“The historian of science Thomas Kuhn gave paradigm its contemporary meaning when he adopted the word to refer to the set of practices that define a scientific discipline at any particular period of time” – Paradigm (Wikipedia)

“A scientific revolution occurs, according to Kuhn, when scientists encounter anomalies which cannot be explained by the universally accepted paradigm within which scientific progress has thereto been made. The paradigm, in Kuhn’s view, is not simply the current theory, but the entire worldview in which it exists, and all of the implications which come with it. It is based on features of landscape of knowledge that scientists can identify around them. There are anomalies for all paradigms, Kuhn maintained, that are brushed away as acceptable levels of error, or simply ignored and not dealt with.”  Paradigm Shift (Wikipedia)

There are a lot of conflicting paradigms in the world, and with an open mind they are all easily discoverable on the internet. In areas of health, science, spirituality, history, and almost everything that people-who-think-they’re-smart tend to argue about, people set up opposing systems of thought that make total sense when viewed in isolation. They are based on solid, specific pieces of information and points of reasoning but they are also based upon disregard for all other pieces of information which are deemed not trustworthy, not believable, or not interesting enough to investigate.

To accommodate a paradigm which opposes yours takes a lot of time and a lot of data that doesn’t sit well with what you tend to believe.

For a period of around 3.5 years I spent a lot of time researching random things specifically because they were not within my paradigm, just to see what I was missing. There was a lot. I hope to find time to add the most useful things here in a concise, categorized, way as a hierarchy of new paradigms for you to browse.