Mythology in Action - Part 2

Mythology in Action - Part 2, Feb. 18, 2019

Maurice Turmel PhD - The Spiritual Psychologist

In my first post on this subject I laid out the circumstances in which I felt driven to become a psychologist.  The main trigger of that drive was the failure of my first marriage which set me on a quest to discover who I was and why I was here on this earth.  A divorce by itself is not enough to explain how such a quest came to be.  What were the roots of that particular failure that prompted such a change in life direction?  For the answer to that we have delve into my childhood where conditions and dynamics set the stage for what was to come later resulting in a long list of inappropriate choices that led to a bad marriage.

Once again, this is not to disparage my first wife whose unhappiness with the marriage was well founded from her point of view.  Add to which I myself was an unhappy camper having no idea at such a young age how any marriage was to proceed.  My childhood years set the stage for that failure and others in the area of work until I could identify and put a halt to repeating patterns of self-defeating behaviour.  The driving force behind these patterns was the belief that I did not deserve happiness or success as I unconsciously sabotaged these areas of my life.

The principal factor in all this stemmed directly from my childhood experiences of physical, emotional and mental abuse at the hands of my father.  He was a rager who took his frustrations out on his children, which I, as the eldest, took the brunt.  The terror and abuse that I experienced began before age 5 and continued well into my teens. It wasn’t a daily or weekly event for that matter, but when it happened it was terrifying and left an indelible mark on my psyche.  While other boys were bonding with their fathers and sharing warm and friendly relations, I bonded to terror which is what happens to victims of abuse.  I lived in fear of this man and grew a whole host of survival and avoidance strategies to try and mitigate his rage attacks.  However, being a child I would inevitably screw up and get attacked again.

In those early years my mother did her best to intervene but she was afraid of him too so she couldn’t do much to protect us.  Eventually she did grow stronger and stood up to him, but the damage had already been done. Myself along with two of my sisters bore the brunt of his rages and suffered the greatest damage.  In today’s world children would be removed from such a home, but back in the 50s abuse of children was common and nobody intervened unless you were hospitalized.

Out of this start in life grew low self-esteem and the belief that I was the one responsible for receiving these beatings.  Somehow, without any reasonable explanation, I was condemned for some alleged infraction and a beating with his belt was the end result.  Aside from the terror, another effect of this type of abuse was shame.  I was ashamed of myself because I was being beaten.  So I assumed I deserved it and the beatings happened because I was bad.  Whatever the so-called failure, it was never addressed as bad behaviour - instead, you were deemed a bad person and that’s why you were being beaten. In today’s language the long-term effects of such a childhood would be classified as a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, not unlike what military personnel experience in the heat of war.

This is a simple summary of where the roots of low self-esteem and self-sabotage began for me.  The physical and verbal abuse aside, there were also incidents of sexual abuse brought about by a troubled babysitter and a neighbourhood predator.  But these were mild compared to what was received at home. When these incidents were reported to our mother neither of those persons were ever allowed in our home again. In fairness I can also add here that there were some calm times and even happy times at home when we seemed to function reasonably well as a family. But the threat of dad’s explosive temper and tendency to violence was never far away and we children learned to remain vigilant for those signs.

Why am I sharing all this?  Because unlike choosing to be an airline pilot or architect or lawyer, you don’t choose psychology as a career unless you’re driven there by some predisposing circumstances.  In my case it was simply the need to understand myself and undo those negative patterns of behaviour that cost me jobs and my first marriage.  I needed to know how and why I was sabotaging myself, and what was driving this pattern of behaviour. 

The simple answer was an accumulation of feelings such as abandonment, guilt and shame about my very being, and feelings of worthlessness as a result of being a victim of abuse.  The net result of such feelings is revealed in patterns of low self-esteem, self-sabotage and self-rejection.  The solution, simply put, is self-acceptance which in my case meant a long road of recovery and healing through years of group and individual therapy along with personal growth pursuits which all culminated in my choice of a career as a psychologist and helping professional.

It was during these recovery years that I found my way to the Myth of the Hero and saw in this pattern a similar quest to the one I found myself in.  From this came the realization that many humans have lived through such patterns throughout the ages.  So long before we had self-help groups and personal growth seminars, we had the Hero Myth as a model for self-discovery and personal healing from any life trauma, while putting oneself on a healthier track towards real happiness through self-acceptance. This is how my book “Conscious Evolution - Mythology in Action” came to be.  It includes my own experiences as a trauma victim and survivor along with those of several individuals whose biographies I studied while in training. Add to this the experiences of many therapy clients sharing their exposure to trauma and you have what some might call a real “meat and potatoes” kind of book, one that you can sink your teeth into since it is born from real life events.

Within the next few days I will be offering my book “Conscious Evolution - Mythology in Action” as a no cost Kindle Book Promotion for a limited time. I will be posting that information on the blog and in the Goodreads giveaways section.  I’ll be looking for reader feedback and reviews of course. It is my hope that the real life experiences and ideas offered here along with the book will help many of you as well. There may be one or two more posts on this subject before the book giveaway is launched.  Stay tuned to this blog for more.

https://thespiritualpsychologist.blogspot.com/  Watch for our Goodreads Kindle Ebook giveaway of this title coming soon. 

Connecting With The Voice Within

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y2KXS1V

What does it mean to connect with The Still Small Voice within? Every artist throughout history knows this one. That Voice is one's personal connection to the Divine, the source of all Inspiration, where inspiration literally means "to be filled with spirit". It doesn't get any clearer than that.

Most of us feel that such an ability is only for a select few, where in fact hearing that voice used to be commonplace. Being connected to the Divine was natural in earlier times, back in the 5th dimension of consciousness.

That's where we're returning at this point. Connections to spirit still have to be intentionally engaged in at present; they have to be chosen and committed to. But soon that ability to connect with Source will be natural again because we are accelerating up the vibrational scale back to where we were before The Fall. We are leaving 3D limited consciousness and returning to 5D capabilities.

In the novel The Voice - A Mythological Guide to Mankind's Ascension, a group of volunteers are recruited to attend a spiritual training program, somewhere off planet. They are there to learn about this connection to The Voice within and secure it for themselves. They chose this mission to acquire that ability so they could become trainers and teach their fellow human beings.

The Voice is a spiritual sci-fi adventure that is  occuring now to awakening humans across the planet. Ascension Earth is fully underway as scores of seekers and lightworkers find their place in this ever evolving dynamic. Are you feeling that tug? Because thousands of us now are.

The Wonderland of Grief and Loss

The Wonderland of Grief and Loss

Maurice Turmel PhD

The land of Grief and Loss is not a particularly favorable destination but one that we cross paths with on a regular basis throughout our lifetime.  We are rarely ready for this. In our culture, so much has gone into the Denial of Death that we find ourselves at a loss when the real thing comes along.

Let's take a closer look, shall we.

When a death occurs in our sphere of influence, we, the bereaved of the world, find ourselves in some kind of wonderland that we can't explain. This is a special place, an unusual place, outside the mainstream of our regular day to day existence.

We've been thrown into this land called Grief and Loss by the sudden and/or unexpected death of a loved one.  Unexpected here means unprepared, unwitting and most assuredly, unwanted.

We are lost and afraid.  We don't know our way around this territory.  It feels strange.  It feels almost Hollywood like in the same sense that it seems so surreal.

When we land here, unexpectedly, and usually suddenly, we are told by others what to expect, what could happen, and what one might feel under the circumstances.

At the funeral home there are people who travel this road regularly because its their business.  They usually look pale and sad, almost zombie like, because that's the nature of this environment.  The clothes they wear are as dark as the mood they convey. These caretakers of the dead and of us in grief know this journey all too well. They are always quite respectful of we, the uninitiated.  In their world, death and grieving are a straightforward circumstance that they see every day.

To all of us, now in the throes of grief, this death and dying business is an aberration, like falling off a cliff emotionally speaking, something we don't encounter on a regular basis, and therefore, alien to our usual life circumstances. The experience of death and grieving is also something we are often repelled by and dragged into kicking and screaming regardless that it is a mainstay of our collective destiny.

So here we are in this Wonderland called Grief and Loss feeling things we don't want to feel, experiencing emotions that are quite powerful and overwhelming and far outside our usual array of daily life experiences. We are forced by these circumstances to gather in places we don't want to be in, talk about emotions we don't want to discuss, while checking our watches to pinpoint the right moment for our exit.  We are face to face with a deceased loved one, a friend, a partner, a relationship that is now terminally broken.

We will never see this person again.  We will not speak with them, receive emails from them, or connect again in any fashion we had become used to over the course of our lives.  A big hole has opened up inside and it is filling with grief emotions we can't seem to control.

What do we do with ourselves now?  Initially at least we appear to sleepwalk through the process.  These are early days of grief and loss where the emotions are powerful and the mood is dark.  We are surrounded with mists of doubt, feelings of abandonment, self-admonishment perhaps – a whole host of pejoratives that we're busy conjuring up to try and make sense of this reality we now face.

Guilt, shame, sadness and weeping are all part of this process, this wonderland experience.  It is at such times where we find out things about ourselves we'd rather not admit to, things about the deceased we were never privy to, a whole host of revelations that might have remained buried were this person still with us now. The ground underneath us is shaking and continues to move.

Welcome to the Wonderland of Grief and Loss. This place is vastly different from your regular life circumstances and you shall remain here for some time to come.

Time heals all?  Not True!

Time heals if we do the work of acknowledging our feelings and working through them. These powerful emotions are extremes in the feeling range of life and they are upon us like a large dark cloud which has settled in for some time to come, whatever may be the duration of this process.

These extremes of emotional experiencing will pass eventually because all healing processes have beginnings and endings that are somewhat predictable.  As the grieving work is accomplished the dark cloud eventually breaks up and then dissipates.  This is the Wonderland of Grief and Loss.

Your stay in this valley of experience may be brief or long, depending on whom was lost and your attachment to that individual. Such events are always memorable even when filed away in the psychological closets we prefer not to visit. For those open to the experience and willing to embrace what needs to be done, there are lessons here that can deliver growth experiences unattainable anywhere else.

For those of you willing to do the work, make sure you say your prayers, whatever they may be and ask for the guidance and support you truly deserve. That will be forthcoming in whatever form suits you best.

Talk about the loss with your friends.  See a therapist if that's required. Join a grief recovery group. Give yourself every benefit that's readily available.  And this too shall pass. You will survive and you'll grow stronger as a result of having done the work.

That's the message here, dear friends.  The work has to be done or you will drag these ill effects with you far into the future, tainting every aspect of your life experience with this unattended sadness and remorse that simply begs for acknowledgment and release.

If you're still feeling stuck, ask yourself this:

“What would my deceased family member / loved one want for me in this circumstance? How would they want me to proceed?"  Or, if the tables were turned and you were looking at them while they were grieving you, what would you urge them to do for themselves?  Then govern yourself accordingly.

Its an alien place at first, this Wonderland of Grief and Loss – but only at first. Soon we realize that this experience  comes and goes like the seasons and we will pass here many times throughout our life journey before we come to our own final goodbye.

Give yourself what you need and you'll manage it all quite well. Then you'll be surprised at how quickly the grieving recedes once you've undertaken the healing process as a whole.  The smiles will be back.  The joy of living will return. Even your lost loved one will come to be viewed as an asset in the winding journey of your life, a person now easily called to memory with fondness and love. Win Win!

"When Angels Call - Coping With Grief and Loss"

Maurice Turmel PhD

Ascended Masters - Ascension Never Stops

Ascended Masters: Ascension Never Stops 

Ascension Never Stops

The Ascended Masters Channeled by Wes Annac
http://aquariuschannelings.com/2011/10/17/the-ascended-masters-ascension-never-stops/

Dearest ascending souls of Planet Earth, we are the Ascended Masters. We are but a small collective of the Infinite ascended souls present in the higher dimensions. We have spoken through the term ‘Masters’ because we, having ascended have overcome the low vibrations of duality and ‘mastered’ our own inner darkness as we grew and learned more and more.

All of you who are ascending will gain the abilities of a Master, as when you ascend a Master is exactly what you will become. We understand that many of you may assume this term a simple label, but it is much more than that. To be a Master is to truly ascend past the lower vibrations, to take control of your body and spirit complexes and to overcome the darkness that prevails in the lower dimensions. True Mastery involves enacting disciplines, becoming the Light you wish to be graced with and standing up for the Light while saying ‘No!’ to the distractions and manipulations of the lower vibrations. To ascend is to do all of these things. So you see, the term ‘Master’ is not some term of endearment or a term based in ego, every soul who has ascended past the third and fourth dimensions can be seen as an Ascended Master.
In fact, we have souls whom are even more advanced than us, whom we look up to and can refer to as Masters. Your ascension never stops dear souls, and we are in fact also growing and learning every moment as you are. Like many of you on Earth, we have assumed the role of a teacher for those who do not understand all that we do, and we also embrace the role of a student, learning more and more and expanding our own perspectives. Every soul who has been a part of Earth’s ascension, be it those on the ground or us here in the higher realms, has learned so very much from this experience. We can say that the end of ascension cycles is usually much more peaceful, as on the majority of planets in this universe and in Creation, the Light is the dominating factor.

Many of you carry memories of peaceful ascensions on other worlds in past Lives, ascensions that ran quite smoothly and happened with little difficulty. Once a soul becomes aware of ascension and decides they wish to grow and learn more, their ascension processes cannot be stopped. All of you and every soul on any other world are blessed with an infinite amount of spiritual guides. Even those on peaceful planets who are ascending obtain much help, and in fact the help is usually able to be given in the open as on other, more peaceful worlds there is nothing to stop extraterrestrials and ascended souls from being with the souls who are ascending. We do in fact help all of you who are ascending on Earth, but due to the difficult situation on Earth we must be slightly veiled with our help. It can be seen as a good thing, as many of you on Earth can have problems with faith, with staying faithful and sure that a wonderful ascension back to the realms you know as Home is in fact underway. Faith is a very big part of your ascension, as what you feel and think is created in your virtual reality that is 3D Earth.

There are many souls on your world who are completely sure that there is nothing past their current Lives. Through biased science and unconscious acts of denial, many souls have convinced themselves that the dense reality they find themselves in is the only reality that exists, and once they pass on from that reality they cease to exist. Much has been proven and will continue to be proven through emerging science on your world that will once and for all put humanity’s fear of death to rest. However, those souls who stay in denial refuse to see this evidence for what it is, and instead use every excuse they can to discredit any theory that doesn’t agree with a certain mindset, the mindset they have infatuated themselves with. Our main concern in that avenue is the fact that you do indeed create through what and how you think and feel, and since so many are convinced that death is the end, once they do pass on it will be difficult for them to find consciousness. Some of them may for a while exist in a sort of void less ‘black’ after death, a black that they will perceive as nothingness. It is much the same place you all go to when you close your eyes, but only when the pineal gland is so calcified that you are not able to perceive the ‘sparkly’ energy when closing them.

As many do not believe they are actually in their own personal spiritual space when they close their eyes, as they close their eyes they see nothing but black nothingness. This nothingness is actually what can be referred to as void less Creation with the potential for being, and it is in these sacred spaces that you can create to your Heart’s desire. Just as those who believe closing their eyes takes them nowhere, those who believe nothing comes after death will experience this nothingness until they are able to create something. Some of you may think it would not be hard to create your surroundings after death, but if one’s mindset is set on death being the ultimate end, they will be somewhat comfortable in their dark space for a short time. Once they regain awareness, they will be able to harness their Creation powers and astral planes of Living that you all return to after death. The Law of Attraction is very powerful, and even after death you will create through what you expect.

We would like to take a few moments to congratulate dearly those who are standing up for themselves by protesting the unjust and unfair actions of the one percent, the ‘service to self’ souls on your world. We have organized the events that lead to the worldwide revolutions and protests in the heavenly realms, as every event that happens on Earth is first created in the higher astral planes of Earth, then sent to manifest in your reality. This is why we continue to remind you of your Creation powers, as even when you are imagining or thinking of something, you are creating that something to be manifested on your physical plane of understanding.

Many of you who read this message have also been involved in manifesting worldwide revolutionary events while in the sleep realms. We understand that many of you may see that as a bit of a sensational or exaggerated statement, but we do not exaggerate in the slightest. All of you Lightworkers on Earth are extremely advanced ascended beings in your own respects already, you were before your ventures on Earth and you are now even stronger as you exit the final lower ascension cycle of Earth. You are all extremely exalted souls, and so very many of us actually look to your Earthly experiences for guidance in our own experiences. Earth is a very difficult planet to incarnate on, but so many of you Dear Lightworkers have undertaken this challenge and you are coming out golden!!

We would now like to clear up some of the confusion some of you have with the many different terms we use. Above we discussed the use of the term ‘Master’ in relation to our ascended nature, and we would now like to speak of the term ‘Lightworker’. Many of you think that only a few of you who are ascending are actually ‘Lightworkers’ but it is simply not so! Every single one of you who is reading these messages and becoming infatuated with spirituality and the Light are performing Lightwork, thus making you Lightworkers. Nearly everything you can do in relation to spirituality and the Light, can be and is considered Lightwork. Meditation is Lightwork. Calling on your guides to help you grow and learn is Lightwork. Informing others about your earthly ascension by starting a blog or just telling people about ascension, is Lightwork. Dear souls, we could go on forever!!

Every single one of you is a Lightworker, Ground Crew member or whatever you wish to call it. As stated above, many of you (who are) incarnate on Earth are in fact Ascended Masters, Archangels, and members of the advanced extraterrestrial races assisting Earth at this time, as well as members of the Galactic Federation of Light. We in fact did not come up with the term Lightworker, it is a term that was created by those of you on Earth but has proven to be an effective term to describe all of you who are assisting Gaia and her population in her ascension.

Many of you have found emptiness in the third dimensional things that used to make you so very happy. As a method of coping with the third dimension and the lower vibrations, many of you attached yourselves to outward, third dimensional things that brought you happiness. Many souls on your world still struggle with this distortion. You have undoubtedly heard of the souls who are addicted to drugs, food, sports, video games, etc. and those are some of the souls who have attached themselves to outward things to find happiness. The mindset on your world has been that there is nothing past the physical, and therefore happiness can only be found outwardly. Too many souls believe with all their heart that owning material things or finding physical highs are the only ways to obtain happiness, when really what is required is looking within for happiness. Happiness and Peace can only be found within, and many physical highs only serve to further cut off one’s awareness of the higher realms.

We are a small collective of an infinite amount of Ascended Masters who guide you all on Earth daily. We wish you to know that despite what you hear outwardly, ascension is in progress and you are all doing wonderfully. Without the actions of so many of you on Earth, Mother Gaia may very well have not been able to ascend. Despite the growing number of souls working for the Light on your world, there are still plenty of souls hard at work confusing people, and many souls will pose as a Lighted being with all the answers, when their true purpose is to manipulate people.

Many of the souls who do this have taken somewhat influential roles, as undertaking an influential role is the only true way to manipulate a broader range of souls. Whether it is a known soul or someone on an internet forum, we urge you all to use precise and extreme discernment with everything you read and are told. Do not simply accept something just because a soul claiming to have all the answers has said it, and we certainly wouldn’t want any of you blindly following our messages without questioning anything. Be safe in your ventures dealing with other souls, as sometimes you never know who is bent on deception. We Love you all so very much, and we wish you to tap into the higher dimensional energy we are sending you at all times.

Thank you to the Ascended Masters

The Process of Self-Awareness

Maurice Turmel PhD
October 19, 2011

Listen to your self. That's what you need to do. Kneel down and place your ear to the ground so you can hear the rumbling underneath, the rising of those energies from the Spirit of the Moment as it traces itself through you.

What do you feel?  How do you know? What do you trust? What are your beliefs? Are you ready to let go?

Because the Old has to go for the New to be born. You can't go ahead with those old clothes, those old hangups, those old ineffectual visions.

Get a New Vision, a New Life, a New Beginning and see your Self anew, stripped of all pretense, fear and plight; stripped of all lies, and aligned only with the truth -  The " I Am" truth, the truth that God is being born through You! How can you not savor that? Of course - you must!

Love yourself!  That's the ticket.  Love yourself enough that you never have to love yourself again. Love yourself to the endth and breadth of your existence.

Every part of you needs love.  Every moment of your life needs love.  You need love, self-acceptance and self-adherence.  Be your own Voice.  Let it dominate all others "To Thine Own Self Be True."

The truth is in the pudding.  Are you acting in alignment with your truth?  Are you acting as a reflection of God's truth?  Discuss!!!

FIRST DO NO HARM:

Value added comes later when your are ready to celebrate your Soul, as you have in other areas of your life.  For me personally, that has been music.  It is where I celebrate my soul the most.  Where is your passion?  Where is your truth?  Where is your joy?  Find it and put it on a bumber sticker to your heart.  You can't fail when you follow your Bliss.

So how can you trust your self when you keep looking outside for your answers?

And my God Self answers: "I am your God Self and I live inside you.  I am You.  You are Me.  We are One and always have been.  We are reuniting after a long absence, a separation of sorts, where you went away to discover your self and now you are ready to come home again."

So who are you going to trust to guide you?  Those that claim authority and have already ruined the planet, or those that stand up to them and say "Enough!"  Where do you want to spend your energy? Do not spend your time appealing to those who don't care; take your message to those who do, to those who already live from the inside out.  They are your peers and loved ones.  They are already forming the New Earth.

SELF-DISCLOSURE:

Time for all of us to Pay Attention again, at the risk of learning something new.  We are going to learn how to answer our own questions.  The trick is to trust the Source, the Inner Voice, that is our truest Self.  That means turning off the outside world for a while, as they keep marching to that old 3D drummer and those sounds just keep repeating the same old refrain.  "We know better than you". That comes from religion and government mainly, but more insidiously, comes from our corporations and employers.  They are selling what's  best for them, not for you, or for the betterment of mankind or the planet as a whole.

We need to learn to listen, put our ear to the ground, interpret those energetic rumblings and rush to give them creedance for whatever purpose they serve.  They are calling to us.  They are saying "wait a minute, we've got incoming mail for you".  Open your Heart Center and that's where they deposit the latest offerings from the Giant Cosmos that is ready and willing to serve us. 

Are you with me?  Are you ready to hear your own truth?  I know I am because this message came to me last night as I was once again groping with "what to do next".  All I heard in return was "Publish, Publish, Publish - tell your own truth - that will inspire others to reveal their truth."  And in this sharing will we come together as One, because no secrets implies we are alert to one another and Love paves the way for our redress to each other.

Yes, we've heard it all before.  Your Life Purpose lies within. Of course it does.  Where else can it be?  And when we listen, with our ear to the ground, to our Heart Center, we hear the truth He has been broadcasting since day 1 - "You are Love!  You are Powerful!  You are Me incarnate! And I need you by My side as of this moment, this Now moment.  Capiche?"

So then I was instructed to take pen in hand and write the following:  "I am the author of this posting, this article, this piece of my life that is determined to shake me loose from those old mourings called "public".  My "private" is my "public".  That's who I am!

This particular shakeup is about me coming to terms with who I am.  It's autobiographical in that sense.  It's an open journal.  It's a part of me on paper.  That's where this is going. But it's your story as well.  In my profession there's a saying: "We are as sick as our Secrets".  Guess what?  Revealing ourselves is the cure.

"Do you get it?" I am being asked. Self-Disclosure!!!  It's who we are, in case you were wondering.  What else is there?  There is nothing else.  We are God. She/He works through us.  All else is irrelevant.  The more we disclose of ourselves, the stronger God becomes and we too.

Are you prepared to tell people who you are?  I am!  This is who I am and more will be coming.  I declare myself "In".  I am part of the solution, of the changes, of the shift to New World Consciousness.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Maurice

http://NoLostHope.com

Kindergarten Christianity

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 worse 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 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 the Lord 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.

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, the faith of the future, the faith that unites 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 Christians, please step aside. Faith through self-empowerment is here to stay.

Check out the following resource for a clear picture of where we stand on this issue and how you too can come to terms with your Divinity and Life Purpose.

Maurice Turmel PhD
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718143524