THE FIFTH PARADIGM WORLDVIEW

Pillars of Belief

The defining and distinguishing belief of the “Liberal” Fifth Paradigm Worldview is the fact that The Liberal Worldview is the first of the “Worldviews” (moving from the “Right” to the “Left” along Professor Talcott Parson’s Sociological Bar Graph) which actually acknowledges the bona fides of the “Intuitive” human experience. However, Adherents to the merely “Liberal” Worldview grant to this “Intuitive” Experience nothing more than a merely ancillary – or supplemental – role in the ethical decision-making process of our human family.

This belief in the bona fides of the “Intuitive” human experience as a legitimate category of experience is the distinctive feature of the Epistemological Belief system of adherents to the “Liberal” Worldview which distinguishes the Epistemological Belief from the Epistemological Beliefs of the Adherents to all of the Worldviews which exist from the Center to the Right extreme end of Professor Parsons’ Sociological Bar Graph. This Epistemological Belief is a function of the determination on the part of all Adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview that there does exist a bona fide “Intuitive” human experience which gives an individual human being genuine access to an objective dimension of “Reality”, so as to legitimatize the inclusion of the data ascertained by means of this “Intuitive” Experience as one to be taken into account when making all of one’s personal and public ethical decisions.

The locus of the Fifth Paradigm “Left Middle-Marginalist” “Liberal” Worldview, along the linear Worldview “Spectrum”, is then, the “dividing line” between “materialists” and “spiritual” human beings.

However, Adherents to the “Liberal” Worldview refuse to allow the “data” accessed by means of this “Intuitive” Experience of a human being to play a dominant … role in their decision-making process.  Such data is allowed to play merely an ancillary or supplemental role as compared to the role which is allowed to be played by the “data” obtained through the “materialist” process of “Scientific Logical-Positivism” (the “Mode of Ethical Reasoning” of The Fourth Paradigm Scientific Rationalists.)

Adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview hold a Cosmological Belief which is similar to the the Third Paradigm Worldview Cosmology. Like adherents to The Third Paradigm Worldview, adherents to Then Fifth Paradigm Worldview hold the “Cosmological” belief that, while our physical universe is made up of real physical “matter”, this matter takes on its FORM of specific physical manifestation as a result of the three-way inter-action among “Energy”, “Mass” and “MIND.”

However, while adherents to The Third Paradigm Worldview attribute to the human MIND only the ability of the “Intellect”, adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview attribute a specific metaphysical capacity to the human MIND.  It is NOT a metaphysical capacity which is able to directly effect matter (which is a distinctive belief of adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview). However, adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview believe that we, as human beings, have direct metaphysical access to a unique dimension of “Reality” which is an intimate part of their Cosmological Belief.

Adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview, like adherents to The First, Second, and Third Paradigm Worldviews, recognize that all matter which comes into physical manifestation at The Beginning of Time is dis-integrating into their smaller constituent, ultimately NON-divisible units of matter.

Adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview believe, further, that each and every such ultimately-irreducible integer of matter in our physical universe is, at the same time, repelling itself out and away from every other such ultimately-irreducible integer of matter in our physical universe.

Adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview hold the Cosmological Belief that there exists, in a NON-contiguous dimension (the NON-material substance of which vibrates at a frequency which is an “octave” higher in its rate of physical vibration than actual material “wave functions” of physical energy and material “particles” vibrate within our physical world of four “dimensions”) and that it is up and out of this “Quantum Realm” that our physical universe “manifests.”

Adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview hold the further Cosmological Belief that what it is that determines the form our physical universe will “manifest” on this physical plane up and out of this “Quantum Realm” is the function of two inter-acting phenomena. The first is the “Ideal Form” in which all of the aspects of the Universe exist within this NON-contiguous DIMENSION.  And the second is the degree to which a given creative human mind can “access”, or conceive of, the sum total of the specific items which exists within this dimension as close as possible to their “Ideal” form and then “create” this specific “ideal” item here, in our physical world of four dimensions with his or her physical actions having been guided by his or her “vision” of this item in its “Ideal” form in the “Quantum Realm” (or “The Realm of The Forms”) of this Fifth Dimension of Reality.

While this Belief is, at base, an Epistemological belief (pertaining to how one, as a human being, comes “to know” certain aspects of Reality), there is a specific Cosmological dimension to this Belief as well, because adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview hold the Cosmological Belief that our physical universe is drawn up into physical manifestation, out of this Fifth Dimension “Quantum Realm”, as the beginning of a new cycle of the physical universe in a form which directly manifests THE IDEAL UNIVERSE WHICH EXISTS IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION to the exact degree to which that “IDEAL” was “grasped”, believed in, AND MANIFESTED THROUGH THE MECHANICAL ACTIVITIES of the total mass of human beings who lived in the four-dimensional physical world during the previous “cycle” of the physical universe. Thus, adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview believe that the “new” Universe (which “begins” with each new “cycle”) gets to “begin” where the “old” Universe “left off.” This is a very distinctive and idealistic Cosmology.

Adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview, like adherents to The Third Paradigm Worldview, adhere to an Ontological Belief that Human Consciousness is an absolute eternally-existing PARTNER (with “Energy” and “Mass”) in the eternal inter-action between the “Positive” and the “Negative” forces in the physical universe and between “Mass” and “Energy.”  However, adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview do not attribute any metaphysical or psychic power to our human Mind to be able to directly effect physical matter.  Rather, adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview believe that our individual and collective human actions taken as a result of decisions made through an act of our human Mind guided by our metaphysical perception of “Ideal” forms which actually exist in the Fifth Dimension, taken in their aggregate, can effect the “material” universe – but only through our strictly “normal” physical activities.

The “Epistemology” and “Theory of Human Psychology” which are generated by The Fifth Paradigm Worldview are strictly “Sensory” and “Metaphysical” – but are “metaphysical” only with regard to our perception, NOT with regard to our ability to directly effect physical matter. That is, adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview hold the “Epistemological” Belief that we, as human beings, have “direct metaphysical perceptual “access to” a greater “Truth” than that which we might otherwise obtain merely from a compilation the total composite of raw materialist data which we can directly experience through our own personal FIVE physical senses – because adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview believe that, as human beings, we have the ability, through the exercise of our HUMAN FACULTY OF INTUITION, to directly metaphysically discern, out beyond the confines of our the personal experience of our five physical senses, real “data” pertaining to the “IDEAL WORLD” which actually exists in a Fifth Dimension of Reality.

Adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview hold the Psychological Belief that the functioning of our human “Mind” is more than a mere material activity. It is a metaphysical activity as well, since our “Mind” possesses a “faculty” of “INTUITION” as well as “INTELLECT.” They believe that we, as human beings, are, therefore, capable, through the exercise of our “faculty” of “INTUITION”, to make metaphysical judgments guiding our moment-to-moment conduct and that our metaphysically-“guided” conduct can constructively alter the otherwise strictly pre-determined dialectical or chaotic “pattern” in which our physical universe would otherwise occur at each juncture of human decision (though these constructive alterations can be undertaken only by traditional mechanical means by our actions on the strictly physical plane). However, this additional “meta-physical” capacity of discernment provided us with an “Intuitional Psychology ”, a much more satisfactory psychological state of mind than our being simply

(A) a mere “flotsam” of “random” consciousness in an entirely chaotic physical universe (pursuant to The First Paradigm Worldview),

(B) a mere slave to an entirely physically pre-determined, eternally-repeating, dialectical existence (as is the belief of adherents to The Second Paradigm Worldview)

(C) a mere “Intellect” which has no “greater” access to aspects of Reality which exist “out beyond” the reach of the direct physical experience of our mere five physical senses than that that which we can “calculate” through our “Intellect” by intellectually discerning “patterns” within the physical data obtained through the direct experience of our five physical senses and then “projecting” these “patterns”(intellectually) “out beyond” the immediate physical reach of our five senses (even our “reach” amplified by technology).

Instead, adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview adhere to a “Theory of Human Psychology” pursuant to which we are

(D) “Intuitional” Beings, possessing a metaphysical faculty of “Intuition” by means of which we, as individual human beings, can directly access an additional dimension of “REALITY” itself which contains the “data of an “Ideal” Reality which we can then metaphysically decide to “construct”, here within our four-dimensional world of space and time.

However, unlike adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview who believe that this additional faculty of “Intuition” should play a central role in our human “Mode of Ethical Reasoning”, adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview believe that the direct experience which we, as human beings, experience by means of this additional faculty of “Intuition’ should be relegated to a merely “supplemental” role in contributing to our “epistemology.” This is the key belief of adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview which distinguishes them from the adherents to ALL “Worldviews” to their “Right” (all of whom believe that there is NO “epistemological” means which we have at our physical disposal, as human beings, by means of which we can acquire direct “access to” Absolute Reality.) This “Belief” on the part of adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview to the effect that this human faculty of Intuition should play only a supplemental role in one’s determination of facts distinguishes the Fifth Paradigm Worldview from all “Worldviews” to their “Left,” all of whom believe that we have direct experiential access to Absolute Reality.   And that the “Absolute Reality” to which we have direct experiential access as human beings (either through an exercise of our Intuition as adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview or through an exercise of our Spiritual Facility as adherents to The Seventh Paradigm Worldview) should be given absolute CENTRALITY in the process of our making determinations of FACT and in our “Mode of Ethical Reasoning.”

Because of these combined “Cosmological”, “Teleological”, “Ontological”, “Epistemological” and “Psychological” beliefs on the part of adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview, adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview adhere to a “Philosophy” which is “Idealistic.”

In its “Lower” Manifestation, the Fifth Paradigm Worldview generates the “Mode of Ethical Reasoning” of Plato, this being the IDEALISTIC Mode of Ethical Reasoning.  Pursuant to this Mode of Ethical Reasoning, one merely supplements one’s “Intellectual” projection of the “patterns” discerned within the physical data obtained by means of one’s five physical senses by the additional means of a purely “Intuitional” experience by means of which one intuitionally accesses THE REALM OF THE FORMS, which is an actual “dimension” of Reality – though it is not physically contiguous to the four-dimensional physical Reality in which we dwell. In this “REALM” resides TRUE “Reality”, in its IDEAL and PERFECT form.  Utilizing this “Ideal Form” as one’s “model”, one then undertakes to replicate here, within our four-dimensional material world, that “Ideal” form.

In its “Higher” Manifestation, The Fifth Paradigm Worldview generates the “Philosophy” of “Theosophy” of Alice Bailey, Anne Bessant and Helen Blavatsky.  The “Mode of Spiritual Expression” of adherents to The Fifth Paradigm is, in its “Lower” Manifestation, Hindu. In its “Higher” Manifestation, it is Fakir.

In its “Social Form”, The Fifth Paradigm Worldview “manifests” itself, in its “Lower” Manifestation, in the form of PLATO’S REUBLIC, in the Greek City State of ATHENS or in Alexander The Great’s 331 B.C. City of Alexandria in Egypt.  In its “Higher” Manifestation, The Fifth Paradigm Worldview manifests itself in the “Social Form” of The Hindu “Raj.”

[1] When two of these otherwise “inchoate” (i.e. un-“manifest”) Quantum Fields “manifest” themselves (or “differentiate” themselves) within the otherwise entirely UN-“manifest” AND UN-“differentiated” FINITE “FIELD” OF “CONSCIOUSNESS” in the “form” of a “SINGULARITY” (i.e. a mere “voltage differential”), there suddenly “occurs” flowing “between” these two suddenly “existent” points a single “wave function” of “Energy.” This single “wave function” of “Energy” is the first “unit” of “Matter” in the Universe. This is an “Electron Volt Unit.”

[2] Pursuant this Belief, Adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worldview engage in a “Mode of Spiritual Expression” which holds the belief that, while the Physical Cosmos (being itself a confluence of “Mass” and “Energy”) does possess “Consciousness” of ITself (in the same way that we, as human beings – being a confluence of “Mass” and “Energy” – possess “Consciousness”), the Consciousnes of The Cosmos remains “separate” from our Consciousness…while, at the same time, constituting an “IDEAL” Consciousness which we, as human beings, can bring our Consciousness into “alignment with” by IMATATING this “IDEAL” Consciousness…like all Ideal” forms within the Realm of The Forms.

[3] Functioning as true “Utilitarians”, Professor Rawls argues, in his A Theory of Justice, that some Adherents to the strictly “practical” Fourth Paradigm “Scientific Logical Positivist” Worldview “take into full account” the potential bone fides of the Sixth Paradigm “Intuitionists” assertions that they, as human beings, are capable of “directly experiencing” an other dimension of Reality which generate bona fide data and, therefore, according to Professor Rawls, some Adherents to The Fourth Paradigm Worldview simply add in the data obtained by the Adherents to The Sixth Paradigm Worldview to the data obtained from their strictly “Scientific Logical Positivist” sources as Fourth Paradigm Adherents generating a “Hybrid” (as distinct from a genuinely generic) Fifth, “Liberal” Worldview. However, according to Professor Rawls, Adherents to The Fifth Paradigm Worlsview do NOT attribute “central” importance to this Sixth Paradigm “intuitive” data. They treat this Sixth Paradigm data as simply “supplemental” to the data they have garnered via their Scientific Logical Positivist “Epistemology.”

[4] One will recall that Plato, the ultimate “Philosopher” of The Fifth Paradigm, places the “Ideal” human observer in the position, in his “Allegory of The Cave” (in his Republic), ONLY in “between” the Fire and the REAL “Players”, thereby being uniquely capable of recognizing that the “Shadows” cast by the Fire upon the wall of the cave are only shadows. But even this “Ideal” observer is NOT “THE” REAL Player. Therefore, pursuant to the“Ontology” of The Fifth Paradigm, even the “Ideal” human observer is ONLY capable of “imitating” the conduct of the REAL Player. So, such an “Ideal” particpant in Reality is ONLY an “imatator” (an “Actor”) and is NOT entitled to have the ABSOLUTE confidence in his judgments which a REAL “PLAYER” would have. He is only somewhere “in between” a “Shadow” and a REAL “Player.” So, he should act “in moderation” on the basis of his perception of “The Ideal.”