Changing The Paradigm - Dissecting The Wisdom

And welcome back to another edition of Dissecting the Wisdom of Shaltazar.

Welcome back,

Mark.

Hi Jeffrey,

How are you today?

Excellent,

Excellent.

I am great.

We've just gone through a period of the solstice and a new moon and eclipse and so the energy is all shaken up and I am looking forward to our conversation today as I do every week with you.

Why don't you tell the listeners which message we're gonna be talking about.

The message I chose for this week was changing the paradigm.

Mm-hmm,

Changing the paradigm.

And what drew you to that one?

I think that change has become at the forefront of everyone's lives so much lately.

I was working on a written piece and I had listened to this and read it some time ago and for some reason while I was writing it was tapping me on the shoulders.

I was like,

There must be something there that that I'm supposed to supposed to think about.

So I pulled it back out and I looked at it again and I think that what I was writing was connected to this idea of control and how we as humans feel predisposed to control each other and how we are in many ways controlled by a lot of what I seem to think are I guess things that I think are maybe outdated constructs in society that are informing what we do and coloring our values and it just seemed like that whole idea of being controlled was sort of the forefront of this message.

Excellent,

Excellent.

Yeah,

I want to talk about control but before I do,

It's interesting because when you choose a message I go in and check it out and there are now going to be somewhere around 95 or 96 of these messages and often,

And of course I can't remember them all,

So often the title is representative of what it is and I find myself judging what it is by the title and then I get back into it,

Re-listen to it,

Re-read it and say oh yeah okay I remember that one.

It wasn't quite what I thought it was and you know I don't spend a lot of time coming up with titles.

I channel first and then sort of say well what should I call it and I am by no means an expert in marketing because I do not sort of find the keywords.

I just sort of say well what am I going to call this one and so although it's called changing the paradigm there,

You know when I re-listen to it and re-read it there was so much more to it and so I just encourage listeners don't necessarily get put off by the title,

Do it the way Mark does and just allow your intuition to draw you to one of the messages.

You may find that you know the minds assessment of the title is a little bit off and you might have been getting an intuitive nudge for the body of the message so I just wanted to point that out.

I love what you're talking about control because as you're talking about control of course we think of man's desire to control other men but and women of course but there's also you know the desire for us to be in control ourselves and so this message is is I think on a multi-level basis.

I know I'm struggling with that me trying to be in control because as I've tapped more into my intuition tapped into shelter czar and they keep telling me to surrender I'm always trying to stay in control it's something that was you know natural for me obviously conditioned in my belief and so it's no wonder that that people want to control other people because I believe that we have learned to try and control ourselves so have you found that in yourself you find yourself trying to be in control?

Well I think it's it's almost like a a conditioned response to life in many ways I mean you know we're sort of all taught that you know you gotta you gotta be proactive right you've got to make a difference you know take action and as a result I you know I mean I think action is an important component of you know manifestation in in you know in any situation but I think the idea of inspired action is different than than action wrought or brought forth by control right you know when when we're trying to make life happen on our own terms instead of on the universe's terms we're exerting or attempting at least to exert our control over over situations and circumstances when we follow spirit or we we you know we allow the universe to sort of lead us to a choice and then take action on that choice it's a it's a it's a whole different experience.

Yeah yeah and what comes to mind for me is is as I grapple with that whole control thing in order for me to make the decision that I I'm going to give up that control I find that the only thing that helps is is trust and faith because if I believe it's just me I if I believe that I'm the one fully responsible for what's going to happen in my life then I'm gonna want to be in control but if I can trust the higher power if I can trust my intuition if I can trust that which I do not know and Shaltazar has mentioned that on numerous occasions that we will never fully know the invisible world so they're asking us to trust that which we do not fully comprehend or understand it is when I trust that I can give up control and and one you know trite example is is my schedule I'm always scheduling things and sometimes people are cancelling and and sometimes my calendar is completely full right back to back and and other times it's got lots of spaces and I find myself trying to be in control of oh my goodness I need more space in there or oh I'm gonna be bored I don't have enough to do and when I give up control and trust things really work out I've had numerous occasions where you know my Calendly scheduling kind of screwed up a little bit and I had back-to-back sessions and I said okay well I'll just surrender and sure enough one of the sessions canceled out and I had some space so for me when it comes to my scheduling I have given up control to the universe and it's working out really well for me I just have this great trust that if there's a space in my calendar it's because I'm going to need some personal space I'm going to not be in this in the mood or the energy for to be able to coach with people so you know I don't know how you feel about it but in order to give up control you have to feel comfortable to give it up to something else and I think a lot of people give up their control to the government's institutions religions you know their family and that hasn't worked out that well for me but I find when I give up my control to to the universe things work out much better yeah yeah that's that's that's a really good point I think that the faith component of it is probably what holds most people back from you know making making that choice to trust the universe versus trusting you know some sort of man-made institution you know people are they seem predisposed to well you know if something's not right in their world to you know okay you know we'll call the police well you know well you know blame the government will you know call upon our elected officials the there's there has to be a component of faith I think to to truly like authentically you know really you know release control and and you're right it seems like as soon as you're able to you know to make that choice everything sort of sort of falls into place and everything kind of aligns itself it's remarkable and it doesn't seem like you know it's almost like you you don't trust it takes some some practice to trust that experience and to trust that it's gonna work that way but then once it does a few times you're like okay yeah okay this this is this this does work it you know yeah I can let go and I can trust and and I'll get my answers or I'll get what I'm you know what I'm looking for and I think part of the frustration that that I'm noticing in the world right now is that that trust or faith has got to be put into governments and and you know with regard to COVID-19 people that are supposed to be educated in in in pandemics and I think the frustration is that we're finding that they may be making decisions that are somewhat opposed to what we believe so I think I think this is an ideal time for us to look at that whole control issue and realize that it's an opportunity to shift a little bit in one paragraph it says for you see when those who are controlled who are oppressed get to the point of extreme frustration from being controlled they tend to rise up and often fight back but they choose to do so in the only way that they know the way they were taught to rise up to revolt against those that oppress them and to control them back if you look at human history you will realize that for too long all human beings do is try to control each other and then a few paragraphs later they're saying if we're gonna get by that if we're gonna create a new world order a new humanity we require and they say a shift in perspective a shift in thinking it requires a move from the energy of control competition and keeping people down to the energy of cooperation collaboration and of empowering people it requires a major philosophical shift in believing in the goodness of humankind it requires taking off the shackles of those who are different it requires that you teach others to connect with their power and we know your first thought is that once others are empowered they will want to control you that is an old paradigm old energy and it's interesting as I'm reading that they're talking about those that are different and it's no coincidence that this whole pandemic thing at the same time is bringing up the race relationship issue that we've talked about and so you can see that I do anyway that the universe is really kind of planned what's happening right now as this opportunity to relook at our philosophy our beliefs and our values yeah yeah that's a good point oh and you probably won't be surprised to know that I highlighted those those two sections also of course I wouldn't be surprised I would be surprised if we didn't which is kind of interesting um I want to come back because for whatever reason I'm being tugged back to this trust and faith and and yes we can have trust in faith in the higher power but we do live in a world of human beings we do live in different countries different cultures different religions different governments and so I don't think it's appropriate to advise people to just ignore that and just trust this invisible power we need to decide who we're going to trust and and that's why I think I truly believe that the political systems need to change because whether they're dictatorships whether they're democracies I see that the trust is being eroded in in governments trust is being eroded in the bureaucracy in order for us to not try to control in order for us not to try to get our way we need to trust and I think that we have an epidemic of lack of trust in the world yeah I agree it's almost like the universe has decided to let let governments make a mockery of themselves in many ways and it seems to be that that and again you know obviously we can't see into the future but you know the this message talks about the shift we're the paragraph after the paragraph you just read that said that the shift we are talking about if it occurs will take several generations to happen as some are empowered they may become more fearful and the fear will in their fear will heighten and they will use their power in old ways of controlling others are fighting back it's it seems like we might be in that period right now where you know the the you know this pandemic is is kind of erased international boundaries in a lot of ways you know it used to be when something or you know something global happened there were it was polarizing right there were two sides you know there was there was the good guys and the bad guys there the east and the west or the north and the south right right exactly and and this is this is you know it's united everyone in a way against you know one common irritant and so it seems to me that that there's a there's a feeling or an energy that's coming out of this whole thing of of community you know people seem to be a little bit more tolerant of each other seem to be a little less inclined to control each other and you know so maybe where this is all heading and I'm not you may be more familiar familiar with the the structures of you know some of these ancient civilizations we've talked about like Lemuria and Atlantis but they almost my impression is that they were self governing that they didn't really need a centralized government you know that was controlling the people and giving them rules and regulations and and and and precepts to follow they were there more as a support mechanism and the people more or less governed themselves it was their their attitudes and their perspectives and their you know they lived more from the heart less from the head and and when you know an entire civilization is like that well what do you need governments for I mean maybe that's the direction we're going 100% I'm with you 100% well I mean let's dream and imagine of utopia I believe that this control thing that as you as as the world got bigger people decided to control others and then there was the fighting back and the more you feel controlled the more you want to control others and and shelters are makes that point very very definitively in this is that that when you are being controlled you fight back with control and so we've got a drop all of the war of control of trying to control each other and switch more to empowerment I think that that it really requires an attitude change shelters are made it very very clear that the world will not change until the individuals change it's the old as within so without so the only way that we're going to change the need for rules regulations government control is if we look within and how much are we trying to control ourselves and how much are we judging ourselves and and all of that so to me this is just another another vote for what we've talked about all along with regard to covert it's an opportunity to go within it's an opportunity to do that in our work and all of those people that are out there protesting I think it's because no matter which side of the protest you're on it's because they are feeling that divisiveness within themselves they're feeling that sense of control so I I agree with you if we are to move back to more of a utopian way it's going to be because we're going to do the work on the inside that we're going to stop being so competitive we're gonna stop being so controlling and last week we talked about you know things that we're missing because of kovat and one of them was sports and and you know that whole sports and athletic culture is very competitive it's all about winning and losing so it's really time you know I think the United Nations should create some committees to sort of look at the world situation and where we want the world to be going and I don't think we're we're taking enough of that big picture perspective I just want to end by by commenting on what you talked about the whole world situation I don't look at the news that often but every once in a while you know I'll open up an article and I'll see a picture and it's like oh okay yeah that looks familiar and then I find out it's in Korea or it's in some other part of the world and it's like whoa yes we are all going through this this to a certain degree is United us United us not in a very positive way but it's United us we're all fighting this invisible enemy now if we could and and and there's collaboration and cooperation in terms of cures and vaccines whether you're pro vaccine or anti vaccine it doesn't really matter but there is cooperation because we are fighting one invisible enemy why can't we keep that going after this is over yeah I hope we can I mean I think that that's you know there's been there's been you know and we've talked about this but there's been talk about you know returning you know when things return to normal maybe we don't want things to return to normal maybe this is this is you know an opportunity to you know to you know affect you know serious and long-lasting change and to you know again you know according you know following along with the with the message you know change the paradigm change the paradigm to you know to a cooperative collaborative environment instead of you know falling back into our old ways and our old habits that you know weren't really working right near the end it says for you see the only way your world will change from one of control to one of empowerment is when the hearts of the many open up when the world realizes the need to feel more and think less it is then that you will witness more compassion more caring more understanding more love or when that is the case there will be no need to fear your fellow human beings there will be no need to control others so I don't know about you but you know I'm an optimist as I approach you know closer to the end of my life I really want to believe that we can change the world and make it a better place and I gotta say I just keep saying it over and over again the only way to do that is to begin to change yourself right I couldn't agree more right and that's our message for today any last words mark nope I'm out of words now that is something for a writer who is the master of words and sometimes maybe that's just best we just say nothing right so thank you listeners thank you mark so much for this beautiful conversation this banter this example of cooperation and collaboration we don't fight with each other we we complement each other and hopefully that energy inspires our listeners to do the same so light and love to you all we look forward to you tuning in again next week thanks mark thanks Jeffrey