Paradigm Shift

It can be a slow process

Just as the crowds erupted in cheering everything seemed to change. People were filled with a torrent of hope and relief. A new paradigm was being birthed.

Of course there were still a tiny few who refused to release the old paradigms, clinging to them with all their might. To them any sort of change is a threat.

Back when the masses believed that the Earth was flat and then men sailed their ships all around the world there were still people who refused to believe that the planet was round (even to this day). Back when humans collectively believed that they were stuck on the planet and space travel was impossible, men went to the moon and back to prove them wrong yet some humans refused to acknowledge it, claiming it all happened on a Hollywood movie set.

When humans are brought up within paradigms and told to never question them that becomes their reality, their comfort zone. When new revelations shatter old paradigms their realities are threatened and people will cling to the beliefs they were conditioned with out of extreme fear of anything outside of those conditioned beliefs.

Beliefs are like a prison. The door to the prison can be opened and left open and many people will refuse to walk out of the prison because their fear is greater than their quest for freedom. This is true on personal levels as well as collective societal levels.

This is why paradigm shifts can take so long to occur. The old paradigms must be fully released before a new one can take hold. But people have been taught to hold on to the old beliefs and never, ever, ever question them, much less release them. Belief and fear are the greatest impediments to the evolution of human consciousness. But all consciousness is in a state of perpetual evolution and expansion. It cannot be stopped. It can only be slowed.

The crowds kept cheering as a world of new opportunities opened up to them. They danced in joy. They became lighter with the release of the old baggage. With the release of the old paradigms of fear and guilt and hate, love swooped in to fill their hearts. This was changing everything.

But there were those humans and institutions on the periphery of the joyful crowd whose only thought was how to stop what was happening. Their denial and fear would eventually weaken and some would leave the old paradigms behind and join the singing/dancing crowd, opening up to the inevitable expansion of consciousness.

Today is just one day in a long arduous paradigm shift but each new day brings us closer to the realization of new possibilities — at least for those who choose to see it that way. We must continue singing and dancing with each new day.

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