Freedom from Religion

                                                Freedom from Religion

Maurice Turmel PhD

As a former Catholic I can say with certainty that the Christian faith, as currently practiced, offends me, both as a psychologist and as an individual who was indoctrinated into that tradition. I have seen the damage for myself, in both my own life and the lives of others. And I have witnessed how much this faith has been plagued by lies and various abuses that went unreported or were outright buried.

People everywhere are suffering from this, hurting at a deep level because the faith they construed as theirs has been abusing them for centuries. The record of crimes and abuses committed by this religion's leaders is endless. This form of religion does not represent Christ and never did.

A faith run by zealots is not a faith. It is a conflagration of devices designed to capture recruits in its web. It is about power and greed and unchallengeable supplication to the authorities who run the organization, none of whom, I can see, are qualified to represent God on this Earth. That is my opinion.

Here’s a question for you. If you were God and you saw what was going on in Your Name, what would you say? How would you feel? Would you not be angry that you have been completely misunderstood and invoked as a hammer to dominate others? This is sacrilege. These poor fools who think they represent the Christ are at least misguided, and at worst full of nonsense. To refer to them as Kindergarten Christians is to call them what they are, incompetent to manage the earthly affairs of a truly compassionate Divinity.

They are using the name of God to fill their pockets, much as have other organizations throughout history. This is happening today on many fronts and it is time for people to see it for themselves. The truth is that God lives within all of us and we can access the God Network ourselves. We do not need self-appointed ‘experts’ and the ‘religions’ they represent, to speak to God on our behalf.

These so called experts are themselves slaves to these inexcusable interpretations of what God really is and who Christ really was. Jesus Christ was an astounding figure of course and a model of a way of being. He told the truth as he knew it and understood it from his Heart. Christ didn’t lie. He told us where to look. “The Kingdom is within!”

Quotations from the Bible and words attributed to Christ are, for me, null and void. They have no purpose or value anymore. They have been drained of their original meaning, so far are they removed from the reality that created them. The world is filled with passive Christians and the charlatans who take advantage of them because the former refuse to think for themselves. They have been programmed to believe what their church authority wants them to believe, with messages delivered in a cryptic and enigmatic manner, yet powerful enough, throughout their questionable history, to have them go to war on other faiths.

Think of it. Hundreds of millions of Jews have died over the ages to maintain their faith. They were the subject of tyranny by political groups and other faiths, including the Christians. It was the Christian armies that drove Muslims out of Spain a few centuries back and murdered hundreds of thousands while doing so. On whose authority? For what purpose? Isn’t this what businesses do? Destroy the competition!

When did God or Christ say, “Smite Them – Rid the Earth of this pollution.”

NEVER!

So who ordered these attacks on those who would refuse to be Christian? These were and still are the power mongers who are misusing the words of Jesus Christ to advance their own causes.

Who says God wants one hockey team to triumph over another? Who says these things? Mixed up Christians, that’s who. People who adhere to the simple idea that God is on their side only and everyone else is destined for Hell, another figment that they invented.

Muslims do it too, radically defending their faith and attacking anyone who dares denounce it while pointing out its many flaws. Today’s Muslim extremists make Christians look like clowns at a charity ball. They are far worse in their zealotry, but no worse than Christians were a few centuries ago when they laid waste to persons of other religions. Do a search on Pope Innocent II for a great example of such atrocious tactics.

Today we need a re-education program for persons of all faiths. The first step is a full rebuke of those in power who claim to have a handle on the truth, but in reality are simply running a business and feathering their own nest. More importantly we need a display of the True Nature of Faith, one that comes through Personal Empowerment. This is the worst news possible for religious authorities. The last thing they want is an educated population that they can no longer placate with incomprehensible references. The Emperor (religion) has no clothes, and that's that!

Faith that comes from Personal Empowerment is the only way to break the chains of religious tyranny. By breaking the beast’s back, once and for all, a new faith, born of inward knowledge and experience, can take root, as it already has begun to. We need this to happen on a massive scale. So many lies need to be set aside so that people can see the truth for themselves so they can stand strong in their resolve to be true to their deepest nature. And they will see that Empowerment Faith based on the reality that We Are All God and The Divine resides within every one of us, will set them free once and for all.

Empowerment Faith, a faith born of psychological and spiritual evolution, a faith that can unite us all, is here now. People are ready for this. They are asking for this. They are eager for this. Just Google "Religion in Decline" and see for yourself. Kindergarten Christianity is crashing. Faith through self-empowerment is now available to help bring on genuinely deep self-realization that encompasses a personal connection to the Divine within.

The above is a summary of what’s coming in my upcoming book release titled “Breaking the Spell of Religion and Healing the Trauma.”  This is a work  over 12 years in the making and first published as a series of articles at a European website called Trans4Mind.com. I have been urged, from the inside, to finally pull it together into a book. Additionally, I was also inspired by Dr. Darrel Ray’s release “The God Virus” detailing his journey through the shoals of organized religion. I could see myself in so many of his experiences and am happy to quote him in my book as well.

‘Getting to the bottom of Personal Trauma’

                                            Making Waves Where None Exist!

‘Getting to the bottom of Personal Trauma’

Maurice Turmel PhD

“Give me the child until he is 7 years old and I will show you the man”

Alleged founder of Jesuits 

It seems daunting that whoever said this had one purpose in mind, which was to control people from their birth forward.  “For what purpose” one might ask?  To set up the existential model of conditioning that we see blatantly practiced everywhere to this day? Not only in religion, where it started, but in our educational system as well.  Was this only to have control over people as they were indoctrinated into the family religion?  Or, was there an even greater purpose that we’re only beginning to disseminate and understand?  If so, what could that be?

It’s one thing to condition people to a particular way of thinking and behaving, it’s a whole other matter to shut down their own liberal access to their Inner Divinity.  That my friends is a Crime Against Humanity, pure and simple.  This act and the systems of total control over others have multiple facets and goals.  The obvious ones are mastery through indoctrination. “This is how to think and behave and we shall show you the way” - the mantra of most religions to this day.  A crime in and of itself if one chooses to not look any further.

But, the bigger issue, and therefore, bigger crime, is the shutting down of one’s inherent access to their own Divinity.  That is the abusive end result of major proportions.  Psychology and Spirituality are undoing this monstrosity, slowly but surely.  People are waking up!  People are growing!  People are expanding!  People are shaking off the Straitjacket of religion and liberating themselves in the process.

To be sure, this is not easy, and it is even scary.  Because that fictional comfort one enjoyed while attached to their system now begins to collapse, and feelings of insecurity and loss of control emerge as part of the undoing process. Something I know only too well personally. But that is the shift. It’s scary but also exciting. Its unnerving, but also begins to feel like Home, the Home that was taken from us while these wielders of control and programming still had their way.

Oh yes, we are breaking out of that world, aren’t we.  Groups like SFTSG help us navigate these choppy waters, these layers of resistance, these arising fears that show up as a function of that early programming. These fallacies are being set aside now as we get to the Heart of the matter.  That Heart you and I are getting to know is where we truly live, where that unhindered glorious Self of ours thrives and beckons us forward.

We can borrow a term from religion here to help make that final point.  It’s called Soul by some.  It’s called Heart by many.  It’s called Love by those who taste it freely and show it off in all they do.  For now, I will call it Soul, our Energy Centre, indestructible, eternal, and ours for the reclaiming.  On that note, I will attach a song that underscores this sentiment, that celebrates this achievement of having reconnected with our Deepest Self: “Celebrate Your Soul”

https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Spell-Religion-Healing-Trauma-ebook/dp/B0D3KFMK4S/ref=monarch_sidesheet

Spiritual Podcasts Description

 Spiritual Podcasts Description

Maurice Turmel PhD - The Spiritual Psychologist

I'm a retired psychologist, also known as The Spiritual Psychologist online where spirituality and personal growth have been a specialty interest for nearly 50 years. (Yes, I'm that old) Currently I have released a book titled "Breaking the Spell of Religion & Healing the Trauma." Sounds scary doesn't it?  What could this possibly have to do with Spirituality or Personal Growth?  Very simple. Persons traumatized in their formative years by their native religion, catholicism in my case, have more than a Difficult time getting in touch with their deep rooted Spirituality and Essential Self simply because they’ve been buried under mounds of guilt, shame & fear, the main products of such religions in their marketing of so-called Redemption. How can this be overcome?  Everything we learned about dysfunctional families back in the 80s can now be applied to uncovering said trauma and helping individuals find their way to that Deepest Self, always ready to emerge once these layers of trauma have been surfaced to be healed.  I've lived this myself.  That story is both personal and professional, and in the book, includes the stories and life experiences of numerous individuals overcoming such challenges. For some people, walking through this minefield of assaults on their Inner Dimensions is the difficult, but necessary, way Home.  And yes, it is doable, as I have experienced, and helped many others do the same.  I know this is Not a Pretty Picture where achieving personal spiritual awareness and growth are concerned but it is a really essential journey for those of us saddled with such challenges. Regardless of what path any of us may have to choose up that mountain, the view from the top remains the same. Self-Acceptance and Spirituality await and ever present Love is the gift box they come in.

https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Spell-Religion-Healing-Trauma-ebook/dp/B0D3KFMK4S/ref=monarch_sidesheet

Coming Home to You

 Coming Home to You

Maurice Turmel PhD

     My friends, you know why we’re here.  To save ourselves first of all and then, our soulmates as we share what we have learned.  

     My latest book titled “Breaking the Spell of Religion & Healing the Trauma” is  about my venture into the world of widely erratic superstition called Religion, a virtual horror show of major proportions. When you land in a place like that, a new soul venturing into the Earth Plane to gather secrets and lessons to behold, you find out quickly how brazen life can be.

     I landed in a French Canadian style Catholic environment where the words of the day were: “Stay frightened”  “We’ve got you covered”  “Believe our message and You’ll be safe”  “Do not look beyond these walls”  “Do not dare to tread outside”  “Those other religions are sacrileges”  “Ours is painted gold.”  Yes, that was my welcome as a child into the fold of my religion. It was wrapped all around me, like a straightjacket, from the day I arrived on the planet and throughout my education years right through to High School.

     Coming out of that environment in my late teens and early 20s I was a nervous wreck!  Scared of the outside world, of other people’s judgemental faces, of anything that did not have my religion’s patented approach to a closed in life.  Yes my friends, I was a nervous and insecure wreck!

     Well, how did I know I was a wreck?  I didn’t!  I didn’t realize it until years later when I was introduced to Group Therapy for people going through trauma.  In my case, that was a broken marriage that never had a chance to begin with, a final straw that led me to seek help.

     Here, in therapy land, I was introduced to words, to language, to books all about that scary world I came from and this potentially new world before me that actually began to make sense.  This new world was framed by Psychology, and you could say that it became my new religion.  But, more accurately it was actually my lifeboat and it began slowly to carry me out of that morass that I was born into.

     Life began to make sense.  Dealing with my feelings made sense.  Yes, the language was direct and harsh at times, but mostly accurate when it came to describing behaviour, emotional responses and the elements of self-understanding.  I began to realize that could Love Myself.  “Oh blasphemy” I could hear my old religion screaming.  “You can only love yourself when you’re perfect” it would cackle repeatedly. Well, now I knew I was on to something.  If the new me was at odds with that old shattered self and its heritage of mostly artificial and contradictory pronouncements, then I must certainly be on the right track.

     That in the end was my official rescue, my heroic journey to my true self within, the biggest goal we can have in this earthly endeavour, and the best motivation we can muster.  I was on my way Home.  Home is where the Heart is, and that’s where I live now.  Imperfect! Loving! Self-accepting! And happy, within my own personal shelter wrapped in that gift box called Love.  Connected to All it seems, as I continue to plod along my unique path, meeting great people also awakening to their true selves, doing their very best while coming to terms with who they really are, at that deep-seated Soul Level. 

Glad to see you here, friend.  Thanks for tuning in.

Now imagine your Deepest Self calling you Home - Free Streaming

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