Shifting from Old Paradigm to New

SHIFTING FROM OLD PARADIGM TO NEW
By Jack Allis

(Excerpted from Chapter Two of Jack’s upcoming new book, 2012 & the Shift – Transforming Challenges into Blessings)

One of the definitions of the shift means a shifting from an old paradigm or world to a completely new one. It’s possible for us to understand this too in a variety of ways.
This too was a common feature of all the ancient prophecies, which echoed that this was an exceedingly rare and sacred opportunity to energetically and spiritually ascend from this material world to one of higher dimension. This ancient wisdom was also in tune with the natural world, with an inherent understanding that all of life’s great cycles involved regeneration. This means the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth into new life. On a macroscopic scale, it can be seen in the death and birth of stars and galaxies, and in the expansion and contraction of the universe, and on the microscopic, it can be seen in the seasons, and in the continuous regeneration of the cells of the human body.
We also know about the shift from old paradigm to new because we can see this playing out in our world every day. The old paradigm is unquestionably falling apart. Robert Ghost Wolf summed this up beautifully in Last Cry (page 152):

The Mayans tell us that during the cycle of life we are now entering, all structures that do not allow for the infusion of the Great Light, or Spirit, must and will fail. This has nothing to do with an “Indian Curse,” but rather the natural cycle of civilizations, a science we have long forgotten; seasons of human- kind. The structures the Mayans refer to in their prophesy include science, religion, social, and spiritual orders of our world societies. The Mayans continue by saying that, “Even the stones beneath the Earth will not go untouched by this light when it appears in our heavens.

At the time that I’m writing these words (May 2009), all of this is indeed happening, more evidence that the shift is already underway. The latest crack in the old paradigm is the collapse of the United States and world system of money and economics. Since the primary purpose of this book is to raise our frequency, not lower it, I will not go down the laundry list of all that ails the old paradigm. Let it suffice to say, as Ghost Wolf says, that all the old paradigm structures are sick, and dying.
And this makes perfect sense because the old paradigm is built on a fundamentally rotten foundation. This is why it cannot possibly sustain itself, which is what the Native Americans and other indigenous cultures have been telling us for hundreds, make that thousands of years. The old paradigm is built upon the foundation of two primary things. The first is that it places its primary emphasis on matter, or materialism, and this is at the expense of matter’s antithesis: spirituality. The old paradigm is all about material things in the material world. It is a world that is limited to what people can perceive with their five tangible senses – sight, sound, taste, smell and hearing. Higher consciousness and spirituality, and other non-rational states of consciousness, such as extrasensory perception, telepathy, and the multitude of other types of perception, which are outside of this narrow band, have no place in this old paradigm model. However, in the new paradigm, these higher states of consciousness and perception are the primary determinants of this new reality – this new world of light and spirit.
Another way of looking at the old paradigm is that it is the world our insane culture conditions or brainwashes us to believe is real, when, in fact, it is only one of a multitude of such worlds. The old paradigm is the world we see when we turn on the TV. And a key component of the old paradigm, which is by design, is limitation. In the old paradigm, people are cut off from the true source of their power, which is their higher consciousness and spirituality. As we will discuss in Chapter Four, the old paradigm is an illusion. Yes, folks, this is The Matrix. It is an illusion designed to keep us in a box of somebody else’s making, and for the purpose of keeping us under their control.
The second essential feature of the old paradigm’s decadent foundation is an old bugaboo, which so many of us have struggled with in the old paradigm. This is control. The old paradigm is all about control, and specifically controlling the forces of nature for the purpose of achieving a material outcome. The old paradigm takes from nature without giving back. It plunders the Earth, and justifies its actions in the name of industrial, technological and financial progress. All of which means this is a system that cannot possibly sustain itself because it is in fundamental violation of divine law. Divine law, from every viable spiritual tradition on Earth, past and present, clearly tells us that an essential feature of a spiritual world, which is capable of sustaining itself, is living in harmony with nature, and with the natural forces of both the external and internal world. Living in disharmony inevitably results in the collapse of the system, and in this case, the possible extinction of the human race.
This too was well understood and prophesized by our ancient indigenous sources. They all tell us that this was a time when our old paradigms, not connected to spirit, or to “the infusion of the Great Light,” would fall, creating the opportunity to create the new world of light and spirit from its ashes. And they all tell us too that there is only one way to do this. This is with the power of our higher consciousness and spirituality, and through the process of energetic ascension.