The Change Agent - Paradigm Shift in Consciousness

By Bruce Barcomb

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Release date: May 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885053457

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THE CHANGE AGENT

PARADIGM SHIFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS

BRUCE BARCOMB

Copyright © 2022 Bruce Barcomb

All rights reserved

First Edition

Fulton Books

Meadville, PA

Published by Fulton Books 2022

The contents of this work, including, but not limited to, the accuracy of events, people, and places depicted; opinions expressed; permission to use previously published materials included; in any advice given or actions advocated are solely the responsibility of the author, who assumes all liability for said work indemnifies the publisher against any claim stemming from publication of the work.

ISBN 979-8-88505-344-0 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88505-345-7 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

Foreword

The Template You’re Born With—Revisited

Knowledge Transfer—Timeless Awareness

Dichotomy of Belief

Kyrie Eleison Down the Road That We Must Travel

None of The Above

Brother Sun Sister Moon

Ask Me How I Know There’s a God Up in The Heavens

E.T. vs Predator

When Matter and Antimatter Mix

We Don’t Need No Education

The Paradigm Shift in Consciousness

A Nation Gone Under

Appendix

Affirmations—Part 1

Affirmations—Part 2

Works Cited

FOREWORD

The Change Agent—Paradigm Shift in Consciousness takes an unbiased look at the fundamentals of what we, as a culture, have seen, learned, practiced, and become since the cradle of civilization. It encapsulates the fundamentals of philosophy, mythology, and religious ideologies as they apply to governing human affairs.

This book is an informed read, as it is predicated on research materials that are publicly accessible and verifiable. I researched extensively core events and concepts that have shaped the current political divide, including the intentions of the Founding Fathers. This book is thought-provoking and provocative, but its contents are empirically based and provide a holistic encapsulation of knowledge beyond news bytes or latest conspiracy hype.

In our current political climate, conspiracies have taken priority over verifiable facts, giving voice to disenfranchised individuals. Painstaking research has been compiled to look at this phenomenon. Political values have been organized to reflect the traditional break between the two major parties, with equal and deferential treatment to both sides. The conspiracy-based faction has been adapted along respective party lines, culminating in what President Ronald Regan considered A Nation Gone Under.

This book is inspirational, patriotic, and holds with the highest ideals of our collective human existence. As we look at unidentified flying objects (UFOs) on our evening news, this book’s research also encompassed this topic from an analytic perspective, including looking briefly at US Space Force. Regardless of political or religious ideology, as is so succinctly expressed on our very currency, In God We Trust.

Collectively, we have the power to disengage from the vitriol and politics of poison. To lower our inhumane assessment of dissenters, and to seek truth not in our heads, but in our hearts. Truth matters, we matter, and this nation matters.

THE TEMPLATE YOU’RE BORN WITH—REVISITED

The 2014 movie, Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson, tells the story of a young woman who is forced to unlock 100 percent of her mind’s potential. In her evolution, she becomes self-aware of her imminent mortality and questions what to do with this essential information and knowledge. As the story progresses, she contacts a world-renowned expert on the human brain, Professor Samuel Norman, played by Morgan Freeman. Lucy agrees with several of Professor Norman’s fundamental assertions:

You know… If you think about the very nature of life-I mean, on the very beginning, the development of the first cell divided into two cells-the sole purpose of life has been to pass on what was learned. There was no higher purpose. So if you’re asking me what to do with all this knowledge you’re accumulating, I say… Pass it on…

Genetic material, such as genes and DNA, controls and passes along characteristics and genetic information from one cell to another. In the case of reproduction, characteristics are passed along from parents to child, including recessive genes where the characteristics may not be prevalent. Lucy’s Professor Norman shared:

For primitive beings like us, life seems to have only one single purpose: gaining time. And it is going through time that seems to be also the only real purpose of each of the cells in our bodies. To achieve that aim, the mass of the cells that make up earthworms and human beings has only two solutions. Be immortal, or to reproduce. If its habitat is not sufficiently favorable or nurturing, the cell will choose immortality. In other words, self-sufficiency and self-management. On the other hand, if the habitat is favorable, they will choose to reproduce. That way, when they die, they hand down essential information and knowledge to the next cell. Which hands it down to the next cell and so on. Thus knowledge and learning are handed down through time.

It is from the point of collective consciousness that we as human beings get genetic knowledge passed on to us, and shared knowledge from a multitude of sources. The opening chapter of my first book, The Change Agent: From 30,000 Feet, was entitled, The Template You’re Born With. This simple title says a great deal about the multitude of programmed responses that are internalized within our cerebral cortex. The following is an excerpt from that chapter and incorporated to aid in the fundamental development of individual synthesized core beliefs and responses.

We are born into this world knowing only what the manufacturers of our existence destined us to know. For all intents and purposes, we are like a new computer hard drive having only the basic programing of DNA coursing through our veins. The building blocks of our physical existence are in place. We either have manufacturer defects, or there is ample opportunity to damage the hard drive from any myriad of outside influences. If we have organic damage to our hard drive at birth, we are segregated, identified, and hopefully offered opportunities to maximize our utilization of our PC, self, to maximize our own unique opportunity in this world.

Eventually, we get software installations and continuous upgrades to maximize the things we are able to do through our PCs. And yes, here too, you have to worry about bad programs, software viruses, Trojans, cookies, short circuits, and plain bad wiring. The maintenance on the hard drive initially, or generally, requires minor maintenance, but if we’re lucky, we get a pass on hard drive fixes and repairs. How we learn and acclimate in this initial phase of our programming and development is primarily instinctual and through our senses. Some of it is external visual and auditory, and yet other programing is internal and driven by our reactions to taste, smell, sensations, and sound. In psychological terms, am I the steel monkey mother baby or the terry clothed mother monkey baby covered in my Psych 101 class? Am I nurtured, or are just the externals maintained?

I once heard a learned behavior, or habit, described in a three-step process. What we see, we learn. What we learn, we practice, and what we practice, we become. What we see, learn, and do, amorally, determines or has a major influence on who and what we become. Programing from this aspect can result in downloads or inputs of unwanted programing which a child may not know how to process. In an ideal world, children do not see, learn, or practice bad programming, but in a world of outside stimuli, many of the source data inputs may in fact be faulty, flawed, or in need of revision.

Tantamount to enabling change is the notion that If nothing changes, nothing changes. Knowledge, correct knowledge used analytically, compassionately, and humanely can be a tremendous source of empowerment for change.

The schools have certain curriculum of programming and testing that seek to enhance, and hopefully maximize, our intellectual performance. In addition to the structured data input, the computer network of data sharing between kids passing along good and bad program experiences also requires data internalization and is often repeated and practiced. It is the observation of the child, computer, replaying or verbalizing their new data input that parents have a chance to correct, delete, or assist in proper re-processing or reframing some of these internalized adolescent inputs.

In a world where underage minors seek solutions via gun violence to satisfy their emotional synthesis of perceived hurts, wants, or needs, one must ask what they have practiced? Is it the repeated exposure to violence via video games, movies, or television that has been the catalyst to hardwire their faulty belief that this act of gun violence will make them whole? The devastation experienced by a surviving victim’s family members can last a lifetime, all from the wrong unchecked messages interpreted from the etymology of an emotion filtered through corrupt programming.

Some things we learn or are programmed are not good for us if the supporting programs are not in place. Sexuality would be one of these normal programs that should be introduced naturally, age appropriately, and not prematurely. What do we know, and when did we know it is like asking which came first, the chicken or the egg? The idealism of a laboratory test tube environment for acquired knowledge is not practical given the myriad of data inputs for a developing mind.

Some programming is based upon individual perception and cognitive reasoning of a child, PC, experiencing the world in its original way. The natural order of thought processing predicated upon each individual learned process is unique to each of us.

What we learn and incorporate into programming our hard drive from external influences can set up a lifetime of either re-attempting to connect with the unconscious feelings from yesterday or set us on a course of awakening that we should never have embarked upon. Despite the right or wrong of the situation, in hindsight, we could not change or alter our path. Everything was exactly as it should have been, even if it was wrong. What we are offered is an opportunity to transcend or alter our predisposition to repeat old patterns, programs, and sub-routines that are not healthy for our lives.

I intentionally left out the spiritual programing until now. In the old days, most of us were indoctrinated religiously within one of the five major religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Each program had its unique core values, rituals, rites, and observances designed to bring us closer to a cognitive and conscious awakening in a divine omnipresent creator. Today, there are new age religions, not withstanding, agnostics, atheists, and even the dark arts for programing as part of one’s core belief system.

I love the story of creation in the Bible from the perspective of being born into this world naked without shame, essentially innocent. The only contaminant possible to our hard drive is that of the manufacturer or outside programing placed upon us; Catholicism would call that original sin present in the factory, world, hence the need to seek outside of ourselves for safety through rituals, Spir-rituals, which are designed to cultivate a relationship with a god consciousness.

Our human condition, or genuine self, is what tends to preclude us from existing in a state of perpetual grace, utopia, or ethereal high for those who subscribe to spiritual programming. If these paths of enlightenment offered nothing perceived tangibly or beneficial to the individual many would not embrace these paths of awakening. Their respective spiritual planes of existence are possible within each of us although the sustaining or chasing of that alternate feeling, inside or outside, means that on some level I am not OK NOW as I am. I need to change my feeling, programmed responses, to be more acceptable to be a part of another, or upgrade myself.

Part of that human condition is our essential self-discovery to the 4th century labeling of the seven deadly sins. The manifestation, or labeling, of these primal emotions is part of our development or maturation as we learn to deal with Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride. Like a pot of stew simmering on a stove, each will find its own flavor within us. Part of our maturation process is recognizing the fact that if I experience a primal emotion, which means that I do not have to act on that driving force or preprogrammed response. I can change and transcend my response to this initial internalized stimulus…

In the beginning, we are literally a montage of lived experiences, setbacks, victories, religious, social, educational programing, and maybe even some damaged goods by others. I have often conveyed the core beliefs and attitudes of how one thinks or reacts about any given situation to a busboy cleaning a table after a bustling family has just eaten lunch in the booth. All sorts of food items are captured by the busboy’s wash towel…ketchup, mustard, milk, coffee, salt, pepper, sugar, etc. Eventually, the busboy will dip the cloth back in warm water and squeeze the contents mixed together into the wash bucket. The same is true of our thinking.

Ego is so tied to what we believe that often we do not take the time to examine what it is that is really dripping out of our own unique cloth. For a while some just coast along in life accepting, I think, therefore it must be so. Am I an entity unto myself?

Recalling or denying that our fusing together of responses is to programmed data internalized by our individual hard drive. What we truly think, believe, and hold self-evident is really a collection of internalized data, some valid and some of it flawed or possibly based on false assumptions. Sometimes we forget that some of what we have been programmed may require upgrading the software or deletion of old programs. My point is that unconsciously we may operate on autopilot and never be awakened in a deeper level to step away from ego and examine why it is that we are responding to things based solely upon what we think…seen, felt, learned, and practiced.

Carl Jung is credited with saying, Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

What we truly believe at our core may not be enough to overcome those extraordinary difficulties that life may throw at us. Our rituals for survival, though well-meaning and practiced, are not tested and remain theoretical until we are confronted with a reality where they fail us utterly. Only in that absolute reality where our beliefs cannot change, help us escape, or alter our reality are we confronted with what and who we genuinely are. Are we up the creek without a paddle or at a point of a paradigm shift in our core thinking?

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

In the 2003 movie Bruce Almighty, there is a scene in which Bruce surrenders his all to God while on his knees in the middle of the road and is then immediately struck by a truck. For some, this may not seem like divine intervention or the hand of an omnipotent, loving, all-powerful God. But for him, this became the new beginning, the transition, an act of surrender into oblivion. I have felt that same way upon relinquishing myself in some fashion, only to feel run over by a truck in the next second. What was I thinking?

I believe that we surrender our will over to many gods, many non-omnipotent powers, other than our self throughout our lifetime. Sometimes, those surrenders are to a higher, more evolved purpose, but sometimes, they may be more carnal and worldly in their ability to take us out of self or present circumstances.

In hindsight, I too can look back at those early times in my life where fear of death had me genuinely, earnestly, and sincerely seek the face of my creator. I was age nine and rushed to the hospital after my bike hit a car and split my head open. I prayed that I wouldn’t die. I prayed the same type of prayer at age ten and a half, when I had an appendectomy on Christmas Eve. Both incidents served as a pre-programmed response to genuine life-threatening circumstances.

Although I had the fundamentals and rituals of spirituality in place, my faith was still not tested to an unsuccessful conclusion. How we deal with crisis initially is to follow the template placed in each of us through whatever means, maybe even osmosis, which is synthesized within us. We operate on blind faith, surrendering to the alpha and omega, the best and worst, or all possible outcomes.

I once heard a man who had lost over 300 pounds state something to the effect of, That which I choose in time of trouble that is my god. Food was once his god. It took him out of self, comforted him, and curbed his anxieties. It worked for him, until it didn’t anymore. In time he awakened to the fact that he had to replace the food demigod with a new solution that worked in his life.

Carl Jung stated, Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism

We cannot mask our human condition, our genuine self; it will beam through until we acknowledge its truth. We can run, but we can’t hide. When we are no longer hiding, maybe even not at peace within ourselves, we are awakened to the inner desire for change.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Our environmental factors and external influences will impact our programing. Some of us will have everything we want and still not be happy, while others will have little and be content. Some of our abilities, athletic, intellectual, liberal arts, will also be recognized and bring us into different social realms. Our natural desires to fit in and be a part of a community will be challenged against the social mores with which we were programmed. At what cost of acceptance will we pay to belong to fit in?

The impact of the family of origin, or lack of a stable family of origin, cannot be excluded as contributing influences as we stride to become an essential being. But for all our programming, who are we, really? Am I the thing I do, or am I a person exhibiting behaviors that take me out of self? They gave me fulfillment, escape, personal accolades, and maybe even material wellbeing. But in the end, we learn that none of those external things will bring us lasting internal peace. This leaves us here in the now, in this present moment.

So I AM here, NOW, what next? Just as we are born knowing life and recognizing that in the end no one gets out alive, it is how we suck the marrow out of life between the two extremes that makes life qualitative…

I am reminded that on my life coach’s mantel stands his own version of the Dynamic Trio. Three three-inch figurines point the way of psychoanalysis. In the center is his figurine of Jesus representing the cognitive belief in a God. To the right of Christ is a figurine of Sigmund Freud, cigar in hand, who was not a proponent regarding the existence of spirituality in self-healing. Of religion, Freud stated, Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. After all, it was your mother issues, wasn’t it? On the other side of Jesus, was the Carl Jung doll. For Carl, spirituality was a