11-05-2022
TRANSPARADIGMATIC THINKERS initiate thoughts of their own in such a way that others will respond by initiating their own thoughts. Transparadigmatic thinkers have their unique original extra-paradigmatic perspectives in which all paradigms become transparent and from which they originate their own thoughts in response to the thoughts presented by others in conversation, in dialogue, and in reading.
Transparadigmatic thinkers are free from the hubris of assuming that they understand thoughts of others. They know that they do not. They can only resonate with thoughts of others. Therefore, the transparency of paradigms does not mean their understandability but their resonant presence that engenders a symphony of thought in silence in which and from which transparadigmatic thinkers originate their thought.
Thoughts of others and various models and paradigms become presented to transparadigmatic thinkers as the unknown—as the pure singular otherness that is unknown and unknowable. This awareness moves transparadigmatic thinkers to listen in silence and in the space of that listening they originate, they give birth to, their own thought.
Transparadigmatic thinking is a never-ending dynamic, dramatic, suspenseful, and evolutionary process of thinking. It is in poiesis (generation/creation/production), not in poiemia (product). The focus is on the process of disclosure in listening, not on the trajectory of closure or conclusion.
A transparadigmatic perspective is ever so dynamic and dynamical. It is not really a perspective. It is not a static perspective or view but a dynamic perspecting or viewing. It is a vision-in-action and a vision-as-action. It is an active vision that ceaselessly unfolds and discloses the horizons of new visions.
Unlike the paradigmatic dialectic thought process, there is no winning or losing in argument nor is there any intentional attempt at synthesis or integration but a free and spontaneous origination of new thoughts in action in accordance with the individual’s unique perspective (‘perspecting’) unveiled through his/her self-knowing of his/her cosmic singularity.
Therefore, authentic transparadigmatic thinkers do not attempt to control or force a conversation in a particular, presumed direction but allow it to evolve with maximal spontaneity and optimal creativity and with readiness to be surprised by the emergence of the unexpected.