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Worldviews in Collision/Worldviews in Metamorphosis: Toward a Multistate Paradigm
Author(s) -
SCHROLL MARK A.,
GREENWOOD SUSAN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1111/j.1556-3537.2011.01037.x
Subject(s) - fallacy , consciousness , technocracy , shamanism , epistemology , criticism , perspective (graphical) , transformational leadership , sociology , psychology , aesthetics , philosophy , social psychology , literature , political science , law , art , theology , politics , visual arts
ABSTRACT This article is an extended commentary inspired by Alan Drengson's paper “Shifting Paradigms: From Technocrat to Planetary Person” (Drengson 2011). In this article Susan Greenwood and I echo Drengson's criticism that Euro‐American science is incomplete, having committed what Thomas Roberts calls “The Singlestate Fallacy: the erroneous assumption that all worthwhile abilities reside in our normal, awake mindbody state” (Roberts 2006:105). This singlestate fallacy is vividly portrayed in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein , whose critique of Euro‐American science is revisited in this article. Alternatively, Greenwood and I suggest that what is needed is a multimodel framework “that allows for in‐depth analysis of the different modes of consciousness.” Roberts refers to this alternative attitude toward science as the Multistate Paradigm. An awareness of the transformational character of shamanism is also explored in this article as a means to overcome the oppositions between the technocratic and person planetary perspective, and their related gender associations.