The Voice - A Training Manual for Souls

The Voice - A Training Manual for Souls

The following is an inspiration story crafted as a Sci-Fi adventure. I wrote it over a period of a year in the mid-90s. For almost three years prior I had been writing parable stories and fables as teaching guides to pass along important psychological and spiritual principles I had been exposed to. Over the years, these had come to me through nearly 500 books read from the early 70s onward, and through my three decades as a therapist. Now that I have a clearer understanding of what’s referred to as personal and spiritual growth, I’ve come to regard this book as a Training Manual for Souls.  

I describe The Voice as a mythical story, the kind we humans have been telling each other over the centuries through our collective mythology. It’s the kind of story that aims to open us up to our deeper selves by taking us on a soul healing journey, not unlike most variations of The Hero Myth.  The latter has been best exemplified by Joseph Campbell’s stellar analysis of the form. In this case it’s not about defeating multi-headed monsters or evil sorcerers. It’s a story that favors our inner world, our emotional and spiritual development, with lessons on self-acceptance, self-responsibility and self-love. To quote Albert Einstein in a letter to his daughter: “Love is the most powerful force in the Universe.” In this book that Universal Love emanating from our Divine nature is what our characters are aiming to connect with. One of our main characters in this story is God of course, as is often the case in mythology. 

I believe we’re on the threshold of a significant change for humanity, and such times are always painful, for us personally and for the society in which we live. In either case, there is never a shortage of critics ready to assail the “New” that’s trying to be born. In times of change, there are always individuals who don’t want to hear messages that require them to re-examine their lives. They don’t want their rigidly grounded preconceptions about who they are and and their place in life to be challenged. So they pounce when they hear anything contradictory to those established norms. This is the old guard, always ready to counter anything that smacks of change, even when it’s for the better. 

The 80s gave us a plethora of self-help books and practices to choose from. We had gurus of many stripes come forward with their answer to our collective pain and self-doubt. We connected with our Inner Child.  We learned about dysfunctional family dynamics (John Bradshaw). We learned about addictions and their consequences to all family members (Melodie Beattie). And we started visiting the New Age bookstores which were blossoming at time with many such authors showing up on Oprah (e.g. Shirley MacLaine). I read lots of these books as they helped with my practice and the kinds of issues that were showing up there. I started referring to this group of readers/clients as The Healing Generation and included myself of course. We were the ones exposing our psychological wounds so they could be dealt with, the ones delving into family dynamics, the ones going to AA support groups and attending spiritual and personal growth seminars. 

For me this was the beginning of Conscious Evolution and books with that reference were starting to show up. I saw it as conscious, because those referred to as the healing generation were choosing not to be part of that victim mentality anymore. It’s called conscious today, because we who have chosen this path, now realize we have to pace ourselves through our sorrows and fears in order to be done with them. And as we learn about our healing processes we pass that learning on to the next generation and the one after, repeating the same cycle that has characterized our collective human mythology.  

Are you ready for your consciousness to evolve? Are you ready to receive and express your gifts of love and creativity? Are you ready for ascension into the next dimension of consciousness? Then step up!

The Voice - A Training Manual for Souls

A Letter from Santa

A Letter from Santa

Maurice Turmel PhD

(Originally published in “Mythical Times - Exploring Life, Love & Purpose” by the above named)

Oh gather ye round all my children

For I have a tale to tell of the dawning of man

She and He came to Earth a long time ago

To celebrate this life that had been given and was blessed

Oh what wonders befell you as you ventured forth on the Earth

To discover your being in all that mattered

It was never meant to be difficult this journey through time

Only a gentle romp through the woodlands and across the plains

Do not despair, my fragile friends, for you have only gone astray temporarily

He who knows all and sees all is here to guide you back

To that gentle place within where the poetry of your Soul resides

The Creator has written many stories and poems to you over time

To advise you of this sacred place within

You faltered on your journey outward and failed to notice the signs

So He comes to you often, in prose, in poetry and in rhyme

Each year at this time you remember Him softly

In the heart of your yearning womb

You can feel that presence sublime, pulsing within your frame

More alive at this time than throughout the year

We of the ethereal realms reach you better now it seems

For your hearts are more open and we are easier to find

You receive us because you want us and we, in turn, find our way to you

Have you ever wondered how this all started?

Where it began, this special time?

You call it Christmas; we call it Love

In our world it makes no difference, as long as you feel the pulse inside

Remember when you were young and oh so eager then too

Awaiting Santa’s reindeer to appear on your roof

You believed so easily then in the power of the mind

You never doubted that He would arrive

Your parents helped with the story, taught to them in their youth

And so on, and so on, all the way back in time

Now you await your truth again, in the eyes of the children before you

They are here to remind you of what you once knew

That the Power of Love has existed since before time

Since before there was an Earth or Heaven above

And the Power of Love insisted that it be known through time

So this purpose of yours came to be born

So many of you chose to come on this journey

To learn all that you could about Life

Here on this Earth you can see afar

Out to the planets and the stars suspended in the sky

They teach of vastness, of triumph, and of destiny too

They teach you to dream and to look way beyond whom you think you are

These beacons of Light, you can take deep into your heart

And rekindle the flame that once burned bright

You are great, you are His sacred ones

Sent forward from the Light

Here to learn “what you can do” to spread this message

That all is really right with this world

In spite of the troubles that lurk about

You see this eternal flame that burns brightly from within

Is not ashamed of its presence, to have itself be known

Its power is eternal, It is not shy

To be expressed is all that It asks

So on Christmas morning, when you awake

Remember this message from deep in your Soul

You are not lost, you are not forsaken

You are to be found where your feelings reside

There in your Heart center, where the truth breaks to surface

There can be no mistaking that Love has taken hold

And this message is not to be forgotten

For it is of the greatest story that has ever been told

When each of you surrenders to this Guiding Light

Another star lights up the sky to cast its beam into the forever Void

Pushing back the darkness a little further

Each time one of you finds their way Home

Isn’t it a great story that you all get to play a part in?

A piece of living history that unfolds itself through you?

You are of the Light Everlasting

You are a Beacon of His Love

Your are a Star in His “Forever Army”

Of life and purpose, and oh yes, so much more

Do not be ashamed of your Being any longer

It is sacred; you must know this without a doubt

He does not cast Himself in rubble, or in stone

Only into the hearts of those whose purpose can be His own

This is our tale of Christmas, a message we give to you

In a package that has shaped itself throughout your history

Each year we bring to you another such message

To be added to the annals of unfolding time

Teach your children this truth of the Light Everlasting

Show them that It resides within

And take no stock in what others tell you

Of this or that not being the true path

Only theirs, or so they claim

The true path for all is illumined by one’s Soul

And that Soul was His to begin

Now it is yours to take you forward through this Life

To learn and then teach what truth you come to know

Everyone has purpose, and love and magic too

Everyone has meaning in the Grand Design

To be sure, that is His Way

To provide that which is needed to sing His praises

Throughout the annals of time

To sing His praises is to sing your own, you see

For you are of Him who has sent forth His Sons and Daughters

His Offspring is you, you see

And you are His to be sure

Till the end of time, and of course, beyond that as well

As we bid farewell to this magical mystery tour

In prose, in poetry and in rhyme

We return to where It all began, the very first Christmas

Somewhere near the dawning of time

Merry Christmas We say to you all

From Santa . . . and from . . . the Divine

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.

Imagine That - Music Video

Imagination is the source of all creation. We are all creative beings, sprung from the womb of the Great Creator:

"Imagine that I say to you / Imagine if you will / A heart that wants to Soar . . / A heart that wants to Roar . ." That's us in a nutshell!

Meet Me at the Tree

Meet Me at the Tree - Maurice Turmel - "Dr Moe"
Invitation to connect within and without. Meet me at the tree is a call to a lover we've had a disagreement with, or a long lost friend we are eager to reconnect with. In this case it is Source, our God Self within. She/He has been waiting for us to declare we are ready. The tree here is the Tree of Life.

Forgive Yourself

Self-judgement is the lock to your own prison. 

Self-acceptance is the key that sets you free. 

Be a winner - Forgive Yourself!

I Hear You Knockin

"I Hear You Knockin"

Realizing God's at the door and She/He looks Just Like You!!!

Calling All Lightworkers, Starseeds and Wayshowers

Calling All Lightworkers, Starseeds and Wayshowers

Maurice Turmel & Brotherhood of Light

I am coming to life. I am waking up. I am awakening to my True Self. I am! I am! I am!

I am coming out to greet the world, to share my story, to be a man/woman, to be a contributor, to be a helper, caregiver, supporter and guide. I am a guide to the New Age. I have been here before. I know the way. I can retrace my steps. I can be who I came here to be.

I am coming out of my shell. Sometimes I take action. Sometimes I can’t do anything but wait and pray; then it’s time to just listen. I can only move when I am being urged to move. Some days I am half asleep, groggy, stumbling around, unsure of what to do, unsure of where to go, within that fog so to speak. I appear to be stumbling around between worlds.

I am releasing my hold on 3D and have already planted one foot in 5D. I have just lifted my other foot off 3D and am about to plant it as well on the 5D landscape. That makes me nervous. Because when I do plant that second foot, I say goodbye to 3D forever.

I am ready to do so, to say goodbye to 3D because I have nothing left to give that realm and there is no real grip there anymore for me to hold on to. I have to let go and swim with the 5D current I am already in. I am OK with that. I can trust this current. It is safe. And I clearly sense it is taking me where I want to go.

I know, I want to go Home to my Heart, out of this sphere of indictment so I can let go of that fearful, competitive realm in favor of this new safer version of Life, the one that bonds me to God – Thy Self.

I just want to be removed from all this turmoil and disengage from the 3D drama completely. I am ready to do that now because I am at peace with myself. I’ve decided to love myself and that brings me peace. Yes, I am ready to surrender to this process, to have more influence on my health, wealth and well-being, through communion with God, Source, All-That-Is.

I want to be in that space again, enveloped in the Great Creator’s arms, enjoying that blissful hug that brings me closer to Thy Breath, where I can inhale Your wind and fire and breathe it back into the landscape that surrounds me.

I want to breathe new life into this tired old Earth. I want to have Her heave and sigh, like a lover about to wake up refreshed. I want to bring her gifts of glory and peace. I want to be me, all that I am, and be Free. Yes, Free!

That amounts to total surrender, I realize, to the peace within, the energy and light that have carried me this far. Yes, I am tired. Tired! Tired! Tired! I’ve been waiting for so long, waiting for You to come to me – now realizing, it is I who must return to You.

I am the Prodigal Son/Daughter returning home to the loving arms of their Parent. I have ventured far and wide this lifetime, and discovered many wonderful things again, as much as one can carry in any one lifetime.

I have learned that the Heart is the true Gold in life and to which we must surrender, so we can safely traverse this next level of challenging terrain. This land ahead is marked “for your eyes only”, for those of us who have chosen to ascend. Ascension is the Now Season since we crossed that threshold back in 2012. I have ascended before, I am told, so I know the way apparently.

Yes, I can see up ahead. There is a light and it is I (Eye) gleaming in the distance. It is “I” that I return to, to complete this cycle of life/death/rebirth/life. It is “I” that I embrace as I reach that homeward station.  It is “I” that I receive when I stretch out my arms to welcome Me home. It is “I”. And I am each and every one of you whom I encounter on this road to paradise.

Yes, I’ve seen it all before. The signs are looking familiar again. There are lights coming on here and there to help me along, to glow in the dark until I am done fumbling about and can readily see for myself. There are more and more lights along this path now, like the landing lights at an airport. Impossible to miss at this point in the journey. Eyes (I’s) Forward!

I am guided by these lights. I am welcomed by them. And I am embraced by them as I touch down once again on this gentle soil of my own making. I am just another hunter looking for a way home. A familiar cry, some would say, but let this be my way to travel and exhibit all my gifts and abilities, woven together from a tapestry of grand desires. Yes, I want it all this time, the whole kit and kaboodle as they say. Nothing less will do.

Are you ready for service dear Lightworker / Starseed / Wayshower? Are you ready to address the concerns of others as if they were your own? Then step aboard this Glory Train and get ready to rumble. Things might get rough for a while, as we sort out the details of who was right and who was wrong up to this point.

About those so-called Mighty Men

“Don’t be scared of that bunch” guidance is telling us all as you cast an eye toward those mighty men who broke your world. “You trusted them and they let you down. Oh, they failed miserably and never had a chance really. Because they were crippled by the same fear that afflicted you, and that’s why they drove themselves to accumulate all they could, so much so, that they turned to gangsterism to gain what they decided was theirs for the taking. A veritable ship of fools!”

That’s how sick they were, and still are, those who practice this art form called deception. Self-deception is what it always amounts to. They are so far gone at this point; they have no idea what they really are, and much less of an idea about you and I. They are taking their well deserved tumble, and we came to watch. “How horrible is that?” one may say. “Who’s laughing now?” another may add. “How pitiful is that?” is the only viable conclusion.

These mighty men, they showed us what Not to Do, that the god of Money is no god at all, nothing more than an unsatisfied mistress who wants more and more and more, until you’re broken into little pieces and strewn all over the floor. House of Cards? Castles in the Sand? Take your pick!

What else can one say about these men? They are a sad lot indeed. Their power is gone. Their fraudulent business empires are crumbling. Their paper money is tattered and in shreds. What have they achieved? Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! They literally have nothing to show for all their accumulating, their avarice and their controlling addictions.

Hoisted by their own Petard, they are real victims here, because they failed at everything they tried! Why? Because a house built on lies is bound to fail. They erected the proverbial Castles in the Sand, that are doomed to be washed away with the next cleansing tide – which is You and I, my fine feathered friends, my fellow Lightworkers, Starseeds, Wayshowers and all around good folks.

We are that tide, beautiful Starseeds, glowing Lightworkers - Wayshowers of the New World. We, you and I, are that tide, here to wash away the “sins of the father”, clean up this galactic mess and restore Mother Earth to her natural beauty, peace and calm; so she can be the nurturer that she is and lover of all she embraces. Let’s be good to Mum this year, she deserves it.

Are you with me Lightworkers? Are you with me Starseeds? Are you with me Wayshowers? We are the ones we have been preparing for. We are the Galactic Federation Ground Troops and it is time to take up our positions within the Heart Space of God so She/He can work their magic through us. We are the answer to our prayers. Are you ready to rumble? Then let’s get crackin! What do you say???

Religious Abuse Recovery

Religious Abuse is Emotional Torture

Maurice Turmel PhD

We begin our story with a poem, one I wrote years ago, in what seems like another lifetime. My Guidance tells me I walked the earth back then and saw for myself the insidious beginnings of this thing called Religion.

Authority figures were looking for ways to control the masses. Each day some new purpose would emerge designed to enslave the existing populations and have them do the dirty work of those who saw themselves as Masters.

For the purposes of this story and Religious Abuse Recovery as I know it, we will focus our attention on the Catholic Church primarily. But this expose can be applied to other religions as well.

Man’s Folly – Religious Abuse

In the Name of the Father / How can it be? / You lied and cheated / Deceived me, I can see

No more holdouts / No more old scores / Time to return me / To my sweet amore

The one true love / That resides within / Is not without worry / But certainly without sin

The abuse of the Father / Is no folly indeed / It happened to many / Disrupted His creed

His words had been spoken / In the hearts of the All / Lost and forsaken / Left in the Hall

There to be taken / By those who “knew better” / Thought they’d interpret / That unopened letter

Concealed though it was / To be opened by you / Thought they would grab it / And give it a chew

Chew this they did / And badly as well / Hell and damnation / Had cast their spell

Long after the heartache / The evil and rhyme / The words of the Lord / Were turned into slime

Now these are retrievable / Through your own heart / Look in there dear / You’ll find your part

No longer distorted / By those "in the know" / Cause you open your mail / And start your own show

Let it be said / That God knew better / He’d let you find / Your very own letter

He’d let you know / When you had enough / Cause His Heart is Yours / And Yours is so tough

Tougher than lies / Let that be for certain / Look inside your self / Just behind the curtain

The veil they created / With their stories untrue / The nonsense they taught / And said was about you

You know the truth / God set it there / “Take a look dear / Don’t you be scared”

“I placed those words / Inside your heart / I knew you’d find / Your very own part”

“I’m glad you took charge / And set it all straight / No use pretending / I just couldn’t wait”

“Glad you could find / Your way to center / Heaven is right here, dear / Time for you to enter”

“And I love you, I do”

Signed: God within You

Time to Remove that Religious Collar:

I come to you with this news because it is time to remove that religious collar from around our necks. We have suffered at the hands of our religious leaders. We adopted methods of coping that affected us adversely. These would include the great variety of addictions all designed to numb out the toxic effects of Guilt and Shame piled upon us by those who claimed to know better. This is one aspect of the insidious nature of Religious Abuse.

Let’s set the stage so we can all see where this enslavement of souls began. At the beginning of the First Millennium AD, around the time Jesus Christ was born, the Roman Empire was in a stiff decline. Their mastery and control over Europe and various regions in Africa and the Middle East were falling apart because the Roman leaders could no longer maintain the discipline necessary to keep their legions of subjects in line.

As the Roman Empire continued its decline, some of its soon to be deposed leaders noticed that a rise in religious fervor was taking root, therefore, an opportunity to harness that need was now available. They realized they could transform this seeking of spiritual succor into a different form of enslavement that only required conditioning of the mind. By co-opting God as the ultimate Higher Power, they could deliver to the populace a series of edicts that could not be challenged, since they came directly from God.

An uneducated populace fell right into the trap and became supporters of this new religious movement. The Roman Empire morphed into the Roman Catholic Church and carried on their usual affairs under the guise of a new business model. Former military leaders exchanged their battle garb for priestly robes and began the transformation. They started to build churches and went to work developing their mind conditioning practices.

They saw for themselves what power religious beliefs could hold when they witnessed the effect Jesus Christ had on the population of the time. After they dealt with him in that most heinous fashion, they jumped all over this need and began the business of converting the Empire into a large scale Religion.

They developed all kinds of methods for enticing people, methods that made good use of the technological advances of the day. For a naïve population, these acts of trickery were pure magic and served to draw them tighter into the fold. Simple mathematical formulas coupled with advances in hydraulics were converted into the miracles of crying statues, bleeding glass and speaking stones, all orchestrated behind the scenes by masters of illusion who hired themselves out to the Highest Bidders. That’s how Catholicism began, with trickery and deceit, methods that remain in existence to this very day.

This form of ongoing deception set the stage for what was to become a systematic program of wowing potential converts with manufactured miracles. The biggest coup for the Catholic Church was when they successfully co-opted Jesus Christ’s name and enormous popularity. Once he was out of the way, it was easy, because he was no longer around to challenge them. This simply was the common business practice of stealing an idea, then getting rid of the competition that created it.

But that was not enough. They needed a founder, someone who was loyal to Jesus Christ, and that was his right hand man, Peter. They claimed Peter as the founder of Jesus Christ’s church, even though they killed him as well, crucified him upside down, if you recall. So today you have St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City and St. Peter’s Basilica within that square all contained within a small piece of real estate that reports to no one but itself, exempt from taxes and exempt from scrutiny, the wealthiest religious organization on the planet.

In the meantime, Roman Empire soldiers became Christian Mercenaries and led the charge against heathens everywhere. A heathen was simply a person or group that did not endorse Christianity. For this failure to comply they were killed, with Holy Swords and in God’s name. A few centuries back, during the time of the Crusades, a Christian mercenary leader reportedly asked his Pope, Pope Innocent II, how he should differentiate between believers and heathens, so as not to smite the faithful. And the Pope replied: “Kill them all. We’ll let God determine which are His.” There you have another piece of the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church.

Historians may dispute these claims as too simplistic and not factual enough, because I offer no accounting of dates or other specifics. The accuracy of these claims can be determined when you Google any of the key words listed above. For the purposes of your Religious Abuse Recovery, such details are unnecessary. What the church did or didn't do, and who were the main players at the times of various atrocities will have no effect on what you need to recover from Religious Abuse. All we are showing you here are the corrupt beginnings of a Religion that claimed to have your best interests in mind, while its priests and nuns were busy berating you, sexually abusing you, shaming you and reducing you to puddles of tears, successfully conditioning you to hate your self. This is spiritual blasphemy of the highest order

The Roman Catholic Church has become a massive and perverse institution whose main weapons include psychological controls, dehumanizing physical and sexual abuses and constant condemnation of your value as a person, as a true son / daughter of God. This is how they started and where they remain to this day, keeping all of us as children dependent on them, and continuing their program of mental and emotional enslavement through psychological torture and conditioning.

You need to see this for yourself, so you can come out of the trance they have put you in. All of their messages are what we psychologists call “double-binds”. For example: “God loves you, but you’re a Sinner.” “If you do as we say, you will go to Heaven. If you don’t, you will go to Hell.” There was no Hell until they invented it. There was no Purgatory until they invented that also.

All of these machinations are fictions, all part of the Big Lie to keep us enslaved. None of it is true. They made it all up. And they continue to promote these ideas to this day because now they can rely on unquestioned history and their 2,000 years in business as validation of their eternal righteousness and authority.

This is where the Roman Catholic Church started. They discovered that Guilt and Shame, coupled with the fear of rejection by God, were stronger weapons than arrows and swords for bringing populations to their knees. It was easy back then to dupe so many people, because there was no education system to speak of, except for the elites who were already behind this fictional creation, and are still there to this day - as the so-called Illuminati!

Jesus Christ did not launch the Catholic Church and neither did his close friend and disciple, Peter. These men were however setting the stage for a spiritual revolution, and that is why they were killed. They were a threat to the ruling authorities of the day. Once these two were out of the way, the elites of the time seized the opportunity to capitalize on the authentic search for truth and wholeness, and used this natural human desire to enslave people in a whole new manner. With the fear of God duly installed, they could do pretty much whatever they wanted.

They successfully utilized the power of belief and the natural urge to meld with one’s God as a tool for conscripting millions into their fold while installing themselves as the only legitimate intermediary between man and God.

That’s where our experiences of religious abuse began. These perverse psychological tactics have been in operation for 2,000 years and they will not be going away quietly. The modifications of Christ’s original message are still going on, as are the abuses inflicted on countless children all over the world. We have only seen the tip of the iceberg where these abuses are concerned. The Catholic Church has successfully silenced many dissenting and complaining voices by simply paying them off under gag order conditions. That strategy is no longer working. Today the whole world knows about pedophile priests.

In the meantime RC mangements continue to conduct business as usual. Who is the next potential Saint in their lineup of fake heroes? Let’s condemn abortion one more time. Let’s continue to deny poor people in third world countries the use of condoms to keep family sizes manageable. Let’s release another edict against homosexuality while our own ranks are filled with them. Let’s publicly condemn priest pedophiles while we continue to shift them from parish to parish as complaints are laid.

Lies, hypocrisy and more lies are the true foundations of the Catholic Church. You need to see this to begin your recovery. You need to know that you placed your trust in the lowest of the low, that your parents were duped as were the thousands of generations before them. You need to see how badly and perversely we’ve been lied to so that you can contemplate the idea that you are not so bad after all. When we reject our abuse experiences as determiners of who we are and put these back onto the shoulders of our abusers where they belong, we begin to see that their practices are clear testimony of their perverse nature.

They are the abusers and we are the victims. The abuse that we suffered is about “what happened to us.” It is not about who we are. But it most certainly is about who and what they are. And they are everything they ever accused us of. They are the perverse and the psychologically sick. Their actions, thoughts and behaviors toward innocent children are what need to be condemned. They are the purveyors of abuse.

The Catholic Church’s entire program began with a series of lies and that remains as their foundation to this day. These people are murderers, liars, child abusers, sexual abusers and emotional abusers. They live in a hollowed out world where the only truth that matters is what will help perpetuate their power and control for another day, week or year.

They have piles and piles of money that they keep to themselves while they shame us into giving to the poor and disenfranchised, loathsome conditions that they help perpetuate with their antiquated but controlling messages about sin, sexual activity and birth control. In their world, it’s all about counting the cash, keeping the business humming along and silencing the victims of their various abuses through murder or payoff. Yes, there are bodies buried around residential schools in North America, children that were killed by their priest caretakers. Those who survived these experiences and witnessed the murders, have been bought off by those pesky gag orders, so that the Catholic Church could continue to pretend it was wholesome and clean.

The Catholic Church’s leaders have positioned themselves as parent authorities who, while working for God, are allegedly immune to scrutiny or prosecution. They have successfully used the same tactic as rapists and similar abusers when confronted with charges of abuse – blame the victim and re-victimize them all over again.

Petty despots and religious abusers are all cut from the same cloth. They are elitist. They see themselves as privileged. And they truly believe they have the right to “Lord it” over the rest of us. We, the general population, continue to be their slaves as long as we endorse their program, or, more accurately, fail to stand up for ourselves and put these abuses and condemnations back onto them, where they belong.

This is the end of the road for the Catholic Church and all religions that practice psychological enslavement of their adherents. Those of us who have been abused are now saying:

"Enough! I will no longer suffer at your hands! I am done with you forever! And I will heal myself of all your toxic effects."

Let that be the beginning of your recovery process. Let the above phrase become your Mantra. Say it to yourself everyday and prepare to heal from the lifetime of abuses you have suffered at their hands. The problem was never you. They problem has always been in the hands of your abusers. They are the ones who are sick and misguided. They are the ones who have perverted and corrupted Christ’s message to us. They are the ones who pretend to be God’s emissaries when they are in fact perverts of the truth.

Yes you can recover from Religious Abuse, Religious Sexual Abuse, Religious Mental Abuse and Religious Emotional Abuse using the very same psychological tools they used to condemn you. Properly applied, these tools will lead you out of the spiritual wilderness they cast you into, and help you find your way Home to your True Heart, your True Self, and then make good your Personal Connection with the Living God within. Then you will know the true freedom of being “Connected to Source”, which simply means you will never need another religion again for the rest of your natural life.

How’s that for a promise? You, connected with You, and with the Great Creator! No more middle man. No more lies - just your own permanent connection to the Almighty.