Paradigm Wars: Worldviews for a New Age

By Mark Woodhouse

Book Overview

In this powerful exploration of worldviews in transition, Mark Woodhouse examines current controversies in the quest for an integrative vision of reality. These include alternative medicine, holistic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883319420
• ISBN13: 9781883319427
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Frog Books
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for content and resources

This is a book that will inspire a paradigm shift in your own thinking. I discovered this book while conducting a recent search for academic works in the field of the philosophy of parapsychology. I've read each of the recent (past 20 years or so) books in this genre and this one is the best by far. It is thorough, comprehensive, interesting to say the least, and well written. This is now the book I recommend to friends and acquaintances more than any other. If a book is judged by the impact it has on the way you view and understand the world and thus the impact it has on your life, it's the best book I've read since Plato's 'Republic' and Raymond Moody's 'Life After Life' in college. Let me put it this way; for the week after I bought it I literally could not put it down except for obligatory commitments and for sleeping. I even continued reading while eating my meals!In short, buy it, read it and I promise you it will be the best money you've ever spent to expand your horizons.

Couldn't put it down!

Paradigm Wars is an amazing book that is not for the fainthearted or closedminded. You will not pick it up, read it through in a few sittings and feel as though you have gotten all you want. You will go back again and again. For example, imagine what a chapter entitled "Galactic Destiny" might contain that could stretch your imagination and blow your mind.Mark Woodhouse has managed to produce a work that exists somewhere between academic and pop genres, which provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of major topics of the New Age in an extremely readable style. Each chapter can actually stand alone as an individual book, if one were so inclined, and this reader was delighted to see the length and depth of the topics. If that were not enough, there are 35 pages of footnotes as a junping off place for further investigation.With over thirty years of academic achievement, Dr. Woohouse has the credentials to be taken very seriously in an arena that is so often misrepresented and misunderstood. As a philosopher he presents divergent points of view and then presents his own conclusions. Readers may agree or not. That's not the point. Presenting current thinking is what he has done so well. That the paradigm amy change tomorrow is not only probable but expected.This reader, for one, is looking forward to a sequel and, in the meantime, sharing Paradigm Wars with people I am guesing are ready for it. Not everyone is.

Great Until the End

Well researched, with just the right amount of open-mindedness and skpeticism. However, at the end of the book, I was taken aback by what appeared to be a full-scale defense of the thesis that UFOs are really flying saucers with little green men inside. I kept re-reading this section of the book to see if this was a joke. It appears not to be. Anyone who has seen a crop circle will stand in awe of its majesty and mystery, but to go from that to belief in little green guys is too much of a leap from me. But, then again, maybe I am a dummy, and I didn't fully understand this part.All in all, though, a very worthwhile read.

An eye-opening view into our common beliefs

Dr. Woodhouse explores our common paradigms, and offers brilliantly laid out views which we can adopt in the future. He writes to the common person, searching for an understanding of some of the worlviews and problems in society today. It is truly a eye-opening, and mind-expanding read that will leave you dizzy at the vastness of the scope it covers. Truly magnificent.

Congent, Clear and Comprehensive

Woodhouse gives a terrific distillation of the human condition. Reviewing fields such as transpersonal psychology, the "new physics," and parapsychology; as well as such topics as abortion, reincarnation, gender wars, NDEs, OBEs, environmental damage, and the challenges facing education, Mark frees us from narrow perspectives, and offers a comprehensive-transcedental paradigm (compiled from the works of the brilliant philosopher Ken Wilber) known in transpersonal psychology as "THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING". An excellent contribution that is greatly needed in our troubled times.