The Paradigm Conspiracy: How Our Systems of Government, Church, School, and Culture Violate Our Human Potential

by Christopher Largent and Denise Breton

Book Overview

The resources here will guide you along a pathway of self-assessment, discovery, and fulfillment.This well-researched book exposes the addictive paradigms that bind us to society (and often to one... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568381069
• ISBN13: 9781568381060
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Inspirational Guide To Transcending Unhealthy Patterns

This book is a brilliant, inspirational guide to recognizing the inherent addictive and destructive nature of many dominant paradigms in our civilization. The authors weave their discourse around the spiritual insights of Rumi and Native American steps to "peace." The authors delineate how paradigms function and protect themselves from the threat of alternative approaches. They also expose the addictive nature of paradigms that dominate modern culture, while offering guidance for those wishing to consciously evolve and transcend the self-limiting, divisive patterns that dominate society. This book is a powerful, enlightened examination of what keeps humanity oppressed, allowing us to reflect on ourselves and the world around us. For those who recognize the flaws in existing patterns and paradigms, this book will resonate and provide insight into how we can individually and collectively develop a progressive, expansive framework for human civilization. I highly recommend this book!

An inspiring, grounded perspective of profound truths

The authors have taken dynamic ideas from the minds ofbrilliant scholars, i.e. Thomas Kuhn, and brought them home straightto our hearts and minds. This book engages every part of the reader--making one deeply examine where s/he stands in relation to living one's truth. As I read it I recognized the complex maze of ideas first introduced in grad school readings which presented how unknowingly we collude with a system of dominance and oppression. Yet in this text of hope, the authors lead us through the puzzle of problems to the endless possibilities and solutions. Solutions which start right here, right now, on an individual basis. The awarenesses this book brings forth can shake the soul at first, but staying with how the authors unfold this mystery ultimately lets us shake off the chains we didn't even know we were bound by. Definitely worth reading, especially in conjunction with their next book: Love, Soul and Freedom. These outstanding books bring together what a soul thirsts for in a way that quenches far beyond expectation.

Would you rather be comfortable or awake?

Reading this courageous book will change how you see just about everything in our society -- and in yourself. The authors are perceptive and highly educated, passionate and commited. You couldn't ask for better teachers to address this most difficult subject.

Please Read This Book & Join the Conscious "Evolution"

This worderfully written book portrays a simple, yet weighty, message whose time has definitly come. It will dramatically change your perceptions or support your current views in new & exciting ways. Anyone interested in human development, personal growth and consciousness will be delighted and rewarded with this read. Benton and Largent ground higher consciouness in a way that I have never experienced before and that will inspire many readers. I have been further transformed by this book.

A book of rare courage and soaring inspiration.

This book is not for the faint of heart. Though you may begin with a bias toward a book published by a 'recovery' publisher, the sheer will of its authors to contemplate and elucidate the harm we humans visit upon the earth and all its inhabitants speaks for itself. It will also speak to you and touch you in a deep place that may have been neglected and diminished by the day to day worlds we exist in.The main premise is that we humans are in the throes of a 'paradigm conspiracy' that is so insidious and prevasive we don't consciously notice. However, one of the most damaging effects of this conspiracy is the epidemic of addictions we suffer directly and indirectly. Now, before you think that this is just another book bemoaning substance abuse, these authors include what they call 'process addictions' such as work, gambling, food, and television as well. It appears that nearly everyone in this country is touched by an addiction of some kind! Humbling, huh?! The book continues to chronicle the current 'control paradigm' and its insidious ways. It covers all the excuses and rationalizations used to justify its existence. Then the book strips you down as an individual and puts the onus on each human being to "be all you can be". From this point, the authors offer a well coordinated approach which incorperates both the twelve step program of Alcoholics Anonymous and "The 12 cycles of Truth" which is wisdom for the Iroquois Confederacy of Five Nations. This crosscultural match is exquiste in its symmetry and simplicity as well as adds considerable legitimacy to their individual and societal solution to enter into a second 'paradigm conspiracy' that will help us become reconnected to our souls. The emphasis is on the individual but the changes brought forth will affect the world. This is heavy stuff!!If you are uneasy about our world and your place in it, this book offers a combination of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and the Declaration of Independence. It is rare to find suc