Cathar Prophecy from 1244: The Church of Love

The last of the Cathars were burnt for their beliefs at Montsegur, Languedoc, France in 1244. But they left this prophecy: that the Church of Love would be proclaimed in 1986.

It has no fabric - only understanding.
It has no membership - save those who know they belong.
It has no rivals - because it is non-competitive.
It has no ambition, because it only seeks to serve.
It knows of no boundaries for nationalisms are unloving.
It is not of itself because it seeks to enrich all groups and religions.
It acknowledges all great teachers of all the ages who have shown the truth of Love.
Those who participate, practice the Truth of Love in all their daily being.
There is no walk of life or nationality that is a barrier.
Those who are, know. It seeks not to teach but to be, and by being, enrich.
It recognizes the collectivity of all humanity and that we are all one with the One.
It recognizes that the way we are may be the way of those around us because we are that way.
It recognizes the whole planet as a Being, of which we are a part.
It recognizes that the time has come for the supreme transmutation, the ultimate alchemical act, the conscious change of the ego into a voluntary return to the whole.
It does not proclaim itself with a loud voice but in the subtle realms of loving.
It salutes all those in the past who have blazoned the path but paid the price.
It admits of no hierarchy or structure, for no one is greater than another.
Its members shall know each other by their deeds and being and their eyes and by no other outward sign, save the fraternal embrace.
Each one will dedicate his or her life to the silent loving of their neighbor and environment and the planet, whilst carrying out their daily task, however exalted or humble.
It recognizes the supremacy of the great idea which may only be accomplished if the human race practices the supremacy of Love.
It has no rewards to offer, either here or in the hereafter, save that of the ineffable joy of being and loving.
Its members shall seek only to advance the cause of understanding, within whichever church, group or family they happen to be.
They shall do good by stealth and teach only by example.
They shall heal their neighbor, their community and our Planet.
They shall know no fear, and feel no shame and their witness shall prevail over all odds.
It has no secrets, no arcanum, no initiations save that of the true understanding of the power of love and that, if we want it to be so, the world will change but only if we change ourselves first.

All those who belong, belong; they belong to the Church of Love.

Blessings unto all,
Bari xxx

The Truth will set you free?

Will it?

Who said so, and who said that they said so, and how did they know? And just what is the truth anyway and where does it originate?

Welcome to my world. It's as if the ground beneath my feet has quite simply vanished, evaporated. I just don't know what I know any more. Previously held beliefs, based on my own perception of truth, just seem to be falling away. I'm questioning where all my core beliefs came from and there is no solid ground. And that's even before getting into relative truth versus ultimate truth, and dimensional realities.

I can't even be as clear as to say 'I know nothing', because maybe I know something, or everything, or nothing!!! And does it matter anyway?

Along with this void of reliable 'truths' I also seem to have acquired a sweeping sense of disillusionment with those around professing to be in the 'know'. With so many courses and workshops and new & old modalities springing up left right and centre, and channelings and mediums and healers...and...and....and...I simply can not get excited about any of it any more. There seems to be so many words of wisdom which aren't being lived by those speaking them. So much feels to be out of integrity right now.

So with a complete disinterest in all things external, I am left contemplating this groundless world within. And who said the truth is within anyway, and what if it's not? What if that's just another convenient mass held belief to keep us moving along, all in the name of evolution. And then what is the truth of evolution......you see my thinking. I feel like I'm back to being a five year old asking...why...why...why!

I'm also wondering if this is what it feels like when duality starts to slip away, when there is no right or wrong anymore, no knowing and not knowing. We judge ourselves and others based on what we belive to be right, righteous, based on handed down wisdom we take as truth. But what happens when that all slips away, when we are not living out existing paradigms we know so well, what is the ground we walk on then?

I ask my Self what is there to do? Short of waking up inside the Matrix movie (which I would not be in the least bit surprised about), what is there to do? For now it seems I am to continue to chase after my own tail, with a smile on my face, and see where that leads me!!!

Offering Blessings from the void of my beingness, Bari xxx


'We sometimes know, and then not'. Rumi

An unexpected moment of surrender

There are times when we have an experience beyond words, beyond our conceptual understanding of applied principles - a spontaneous moment, a God Moment. Yesterday I had one of these moments.

It was my last day at the Casa de Dom Inacio, home to John of God. My last chance to sit in Current with a few hundred others and be open to receive and share the blessings of the Casa Entities of Light, the blessing of God's healing vibration, the blessing of Divine Love. Before I went in to sit I put a prayer and a simple note in the prayer basket. The note was 'I surrender'. I wrote it spontaneously, I had no pre-conceived intention of writing it and no desire for outcome. Even as I wrote it it seemed unusually succinct for me, succinct to the point of brevity, but as I wrote it I felt the Entities response and a wave of energy passed through me - needless to say I added nothing!

Now the notion of Surrender is not a new one to me, rather, along with Trust and Gratitude, I see it as the backbone of spiritual practice. I am sure I have written many a note before to the Entities surrendering, but as each moment in life is a continual choice so too was this moment. It was the last Friday afternoon of a blessed 3 month stay, the end of some beautiful work and the day after I had had a spiritual operation. So with Trust in my heart and Gratitude in my mind I simply went to sit down and Surrender myself unto the Casa Current.

I found the right seat, closed my eyes and let the world drop away. Almost instantly the tears started to roll down my face and I could feel the convulsions of sobbing moving up through my body. Without words or a clear thought process I was some how bereft, in a state of absolute surrender, energetically prostrate on the floor in front of the Divine. I saw flashes from different time eras, perhaps my lives, perhaps not, but I felt the anguish of mankind's belief in separation, the suffering we have put ourselves through, our inhumanity to each other. It felt monumental. I was offering it all at the feet of the Divine, almost spewing it out as the sobbing continued coming in waves from deep within.

This wasn't some contrived moment of surrender, for this is not how I would have constructed it at all. It wasn't simply an opening to be God's vessel, to do God's will, rather it was an emptying of pain and suffering, a surrendering of that which keeps us separate. I was distraught, it felt like there was no where deeper to go, how much more could I prostrate myself on the ground - had it been a physical body experience I'm sure I would have been thrashing around on the floor like a fish out of water, a soul out of source, and banging my fists on the floor with the despair of a two year old.

And so I breathed deeply and wondered if this Eternal Moment would ever pass! And so it did, quietly, as if I had stepped into the slip stream of a river and was tumbling along before I even realised what had happened. I found myself offering a prayer:

Dear God,                                             
May my eyes see as you see,
May my ears hear what you hear,
May my mind think your thoughts,
May my mouth speak the words you would have spoken,
May may heart feel as you feel,
May my hands do the work you would have done and
May my feet carry me 'ere you would have me go'

I was considering each statement over and over, as if feeling bodily what I actually meant and checking to see if this was possible and had I missed anything out.

And I was somehow left with the understanding that we travel from Loneliness to Godliness as our Divine Destiny, and that everything was perfectly alright....... I had simply experienced an    unexpected moment of surrender.

In surrender, trust & gratitude,

Bari xxx