ASCENSION SUPPORT TEAM.
DAVID AND YVONNE BRITTAIN
PART
ONE, AN UNFINISHED-BUSINESS MEMO SET IN HISTORY.
It is the middle of the night.
You and your family are torn from sleep by the crash of your shattered front
door, and then the thunder of heavy boots that kick your bedroom door open.
With detached brutality the guards drag you from your bed, manacle you and then
hustle you out into the menacing blackness of the night. All of this has a
familiar sound because it happens every day somewhere in the world, and always
has, maybe because your skin colour, or your race, or your politics, or your
religious beliefs don’t suit those currently in power.
After living in the foothills
of the French Pyrenees continuously for the last decade and more the authors
have become steeped in the history of the Cathars. Many books written by others
have described the Holy Crusade sent by Pope Innocent 11 and 111. The Crusade
was sent to crush the spread of a Heresy that threatened to replace the Roman
Catholic religion in the entire south of
From the inquisitor’s point of
view this meant that Cathar parfaits were like the carriers of a virulent
epidemic that kept spreading even after the carriers had moved on. It is no
wonder that the inquisitors had to use terror tactics to enforce their own
illogical dogmatic belief system onto a reluctant and resentful population.
Most of the knowledge about the Cathars, and their beliefs, has been culled
from the meticulous but somewhat biased records kept by the Holy Inquisition.
For this reason alone it is understandable why later generations of sincere
believers of the Christian dogmatic belief system have spared little thought
for the Heretics. The established church of the past has always urged its
followers to mentally pigeonhole heretics with other undesirables such as
witches, black magicians, and those who consort with the dead. As a result,
even in our so called enlightened modern times, though the followers of
established religion may regard with abhorrence the not so ancient practice of
burning heretics, they seldom will wonder what the heretics so deeply believed
in. A rhetorical question we may ask ourselves is, “Do I believe in anything so
deeply that rather than deny that belief, death would be preferable?” Let’s
hope we are never dragged from our beds in the middle of the night, like the
heretics were, to find out. Whatever is our religion or belief we owe it to
ourselves to discover what it was the Cathars treasured above physical life
itself. Also we need to know how, according to Inquisition records, they were
able face the fire with equanimity and even joy. In part two we will explore
the effect of the courage of the medieval Cathars on seekers today. Also we
will examine the meaning of true spiritual independence, because it is such an
essential part of seeking today, just as it was to the medieval Cathar
parfaits. The subjects under discussion in this four-part article and many more
are explored in greater depth in our self-published, self produced
E-Book:
“Not just how but why” (A Seeker’s Guidebook
to the Ascension Process):
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AN UNFINISHED-BUSINESS MEMO SET IN HISTORY.
PART TWO: THE PATH TO SPIRITUAL
Understandably most people
prefer the safe anonymity of the crowd scene. At best it can be embarrassing,
and at worst downright dangerous to stand up alone against the might of the
powers-that-be. Especially dangerous if those powers have the unthinking crowd
on their side. The Cathars did stand up alone to teach what they believed in,
although the word “believed” understates the situation. Established religions
have always encouraged their followers to “Believe” what is taught; to “Have
Faith” in what the priests teach. Simultaneously established religions have
always actively discouraged their followers from developing the psychic powers
that would by-pass priests and permit two-way communication between followers
and the God that priests claim to represent. Most established Christian
religions are founded and based on the alleged utterances of olden days,
prophets (who, though psychic, were no more or less human than the rest of us).
It is strange that the development of those same psychic powers has been denied
to Christians by their teachers ever since. This is the very opposite to what
the Cathar Parfaits encouraged people to do. The priests demanded spiritual
dependence whilst the parfaits encouraged spiritual independence. This is why
the Cathar teachings had to be crushed whatever the cost. Individuals who have
truly gained spiritual independence cannot be controlled by the legal or
illegal judicious application of fear and terror tactics.
So now we must try to
comprehend the truly awesome power of spiritual independence. To learn how to
ride a bicycle may at first require the supporting, steadying hand of someone
until you gain the knack of balancing. Once you have gained that knack you will
never need that steadying hand again. Exactly the same applies when you choose
to increase your first-hand knowledge and experience of spiritual/psychic
matters. Throughout your busy life you may or may not have been a regular
churchgoer. As a churchgoer, priests, who pride themselves on not being
psychic, will have offered you teachings. Those teachings have been passed down
many generations of obediently non-psychic priests, and so the faith demanded
of the churchgoer includes faith that the original psychic message has remained
undistorted.
Whether or not you are a
Churchgoer, your search for first-hand knowledge will finally be a solo task.
Maybe at first you will join a meditation group to learn meditative techniques.
Probably for a while you will read all the latest books written by “New age”
authors. You may attend the countless workshops and seminars offered by one and
all. Finally you will realize that, lovely and exciting as most of these things
are, unwittingly they are encouraging you to lean on them, just as the priest
encourages you to lean on him. So many of those like-minded people get together
to draw support from each other in their beliefs, whilst their group meditation
often consists of listening to spacey or mystical-type music whilst a group
leader talks them through the meditation session. You meditate or you listen to
someone’s voice, you can’t do both at the same time. This is the opposite of
spiritual independence. This is the equivalent to the traditional audience role
of the church congregation. It is the “New Age Comfort Zone” level of thought
to be learnt from and then passed through as quickly as possible.
The Cathar Parfaits taught
individuals and small groups of people how to meditate how to enter that still,
quiet center in each of us. Once you have entered that center no one else is
needed because you have opened the link between you and your higher self. Once
the link is opened wisdom, inner strength and stored knowledge you didn’t know
you had will flow down that link to you. Previously that knowledge was
irrelevant to your busy life. Now your search has begun that knowledge has
become very relevant. You will receive that knowledge in unexpected ways, and
not always during meditation.
The main point of meditation
is to open and continuously expand your intuitive link so that eventually you,
the flow, and your higher self, merges on this everyday level. The point of you
receiving that flow of wisdom, knowledge and strength is to use and gradually
blend it into your daily life. You, the combined intellectual and intuitive
knowledge, and the inner strength, blend to become the same thing. For this
reason and with perfect timing the guidance you need arrives just when you need
it, and in this way you spiritualize your life and the lives of those around
you. The inquisitor would say, “You will become as contagious as did the Cathar
Parfaits”. In part three we explore how and why vast numbers of parfaits; men
and women were able to fearlessly face death with joy.
AN
UNFINISHED-BUSINESS MEMO SET IN HISTORY.
PART THREE: A NEED
FOR STEPPING STONES.
The ultimate aims of the
Cathar parfaits were no different to the aims of those on the Ascension Path
today. The only difference is in the words used. The parfait’s aim was to,
“Spiritualise the flesh”. Today we describe the same thing as, “Taking
conscious control of the basic energy structure of our physical body; the basic
energy from which atoms are structured, this to enable us individually to
ascend. However we phrase it, it is our individual intelligence that takes over
the reins of control from our Creator’s intelligence. To achieve this requires
a completely blockage-free, harmoniously balanced individual intelligence that
is drawing down so much spiritual energy that there is abundant energy to
radiate to other individuals’ intelligence.
Why do we keep referring to
the individual’s intelligence instead of to souls or to people? We use the word
intelligence simply because the word “Soul” has so many confusing religious
connotations as does the word “People”. When we refer to intelligence we mean a
Creator-provided living energy that has realized the potential to evolve to the
human level where it thinks of itself as “Me”. The authors have evolved to this
level and so have our readers, as have all humans. We have achieved this level
during countless sojourns in physical and astral existences. During those
physical lives we play countless different roles and have been given countless
different names, but always you have been and are the same “Soul or “Me
Intelligence” throughout. On the Astral each of us is a blend of the effect
each of those physical roles we played had on us as individuals. So though our
Creator provided the energy we created our own individual image of self and
embossed it onto that energy. But still that energy is not ours to own because
we have to rely on our Creator to be its unfailing source during both physical
and astral existences. Here the parfait’s endeavours to “Spiritualise the
flesh” and our modern times endeavours to “Ascend” enter the scene.
Most religions agree that our
Creator is non-physical and yet somehow our non-physical Creator created a
physical universe that at its basic level is structured from whirling energies.
The unavoidable conclusion is that energies can be, and are, generated and
controlled by intelligence. The use of intelligent thought created a physical
universe from energy reduced to the, lowest power-level and slowest speed of
existence of all Creation. The same intelligence seeded that universe with its
living energy as dormant life force that then had to evolve to the human
individual “Me intelligence level”. Priests tell us that God offers each of us
eternal life. Scientists tell us that the life-supporting time span of the
physical universe is finite, that one-day the last star will exhaust its fuel
and grow dark.
If we assume that both of
these statements are true it means that our physical existences are only
stepping-stones to our ultimate destination, which must be the non-physical
levels. If this is true why create a physical universe in the first place? With
the intelligence level our Creator must have, nothing is created without good
reasons. The reasons why will vary depending on who you ask. We will simply
give you the reasons that make sense to us the authors. The reduction of speed
and high-power-level of Creator energies to that of the atoms of physical
matter was the only way the “Me intelligence of individual humans could take
over control of those energies. “Ascension” or “Spiritualising the flesh”
actually means this. That control by intelligence of the energy structure of
your body passes from our Creator to you. It becomes your independent source of
energy controlled and directed by your evolved intelligence. It also means that
even if our Creator ceased to send that flow of energy each of us that had
ascended would continue to exist in our own right. This is the promised gift of
eternal life, but to collect the gift we also had to be reduced in power-level
to that of the atoms that form our universe and our physical bodies. Then we
had to climb and evolve to the human level whilst unconsciously raising the
power-level of the atoms of our current body during each physical life. At the
human level it is the “Me intelligence” that evolves not the physical body.
When you become a seeker you are consciously taking control of the further
(spiritual or non-physical) evolution of your “Me intelligence”. No one can do
this for you, not even our Creator, so the seeker must become spiritually
independent. The next stage of intelligence evolution is to develop the link
between you and your higher self.
AN UNFINISHED-BUSINESS MEMO SET IN HISTORY.
PART FOUR: THE
PARFAIT’S USE OF HIS OR HER HIGHER SELF.
The higher self is not, as
some people insist, a separate guardian angel. It is simply the greatest part
of your intelligence and it exists at a power-level far above that of physical
matter and above the ascending energy-power-levels of the Astral Vortex. The
non-physical focal point of that intelligence (that you think of as “Me”) has
to exist at the much lower energy-power-level set by physical matter, this
until you have consciously raised the power-level of your body’s energy
structure enough to ascend above the vortex.
Everything is formed from
energy. Your body is formed from energy, but so are your emotions. That is why
it is such a long process involving many physical existences, because for many
people blockage clearing is matched by the creation by self of more emotional
blockages. This continues until during one life, maybe this one, we realize
what we are doing, and what we could be doing. Then we consciously take charge
of our thoughts and emotions, and we consciously develop the intuitive access link
between low-powered “Me” down here and high-powered higher self, up there.
Maybe we became aware and began to work on ourselves in this present life. Or
maybe our awareness and work commenced many lives ago. This would explain why
some people are more psychically gifted and spiritually advanced than others,
but each of us has the same potential once we make the conscious choice. Here
we will explain that Ascension for the individual means that “Me” and my
independent energy source leave physical existence.
Together as one we ascend
above the Astral Vortex power-levels to merge with “Me’s” higher self. “Me”,
the focal point of higher self, has consciously raised its power-level to match
the power-level of higher self. Our interest is in the period after the
conscious choice is made but before the individual is ready to ascend. It was
during this period that the highly developed parfaits were able to face death
with equanimity. The parfaits were not ready to ascend but their practiced
tolerance to higher power-levels allowed them to leave their physical bodies,
to rise above the power-level of physical existence for short periods of time.
Also in times of crisis the parfaits could draw down the same higher
power-level energies, to radiate and protect from pain those who were to share
their grisly death. We could name it, greatly amplified healing energy.
From this you will realize
there is nothing imaginary about the invisible spiritual energies we urge all seekers
to consciously draw down and to radiate. Also it explains that when we meditate
we are trying, more and more, to tolerate the higher power-level energies of
the “Altered State” in our “Still quiet centre”.
But why did so many parfaits
choose to publicly die in this hideous way when they could simply have left the
country and have worked elsewhere? This has very much to do with psychically
gained knowledge of the true purpose. It also is connected with knowledge of
the mechanics of Reincarnation. The parfaits knew that their work of triggering
awareness was vital for the future of mankind. They also knew that mankind then
wasn’t ready to be triggered. The parfaits knew that they would return when
mankind is ready to be triggered. But they also realized that individually,
during their return to the illusion of physical existence in the future; they
themselves would also need to be triggered. For this reason the parfaits chose
to die in great numbers to stamp an indelible trigger onto history that would
awaken their awareness again now they have returned. This is why increasing
numbers of steady, sensible people of all nationalities are convinced they are
Cathars reborn. Also it explains why for so many of those people, who have
never felt that they truly belonged anywhere, a visit to “The Land of the
Cathars”, feels more like a homecoming. The subjects we have discussed in this
four-part article and many more are explored in greater depth in our
self-published E-Book, “Not just how but why” (A Seeker’s Guidebook to the
Ascension Process)
Note: David and Yvonne
continuously drew down and anchored the light in
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