Showing posts with label spiritual growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spiritual growth. Show all posts

Friday, December 28, 2018

We All Matter



Say It with Love
A Message to All on the Ascension Path
Maurice Turmel (Dr Moe) & Higher Self - 12/27/2018


“WE ALL MATTER”

In the annals of history, in all the old texts, the sublime message of Love there contained states the following:
“WE ALL MATTER”
Yes, every one of us on this earth right now, matters, to the same degree that everything alive on this planet does matter. A symphony of sounds, likes, dislikes, preferences, desires, loves, hates, all amalgamated on to each and every one of us to be parcelled out through our Personal Evolution and Spiritual Growth.
We are all abundant, creative, lustful, desiring, omniscient, fragrant, alert, alive, demonstrative, capable, exuberant, expansive, and so much more. We exude such qualities as we allow ourselves to flourish and express that which is our inner most being, what we are at the core of our lives.
We are here to express such attributes, to share, to laugh, to play, to celebrate, to perform, to demonstrate what each and every one of us are capable of. Its our duty, our job, our calling, our mission, to celebrate and share that with which we are imbued.
What makes us Us? Whatever that is, it matters. We Matter. We all Matter.
In the fabric of Life there are cells, countless cells, all occupying a specific space that cannot be occupied by another. In terms of us, we each have our sacred space, where we stand and reveal, that which makes us Us.
Giving, receiving, opening, closing, dancing, crying, grieving and loving, all of these emotions and their experiences make us who we are as individual cells in this great body called Life.
We are Life in expression. We are God in expression. We have a job to do - to become totally and completely the best Us this world has ever seen. We do it for our Selves and as our duty to the Whole. We occupy that space that is uniquely our own and fill it with our ever evolving gifts.
Every person on this earth, every soul incarnate on this plane, we all matter to the Supreme Being that brought us here. We matter individually and collectively. The God inside sent us forward to discover this for our Selves in order to realize that we are more than just a carbon-based physical body. We are part of the Whole in the fabric of Life and we are cast into a body that is alive with Spirit.
That’s all the Creator asks of us: “Be your Selves to the fullest degree you can.” So let’s be proud to occupy our unique space. It is God given and designed for each of us personally. Let’s give it a go, shall we. Let’s do our best and always remember that:
“WE ALL MATTER”

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Your Spiritual Journey Podcast - "Occupy Your Heart"


Your Spiritual Journey Episode 2 - "Occupy Your Heart"
Maurice Turmel PhD

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/yourspiritualjourney/2015/05/28/occupy-your-heart--your-spiritual-journey

Physical journeys begin and end but not so with Spirituality. Spiritual journeys are ongoing and take us from one dimension to another in an ever ascending cycle.

We're not here to waste our time, to be victimized or sidelined by the circumstances that befall us.  We're here to get it together and find our way Home. Home is where the heart is and that's where we live once that connection is made.

This episode of Your Spiritual Journey is about connecting with that heart-space - your feeling center. It is where we feel that we live, not where we think. Thinking about our feelings comes after we've accepted them and identified what they mean to us. Without that step there's no getting around to where we actually live.

Then we're on the wheel of karma perpetually falling into one trap or another, traps that we created, to keep us feeling victimized and afraid. Its through self-responsibility that we break this cycle and find our way back to center.
Getting off that wheel requires us to connect with our heart. Every psychotherapist worth his/her salt knows this to be true. Guiding people back to where they "live" - that is where they "feel" - is what happens in the consulting room every day.

Only by owning and feeling those feelings then allowing ourselves to express them safely can we ever be free of that self-perpetuating karmic cycle.

So, Occupy Your Heart and you will find your way Home.

Saturday, September 20, 2014

How to De-Hypnotize a Chicken and Break Free of Cabal Control - Reprise

How to De-Hypnotize a Chicken and Break Free of Cabal Control

Maurice Turmel PhD - "Dr Moe"


Here I am at 7am in the morning, wide awake, waiting for the other shoe to drop. I've opened myself up to everything and a part of me is definitely scared. I have to trust now. I have to trust that the world out there is a reflection of the new world I now hold inside.

I have surrendered! I have let go! I know I can’t control anymore so I've let go of everything I once believed was important. I trust my Self now, and I’m going with the flow, surrendering, letting go.

It’s all I can do. I've rooted out the core of that pain cycle I was in for over 60 years, that primal wound I suffered in childhood and all those defenses that came later as I tried to survive with that open rift that took root inside of me and that I worked so hard to try and deny.

I've asked for help, from Source, from family, from my Higher Self, from every Galactic in the neighborhood so I can deal with all immediate problems that have queued up for consideration since I let myself know that I’m open for business- the God business – the business of rectifying my Heart Center as the True North of my being.

My earliest wound gave birth to a “deficit” mentality, which I promptly tried to fill by performing, by seeking approval, by trying to figure out what “they” wanted. I pursued accumulation, of money, degrees, prominence, not for their inherent value, but as insulation against the pain that was now my constant companion. At the root of it all I had come to believe I simply wasn't good enough!

I got broken the moment I arrived on the planet. My violent father attacked me physically and mentally, dumping his own inadequacies on a 3 year old son who just had normal needs for attention and wasn't very adept at “not falling” or “breaking things” such as dinner plates, that now seemed way more important than me. "What have I done?" i ask myself, as an unfamiliar tension becomes my new normal.

That began the programming that put me into a very primitive state of survival in order to protect that fragile self within. It also set the stage for 10 years of therapy later in life that subsequently morphed into a career in Psychology. Step by step I began to heal and eventually, last week as a matter of fact, the Spell was finally broken.  The Trance, that once defined my reality and provided some form of refuge, collapsed, mainly at my own doing, but outside forces that I had prayed to had a hand in it as well.

Remember that word Trance. That’s where we've all been living while steeped in the sick soup of 3D life, treading in the Illusion that we lightworkers have all been fighting hard to break free of.

They”, the powers that were, put us into a Trance. They defined the world as they saw it, with Them in control and We as subjects to their whims. We kowtowed to them and They, the Cabal, used us as fodder for their programs such as war and a World Control Agenda.

We each have to break this Spell ourselves. At one time, they had most of us believing that there was no hope and no escape, only surrender to their will. They made us dependent on them from the very beginning of our lives. We are like “Hypnotized Chickens” following their lead, adopting their definitions of life, including and especially those that define us. That was their plan from the very beginning and that’s how they put us under their spell.

Today, Lightworkers, Starseeds and Spiritual Seekers everywhere are hard at work breaking that spell, waking up from that manufactured dream and taking back their power. We are each obliged to recapture our power by first recognizing that it exists, that this power belongs to us and that it was hijacked by the Cabal to service their Agenda. By Cabal I include Government, Religion and corrupt Business - especially Banking - as the True Axis of Evil.

These cabal entities are predators, no more or less cold-hearted than the most primitive of animals such as crocodiles and alligators. And I mean no offense to these wonderful creatures that simply are what they are. But to be a human predator is another matter. “In order to do so you have to shut down your conscience so you could take at will, abuse at will, and murder at will – yes, I said Murder.” That is the type of psychopathic entity that has to be removed from our consciousness, our belief systems and our physical reality. These are the predators that first defined us as “less than”, gave us false assurances that we could seek redemption by Kowtowing to their mandate (religion most assuredly) and placed us on the perpetual treadmill of “never enough”.

They said this is how the world works and we believed them. What’s a 3 year old to do? A 5 year old? A vulnerable teenager? An adult with a mortgage and credit card bills? Our parents were under their Spell! Our grand-parents were under their Spell! Everyone around us was under that Spell! We, the 99%, were the Working Class designed and programmed to serve the Elites. The game was on. We were born into a Trance that went from generation to generation, infecting us all. “Start running and make that treadmill turn.”

Like Sleeping Beauty, we are finally waking up. And like any mythical character that’s been asleep for so long, we are waking up grumpy, pissed off and irritable, because we are regaining our senses, those we numbed out with defense mechanisms, and with alcohol, drugs and the pursuit of achievements. Now we are regaining feeling again; our senses are returning and it hurts to realize how we've been lied to and abused. It’s like when your leg goes to sleep, (loses circulation and goes numb) when circulation resumes and feeling returns, it hurts, it stings, it pisses you off. A numb leg is not our normal state of feeling nor is a numb consciousness. When feeling returns it comes with some recovery pain until we adapt and own everything that’s coming up for scrutiny. To be fully alive and feel every part of our life is Our Normal State – not the Trance!!!

Driving us inward against ourselves is how the Cabal began shaping and entrenching their agenda. We were conditioned to be feel afraid from the git go, of all the ghosts and goblins they threw at us. “You’re a sinner”! “You’re weak”! “You’re broken and defective”! And only “We” can fix that.” That’s what put us to Sleep – the Sleep of Numbness which was the only escape we had.

Now we’re coming back into our own, regaining feeling, owning our disappointments and losses, questioning their agenda, examining our complicity in the Trance and taking responsibility. We are in effect “Breaking the Spell”. We may have sharp pains shooting through our body and consciousness as we do so, but we are regaining feeling and coming back to life.

Wake up Little Suzy, Wake up – We’re almost Home”

I know now that I put myself in this Trance for the learning part. All of us Lightworkers and Servers of the Light have done so. We wanted to learn the whole process of separation and re-connection by experiencing it from the inside out. We are now seeing how we became infected and how we stayed asleep with the cabal's regularly set programming, which we got at church every Sunday, and which poured over us steadily through all the mainstream media which they controlled. Yelling at us from one angle or another – “this how it is” – “we are the creators of Reality” – “you must obey” “we are in charge.”

Those SOBs have hypnotized us into believing that they are special and we are Not – that they are gods, and we are mere mortals. “We are nothing but slime and worm food and we are lucky to be able to pursue some form of deliverance through their approved methods and illusory goals, which always remain unattainable.”

They've had us by the throat with laws, artificial conditions, wars, fear, and learned helplessness – The Works. Beating us up, driving us into the ground and leaving us there so they could trample all over us until they needed us for some perverted aspect of their sick agenda. That is Elitism at work!

But here’s a kicker. They have controlled us for so long now, they are also hypnotized into believing they are special, and of course it is their right to assume the mantle of authority over our lives. That’s been the Right Wing Pseudo-Christian agenda all along - Control others and turn them into Slaves. We are waking up to these facts at this very moment. But they have yet to realize that they too are slaves to the same system that keeps them from knowing their true worth. Ah Ha!

We who claim to be Lightworkers have come to that place in our hearts where we can see through that obfuscating mist, where we can identify the Trance for the illusion it is and finally, Break the Spell through our Spiritual Health oriented methods and practices. We are realizing and regaining our power, recapturing that sense of self that is inherently God given and our very own, and standing up for ourselves at every available opportunity.
We are saying No to religious barbarism, No to corporate control of our lives, No to polluting energy sources, No to manipulation of our food supply, No to criminal government policies, No to Banksterism and No to the entire Cabal Agenda!

Let’s take Michael Moore and George Carlin as examples. They are under no illusion on how this world works. They are no longer victims of The Spell. They have drunk the Elixir of Truth and for them, the Spell is Broken.BROKEN!!!
They are part of the same chorus we are joining: “We are through serving the Cabal and here’s why” No shortage of reasons follow that claim, but the most important of all is:“We want the Truth to prevail and We, the 99%, demand Equality for All.”

Michael Moore and George Carlin are heroes to me, people who broke the spell of their own psychological imprisonment and have stood up to the Cabal time and time again. Oh I know the critics of Moore will start shouting at this point, but I don’t care. Anyone who feels the need to complain about such an obviously good man has not done their own soul repair work. They have nothing to offer but cynicism, which is simply a cover for fear. Good luck with that. For those of us waking up, the best is yet to come!

George Carlin, another hero of mine, advised us time and time again to “Question everything”. As a lightworker who came here to help out I take that advice to heart. We the People have been lied to, and they, the Illuminati, are the liars, the pornographers of truth and the abusers of mankind. They are the sick ones in our society, not us. They are so infected with the disease of righteousness that they can’t see the world in any other way except as divided between Controllers and Slaves. We have been the controlled, the abused and those entrenched into servitude. But No More! The gloves are off and we are reclaiming our lives.

The Cabal are now trapped by circumstances of their own making. Because they are also entrenched into a form of servitude, one that sees them believing the trance idea that “they are superior, more worthy and more deserving”, which makes them victims of the very same Spell they wove around us. By being special they don’t feel compelled to self-examine, and without that mechanism they never get to find out who they really are. “Hoisted by their own Petard,” one could say.

We lightworkers self-examine all the time. It’s a matter of psychological and spiritual survival as we heal wounds and recover self-esteem. Bit by bit we accumulate genuine personal value. We start to love unabashedly. We reach out. We ask for help. We surrender to the genuine flow of life which is “godliness" pure and simple. We are the winners here.
As long as we remained Hypnotized Chickens, we belonged to the Cabal and they gladly kept us trapped in that illusion. Do you remember that their trance included a key item - the promise that “they would take care of us and protect us?” Do you recall when “The Decider” made that promise after 9/11? Weren't you reassured by that? I promptly puked.

A big part of The Trance is money – how much do you have – how much is enough – how do I get more. According to the trance, there is never enough money. Buy lottery tickets! Lie, cheat and steal! Do whatever it takes to pile it up. Look at the banks and Libor. Look at the wealthy like Donald Trump and the Bush family. Look at them closely. These people have billions and it’s still not enough. That’s the god of money at work – More is never Enough!!!
Sure we need money to live in our society. Many people are content with their incomes and savings, but most are not. The latter genuinely believe they must have more. “More, please Mr Scrooge, May I have some more?”
Well, all the money in the world will never save you from having to look at your soul and take responsibility for your actions. If you screwed people over for your money, you will pay. Karma is a bitch. The consequences are Biblical. "You will reap what you have sown."

For all of us in the 99%, breaking free of this Master Illusion is tantamount to a major revolution. We have to give up the delusion, that they, the cabal - government, business, religion – will take care of us. Releasing that idea we now realize that we have to face life on Planet Earth alone. Well, not so fast. At this point in our evolution we have already begun to acknowledge and engage our faith in God, the One we now know lives inside, the part of us that has already begun to deliver us from evil by exposing the Trance. We have begun to see ourselves as whole again, as complete and as perfect. That’s how we are breaking free. And "Voila", we begin to fall in love with our true Selves!

At this time we are becoming Whole as we shake off the sleepy nightmare and consequent dilemma we've been cast into. We realize we are not alone. We know we have our God Self to work with. But how do we learn to trust that part of ourselves that we've been so conditioned to avoid, to distrust, to not even realize its existence within our hearts? After all, the Illuminati have successfully used God as a control mechanism, by defining Him/Her as an abstraction, something unknowable and always just out of reach.

Personal power is at stake here. It’s what has been taken away from us from the moment of our arrival on this planet. Who do we believe in? Them, or us? Well with Ascension fully under way and each of us riding that wave, we are on the verge of breaking that spell once and for all. Many of us have already done so, and many more are making that transition from victim to autonomy, like popcorn exploding into full bloom on a hot plate. We put ourselves on the hot plate of Ascension because we wanted to evolve and reclaim our spiritual life. Are we done yet?

Not so fast my fine feathered friends! It is scary coming out of that Trance. What happens to all those protections that they, the cabal, promised us, and that we came to believe existed? Can we live without them? Where do we go now? What do we do?

There’s nothing worse than feeling alone, abandoned and uncared for – unless, you've learned to start liking and loving yourself. That’s the simple lesson that every Hero and Heroine must learn before they can be truly free. Until we realize that and take hold of it the cabal still has us by the short hairs.

We have to rescue our Selves from their lair. We do so by choosing love. And we must learn about true love, not romantic love - but True Love, by first learning to love ourselves – unconditionally. We have to face the Abyss – the absence of their illusory protection – stand naked in the storm of life – and jump. That is the price of Freedom. We Must Choose Our Selves!!! That’s the lesson of myth. Once Heroes and Heroines choose themselves, their quest is at an end - That's All She Wrote!

At our house we are going through personal bankruptcy which, in an odd twist of fate, is actually helping us Break Free of the banksters’ clutches. The cabal always define bankruptcy as a failure – certainly it is by their standards. “You failed to comply with the system! You failed to save your money! You failed to play the Game. You must pay tribute to Caesar, or Caesar will have your head.” But if, as we now realize with the continuing pursuit and arrest of criminal banksters, that the system is corrupt and rigged, then breaking free via whatever method available is my duty to both myself and my family. Too bad Caesar!

Yes, money brings a certain amount of freedom as already stated, and is necessary to our current way of life. But real freedom only comes with healing our wounds, excavating the damage done to us by the cabal agenda, and recovering that lost frightened child within, which is our God Self in waiting. This is our responsibility and choosing to do so costs us nothing. Nothing but Love! Choosing your Self first and foremost, and acknowledging your Self as equally important to all other selves and as lovable as your adoring cat, this will definitely set you Free – whether you have money or not. It is not the other way around. Absolutely Not!

Freedom’s just another word for Nothing left to Lose.”

When you consciously surrender to your God Self, you step into the natural flow of life, and all the abundance you wish for will be forthcoming. You just have to “let go.” In so doing you've found Freedom’s other door, the simple one, the easy one, the truest one of all – the one that says: “I've got your back – I am your Higher Self – and I’ll show you the way through.”

That message is hard to believe at first, but since all else has failed in your attempts to seek redemption, you may as well listen to what your “inner voice” has to say. Give yourself a rest already. Every twelve stepper on the planet knows this one: “Let Go, and Let God”. End of story!

The controllers of the world had us spellbound for the longest time. A total collapse of their system is now necessary to make things right. And each of us has to believe that we deserve it, our freedom that is. We have to give up the cabal’s illusion that in order to be protected by them we must be controlled by them. Let the “Decider” take care of you. Ask the people in New Orleans how that worked out! Ask the families of dead marines and soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq how that has worked out! Ask the families who lost loved ones on 9/11 how that worked out! Ask all the victims of 2008’s economic meltdown and housing collapse how that has worked out. Our daughter was a victim here along with millions of others who lost their homes because of banksterism.

We are not free until we wrestle that control away from them and take back our power. We are not free until we stand up for our rights. We are not free until we take responsibility for everything that happens to us including our unconscious complicity in their agenda. Once we own all of that we are Free. And no one has to die in the process. We do not have to harm one member of the Cabal to do that. But we are certainly entitled to prosecute them for their crimes.

Wake up Sleeping Beauty – The Dark Queen is not your Friend – And you don’t need a Prince to kiss you awake

All you need is your stern determination to know yourself as God. Badda Bing, Badda Boom – It is done.”
We Are the Answer to our Prayers. Get to know your Self and the God within. You are a Servant of the Light engaged in Ascension because something deep inside has called to you and you recognize This Voice as very important. Your heart, your soul, your love of mankind and the truth, All of these compel you to stand up and be counted. You are a Lightworker– Hear yourself Roar!!!

Love to all,
Dr Moe


Monday, May 6, 2013

New Age Spiritual Rockin Blues


New Age Spiritual Rockin Blues

Maurice Turmel PhD

 

 
New Age Spiritual Rockin Blues is music that touches the soul and awakens the heart while offering a contemporary modern feel. This type of Spiritual Inspiration Music moves through our Heart while guiding us to Love, Growth and a direct connection to the Divine within. Because this music touches the Heart, it stirs within us the deeper truth of whom and what we are and our purpose here on Planet Earth. We release our resistances when confronted with music that moves us at that deep emotional level. The Blues style has always been associated with Heart and Soul, because it came from the Black experience in the Southern US and was about healing the pain and suffering those repressed Americans experienced as they attempted to move from their slave status to some form of equality with their white counterparts.

It is a documented fact that Blues style music was taken up by white Americans in the 50s as the then dominant White Music Industry clearly recognized its power to move and engage people. Despite the fact that the White music industry chose to sanitize it for mass audience consumption, the approach still carried enough of that Blues flavor to excite and animate a new population of post war children. That’s when Rock and Roll (a phrase coined by Black artists in the 40s) became a mantra for a new generation, the one I grew up with, as have most North Americans in today’s over 55 population.

My songs, which are served up in this Rockin Blues fashion, come from my heart and, I believe, the Great Beyond, where New Age Spiritual Music resides. I also feel that my music comes from the very same place, emotionally speaking, that was charted by Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, The Platters, and oh yes, Elvis, to name a few. It is this Rockin Blues Beat that I've borrowed to create the musical foundation for the messages I receive daily from my Guidance. Through my Heart and Feeling Centre is how my Higher Self encourages me to express myself poetically and through music. This is my Source of Inner Truth and what I rely on to take me through life as my contribution to this Shifting Age in human history. Who would have thought that I would be creating such music at this point in my life, now in my mid 60s? Certainly not I.

I can also assert that New Age Spiritual Rockin Blues and Psychological Development go hand in hand. They have been part of my life for over 5 decades, as the marriage of 10 years training for a PhD in Counseling Psychology and a lifelong passion for music. I recognize that these two components rely on each other to teach us about ourselves through our emotional responses. At first we are drawn in with the beat. Once we surrender to this soulful vibration, the message in the lyrics makes its way to our heart and feeling center. Because we have opened up, we can receive the song's deeper message. As we are touched, moved and swept along, we are now in a position to change our lives for the better. It is true that a lot of current music is about Anarchy and Devolution, but that is not the case with New Age Spiritual Rockin Blues. This music lifts us up. And as one recognizes the lyrical message supports the truth of one’s soul, it puts us in touch with the Divine within.

Musical vibrations engage us at a cellular level and help us open to our deepest Self. They help us feel our lives and our connection to Source at this core level of being. By following their vibrational call, they help us identify what is ours to bear, in terms of life challenges and wounds to heal, while ultimately preparing us for a life of service. New Age Spiritual Music makes it easier for us to surrender to our Inner Truth and hear our personal Guidance.

Personal and Spiritual growth is all there is you see, and Spiritual Rockin Blues can help you grow to your fullest potential. If these sounds truly resonate with your inner being then nothing can excite you more than music with a beat that is a symbol to your Soul. This music, for me, is a symbol of God’s Love that generates feelings of Gratitude, Expansion and Growth within. This Call to Awakening then presents us with the opportunity of advancing ourselves through our innermost passions and abilities. “Follow Your Bliss” Joseph Campbell has advised.

Here we can speak of Musical Bliss, which is music's power to open us up. By seeking out such music, we align ourselves with our highest vibrations. These then provide us with a view of ourselves from a different perspective, a higher perspective I would suggest. Such a view can be awesome, stupendous, and even scary - because through such a view can we see ourselves soar beyond limits imposed by our society. This brings us back to the revolutionary nature of this music, how it was born in the 40s and 50s via the Black American experience, only to be taken up by White North American kids gearing up for a revolution of their own.

When we add to this Rock’n Roll revolution the sound of a Reggae Beat, then we see another parallel to the suffering that Black American Blues showed us, but this time in the lives of repressed Jamaicans. I was introduced to Reggae in 1965 when visiting Jamaica as a young 20 year old with the Canadian Navy. It was the sounds and lyrics of Bob Marley and company that grabbed my attention then and I have been a devotee every since.

Alongside the new crop of White American Rock’n Roll Stars, there emerged another group of artists ready to blend this blues and reggae music and acknowledge their depth and feel. This was the British Invasion of the 60s and 70s, with bands such as Cream, The Rolling Stones, The Animals and The Police as examples. There were also some great White North American Blues Artists that helped bring  this music forward, (e.g. Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Jake Eells Blues Band and Dutch Mason Blues Band), but they never became mainstream like the British Rockers did.

New Age Spiritual Inspiration Music with a Rockin / Blues / Reggae feel is the path I have chosen to follow. When you listen to my songs you will also hear traces of American Country Rock like the Eagles, 1950s Country Artists such as Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, cowboy artists like The Sons of the Pioneers and Gene Autry, and the late great Hank Williams Sr who screamed “achy breaky heart” long before Billy Rae Cyrus. This is the musical soup I have been steeped in and the foundation upon which I have grown my musical compositions as I tied them to my psychology training, professional clinical experience and personal spiritual growth efforts.

Am I a New Age Artist? Yes to that! Can I be considered a Christian artist? Some would say yes. Personally, I resonate more with Native Spirituality and their reference to The Great Creator who animates all life, including ourselves. However, there is no excluding how the Word of God presents itself to me through this music, be it Native Spirituality, Christian flavored, New Age Rockin Blues, Reggae influenced or other. I celebrate Life from the inside out and in many respects this music becomes a prayer from my Soul to God's Heart. I invite you to judge for yourself. Have a listen and tell me how you feel. The proof is in the pudding as they say, so dig in!
 
There are a number of music videos posted here at The Spiritual Psychologist. For my complete inventory follow the link below.


 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Charting a Course for the New World

Charting a Course for the New World

Maurice Turmel PhD



Scrap all the old methods of evolution and growth and realize the new is coming at us with all the force of a runaway train, bearing down on us with - A new way of Being - A new way of Seeing - A new way of Sensing, and - A new way of playing.

Open your hearts and feel the magic. We, you and I, are opening up to ourselves and there we shall find every manner of treasure one could ever imagine. So much so, that a mere lottery win would seem pale by comparison.

What is a lottery win compared to a treasure trove of gifts that Source affords us and that one only has to imagine for them to appear. The ability to create beyond one's expectations is the essence of any magical formula, and that's what we're being served up through this gateway called Ascension.

Once that connection is made, all one has to do is summon those powers from within and they surface just as we had imagined their design. Truly momentous! Beyond the scope of ordinary thinking, 3D thinking, the dark world reality of 3rd dimensional consciousness.



Only our imagination can awaken the Giant within, that aspect of ourselves that is Divinely ordained.

We are here as souls, realizing again our journey on Earth is of the soul. The soul commands, we obey, and off we go to another reconoitre.

Once we are awakened to the new paradigm, we begin moving at our own pace, discovering the world inside and letting ourselves rise to the occasion, whatever soul requires, whatever it imagines, wherever it wants to go.

"It is night time here in Hollywood Central and we are gathered on the red capet tonight to welcome a new soul into our midst." And the crowd cheers . . . . "Here's our friend and confidante Maurice Turmel (insert your name here), who has come forward to serve up his brand of Ascension, which is brought to you by The Forces of Light and their wide array of Ascension related products." (The Forces of Light - A Family of Man Company)

Hear those bells a ringing? They are announcing a new vibration for all who are ready and concerned about their future.

For all you Lightworkers out there who are preparing to party on 11-11-11, let me say this: "The gateway is open. Step on through and claim your position as a member of The Army of Light. You have an assignment written in your heart. Declare yourself ready to read it and do so now!"

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party and the party is rockin into this new millenium, and the next, and the next, and the one after that.

We Lightworkers have arrived. This is our gateway. 11-11-11 is the key to eternal life and beyond. We shall be awash in a Tsunami of Love. This is the best time for us to be here, to move on through that all important gateway and stake our claim in the 5th dimension.

Stand up and be counted! You are a Lightworker. Get back in the game. The game is called Ascension and you're invited.

Let's Ascend together, shall we?

Posted by: http://NoLostHope.com






Sunday, October 23, 2011

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

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Archangel Uriel: The Blessings of Dis-Illusionment

The Blessings of Dis-Illusionment
A message from Archangel Uriel channeled by Jennifer Hoffman
http://spiritlibrary.com/uriel-heals/the-blessings-of-dis-illusionment
Those things which get your attention are created through tension and resistance. The flow of energy is interrupted in the presence of fear and this becomes a point of transformation. Will you choose the fear or something beyond it? The fear has been a constant presence and companion and the path beyond it is unknown. The tension which you feel as dis-ease, dis-comfort, and dis-illusionment are blessings which show you that your reality is not in alignment with your energetic vibrations.

As you raise your vibrations and allow new energies to become integrated into your being, tension is created wherever they conflict with your existing vibration. The illusion you are living through is no longer resonating with you and you can no longer support that illusion. Other choices, beliefs and thoughts are now required to support the new reality you wish for yourself, which then creates a new illusion. All life is an illusion, a paradigm that you create through your energetic vibrations. Being dis-illusioned simply means that you can no longer support your current illusion.

Every illusion requires a constant flow of energy to support it. The illusion that is supported by fear, pain and drama is created when you are in those energies. The moment you feel that your illusion no longer works for you is the moment in which you have disconnected from your illusion and your soul is calling to you to connect to higher energies, expand your vision for your life, to resonate with a new vibration and be willing to allow more light into your being. You can see the dis-illusionment as a failure or as a divine blessing.

What you see as a problem is simply a process of disconnection so you can reconnect to something else. All life is a flow of energy that must continue to ascend into higher vibrations. Where your illusion has grounded you in a particular path is where you will feel tension and when you disconnect and allow your energy to expand, through setting an intention for a new course for your path, you create tension whose purpose is to show you where disconnection needs to occur and reconnection can happen. Embrace this with joy as it is confirmation of your transformation, then choose your new path and allow new levels of illusion to become your reality.

Let Go and Let God

One of my good friends always says ‘Let go and let God’ when he is involved in a situation that is beyond his ability to deal with. It’s his way of acknowledging that there is a point at which we have to let others learn their lessons in their own way and time and within their own power. How many times do we hold someone up energetically, see them in their best light, hold the highest intention for them and for their lives only to have them go right back to their old ways because they can’t learn and grow within our timelines and don’t heal when we force them or try to do the work for them.
In many situations we have to ‘let go and let God’ which is our way of admitting that we are not capable of altering the course of someone’s life. Thinking that we can or should do this puts us in the precarious position of being the Source in someone’s life and if they are not listening to God by now, what makes us think they will listen to us? As we move through the end of 2011 we will have more opportunities to let go in this way because we will find that we cannot hold space for someone’s transformation while engaged in our own.

While we have been struggling with our own healing journey and feeling very stuck, the temptation to heal others while we’re waiting for our lives to change has given us the false impression that we have time and energy to spare. Now that things are starting to move (and they will by September), new priorities are required because we can’t be the martyred healer for others and the master in our life at the same time. Someone has to take priority and while that must be us. We have to make that choice with a clear heart, knowing that when we let go God can take over.

We have been walking this healing journey for many lifetimes with our soul group, holding light and space, being the healer and healing and delaying our progress and movement. Now it’s time for us to let go and let God because everyone’s healing path is truly between them and God and we are not part of it except as an energetic bystander. Two things happen when we release others to their healing path – they have the motivation to work harder because their growth and healing are now their responsibility, and we have more time and energy for our own healing journey because our energy is not scattered and limited by what we are contributing to others’ lives.

For The Benefit Of All

Whatever you ask for yourself, you also ask for the benefit of all. When you create a reality where you live in peace, joy and unconditional love exist, it becomes a possibility for everyone. Asking for yourself is not selfish or limiting, it creates an energetic possibility for all to experience life in this way. Each thing that you ask for creates a vibration that resonates throughout the Universe, expanding that energy and creating ever larger openings for it to become part of the earth’s energetic imprint. Every prayer that you pray, every wish that you make, has an exponential effect on everyone, everywhere. You are all connected and part of the human family, so what affects one affects all.

Your every thought and emotion are powerful energies which are imprinted in the earth’s energetic template. The powerful, self affirming thoughts are equally as powerful as those which affirm your powerlessness and fears. When you send fear out to the earth’s energetic template you are expanding the energies of fear which already exist. Darkness is not overcome by more darkness and to erase fear from the human energetic imprint requires that everyone also remove fear from their own emotional body. Remember this when you are tempted to fall into despair or forget that the power to change your life path exists within you. There is nothing which cannot be overcome by the power of the light.

As you affirm your divinity you also remind humanity of its divine core and you change the course of humanity’s path. There is no insignificant person or effort, each light adds to the whole and each one creates a spark of light that overcomes its polarity energy. Fear is erased by love and compassion, sadness by joy, judgment by acceptance. Each one of you is capable of changing the course of humanity because you are affirming your divinity, your spiritual being. This raises your vibrations and creates a resonance that the rest of humanity can also achieve. While there is much pain, sadness, anger, fear and hurt in the world at this time, there is also much light and awakening as many people are focused on their spiritual journey.

The old paradigm of having more or being better than others has gone away. The new world has no place for those who want to put themselves above others, to differentiate on the basis of material goods, physical attributes or other elements whose purpose is to separate and create divisions among people. The Oneness of humanity means that all are equal, as they have always been in the eyes of the Creator, so all may be blessed, according to their abilities, spiritual understanding and needs. Each will receive what they need and are willing and able to accept for themselves and what they believe they deserve.

When you remember that all of humanity benefits from your ability to create miracles, step into your power and move forward on your spiritual journey, you increase these energies exponentially and spread the good that you create in your life to everyone, everywhere. If you have felt that you should not ask for miracles because you are undeserving or should not ask for more than what you have, know that you are creating these miracles for yourself and for everyone. It is time for each of you to step into your divine birthright, which is living miraculous lives, being your mastery, where everything you need flows effortlessly to you. Accept this gift and its power, embrace it and use it every day, knowing that when you do so you do it for the benefit of all.

Copyright ©2011 by Jennifer Hoffman and Enlightening Life OmniMedia, Inc. This material is protected by US and international copyright now and may be distributed freely in its entirety as long as the author’s name and website, www.urielheals.com are included.

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Journaling and Ascension


Journaling for Ascension is about empowerment through self-awareness. It is a process by which you get your needs met for emotional and spiritual cleansing. Journaling removes the cobwebs from your thinking processes by having you record the ideas, thoughts and emotions that you currently find distracting.

This process is always about balance. Journaling gives you access to your inner thoughts and feelings and removes them from the cluttered storehouse of your unconscious. Then you can clearly see where you are going from day to day, what you are thinking and what you need to focus on as your growth unfolds. This cleansing is essential to moving you toward Ascension.

The world opens up to you when you start journaling because your unconscious receives the message that you are ready to receive information from your inner world. And you inner world is eager to release the straggling emotions of old traumas and hurts.

Self-empowerment through self-knowledge is about entering your world of unconscious activity where you have stored the effects of past traumas, hurt feelings and any un-examined life events. When you’re open to this process you will uncover much about yourself that has heretofore remained hidden.

Journaling is not a short cut to immortality and creative writing as some would have you believe. It is simply an access point to your inner life where valuable information about who and what you are can be uncovered. Self-communication leads to self-cleansing, which then paves the way for Ascension to occur.

Disregard any other ideas you may have about journaling, especially those that suggest you have to write creatively and with purpose. This is not the case. Journaling is about self-revelation. Bringing your unconscious self to conscious awareness. Only by knowing what you believe in and then acting on that information can you make choices for the better.

The conditioning you received in your early years is still active inside, even if it no longer makes it to conscious awareness. That’s what repeating patterns of behavior are all about. We are being driven by some part of us that believes in unquestioned and outdated ideas. Once you see these patterns, and the ideas that drive them, you can interrupt your automatic responses and make new choices. We refer to this process as Conscious Evolution.

Prepare yourself for a rough ride at times as your unconscious protector/controller tries to steer you away from recognizing this inner activity. This part of you has a big investment in staying hidden and will resist your pursuit of self-honesty and increased awareness.

In the end you will acquire what you want, because your submerged self wants to be heard and wants the same level of freedom that you desire. You will become collaborators on that front, cooperating on the process of Ascension and shifting to higher consciousness.

The old guard, the protector/controller, will put up resistance because he or she is about to lose their job. Successful journaling requires you listen to all the voices within, including this one. So when that part is active, put it on the page.

Your resistance will hiss and snarl at times of change, so let it do so in your journal. You’ll see this happen time and time again. It’s a struggle after all for every part of you. When you choose to make a change for the better, that upsets the old inner balance. Let the resistance have its say in your journal. Only then can you set it aside and resume your forward motion toward Ascension.

Once you begin this process and engage in it regularly, your journaling will become self-activating. Whenever something inside you clamors for attention you’ll find yourself reaching for the journal to let it out. Whatever needs attention put it on the page – good, bad or indifferent. Do not edit or deny what’s begging for attention. You’ll learn that these “negative” parts of you are just scared. Once those feelings are out, you will immediately calm down.

Journaling is a very powerful process of self-communication. It will activate itself time and again as you become accustomed to using it. And it will pave the way for your Ascension process. Begin simply by just recording your feelings. Let your inner self tell you what is going on inside. Do not edit or distort. Just record! Ask yourself feeling questions mainly, because we are all quite capable of rationalizing our thoughts and feelings rather than experiencing them.

When you ask feeling questions, listen for feeling answers and write them down. Your protector/controller will try and dissuade you from going too deep. Feeling questions help you sidetrack that resistance.
“How do I feel about . . . .?” will help you reach the center of any difficulty while bypassing the guardian at the gate to your interior life.

You will discover things about yourself that are truly amazing, secrets you’ve never revealed to anyone. You’ll uncover regrets you’ve had about past experiences, hopes you hold for your future and secret desires that you have never been willing to admit to. This is your chance to do all that adventurous excavating while clearing your emotional and feeling centre of psychological debris.

This will be a time of great learning accompanied by great frustration. It’s all part of the package. Journaling brings out everything and that is always to your benefit. Our 3rd dimensional baggage has to be released before 5th dimensional ascended consciousness can come into view.

Do not give up on your recording practices just because things have calmed down. Your journaling sessions will become smoother as time marches on, and you’ll be better equipped, in terms of emotional and spiritual strength, to handle each and every crisis that comes your way.
Journaling takes you to the Well of Wisdom from where all answers emerge. Eventually, you will find yourself confronted with the Divinity that is you, your own Holy Soul. She or He will reveal much about who you are and help you secure that connection with Source.

In time, you will trust that connection so completely that you will access it often, especially when big decisions are at stake. At this point you will see yourself as a co-creator with your God Source and happily utilize that guidance for every aspect of your life.

That is the power of journaling. It puts you in touch with your essential self, which puts you in touch with your Source. We are part of that Divine Matrix and we are all enriched by this connection.

Commit to your Ascension and let journaling be your friend from this point forward.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Cathars vs Catholics

"The following article was excerpted from a piece by Peter Shepherd of Trans4Mind.com who shared the following historical information related to how One Pope, at least, dealt with so-called heretics and ordered the execution of thousands who were non compliant with the catholic authority. It is Peter's belief that this is one of the first undocumented cases of religious genocide." Dr Moe

Peter Shepherd of Trans4Mind.com

Particularly impressive was Montsegur. We climbed up the steps to this sacred place, paying homage to the many Cathars who gave their lives to preserve their integrity and honor the wisdom of their ancient Gnostic teachings. The burning of the Cathars at Montsegur stands as a monument for us to confront the destructive force of hate and intolerance. We united with the spirit of the Cathars, to live in the power of love instead.

Following is an account of the martyrdom of the Cathars at Montsegur, drawn from a much longer original article, 'The Church's War on the Cathars' by Eric Wynants...
During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the region known as the Languedoc, spreading approximately southward from the Loire to the Pyrennées, down into Arragon and eastward to the Rhone, became the most highly civilized area of Western Europe. Its fertile soil and pleasant climate provided the means for a leisurely life.

The Rhone and the Garonne were notable routes of communication and the passage of many Crusaders on their way to the East gave an immense stimulus to trade. Above all the Moslem conquest of Spain had brought the influence of Arabic culture. The larger cities had schools of medicine, mathematics and astrology where Arabian scholarship was imparted. Jews were not debarred from public life and were highly respected as doctors and teachers. The Catholic Church no longer held the monopoly of knowledge and it was gradually losing its power hold in the Languedoc.

The wealth of the monastic orders and the intolerance of the bishops roused the contempt of the nobles who accused them of self-indulgence and lack of interest in the poor. The common priests, through the neglect of their superiors, had fallen into discredit on account of their poverty and illiteracy. Very different was the behavior of the Cathars. Their eloquence in presenting their beliefs and their untiring care for all in need of help, won the devotion of both nobles and common people. They became known by the name of "bons hommes" (the good men).

In general the Cathars subscribed to a doctrine of reincarnation and to a recognition of the feminine principle in religion. Indeed, the preachers and teachers of Cathar congregations were of both sexes. At the same time, the Cathars rejected the orthodox Catholic Church and denied the validity of all clerical hierarchies, all official and ordained intercessors between man and God.

At the core of this position lay a gnostic tenet - the repudiation of "faith," at least as the Church insisted on it. In the place of "faith" accepted at secondhand, the Cathars insisted on direct and personal knowledge, a religious or mystical experience apprehended at firsthand. The Cathars were heirs to knowledge which partly came from the East and was known to the Gnostics and the early Christians. The basis of this secret was the transmission of the power of love. The gesture of the rite was the material and visible means of projecting this power. Behind it was hidden the spiritual gift, by which the soul was helped, and was able to cross without suffering the narrow portal of death, to escape the shadows and become merged with the light.

In the Black Mountain, not far from Carcassone, there was found a chamber, dating from the Cathar period, containing skeletons. "They lay in a circle, with their heads at the center and their feet at the circumference, like the spokes of a wheel." Those who have studied magical rites will recognize in this posture of death a very ancient rite intended to facilitate the escape of the soul, to allow it to traverse the intermediate worlds by virtue of the impetus given by union.

It was inevitable that sooner or later the clash would come, for no expressions of faith could be more diametrically opposed than between the Catholics and the Cathars. The Cathars were part of the movement of the poor, dating back to older times. Wealth was rejected by the Cathars as "external." Catharism spread with extraordinary speed in Southern France. It was the radiant cult of the pure spirit which took possession of men's souls, and it seriously endangered the materialistic Church of the Pope.

Pope Innocent III realized this and dispatched several apostolic legates to Southern France. These legates went to Toulouse, which was the capital of Catharism. When the legates were rejected, and one of them murdered, Innocent III ordered a crusade of mercenary knights and soldiers. Although there had been intermittent persecution of heretics all through the previous century, especially through the Inquisition, the Church now mobilized her forces in earnest. They were resolved to strike a resounding blow, which would bring misery and terror to the south. The mercenaries, having no personal loyalty or standard of honor, were brutal and godless. The heresy was to be extinguished once and for all.

On the 21st of July 1209, an army of some thirty thousand knights and foot soldiers from northern Europe descended like a whirlwind on the Languedoc - the mountainous northeastern foothills of the Pyrennées in what is now Southern France. In the ensuing war, the whole territory was ravaged, crops were destroyed, towns and cities were razed, a whole population was put to the sword. This extermination occurred on so vast, so terrible a scale that it may well constitute the first case of "genocide" in modern European history. In the town of Beziers alone, for example, at least fifteen thousand men, women, and children were slaughtered wholesale - many of them in the sanctuary of the church itself. When an officer inquired of the Pope's representative how he might distinguish heretics from true believers, the reply was, "Kill them all. God will recognize his own." This quotation, though widely reported, may be apocryphal. Nevertheless, it typifies the fanatical zeal and bloodlust with which the atrocities were perpetrated. The same papal representative, writing to Innocent III in Rome, announced proudly that "neither age nor sex nor status was spared."

Surviving Cathars disappeared into remote hiding places in the forests and mountain clefts of the Pyrennées. The heart of the resistance movement was at Montsegur, originally an ancient Manichaean temple consecrated to sun worship. By April of 1243, a vast army of more than ten thousand surrounded the mountain, and by March 1, Montsegur finally capitulated.

The Cathars were accorded unexpected generosity. Provided they abjured their heretical beliefs and confessed their "sins" to the Inquisition, they would be freed and subjected only to light penances. Yet, they decided not to do so. On March 15, the truce expired. At dawn the following day more than two hundred Cathars were dragged roughly down the mountainside. Not one recanted. There was not time to erect individual stakes. They were locked into a large wood-filled stockade at the foot of the mountain and burned en masse.

Peter Shepherd

http://www.trans4mind.com/

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