Seeing soul as a part of all that is living may require me to make a paradigm shift – a shift in perception, a new inner construction. It may not be so much an accumulation of new knowledge as a change in the way I see. Seeing the world as alive and teeming with soul and spirit is a shift in consciousness or a change in the way I am used to understanding things. The way that I perceive the world need not be fixed. After all, before Columbus, many people really did think the world was flat.

I am willing to see things differently.

The word paradigm comes from the Greek. . . . In the more general sense, it’s the way we “see