Very stimulating and thought provoking, SS, and other contributors. It sends my mind spinning off in many directions.

For some reason, this segment from Xenus' first post perplexes me:

"A paradigm transformation would only affect those who want things to change, unfortunately that is a very small minority and the world is governed by the majority, what they think they want or what they get told they should want because they are insane and incapable of rational, logical and reasonable thought. The mass populace like things as they are, they think everything is as it should be, why would they want to change anything when they think everything is right? That they are right because of some belief or lie."

I am trying to understand how a paradigm shift would be optional. What you are saying is that the change is possible only on an individual basis? That unless one chooses it, nothing changes? The physical universe is not changing, only our framework for understanding it? Embrace it and all it's implications, or remain stagnant and stunted in an inadequate conceptual framework?