Choosing Your Future Story – Unraveling Shaltazar

This episode unravels The Gift of Personal Choice. We spend our lifetimes painting a grand mural detailing our experiences here on Gaia. At this time of great spiritual awakening, we find ourselves at a threshold. To our left is a completed mural filled with the images borne of mind-centered, unconscious habit, and to the right, a blank canvas longing for the brushstrokes of a conscious, spiritually aware, soulfully awakened artist. How your story ends is up to you. Choose what you paint wisely.

Transcript

Hello spiritual seekers!

Welcome to another episode of the Unraveling Shaltazar podcast featuring me,

Mark Lane,

Spiritual seeker,

Writer and Shaltazar enthusiast,

Along with the mouthpiece of Shaltazar,

Jeffrey Eisen,

My good friend and collaborator.

For those of you who may be unfamiliar,

Jeffrey is a Toronto based spiritual life coach,

Teacher and channeler of a spiritual entity who goes by the name Shaltazar.

With the help and support of Shaltazar's cosmic wisdom,

It is Jeffrey's mission to assist in shifting the consciousness of our planet.

It is my pleasure to assist Jeffrey in making this marvelous wisdom available to the largest possible audience and to unravel it in an understandable and comprehensible way.

Hello Jeffrey!

Hello Mark!

How are you today?

I'm doing well.

I'm doing well and how about you?

Not bad,

Not bad.

It's a bit cloudy but the weather,

The temperature has improved so you know we can go outside without bundling up which is always a welcome element of the coming of spring.

Yeah,

We are officially in spring and it's kind of interesting that you say that because I'm so used to the winter,

You know,

We didn't get a chance to travel this winter and so even though the temperatures are up and it feels like spring,

For me it's sort of like,

Is winter over?

Can I wear my lighter jacket?

It's sort of,

And it's kind of,

I'm finding it very interesting because I know as we come out of the COVID habits that we have been in for the last year,

I'm wondering whether there's some residue.

Are we going to be able to move into that new normal?

Are we going to be able to feel the freedom?

Are we going to,

For those of us that wear masks,

You know,

How comfortable are you going to be?

I know up here in Canada there's a number of people that are getting vaccinated.

I know in the United States there's even more but yet those are the ones,

They're still wearing their masks and so it's not as evident and so as I'm watching spring come in and the longer days,

I'm still kind of feeling a winter energy and not the embrace that I would like to have saying it's spring,

Hooray,

You know,

Start doing the the spring dance and so watching on in fascination as we're changing from one energy one season to another season,

A different energy and how people are reacting or responding and I know the topic you've chosen today is around that personal choice kind of thing so be interesting to see how our conversation unfolds when we talk about that conscious choice that you can make.

The temperature says it's warm but I don't know about you it's sort of like I'm still waiting for that snowstorm to come again.

Yeah,

Yeah,

Well yeah,

In around here at least March is known for that,

You know,

You'll get a day in the 60s or 70s and then,

You know,

Three days later it'll snow three inches and that's already happened this March so far so I'm hoping maybe that that was the last hurrah of winter and we are now gonna actually move into an actual spring but yeah,

We never know.

Yeah,

Yeah,

One of the,

I think I read it online or something that Toronto this week is gonna have all four seasons in one week which is kind of interesting,

Eh,

It's sort of like we're in this time capsule and it's like okay we're gonna give you winter,

Spring,

Summer and fall all in a week.

Yeah,

Yeah,

Enjoy it.

Well,

We,

You know,

We did talk about,

You know,

Time moving faster but I think that's taken it a little bit too far.

Yeah,

Time can do it at once just leave the weather alone.

Thank heavens we have weather to kick off our weekly chats.

Yeah,

We're like old people talking about weather and,

You know,

Our backaches.

Yeah,

I wish you wouldn't have said that.

Sorry,

I take it back.

Okay,

Okay,

Thank you.

Anybody that heard that please just,

You know,

Back up and pretend you didn't hear Mark admit that we were old folks.

So on that note,

Let's turn,

Let's turn that around.

We're proud to be old folks Mark,

We're proud,

There it is,

Okay,

We're gonna be talking about this personal choice thing,

Right,

So I'm gonna make this personal choice that it's not,

It's not bad to get old,

It's,

It's,

It's glad to get old.

Right,

I mean,

Think of the wealth of experience we have to share with people,

Right?

And here we are sharing it with as many people as want to listen to us.

Correct,

Exactly,

Exactly.

So on that note,

Let's,

Let's,

Let's dive in here.

The gift of personal choice was the message I picked.

It's,

It's one of the longer,

One of the longer messages,

One of the longer recordings,

I think it was just around 30 minutes or so.

And it,

It didn't say in here,

But it struck me as a live recording.

Is that,

Is that?

Definitely,

100%,

Yeah,

Definitely.

And,

And,

And,

And of course,

When you,

When you made that suggestion,

You know,

You mentioned you thought it was live and the sound quality wasn't great,

It's like,

And I was cringing.

But,

But again,

And thank you for choosing these.

So I get to,

To have these experiences.

It was very reminiscent,

There was a time where I scheduled live events.

And at one point in there,

It talks about this evening or something.

And it,

It reminded me,

I was right back there,

Where I was in various venues,

And we would invite people and we would never get really big crowds,

But you know,

Sometimes we get 15 or 20 people.

And it was my opportunity just to bring forth the channeling.

And,

And of course,

The poor sound quality is me just having a recording device.

I don't think it was my cell phone,

I tried to buy something a little bit better.

And,

And so,

You know,

The music was playing in the background,

And I would just start to channel.

And in those days,

They were,

You know,

They were 20 to 30 minutes.

And again,

It was a,

It was a very nostalgic experience for me.

And it had given me an opportunity to realize how my channeling has evolved.

And for anyone that is connecting to the divine,

Anyone that is doing channeling,

Or,

Or just connecting to your intuition,

I encourage you to reflect on on how that connection changes,

Because how I,

I channel Shaltazar is quite different.

And so again,

I thank you for that opportunity to,

To reminisce,

Because the the style and the flow of words was was very different.

But nonetheless,

I found it an interesting message.

So thank you for choosing.

Oh,

Sure.

Oh,

My pleasure.

I,

I have a,

You know,

I have a list of them.

And I,

You know,

I just kind of thumb through them or browse through them on on the website and,

You know,

Through insight timer and every once in a while,

One of them just keeps catching my eye.

And those are the ones that I that I kind of stop and pause and consider.

I've avoided this one for a couple weeks because of its length and you're just the time to listen to it.

I didn't have you know,

A half hour to devote.

And I was glad I did it.

It's interesting to me that you know that these messages they have a theme or they have a story that they're telling.

But there's also stuff going on kind of on the periphery on the edges of the message that is also really interesting to me.

And you know,

In this one,

I mean,

Typically the channeling is kind of started with a bit of a preamble.

And there was,

There was some,

Some,

Some content in this preamble that I thought was,

That was kind of made me stop and go,

Hmm,

That's,

That's fascinating.

It talked about,

You know,

Some of you,

You know,

Shelters are seeing some of you we know are working diligently connect with that,

With the spiritual essence.

And we thank you for your effort because when you do so you're not only helping yourself,

But you're also aiding,

Assisting and increasing the vibration of the collective consciousness.

The efforts you are making to find your essence,

To remember who you truly are,

Are having an effect,

An effect on your planet.

And that,

That's,

You know,

We've talked about this before.

It's like,

You know,

As you become more conscious,

As you become more aware,

As you,

You know,

You,

You meditate more and you become more spiritual.

It feels good personally,

But it seems also to be adding to the spiritual content of the entire planet,

Which is more and more people.

I mean,

You know,

Two years ago,

I'd never heard of Insight Timer and now there's,

You know,

There's a million subscribers.

And so,

I mean,

As that,

Is that focus or that,

That approach starts to,

To,

To grow,

It seems like it's growing,

Having global effects.

Exponentially.

Right.

Yeah.

Exponentially.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And,

And,

And thank you for pointing that out.

Shaltazar,

Every once in a while,

Congratulates those that are on the journey for the work that they're doing and how more and more people are embarking on that journey.

And again,

I think that's a little bit more reminiscent of,

Of the older style where it was,

It was like a warmup,

So to speak.

And,

And,

And I,

I really don't know,

I can't remember what I was going through,

But it's like,

Okay,

I'm just going to sort of talk and see what comes through and hopefully there'll be some sort of message.

And maybe that was part of my training to,

To have confidence and trust and faith that they are going to bring something of value through,

Because they just start with this,

You know,

Thanking people for the,

For the work they're doing and raising the higher vibration.

Of course,

When I was listening to it,

I,

I,

I kind of didn't pay attention to that as much because I know that we're going to be discussing and it's like,

Come on,

Let's get on,

Let's get onto the meat of this message.

Let's get onto the essence of it.

And so thanks for,

For bringing that up because I do recall listening to it and I didn't pay as much attention to it as maybe I could have because shelters are on a regular basis.

Thanks.

Those,

I think there is a message that says,

Thank you for your contribution or thank you for coming forth as a human being in these,

In these monumental times,

This monumental time of human history.

So they do show their appreciation for what we're going through.

One,

One point in there that I thought was interesting,

They actually,

And this was,

This was a number of years ago because I haven't done lives for a long time and it was certainly pre-COVID,

But they did make a declaration that the decision has been made,

We're not going to Armageddon.

I don't know if you recall hearing that.

And it was like,

Hmm,

That's kind of brash.

I,

I,

I hope they're right.

But it came across very,

Very strong and very matter of fact that the decision is made,

The collective consciousness has decided,

We are not going to,

You know,

The,

The humanity is not going to move in to,

To extinction.

However,

Having said that,

And we've talked about it a few times before,

Doesn't mean that there's not going to be a thinning out,

Doesn't,

Doesn't mean that we're not going to have a less is more,

And that we're not going to have change.

But they are assuring us that humanity as human beings on planet earth will continue to exist.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When I,

When I read that it said that the collective consciousness has made the choice that human beings on planet earth will continue in existence.

I immediately leapt to,

You know,

Atlantis and Lemuria.

And my assumption is that,

That the opposite was the case.

It was,

You know,

They decided,

You know,

To hit the reset button and start over and and were,

You know,

One of the,

The end result of that reset,

I guess.

And,

And there are some other messages that,

That Shaltazar talks about the,

The energy of the great potential for change.

And they use the example of Lemuria and Atlantis that chose not to.

And they even,

And it's interesting,

Because we're going to be talking about personal free choice.

They're saying that no choice is a choice.

And that,

That Lemuria,

They,

They hinted towards the fact that,

That Atlantis and Lemuria refused to make the choice to change,

That they,

They were quite content with the status quo.

And,

And,

You know,

One could,

Could understand that they were very,

Very advanced and,

And their technology was starting to catch up and,

And,

And maybe there was that resistance between moving forward or,

Or staying where they were.

And so,

You know,

That's,

That's that free choice thing that,

That,

That then this message started to move into and the rest of the message was all around the,

The,

The gift of,

Of the power of choice.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean,

We,

We've talked about I think creative people are all,

Whether they know it or not,

Channeling something.

You know,

We've talked about that with,

I mean,

You do it in a very direct way.

I feel that I am receiving information that I write.

I think musicians do the same thing and you,

You know,

I'm a,

I've told you I'm a big fan of your countrymen Rush.

And if anybody is interested in experiencing a sort of commercial spirituality,

You read the lyrics of Rush songs,

But one of the songs has a stanza and it says,

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.

If you choose not to decide,

You still have made a choice,

Which is kind of what this message is all about.

It's,

It's,

It's using your power of choice for your greatest good.

And as a result for the greatest good of the collective.

A hundred percent.

And I think my favorite,

I mean,

My favorite part of this is this message is this concept of the mural,

You know,

The mural of your life.

Me too.

I love it.

I love it.

But before we want to move on to the,

To the mural,

I just want to say that,

And I lost my thought.

Oh no,

Yes it is.

I got it back.

You're right.

The channeling I do is more direct,

But it's fascinating,

Whether it's your writing or Rush's lyrics or my wife's abstract art.

Spirituality is coming through in so many different ways that I encourage listeners to open up to receiving that.

There are some people that will listen to that Rush song and really vibrate with the lyrics.

Others will vibrate with the,

The melody.

Others will vibrate with the written word.

Don't think that you need to get your spirituality from pure and applied spiritual teaching,

A guru,

Et cetera,

Et cetera.

You make an excellent point that,

That spiritual wisdom comes through in our yin,

Comes through in our creativity.

And so whatever you are drawn towards in terms of creativity,

Whether it is art or music or writing or,

Or anything,

Allow yourself to go there because that is a very important part of the spiritual journey.

Would you agree?

Oh,

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I think,

I think it's always been going on and we never really regarded it as such.

You know,

We always thought that,

You know,

I just wrote a really good song or,

You know,

This came from me.

I don't think any of it does.

I think all of it is coming through us into the world and we're just the,

We're just the conduit for,

For this spiritual or celestial wisdom that's,

That's being brought to us.

And the more that we perhaps pay attention to it,

You know,

I think the easier it is for us to,

To,

To do it and for us all to be,

In some creative way,

A conduit for this,

For this wisdom.

Right,

Right.

And,

And a very important,

I believe a very important step in,

In,

In receiving this divine wisdom is the interpretation.

So I encourage people to listen to that song with new ears,

To look at that art with new eyes,

To be able to interpret this spiritual wisdom that has been coming through for ages and ages in,

In a different way.

And I know myself,

You know,

I could have listened to a song before I began my journey and it felt a certain way.

And,

And now it feels an entirely different way.

I,

I'll watch a movie and I'll see the spiritual nuance underneath it.

And I wonder,

Do other people get that?

Right.

And so it's really kind of neat.

So I don't want to take us off on too much of a tangent,

But you know,

Embrace that,

That creativity that's out there and look at it through the eyes of interpreting it as spiritual wisdom coming through.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's good,

That's good advice.

And then speaking of that art,

It was kind of interesting in that,

In this message,

That,

That analogy of the mural,

I loved,

I loved listening to it again.

And I,

I don't say that from a place of ego.

I thought it was really fascinating how they,

To emphasize this point,

They talked about your life being this,

This mural called Your Life.

And,

And I love that,

That's a really,

Really good,

And I love that.

And one of the parts I loved,

I don't know if you noticed it,

But when they,

They talk about looking at the mural and when you look to the left,

That's your past.

And it's,

It's completely full.

It's all painted,

Whether you did it or not,

Even when you were going through parts of your life with nothing,

Because that mural is around you and everyone else in your life and family and friends,

That is completely filled with the fact that it is your life,

Whether it's,

You know,

It's a busy painting or it's a quiet,

Tranquil painting,

It is your life.

And then they say,

Look to the right where the canvas is blank,

And realize that that's where,

That's what's coming up in your life.

And I thought that was really a very stark image for me to realize that we are the creators of our art,

And beginning in the next moment,

It's blank,

And I get to choose how I create it.

And that sort of looking,

I,

You know,

That image of me,

You know,

Being in the art gallery,

Looking at this really expansive mural and half of it or three quarters of it,

They really didn't tell us what size.

They basically,

They sort of left,

We're not going to tell you how far your mural goes,

But looking at a good portion of it completed,

And a portion of it that is blank really drove home the fact to me that I am,

It's my responsibility to create what goes on in this blank canvas called my life,

The mural of my life moving forward.

Right,

Right.

And that was kind of that idea of,

You know,

If you choose not to paint your mural,

It's still going to get painted.

It's just that you're giving that power away,

That power of choice away to others,

And letting them,

You know,

Letting them paint your story.

And that was kind of,

You know,

A powerful moment for me,

You know,

You have the choice to make that painting look the way you want it to,

Or you can step back and,

You know,

Wash your hands of it and let somebody else do it for you.

Yes,

And that's a good point.

As you may be considering that,

You may say,

Oh,

Well,

Other people aren't painting it,

It's me that's painting it.

But what came to me was often our conditioned beliefs,

Our patterns,

Our automatic way of reaction.

I mean,

I'm 68,

And,

You know,

For 50 years of my life,

I was on autopilot,

I was in the matrix.

And so that's what was writing or creating my mural.

And every once in a while,

I,

If I don't put the effort into being conscious,

Those pattern beliefs,

Those unconscious patterns will come forward.

So it's not like,

It's not like your boss or your siblings or your partner is the one that's creating it.

You are creating it,

But you are creating it from this place of not being as conscious with the choices you're making.

And I think that's important to realize.

It would be so easy to say,

Oh,

No,

I know I'm creating my life.

But are you creating it consciously?

Or are you creating it from old patterns?

Sure.

Well,

Let me offer this.

Maybe that unconscious autopilot creating,

Maybe what we're looking at is the creation of ego versus the creation of spirit.

And so,

You know,

That whole history may have been a left brain creation.

And now we're asking,

You know,

They're asking us to step into the right brain and let spirit dictate what goes on the rest of the canvas.

Brilliant.

Yes,

I love it.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

To create from that flow,

To create from not the stress and structure of the left brain.

Before we,

You know,

We got on this podcast,

You and I were talking about how the left brain seems to come in and fill the void.

And the obsessive mind is often directing us where we don't want to.

And so,

You know,

Bringing it back to that conversation we had about creativity,

Allowing your mural to come more from the creative genius of the great artists,

The great writers,

The great creatives,

Those people.

You know,

When Rush came up with those lyrics,

We weren't there,

We don't know,

But it must have been a divine inspiration because it just feels that way.

It certainly feels that way to me.

And so,

Allow your mural to come more from spirit painting it rather than the structure of the left brain.

Yeah,

That's it.

Believe it or not,

We used up our whole time already,

But I think that's the essence of this message.

It's not choice,

Perhaps,

As we think of it in our day-to-day,

You know,

Our day-to-day life.

You know,

Do I want pizza or a hamburger for dinner?

It's that choice to respond to life from within versus responding to life from our conditioned behaviors and beliefs.

Right,

Right.

There are other messages and maybe we'll talk about them in the coming weeks.

Do you want to let your heart lead or do you want to let your head lead?

And so,

I think you've taken a beautiful spin on this message.

It's not just about choice,

But it's about that bigger sense of who do you want to lead your life,

Spirit or conditioned beliefs from the mind.

Beautiful.

Excellent.

Can't believe our time is up.

Yeah,

I can't either.

It was a good one though.

I'm glad we talked through this one.

Yeah,

Right.

Thank you so much for choosing it,

Mark.

Oh,

Certainly my pleasure.

We'll talk to you again next time.

Excellent.

Love and light to everyone.

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