61.a The New Mythology; a New Paradigm
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61a. The New Paradigm
This was the original podcast that got too long and wordy for YouTube, so I made the official “61” that published yesterday.
This is good for those that are interested in longer more in-depth convos.
Our Indigenous languages and our connection with Ancestors shifts the scale of this reality into something much more malleable and fluid.
We are in a shift of reality and we are far more powerful than those in charge want us to believe.
Transcript
Lezley (00:11):
So it's time for a new paradigm. It's time for a new mythology. Maggot is a mythology and it's why it's powerful is because it is speaking to a need in people today to have a new way forward. We need something different than what's happening right now, and unfortunately, MAGA appeals to a nostalgia to a hearkening back to a golden yester year that never existed. I think it appeals to people who are morally conservative because it appeals to authoritarian worldview. It appeals to a strict father model worldview. It appeals to tradition and legacy and status quo. It appeals to people who maybe don't have a vision for a future that's different from the past. So there is a nostalgia. There's a reaching back into the past to recreate an illusion because the past was not a golden time. It may have been for a very small few.
Lezley (01:35):
We know who those people are. They're white, they're Christian, they're heterosexual, and primarily they're rich and they're western. For them, this is a hearkening back to a hierarchy that they understand and they believe in, that they pledge allegiance to because in some deep seated way, they believe themselves to be part of that dominant group regardless of the fact that most of us may be poor in comparison to the corporate parasites, there is a deep sense that if we just work hard enough and we try hard enough, we also will benefit and succeed in this model of corporate capitalism. If we just are more loyal and work harder and monitor others and control others to step in line, then we too will gain this thriving that we've been promised. This all makes sense and this all feels good because it's based in this idea of meritocracy where the work that you put in and the effort that is expended will be repaid to you.
Lezley (03:12):
Except we have never lived in a meritocracy. There has never been equal opportunity for all participants. This game in this society has been rigged for a particular few to benefit and hearkening back to that society is trying to shine up a turd. It's trying to patch over a failing structure because it doesn't work for everyone and it's based in separation and fear. The moral hierarchy of the right moral conservatism is based fundamentally in a belief in separation and a belief in disconnection. The idea foundationally is the difference between a safe world and a world that is inherently dangerous and unsafe, A world that believes in scarcity. And it's either you or I winning that my survival is dependent upon your destruction. That we both can't win, that we both can't thrive. So we need a new mythology. We need a new mythology that is going to heal this cancer because this idea, this capitalist society that we have this belief in a fear-based world, this belief in separation and disconnection is a cancer. This idea of corporate capitalism where its profit over all else and the suffering and the death of innocence of human and non-human innocence is acceptable in this race to own everything, to have everything in this. When Togo spirit of cannibalism, this is a cancer on the face of the world and it needs to be healed. It's a cancer on the world and no one likes cancer.
Lezley (05:28):
So Vine Deloria Jr. and Daniel R. Wildcat in "Power and Place Equal Personality" in Ways of Being. It's an article they wrote in Ways of Being, which is an anthology or an introduction to Indigenous philosophies on Turtle Island. They wrote that and I quote, "Much of Indian knowledge involved the technique of reproducing the cosmos in miniature and invoking spiritual change, which would be followed by physical change." And this is the understanding that all change has to happen in spirit first before it happens in the physical world. And a lot of this change of spirit has to do with our change of heart. Feelings. Oh, feelings. Feelings are at the heart of it all. So what is required right now is for us to be conscious of our worldviews. What worldview do you hold? What worldview do you have? And there's two different worldviews. According to George Lakoff, there is the moral hierarchy of the right and not that.
Lezley (06:47):
And fundamentally, the difference between two, the two worldviews is whether you believe that you're safe here, that being alive in the world is safe or it's not safe, that it's dangerous and you need to fight and everything is separate and there is scarcity and there's not enough. And everyone has to destroy others to get enough for themselves. So according to George Lackoff, the strict father model of the world is that inherently that life is difficult and the world is dangerous, and there's a lot wrapped up in the moral hierarchy of the right. And it's a hierarchy with God at the top and then man above nature. And then the disciplined, the strong above the weak, the undisciplined. This is control. The desire to control what happens in the world and what other people do is such a definition of what's happening right now. And this desperation of the right of conservative authoritarians to lock down what happens for everyone to control absolutely everything. So the rich above the poor employers, above employees, adults above children, western culture above other cultures, America, above other countries, men above women, whites, above non-whites, Christians above non-Christians and straits above gays, sound familiar?
Lezley (08:32):
Sound like anything we've been seeing lately for hundreds of years. So in a world that's unsafe, this is a value structure about who gains access to resources and who has power and who has control, and who gets to decide what reality is. It's fundamentally fractured and it is based in separation and disconnection. Everything is separate. Land is separate from spirit. You and I are separate from each other. You and I are separate from nature. Everything is an isolated, disconnected, separate little body and we can impact one another. And that's it. Everything is just by force. Everything, the material world, it's material reductionism. It's the idea that we're all just stuff. We're all just physical things and there's no underlying field of being and we're just separate. And so if it's just physical, it means that there's scarcity, that there's not enough to go around, and then I need to fight you so that I can have enough.
Lezley (09:42):
It's you or me and I'm choosing me. And of course that's a sane and logical choice to make. Of course I'm going to choose me over you. And there's no feelings, there's no empathy, there's no compassion. That's just wild to me too, that the idea is empathy. Empathy from Christians has become like a sin and a crime and false. It's just, it's wild, but is the necessary outcome of separation. This is based on a not feeling. This is based on just believing that you are a physical body and that's it. And so no, of course there's no feeling. There's no feeling. There's no spirit, there's nothing. There's nothing but your body and your logic. This is the outcome of patriarchy. This is the outcome of misogyny. No feeling, no spirit, just thinking and just your body separate. It's gross. It's a nihilistic too. But my God, if you believe in this, you got to fight tooth and nail to keep that control.
Lezley (10:53):
Control. So I mean there's other options, right? There's so many other options, but they do require a bit of bravery. They do require courage. Courage of a different sort. Courage that isn't found in the power of your body to overpower another physically. Do you have the courage to feel? Do you have the courage to feel the new mythology that's required is a mythology that values all beings. It's a mythology of and okay, that's the foundation of it. It is. And this is not an or reality. This is an and reality. This is fundamentally a reuniting land in together into the wholeness that has always been. This is a mythology that feels good to me and it feels good because it feels period, which is great. It's a great step in the right direction. Feel your fucking feelings a mythology of and feels good to me because nothing is left out, nothing is left behind, nothing is excluded in and being as you are is embraced and encouraged and we move forward together, all of us, everyone in wholeness and says everything is included and is simple and infinitely complex and is the one and the many and solves so many problems and so many choices, and goes beyond binaries and boundaries to wholeness.
Lezley (13:02):
The wholeness that exists before we make judgments and exclude something before we make judgments and say, or there's a field of existence that is fite fuaite with the material world. There is no precedence or dominance in land and spirit. They are part of a whole. They exist together and they are fesa, fusA, interwoven and sewn together, gu bràth together forever. They exist in harmony together. Tìr agus anam fite fuaite gu bràth. Vine Deloria and Daniel r Wildcat explain that identity and existence exists personally and particularly, and this idea is fundamental. That you are personal and particularly in a relationship with spirit as a person. And it's always relational. It's never just you as an individual separate from the world. We are always in relationship with spirit. And that relationship is personal in particular and within. This is a beautiful understanding and acceptance of, and that because identity and existence is personal in particular, there is no exclusion of a person's relationship with spirit.
Lezley (14:42):
We are creating our experience with the field of being. We are the knower in the field. We are creating our experience in reality through interpretation and perception of the field of being. This is a relational, ongoing, consistent, constant interaction with us in the field of being. We are constantly creating and recreating reality through the lens and the framework and the filter of what we believe, what we believe. Life is who we believe we are, how we believe the world works, and how it's built and how it functions. And through the possibilities we believe are available to us here. There is no objective reality outside of our personal and particular interpretation and perspective with the field of being. This is relationship we're engaging in at all times. And it creates the literal experience of being, the literal experience of reality. There is no reality outside of your ability to interpret and perceive.
Lezley (16:04):
This is the fundamental core of freedom and power. This is the difference between actual freedom and the illusion of freedom. We are in the act of enchanting the world. We are all right now. Midwives birthing a new reality. We are evolving together, and we are growing together and we are enlarging the circle of what is included. We are enchanting. The world that is re-enchantment is returning to wholeness. What was once imagined as separate? What's us, what's here, what's now and what's them? What's there, what's before and what's to come. Separations in wholeness are artificial and they are illusory, and they often feel very, very real.
Lezley (17:10):
And separation is based in fear. The new mythology is the consciousness based reality of and land and spirit woven and sewn together forever. Tìr agus anam fite fuaite gu bràth, Manito Aki fite fuaite gu bràth. re enchantment embraces the, and we are choosing to dissolve imaginary binaries that prevent us from perceiving wholeness. We are choosing to let go of the fictional boundaries of being when there are no exceptions to inclusion. We see very different solutions.
If you would like to join me for words of magic on October 30th at 2:00 PM Eastern, please register. I'll be showing you my process to use Irish and Gaelic in a ceremonial way to build the bridge to ancestors. This is part of joining land and spirit together by calling to our ancestors to be present here with us in spirit and land together fite fuaite. So use your indigenous Irish and Gaelic languages for ceremony. Call your ancestors, build the bridge, re-enchant your life. Remember the magic of being return to your joyful roots of belonging to this world.
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This was the original podcast that got too long and wordy for YouTube, so I made the official “61” that published yesterday.
This is good for those that are interested in longer more in-depth convos.
Our Indigenous languages and our connection with Ancestors shifts the scale of this reality into something much more malleable and fluid.
We are in a shift of reality and we are far more powerful than those in charge want us to believe.