Thomas Capshew | Finding your Heartsong
Thomas Capshew, Ph.D. is an expert in the field of human potential. Dr. Capshew utilizes psychotherapy, meditation, energy work (Reiki), hypnosis, shamanic practices and spiritual mentoring to help his clients find positive change in their lives. With the heart of a social worker, the mind of an attorney and the soul of a mystic, Dr. Capshew spreads consciousness through his writing. He published both “Divine Warrior Training: Manifesting the Divine in our World” and “Consciousness Rising,” to spread love through the world and to advocate for a peaceful, loving planet. Currently, he resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia and enjoys the outdoors, photography and music.
During these uncertain times, the world is yearning for a shift in consciousness. “Consciousness Rising” by Thomas Capshew, Ph.D. is an enlightening new book that explores the beauty in pure, collective consciousness. By illuminating the destructive nature of the dominator consciousness, Dr. Capshew explains how the best way to bring global change is through self-love and love for one another. With the help of Dr. Capshew’s teachings, readers will understand the importance of attending to one’s own heart. Through the use of mental and spiritual techniques, readers can use neuroplasticity to reframe a more positive mindset and meditation, boost their connection with the Creator and understand that they have inherent value as divine creations. These constructive changes can extend to the outside world and build strong connections between the seen and unseen worlds.
Have you ever pondered upon the fact that you are capable of so much more and this world is restricting you? Do you feel that you’re capable of doing better things for your happiness? You’re doing your daily duties, but there is always a greater calling and a consciousness to discover? People like to live in disbelief and not gain the consciousness they can and agree to live the same monotonous life. But you realise you can do way more and are capable of achieving greater satisfaction and good?
Here’s the hard truth: you are so much more than you believe you are.
In this episode, we are joined by Thomas Capshew where he talks about his experience throughout his life and his recent book.
Tune in to this episode to learn more about this whole new array of things and how to get your hands on it.
Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:
- Understand the different ways you can bring up your energy and develop a relationship with your interior self.
- Discover the importance of listening to yourself and your heart.
- Learn the significance of meditation, and Thomas also describes in detail different critical points from his book.
Episode Highlights
[01:34] A Message for the Listeners
- Thomas delivers the message of more healing over trauma over this entire year.
- He also mentions that a massive shift will be seen in light, love and life all over the place.
- The media will only bring in negativity, and hence he promotes that we see around us to see all the positive solutions coming into force.
- He describes how we are all a part of the consciousness that created this world.
[06:30] Introduction
- Thomas explains his meandering path through life.
- He also describes his experience in his childhood growing up in a Christian household as a fundamentalist Christian, going to Law School and then moving to work as a Social Worker.
- He mentions having a crisis of faith and describes his experience with getting people to adopt Christianity.
- He talks about his awakening towards the idea of spirituality.
[18:15] Consciousness Rising
- He talks about how he had no plans to write a new book, but he got instincts that lead him to write Consciousness Rising.
- He describes that he talks about how it is essential that consciousness keeps remembered in this material world.
- Thomas goes on to describe his idea of consciousness.
- We’re a part of a vast hide and seek game, where the intelligence and universe forgot themselves, and now it is coming back in a full circle.
[28:48] Lawyer to Social Worker
- Thomas talks about how he wanted to follow his heart and do the right thing for him.
- Sometimes you have to make a bold choice and be courageous.
[31:20] Topography of Potential
- A mistake is only a choice that you haven’t learnt from yet.
- Everyone comes into this world with a map, also called topography of potential.
- Developing different skills is essential to realise the heart song.
[41:07] Tsunami of Acceleration
- The tsunami is just the volume of consciousness coming into this world.
- We are accelerating the recognition of trauma and healing and making it a win-win for everybody.
- Additionally, we are also in an over-flooding of information which requires our brain to process vast amounts of data.
[45:52] The Dominator Consciousness
- Dominator Consciousness is what has been embedded into us humans for over a thousand years.
- It instils in us the sense that we need to have power over people.
- It is about creating a scarcity of resources.
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Brandon Handley 0:00
Yeah, that is worth that it's worth hitting on right? You know, so that you're kind of teed up then so Alright, we'll get it going. And 54321 Hey there spiritual dope. We are here today with my guest Thomas cap shoe. He who Tom what I do with it what I do with your bio Tom. There we go. He is an expert in the field of human potential dr capture, utilize a psychotherapy, meditation, energy work Reiki, hypnosis, sermonic practices and spiritual mentoring to help his clients find positive change in their lives. With the heart of a social worker, the mind of an attorney and the soul of a mystic Dr. Cap shoe spreads consciousness through his writing, he published both divine war warrior training, manifesting the divine in our world and consciousness rising to spread love through the world and advocate for a peaceful, loving planet. Currently, he resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and enjoys the outdoors, photography, and music to a doctor. Good Doctor. Thanks for joining us today. Um, I like to start these off with the whole idea that source speaks through us, right? We're kind of like these conduits for divine energy creation. And right now, in this very moment, something's common through you that needs to be shared with somebody who's listening to the podcast, what is that message?
Thomas Capshew 1:33
The message is that this is the year where we are going to have more healing happening in the world on this planet than we have trauma happening. There's there's, we're going to reach a tipping point where the collective trauma and wounds that we've all experienced, will be outweighed by the amount of people working to heal those wounds. And from there on out, we're gonna see a huge shift in the amount of light and life and love that flows into the world.
Brandon Handley 2:22
Where do you feel like you see that
Thomas Capshew 2:26
it's happening all over the place, you know, if you just listen to the media, you're not gonna see it, all you're gonna see is negativity, because that's what attracts people. It's like watching an accident, you know, you can't take your eyes off of it. But if you look at what's happening in our communities, what's happening with each other, it's creating all kinds of Win Win situations from people developing organizations that transform homelessness, to poverty, to all of the all of the major questions and issues that we've had as collective humans. Those are all coming into new positive solutions. There's a website that I follow, called heart math that does a global coherence project where they've got these measuring sites around the world that show when the human collective gets gets into coherence with each other, and it's happening more and more frequently. So there's lots of lots of evidence. I'm a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia, and have a private practice here, as well as a practice online. And in the last couple of months, I've never had the volume of people coming in saying, you know, I'm 55 years old, and I've been carrying this around since I was eight years old. I want to get rid of this. From that happened to me this this event that happened to me at eight years old. I'm no longer interested in having it limit me. I've had such a volume of people coming in, in the last few months that are shedding their wounds of the past.
Brandon Handley 4:46
That's great. Do you think that they have what do you think the reasons? Is there something pointing to that like what the reason is for them now? Why now really sad trauma right?
Thomas Capshew 5:00
Well, I think collectively in in my book consciousness rising, I assert that we we are all part of the consciousness that created the universe. And from a vibrational standpoint, as, as time moves forward consciousness, the vibration of consciousness rises. And so it's easier for people to see their limitations and to recognize that they can shed those limitations. So collectively as a species, our our entire collective is raising its consciousness. So it's, it's getting lighter and lighter and easier and easier to shed those darker energies that we took on when we got wounded.
Brandon Handley 5:57
Gotcha. So, you know, it sounds to me, like, you know, just consciousness as a whole is, is evolving, right? And that's what what we're what we're experiencing when we see people who are coming in and releasing the trauma and letting go of the things that are limiting them.
Unknown Speaker 6:13
Right, right.
Unknown Speaker 6:14
Look, I
Brandon Handley 6:15
really enjoy the book, actually, consciousness rising. I want to share it with you. But you know, I've got I'm using a, you know, reader on the Mac Book here. And yes, I've got highlights, you know, just highlighted many, many different things. You know what, let's talk a little bit before we jump into the book, though, let's talk a little bit about you know, who is Thomas cashew? Right? Like, no, you've got, you know, what I know about you is, is where the pieces of whereas it says no kind of with the heart of a social worker and the mind of an attorney and the soul of a mystic. I know if you were those pieces come from myself, but let's let the audience know, like, where does the the, you know, the mind of an attorney come from? in that?
Thomas Capshew 7:08
Yeah. Well, I've called, I've had what I call a meandering path through my life. So I started off as the middle of five children raised in a fundamentalist Christian household and started off my college career studying to be a minister, and ended up having a crisis of faith and left the church kind of ended up getting a psychology degree undergrad and then owned a small business and decided I didn't want to do that any longer. And so kind of on a whim, I went to law school. The reason that I went to law school is because I was a janitor in a law firm and had a running dialogue with the secretaries about how often I was supposed to clean the the kitchen. They were messing it up every day, and I was supposed to clean it up clean at once a week. And the attorneys told me, they were laughing about the messages. We were leaving back and forth. And they said, you should think about going to law school because you make good arguments and you write well, so you know, a few years later, I went to law school. I practice law in Florida for seven years. I enjoyed it. I was good at it, but it didn't make my heart sing. And so eventually, I got involved in the legal aspects of assisted suicide. That was back when jack kevorkian was doing his thing. And I was doing legal seminars for hospice. Workers about you know how to navigate that thought, and I got to know some social workers and thought, hey, that's a good combo social work and law. So I went back to school and got a Master's and PhD in social work, and then graduated and practice social work. And in the meantime, I decided to go to an interfaith Seminary in New York City. And God ordained as an interfaith minister, which kind of completed the circle of my meandering careers, but it's really fun because I feel like I've put them all together and what I do now, which is, you know, I've got I've got the ability to see clearly the what's happening, which an attorney does. I've got the The compassion that a social worker would have and I have the spiritual focus of my, my interfaith ministry.
Brandon Handley 10:13
Well, you know, I always think of life is the family life Cirque family circus, right? And that path that Billy goes on when he's kind of walking around the neighborhood, right? It's just kind of like it's just and, and life is not linear, right? I don't care. Yeah, I don't care who you are. I'm sure you went to school and you had some goals, and you met them? Right by becoming a lawyer. And that seemed like it was linear. But I'm sure that the whole path there and throughout was not right. Right. I'm really curious. So I'm not aware of what a fundamentalist Christian is. Could you just elaborate on that for me, because there might be an audience member to that might not know what that is?
Thomas Capshew 10:57
Okay. The way I'm using that term is someone who believes that the word the written New Testament is to be taken literally, and that that's what you use to decide how to live your life on a daily basis. And so, it's non denominational, meaning it's not, you know, one of the big it's not Catholic, it's not Methodist. It's, it's just each church stands on its own. So it's fairly constructive around behaviors. No, no drinking, no smoking, no dancing. No music in the worship service, other than acapella singing. So that's what I was raised in.
Brandon Handley 11:57
Sounds very, if we're gonna go to the 80s. Very Kevin Bacon, very Footloose. Right. Yeah, reference see, you know, I'm happy to share my my age, you know, as we as we mark ourselves as we go through these, um, the other piece in here is, you know, so you. So even though it was kind of restrictive, you still went to go study to be a minister right off the bat. Right. And I'm just curious, you mentioned the the crisis of faith, what what do you what do you feel like that was?
Thomas Capshew 12:34
Well, one of the things I did, as a member of the church is I did missionary service. So I went to Europe to try to convert people to Jesus. And the crisis of faith that I had was, I had this question that the members of the church couldn't give me an adequate answer for and that question was, say, there's a guy that lives in the jungles of Brazil, and has never even heard of Jesus, much less, you know, been offered to accept Jesus as a savior. And but he lives a good life, and he takes care of people and he does the things that Jesus would, would ask him to do, and he dies, does he go to heaven? Or does he go to hell? And the answer that I got from everyone in the church was, he goes to hell, and it's your job to get there before he dies, so that he won't go to hell. And that this wouldn't compute for me. As, as I have come to know my Creator. The the creative force of the universe, I the shorthand that I use for that force is love. That love is what created the universe and what is that energy that sustains us? And so, obviously, if the Creator is all loving them, they're you know, may not even be a hell much less. Have some arbitrary decision that some guy that's not heard of a certain person that's gonna go to hell.
Brandon Handley 14:37
Yeah, like, what about everybody that came before Jesus, right? That makes sense, right? I mean, I can see kind of where that that that breaks down. And then, so you're going through law school, you become a lawyer. We'll hit on heart song here in a little bit. And where you know what They're kind of in here, do you go full on spiritual? Right Where's like kind of your I know in your book you and I jotted it down to our at least I highlight it in the book. It's like, life's kind of like a series of awakenings. Right. And it's not just like, not just, hey, there's one awakening moment. But you know, there's a series of them. But if you could kind of pinpoint where you feel like you had maybe your first
Thomas Capshew 15:31
Well, the first awakening was the crisis of faith. The Awakening that brought me to the work that I do now is that, as a social worker, the spiritual component often has not considered. And when you think about mental health, often times what I've found in my practice, is that mental health issues arise out of a spiritual discontent, out of kind of not really knowing what you're doing here, not having a framework for how the world works for you. And so then out of those out of those uncertainties often come anxiety or depression, you know, if if you're working in a, in a job where you're doing something that doesn't really make your heart sing, then it's really easy to go into depression, you know, what am I doing here? Why am I doing this? Am I am I just doing this to get a paycheck so that I can pay my mortgage so that I can, you know, not be homeless? I mean, what kind of life is that. So that's where the spiritual discontent comes in. And if you focus on getting to the essence of why you're here, why you're on the planet, at this moment, or at this lifetime, then you can start moving into a place where you're, you're enjoying waking up and getting up and doing what you feel is what you're supposed to be doing for your life. Instead of doing what somebody else wants you to do for your life.
Brandon Handley 17:35
Right now. Understood, right? Definitely, definitely something that we hit on on this podcast often, right? You know, when you find when you find, you've kind of woken up to the idea that what you're doing now is really everybody else's best idea for what you should be doing. Right? And then and then then trying to figure out how to unwind all that into what you at least feel like you should be doing. So. No, I love it. So let's talk about the book. Let's talk about the book consciousness rising what you know why you why here, why now, this book?
Thomas Capshew 18:14
Well, let me tell you a little bit about how this book came to be. Because after my first book, divine warrior training, I didn't really have any plans to write a second book, but about four or five years ago, I kept waking up at 4:18am and got up and had stuff to write down, you know, typed out stuff, and I'm like, oh, okay, there's, that's an interesting article, like one of the first ones was, nothing exists outside of relationship, that you can't even define something without defining what it's not or what it's in opposition to. And so, over the course of the next couple of years, I just kept on getting prompted to wake up at 418 and write stuff down. It wasn't every every time at 418, but more often than not, and then eventually it dawned on me again, you know, kind of those awakenings to what source has in store for you. I said oh, this is a book and originally it was a book called The human value proposition which is the first part of consciousness rising, but eventually developed into what what we have now and the Why is mainly because I think Think it is in evitable. It's the, it's absolutely essential to reality that consciousness ends up remembering itself in, in, in the material form. That's the whole process that we're a minute part of, we're actually the leading edge of the material form, recognizing everything as divine. And we're just, we're just on the cusp of getting to that place where we say, you know, there's everything sacred. There's nothing that's not sacred, and we need to start treating everything that way. And when we do, our whole world is gonna shift.
Brandon Handley 21:03
Oh, absolutely right. I love the idea of kind of being on the edge of consciousness, right being kind of, um, I always think of it as, you know, just being literally on the razor's edge, right Is that fine as the universe continues to expand? We are, you know, the, the expanded, you know, de expansion of consciousness, right? And right on that edge, right? Always right on that edge of edge of creation, right? This is what's happening right here. And now, what would you tell me what you mean by consciousness?
Thomas Capshew 21:38
What I mean by consciousness is intelligence that created the material world. So in my first book, divine warrior training, I talked about I call it I call this process, the god game. Gods. You know, one of those shorthand labels for consciousness as well, although it's kind of been co opted by some people to be something less than what it is. But the god game is, before anything in the material world existed, there existed this intelligence. And this intelligence, decided at a point of singularity to begin a process where matter, matter was created, and matter is more dense than intelligence. And the the game is that, from that point of singularity, it created the material world so that the material world would eventually be able to recognize the intelligence of the universe. So it goes a full circle back, it's like a Hide and Seek game, you know, we're part of this huge Hide and Seek game where the intelligence of the universe forgot itself. And now it's coming back to remember itself.
Brandon Handley 23:18
Love it. So the guy games, the game is, essentially just to recognize the intelligence of the universe. Right. And would you say that, is that part and parcel to reconnecting to it as well? Is, is that the recognition period? Is that the recognition period when you actually connect? reconnect? Yeah,
Thomas Capshew 23:43
yeah, when, you know, we've all humans have experienced a habit. We've all had an experience where we've felt one with everything. Most of us have some, some people say they haven't felt that but many humans have felt that that's reconnecting that's joining back into the the understanding that everything's connected. Everything you and I are connected, every person that listens to this, every person that doesn't listen to this is also connected. So that's, that's the, that's the inevitable movement forward of consciousness to get to that place where I recognize that you're a part of me, that I'm a part of you. I'm a part of the plant that's sitting in front of me, we're all connected.
Brandon Handley 24:48
So, I try to I try to share out the idea that, you know, the universe crew was created, you know, from something the size of a pea, right? You know, and And if we think that we're not connected, like, after all being kind of jammed and crammed into the size of a pea, right, knowing what we know, to about just kind of like, how, you know, photons and you know, everything just stays connected, right? There's no masses, not masses, there's never never need less mass, right? You know, the same amount of mass exists and in perpetuity. So, at one point, you know, we, we've all been a part of one another, right? So we we carry it, even, even from a material level, right? Even if we can't, even if we can't wrap our heads around, like being synced on an energetic level, we can wrap our head around the the idea that we all share some type of at least a couple skin cells from whatever, before us, right?
Thomas Capshew 25:54
Well, if you think about atoms and molecules, atoms, you know, don't, don't disappear, they just get reconstituted. So, you know, we each can have atoms that used to be part of Albert Einstein, or part of Hitler, or part of Jesus, you know, those, those atoms that the material world just is in constant flux of shedding stuff and reconstituting as, as something else. And so we've each got that that we share.
Brandon Handley 26:38
Now, and I just think it's, you know, sometimes it's challenging to share that idea if somebody is not in this space, quote, unquote, right? So if they're like, oh, what are you talking about? You know, how do you? How do you share that idea? So thanks for thanks for walking through that visual as well.
Thomas Capshew 26:56
Actually, COVID has helped us with that a little bit. Because we now understand in ways that we didn't before COVID, that respiratory droplets are what sends COVID from me to you. And they're not anything that we can see. But we've certainly been able to verify that with science, right? And so then my, my being in proximity to your being has an impact, even if I can't see it, right. And so you take that from the biology of COVID. And you put it into the energetics of physics. And, you know, anytime you're in close proximity with anybody, your your atoms and photons are all mixed up together. And, you know, we know that intuitively. Right? You walk into a room, and everybody's angry, you can feel it, right. You walk into a room and everybody's having a blast, you can feel that. Right? You can't necessarily measure it, because it's energetic versus, you know,
Brandon Handley 28:22
that we can't measure it because we haven't developed the tools to do it yet. Right. Like, I mean, it's, it's really, it's really kind of what it boils down to, right. There's, I'm sure that there's you know, I'm sure there's somebody who's working on it right now. Right? I'm sure there's a prototype no doubt, no doubt. Um, one more thing, too, is is, you know, gone from a lawyer to a social worker, right? Why do that?
Thomas Capshew 28:46
Yeah. Why do that? Exactly? Well, because I wanted to follow my heart. I enjoyed practicing law. I was good at it. My last job was as an appellate Attorney for the Department of Transportation in Florida. And if you you know, you want to look it up. I my last case, was before the Florida Supreme Court, and I won that case seven to zero. And as it was estimated that I save the state of Florida, $660 million. So, you know, it wasn't that I couldn't do that do the work. It's that didn't make my heart sing. When I chose to go back to school, and I'd love to study I'm a lifetime student. When I chose back to go back to school, my attorney friends, half of them thought I was nuts, to go from law to social work. The other half were envious. Because they weren't necessarily doing what they wanted to do, but they felt like they were stuck. So, you know, sometimes you just have to make a bold move and be courageous and say, you know, this is my life and I'm, I've got to live it the way that I think I'm, I need to live it, even if you make a mistake. And it wasn't a mistake,
Brandon Handley 30:20
not not Oh, you know. And of course, you know, my first my first thought is I will not for you, Tom. Right. I know. So it worked out for you. And, to your point, though, too. I think that even if it's a mistake, I did a recent interview where, you know, we're just trying to talk talk talking at the end of the interview and, and she was just talking about whatever it was, she's doing, developing into, like, you know, being making a living, I'm like, Look, worst case scenarios, like you're doing something that makes sense to you right now, to your point, you know, following the heart song, let's talk a little bit about that. Because that is one of the topics in the book is the heart song. So, which, which I thought I thought spoke out nicely. I think it came in yet right underneath of. And I like that typography of potential, right. So let's talk about a little bit of what is the typography of potential and the heartsong.
Thomas Capshew 31:17
Okay. First, I want to comment about a mistake, because a mistake is only a choice that you've made that you haven't learned from yet. Once you learn from edit, it's no longer a mistake. It's, it was maybe a missed direction, but it adds to your, to your path. riddle me
Brandon Handley 31:43
this one. I've seen this. I've seen this a lot of times, and like I'm in the hardcore Personal Development Series, right? I just say hardcore Professional Development Series for these people that like, you know, you know, grind and hustle people, right? But the idea that a mistake made more than once is done on purpose, true or false?
Thomas Capshew 32:09
No, mistake made more than once is you haven't learned yet. Got from ionic standpoint, we, we create circumstances over and over again to heal ourselves. And sometimes that circumstance will re wound us. But that's part of our energetic move forward is to try to create the condition that will create the healing.
Brandon Handley 32:43
Yeah, no, thank thank you for that. I, like I said, that's one that always kind of irritated me, right? Just like, you know, who are you to make you to make that claim, right to be like, well, you made that mistake more than once. That's on purpose. What are you talking about? Right? Like, how can you be so like, that's, anyways, anyways. So typography, potential heartsong, let's say,
Thomas Capshew 33:04
yeah, typography of potential each one of us is born is created by love and comes into the world with a typography of potential. Just like a typography map, there are things that we will easily be good at, and things that we will have to work like hell to be good at. So there's valleys in our topography of potential as well as hills or mountains. So a good example is comparing my basketball skills to LeBron James basketball skills. I was born with a valley in my typography of potential for basketball. LeBron James was born with a mountain. So absolutely, he's worked his butt off to get where he is. But he started with the ability with a lot of potential that he just built on to make him such a phenomenal basketball player. I, I would never have gotten there, because I didn't have that preset group of skills. I had other skills that you know, I've worked to develop. So each one of us has that topography of potential. And our work is to develop a deep enough relationship with ourselves so that we can know what what that typography is so that we can find what I call our heart song, which is our heart song is that one purpose that we are on the planet to fulfill. Oh, you know, for me, it's working with people To live up to their potential, you know, that's, and it's taken me a while to come to that, understanding that that's what I was put here to do. And so developing different skills that helped me to live that heart song, you know, over time, what we've what we've done with people, we've, we've, as a as a species, we have wasted so much human potential. In fact, all of us, every single one of us will die without actualizing all of our potential.
Brandon Handley 35:39
I mean, and just pause there for a second. I mean, is that necessarily a bad thing? Is, is that a good thing? or a bad thing? Right? And like, yeah, let's say that, you know, you're doing all you can to maximize who you are? Or is it more to the sense of, there is always something more and greater that you can accomplish? Right? And regardless, regardless, right, so, inevitably, yeah, well, we're all gonna perish leaving something on the table. Right. Is that? Is that kind of the thought there?
Thomas Capshew 36:14
Yeah. And, you know, I'm not saying that that's a bad thing. But what I'm saying is that the way we've built society, is we really don't work at helping people develop their potential. We work at it our schools, work at developing people to work for other people, instead of to follow their own dream. And so you know, who's, who's the next? Yo, yo, ma in, you know, a low income area of Chicago that won't even know that for the their whole life because no one introduced them to a cello.
Brandon Handley 37:09
Right? Yeah. No, no, that's fair. That's fair. Yeah, that was something you had on in the book as well. It was it was talking about, I guess, coming along your path or opening up to your heart song. Or it might it may have been another section. And of course, this folks may, just because we talked a little bit about saying, you know, things may look bad right now, but they're actually good. Right. And one of the things for me, it is turned out? Well, in this related sense of the story of your book, we've had to pull our kids from the educational system, right. And we've been able to teach them at home. And I'm very excited about it, because I recognize that we're not like crushing little souls. Right, or, or trying to morph them into, you know, the, the solid and industrial line workers, right. So, for me, it's very exciting, right to, to be able to kind of break a shackle as it were, and to be able to, you know, we talk about coming back to ourselves, right, by coming back to ourselves, but a big part and this is my opinion, right? A part of us coming back to ourselves is because we've been layered and layered and things that we aren't by by the social conditioning, right? So if you don't get socially conditioned, right, then who do you have to come back to, then you have the opportunity to live out your whole life as who you're supposed to be? Right?
Thomas Capshew 38:47
Right. So imagine a world where every newborn was seen as God as seen as a divine being with unlimited potential. And our job as caretakers for that newborn is to help them develop there in a potential what, what kind of world would we have within five years mean that just think of the transformation where people would all be doing, what they love and what they were meant to be? And, you know, everything. My My belief is that if when we live into that world, everybody is going to be doing their heart song, and everything's going to be taken care of, I mean, Providence, you can I, I could be a janitor and be singing my heart song or I could, you know, decide that I'm going to figure out a way to convert you human excrement into energy for, you know, whatever, right? That the possibilities are endless if we start with the idea that as parents and as caregivers, were shepherding in higher consciousness, when a baby gets born,
Brandon Handley 40:27
I think it's interesting to think of it that way, right? To just realize that that's the consciousness expansion, kind of come right in behind you. And it's, it's your, your job or your goal or if you put effort into it, then you can help accelerate that expansion. Is that how you kind of look at it. So you also bring up the idea, and I thought this was pretty cool too. And it really kind of relates to, to the whole thing, but the tsunami of acceleration, right, or the tsunami of consciousness, and kind of what we're doing here and consciousness rising, always share a little bit of that. And I'd love to hear, you know, have you share where you see that coming into play?
Thomas Capshew 41:14
Well, the, the tsunami is just the, the volume of consciousness that's coming into the world. So if you think about it, 50 years ago, we didn't have a word for domestic violence. We didn't, we didn't have a word for child abuse. Those were concepts that have come into existence in the last few years. We are, we are accelerating the recognition of trauma and of wounds, that then we begin to heal by raising our consciousness and recognizing the way that we can treat each other that is a win win for everybody. And so that, that tsunami is happening. The The downside is, we're also in a tsunami of, of information. We have never, it humans have never had access to as much information as they've had in the last, you know, every every year it grows exponentially. And so, the problem with the access to information is that it it requires our brain to process the information, our brain is also designed to look for danger. And so that's where fear comes from. And so, there's so much information that anybody can access a limited amount of information and go to fear. And that's what happened. That's what's happening in our society is, we're getting siloed into different information flows that create fear of each other. And stead of going to our heart where we access our Creator and the love of the universe. And our heart is the place that when we live out of our heart, then we see the expansiveness and the way that we can all win and all get along and live into our potential and live our hearts song. So, you know, there's a couple of tsunamis going on. One of them is pushing us toward fear and one of us is one of them is pushing us toward love. And the great thing about being human, probably the the one thing I'd say is the most. The bait, the best thing about being human is we have choice. We get to choose, choose love, choose fear. You know, fear is of the head. Love is of the heart.
Brandon Handley 44:36
I think that the power of choices is it's recognized and it's often on recognized, right? So it's like for one once you recognize the power of choice, you're you're you're astounded, right but until you realize just how powerful choices the word and meaning seems arbitrary right? You know, because, again, go back to the you know, we you feel like you made all your choices yourself, but really you just accepted everybody else's choices for you. Right? And then and then at a certain point, you realize, yes, you accepted all their choices, but now you can start to see and turned your knobs and whatnot for yourself right to make your own conscious choices, right. with intention purpose, for those outcomes. One other term that you have in the book that I really enjoy, is the dominator consciousness been no, you know, to me, that's kind of what we're coming out of, if we choose to look at it that way. But could you share what what that what that what that means?
Thomas Capshew 45:47
Dominator consciousness is what we've been embedded in for 1000s of years. And it is the sense that it's important to have power over other people versus power among. And so what what's happened is we've bought into the idea that there's a limit to power, and resources and love, and all of those things are limited, when in fact, they are not, they're unlimited. If we access power from our Creator, there's plenty of power for everybody. If we access resources from our Creator, there's plenty for everybody. If we access love from our Creator, there's plenty for everybody. So the dominator consciousness perpetuates itself by creating scarcity. And then selling that resource to people. So for example, land is is scarcity, you know, is there's a certain amount of land available and, you know, if you live in Northern Virginia like I do, you've, you're gonna pay a premium for a piece of land, if you live in the northern territories of Canada, that same size land would probably be, you know, a miniscule amount compared to what it is in Northern Virginia. So it's creating scarcity and then saying, Okay, well, I'm going to have power over you by marshaling resource and then not sharing it with people. So power among is understanding that we all have capacity to access our source of power and love and resources. And when you do that, you become a manifester, yourself and you you bring into the world, the things that are needed, and with your co creating with the Creator.
Brandon Handley 48:23
Yeah, that's, I mean, that's the part where you really know where you release that scarcity, where you release, release that restriction on yourself, right? And you open yourself up to the possibilities, right? And therefore you know, you you are this kind of goes back to you now you're making those conscious choices now you're in alignment with who you are. Now you start singing your heart song, right? And and, you know, you begin to kind of let it all in
Unknown Speaker 48:51
what is
Brandon Handley 48:54
what is like one practical tool that you would give to somebody who's on the journey today.
Thomas Capshew 49:01
The most useful, practical tool that I suggest is to develop a practice where you go to your heart, where you meditate, and you access what I call the temple of your heart or the Sacred Heart. And from that place, you can access the resources of the universe. And so developing a relationship with your your interior landscape, as I call it, is probably the best thing you can do to find your path forward. Because our mind is what keeps us engaged with the exterior world that we see. And we aren't going to find our passion and purpose out there. We'll get a lot of people that will tell us what they think it should be. But only when you access your heart. Can you hear that? Quiet whisper of your heart song. And that's the only place in the in the world that no one else can go to. But you? Yeah.
Brandon Handley 50:22
Do you have I think I think I've seen some meditations that you offer. Do you have a meditation that would somebody could experience like this?
Thomas Capshew 50:32
I do. There's a on my website, which is Thomas kept shoe.com there's a free, choose love meditation that you can download. And in the last couple of months, I got a bunch of meditations put up on my, in my shop. They're they're really expensive, though. They're 97 cents apiece.
Brandon Handley 50:59
Oh, breaking the bank.
Thomas Capshew 51:01
Yeah, right. So what I do, I do a particular kind of meditation called x asis meditation. And the purpose of the next asis meditation is to shut down your mind and shut down your body, so that your consciousness can expand and move out into what I call the sea of possibilities. And so next asis meditation takes you, it's a guided meditation that takes you on a journey to a place where you become one with everything. And then I've got a series where you, then I lead you back on a level zero, the level one you, you go to the sea of possibilities and spend three minutes and then I lead you back. level two, you go for nine minutes, and then I bring you back. And level three, you go for 27 minutes, and then I bring you back. And so the purpose is to develop the skill to be aware in your consciousness without having your mind intervene. So it's, it's a, it's a bit. It's theta brainwaves for those of you that are more into the science. We're right now in beta brainwaves. If you close your eyes and breathe down into your diaphragm, you'd go into alpha brainwaves, which is light relaxation. Theta brainwaves is four to eight hertz, and that's deep relaxation. And that's where, you know, you come up with a lot of creative ideas and stuff like that. And then delta brainwaves asleep. So that phasis meditations are designed to have you hit that theta brainwave range and move out into your consciousness and leave your mind and body behind for a given period of time.
Brandon Handley 53:19
It's always nice to lead the body time. Always nicely the body so just real quick, who would you say your ideal like client is if you've got like an idea of that.
Thomas Capshew 53:29
Um, my ideal client is someone who is self reflective and who knows that they're they're a spiritual being having a human experience but often gets trapped in the human experience. And so you know, my job is to kind of help them tip that scale over to where they can live their life knowing that they're a spiritual being and everything they experience as a human experience.
Brandon Handley 54:07
Awesome. So if your ideal client is listening right now they should go to find more of you at Thomas capture calm or where were they find you?
Thomas Capshew 54:19
Yeah, that Thomas capture calm. I have, they can click on a free 30 minute consultation. So we can chat about what their needs are and what skills I have and whether that's a good, good match or not. I'd also like to offer a free ebook to your listeners. So if if you want a ebook of consciousness rising, then you can email me at free ebook at Thomas captured calm. So make sure you got three E's in their free ebook At Thomas capture calm and I'll send you a download for the book.
Brandon Handley 55:08
I know we didn't like to talk too much specifically about the book, but it's definitely it's an enjoyable read. I think it's effective. I think it's practical. I think that you know, it's very it's, it's almost like a spiritual lawyer wrote it. Alright, so Tom, I want to say thank you so much for spending some time on spiritual dope today. We really appreciate you being here. Thank you for I'm really actually interested in your spiritual warrior book. I think that sounds like fun. And thank you for sharing this book with me and sharing it with the world with the work that you're doing.
Thomas Capshew 55:44
You're welcome, Brandon. And I'm really grateful for you having me on and all the work you're doing to move consciousness higher.
Brandon Handley 55:57
And that's where we'll stop Tom. So I appreciate you
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