What if we create an organization that applies the principles of the new paradigm sciences and philosophies? How would that look like, feel like, sound like, taste like, smell like?
At the moment we are living the genesis of a new era what some people call the new paradigm. I basically interpret it as the humanity waking up to its fall down along with the old, life-consuming, unsustainable system that it created and having seen this reality, humanity remembering being part of the web of life, and the Earth is what sustains us. It is with this understanding that we change our life practices from an ever consuming mode to one of sustaining, nourishing, flowing in alignment with the Earth and natural cycles. We create another story.
So, as it is becoming more and more apparent that the old paradigm/system and its components are not working any more, the structures formed within the old paradigm mind also do not function as they are not able to serve the needs of their own creators.
One major issue I see with the old paradigm is the surrender of personal and collective freedom to a system that is based on power-over, control, consumption, fragmentation. Although it might seem like we are free to choose what we want, what we love, what we study, what we buy, in fact we aren’t. we are dictated what to do, even what to be, all the time, constantly, by the government, corporations, schools, doctors, politicians, economists, banks, advertisements, family, police, management, religion, this and that…We are not free at all as long as we choose to feed, support, be a part of the current dominant system, the old paradigm.
So the structures formed within the old paradigm mind reflect the old paradigm qualities of power-over, control, consumption, fragmentation. We enter them by giving in our freedom (to be fully authentically ourselves); whoever is “governing” exerts power and control over the “components” of the structure; the structures are completely fragmented and lack wholeness and we get totally consumed in them. Because of the deeply embedded scarcity mindset within the old paradigm, these structures are formulated to consume, to squeeze the life out of you.
I chose to walk out of these structures; it was clear for me they were no good for life, for the Earth and for myself. More and more I came to the conclusion “what is essentially good for myself, is essentially good for the Earth, is essentially good for Life”. It is a simple principle and it works!
I am in an inquiry, with so many others around the world, about what a new paradigm organization/structure would be like. A form that springs from an evolved consciousness, a new (maybe an old) way of seeing the world and ourselves in relation with it, a continuously evolving organism which is aware of its wholeness hence doesn’t overpower its components and neither the components try to control the wholeness. What is that container that allows one to express themselves in their full authenticity while creating a synergy that is greater than the sum of its components?
So I started thinking what principles might be applied here to create a form that can hold and reflect the level of consciousness we are?
There are many new paradigm sciences, philosophies and practices that we can refer to, such as systems thinking, permaculture, art of hosting, open space technology, quantum physics, open source initiatives, landless movements, internet…I am sure there are many more that I cannot think at the moment. What if we look at the principles of all of these forms and distill their essence? Would that give us clues of a new paradigm organization?
I believe it would be an amazing experiment with tons of learning.

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