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  1. Total Human Development and Harmony Through Synergism

  2. Holistic Health Care and Medicine

  3. Deep Ecology and Harmony with Nature 

  4. Sense of History and Sense of Mission

  5. Civics and Democratic Governance

  6. Culture as Community Creativity

  7. Light-Seeking and Light-Sharing Education

  8. Gender Sensitivity, Equality & Harmony

  9. Reconstructive/Restor-

ative Justice

10. Associative Economics, Social Capital and Sustainable Development

11. Synergetic Leadership and Organizations

12. Appropriate/Adaptive Technology

13. Mutual Enrichment of Families and Friendships

14. Human Dignity and Human Harmony: Human Rights and Peace

15. Aesthetics Without Boundaries: 'Art from the Heart'   

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Synergism plays a crucial role in Total Human Development and Harmony and we have decided to promote the development and promotion of this spiritual and scientific principle by providing for all interested individuals, associations and institutions these web pages carrying a humble but growing collection of items for individual and collective study and application, with mechanisms for the healthy sharing and mutual enrichment of views. 

We are now offering 15 Empowering Paradigms, listed at the left column, with links to clusters of articles that we have so far been able to collect and upload.  Anyone who knows our website address, or has access to sites that carry active links to it, may read our items and post comments about them. And we are open to discuss any suggestions posted, including those carrying criticisms. 

Frequent visitors and other serious students of Human Synergetics are invited to join the Lambat-Liwanag ('Web of Light') Network as members committed to share the light of truth and wisdom with the people around them and collect more light from them, and share all this light for human development and harmony through this on-line library project. 

Introductory Articles

Paradigms or Paradigm Shifts are terms that come from the writings of Thomas Kuhn, specifically The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which was published in 1970. Instead of the "model" sense of the word, "paradigm" as used in this website refers to the "patterns of thinking and behavior."

Out-of-the-box organic wisdom is at the core of the Paradigm Shifts.  Such was displayed, even at gunpoint, by Apo Macli-ing Dulag, defiant leader of the Cordillera People in the Philippine Archipelago.  His oft-quoted pronouncement on land ownership addresses one of the few remaining vestiges of the pre-human thinking and behavior. (One such pre-human practice, once widespread and "accepted," was slavery.) For this reason, we decided to name this on-line library after him, and to soft-launch it last April 24, the 25th anniversary of his death.

This "library" is a vehicle for a broad ethical but free discourse on themes and topics that we believe are crucially-important to human development and harmony. It seeks to contribute to the ongoing evolutionary and revolutionary process, as increasingly aided by modern information and communication technology. Thus it is open to comments, as well as entire article contributions, that seek to support, broaden or rebut or refine comments or articles earlier posted here.

Paradigm shifts now comprise the more substantial elements of a Global Revolution, which should, perhaps, be more appropriately referred to as the final stages of the ongoing Evolutionary Process from the "pre-human homo sapiens" stage to fully-human "Man-Hu" consciousness of the Oneness of All"

The "Paradigm Shifts" listed here do not include one on local communities, because the Lambat-Liwanag is predisposed to regard them, as well as the families that comprise them, as the main locus of all the realities that are spoken about in this "on-line library."  Even if some of the paradigms do pertain to praxis in bigger constituencies (voluntary clusters of local communities), the measure of importance we can accord any pattern of thinking and behavior depends on  how much this is reflected in the  thinking and behavior of the average members of families or local communities. Localities are where realities live, not in the numerous filing cabinets of some government or private entity about all sort of policies and plans that do not affect the localities at all.

Commmunity members are ultimately the ones who create their respective cultures, for better of for worse.

Initial Collection of Articles

& Book References:

The initial collection carried here comes largely from our own writings, as presented in A Gathering of Light for Empowerment: Documentation of the 'First Lambat-Liwanag Conference on Empowering Paradigms, published in Manila in 2002 jointly by the University of Sto. Tomas Social Research Center (UST-SRC) and SanibLakas (Synergy) Foundation. The conference itself was held on October 26, 2001, as jointly convened by the Lambat-Liwanag Network (with seven founding academe-based centers), SanibLakas Foundation, and UST-SRC. (click here for details)

The inclusion in this collection of copyrighted items created by persons and entities outside our network is an indication that we are strongly recommending these for perusal by serious students of the Empowering Paradigms.  We have not been able to secure information as to whom and at what address we should write to in order to request official permission for their inclusion.  As soon as we receive such information, we shall seek the permission, and if such is officially denied, we are ready to remove this item in this collection, albeit reluctantly.  We can be reached via <lambat_liwanag@yahoo.com>.

Membership in the Network:

Anybody in any country, of whatever age, gender, occupation, or political affiliation, if any, may sign up to be a member of the Lambat-Liwanag Network for Empowering Paradigms, by accomplishing and submitting the feedback box with the following words in the comments box below: 

Upon acceptance, every member shall be linked up with the other members of the paradigm group appropriate according to the choice(s) declared.

Posting of Comments

& Contributions:

Postings of comments on any item here are welcome, and they will be uploaded in appropriate web pages or sections of web pages. Priority for processing will be given to postings from members of the Lambat-Liwanag, and all postings shall be subject to editing for focus and brevity. 

Contributed articles promoting any or a number of these empowering paradigms are welcome. We will exercise judgment on which paradigm to classify each contributed article, with due notice to the contributors. It is the responsibility of the contributors to clearly and completely identify the sources of the articles, with background information on the author and on the work.

To read initial responses from viewers, click here.

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