Descartes, Aquinas and Aristotle. A Major Paradigm Shift shatters walls and windows around the 'Western World / Catholic Paradigm / Rational Paradigm' (based on the dualism good-evil ; TRUE-FALSE).
That is MUCH more than window cleaning like Thomas Kuhn describes as: a drastic change of basic view WITHIN 'science' (religion),

The earth box Earth Reality of handling sense experience became known as 'common sense'. Common sense follows local conditions.
Now and then an in itself tiny subparadigm becomes totally dominant (a local prejudice like 'understanding' grows like a virus).
At present most of earth is suffering severely from the subparadigm 'rationality' (disguised absolutisms like 'thinking' and 'understanding'). And this paradigm grows at virus-speed (almost like a fractal engine).
In the infected part of earth after initial furious resistence (terrorism) such a local virus-paradigm, after all 'terrorists' were killed, is finally accepted as, 'normal', 'obvious', 'the way things are'.

A Major Paradigm Shift is recognized first by a TINY top of the human population (with very sensitive senses and often of young age) outside the WesternWorld. 'The way things are' changes abruptly for them after an 'intellectually violent' period, finding websites with more than un-'rational' views on part of life. This tiny creative tip of the human population then acts as seeds for exponential change.
New paradigms will keep coming forever. Reaching 'the right one' is absolute thinking, suggesting that change is limited.

Evolution
(A tree using major paradigm shifts as temporary 'negative' growth to be able to go on with growth)

Evolution for one species is like a tree. A tree growing in tiny steps (minimal paradigm shifts), and each step is a result of effectivity.
Once in while (when almost disjunct main branches meet) the tree evolution is forced to make a few steps back (major paradigm shift), to start again on a point where those branches started departing from each other, to take direction without this split.
Minor branches of the tree after a while just disappear or don't develop anymore.

My guess is that when some stage of the tree evolution is not changed anymore in steps backward, the this stage is archived in DNA. So the tree of evolution does not follow a blueprint, but grows and evades barricades. The resulting tree is not perfect, but very effective in surviving.

A PARADIGM is the tunnelview on reality of beings locked in their 'cultural paralysis' (e.g. Israeleans in 'defense' mode).
The 'Rational World' since Enlightenment started believing in its own myth 'understanding'. Westerners suppress emotion when reading newspapers or when watching tv, but practice 'understanding'. 'Understanding' (using logic) for ages produced amazing results. But at current it only results in detaillism, paradigm paralysis, and in fear of death outside save surroundings of the dominant paradigm.
Then evolution 'flashes' (shift) and the 'paralysis' relaxes.

A local cultural recession creates the circumstances for a Reality Lightning (paradigm shift) to 'unlock' spasm behavior ('science'). Kuhnian Paradigm Shifts only repair (small correction) 'science.
That total paradigm shifts abruptly redirect 'science' is vehemently resisted by traditionally 'law and order' . Shouting .. bla bla TERRORISM bla bla .. they urge for War on Terrorism. Or screaming UNIQUE 'economical' disaster they spend trillions of dollars to keep this failing 'economy' upright. Such pharisees cling to their status and claim that when a new scientific paradigm is accepted, that the new 'science' is always a predictable extension of existent 'science (absolutism). And see no problem whatsoever when their spastic zombies (for instance as Nazis, Mugabe-fanatics, bank top-managers, ..) go on with ritual torture until death of all 'humans who deny THE RULES'.

Any culture on earth developed by evolutionary fitting of the local survival traditions into behavior.

Aristotelian ethics is the cancer cell causing the Western Cancers 'spirituality' and understanding, considering common sense as 'primitive'.

The Rational Paradigm: An originally 'catholic/protestant' cultural spasm IMAGINED reality in 2 parts (good and evil, TRUE and FALSE), connected by the superglue 'continuity' (Individual Liberty / Democracy + Freedom of Speech). In this paradigm puzzling is called 'science'.

Reality Lightnings are VERY rare Reset Routines to escape from a paralyzed local cultural spasm (like Roman Christian or Mohammedan).
The Flash of Insight raises common sense sense sounds of hope (moods) and creative beings totally 'massage' the isolated local cultural spasm, and start integrating it in own cultural behavior. The paradigm shift (structured variation) means a redirected way of 'puzzling'.
An EXTREMELY attractive style is needed to 'whisper' moods in an absolute good-evil bubble toward flexible relativism.