Awakening The Soul: Book 2: Our Suppressed Spiritual Nature

ATS 4 This, the final book published in the Awakening The Soul trilogy, contains revelations that will startle most Christians, even those very familiar with their religion’s history. This volume was not last in the trilogy published because it lacks importance. Once planned as several small explanatory chapters, this book has grown as equally vital as its two companion volumes, originally all parts of one very large manuscript.

After 20 years of investigation into many of the mysterious examples of metaphysical phenomena and psychic awareness, I realized that everything I was studying had one simple, common answer: they were all various aspects of our spiritual nature, shared by all humans. They were “mysterious” simply because we had forgotten about them and their common source, our Souls. The Awakening The Soul trilogy is based on that primary premise, fully demonstrable through history, religion, science, psychology and parapsychology. As the original manuscript began to take shape in the middle 1990’s, I incorporated a great deal of research material that I had acquired for a planned weekly newspaper column on the “emerging personal spirituality.” As I researched the material for Book 1: Proof of Our Spiritual Nature, I kept running across references about how the Church had suppressed these various spiritual abilities. I then began specifically looking for further evidence of this suppression, and discovered abundant evidence confirming my contention.

I was shocked at what I found. While innocently researching the “why” behind our spiritual amnesia, I stumbled upon the primary reason why we were so spiritually deprived. In the midst of my research, I turned over another rock to see what was there, and out crawled a sordid dark truth into the light. The rock I turned over was the rock that the Church supposedly was built upon. Its actions are shocking, in a history never before cast in this light. Taken individually, these acts of suppression do not look damning. When considered together, however, they constitute a massive pattern of suppression of our God-given spiritual abilities by the very Church that was supposed to be guiding us to higher spiritual awareness. This total mind control deeply affected Western civilization, for the Church blocked huge amounts of our spiritual, cultural and historical memory. That became quite obvious during the years of research for this book.

Since I am neither theologian, scientist, philosopher, historian, nor psychologist, I sought the findings and opinions of learned men and women in these various fields to authenticate the premise of this book. I quote them extensively throughout, letting their words make the case that is presented. My credentials are those of an experienced investigative journalist with the proven ability to research facts and formulate them into an easily understood presentation. During the quarter century I spent as a daily newspaper editor, we utilized a learned ability that taught us how to cut through the chaff of any complex issue, and to see the true heart of the story, what it really meant. Several tried and true journalism axioms guided this learning process, the first being, “Don’t pay attention to what they say, examine what they do.” At the time, this primarily applied to governmental bureaucrats and politicians, famous for saying one thing and doing another. Now, we can add popes, cardinals, bishops and priests to that list. The second primary axiom was: “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.” This means that if all the evidence fits the profile, it is further proof of the contention. When I applied these two axioms to the mass of evidence I was compiling on the suppression of spiritual traits, it quickly became quite evident what had happened – and continues to happen. That is how this volume came into being.

In-depth research into the mass mind control by religion was overwhelmingly convincing: Western religions, primarily Christianity, suppressed and vilified almost all aspects of our spiritual nature. This often happened under the threat of death. The evidence is present, in case after case, example after example. Religions turned our spiritual senses and nature into “tools of the devil,” the supposedly evil side of our spiritual nature. Or religions declared that certain spiritual events, like miracles, “no longer occurred” outside the Church.
This book’s planning also dealt with the perplexing disregard mainstream science displays today toward the mysteries of human consciousness and spirituality. Why, I wondered, was science so skeptical about this most intimate part of our lives? Why, when science would finitely examine such mundane things as sea slugs and rarified gases, would it refuse to seriously examine humanity’s very own spiritual consciousness? The answer was equally shocking: Christianity was also to blame for this denial. The Church barred science from investigating humanity’s spiritual nature through 1,500 years of suppression of science and 800 years of direct persecution of scientists. Christianity, primarily the Roman Catholic Church, gets most of the blame, for it persecuted or killed millions of people who held different spiritual views or beliefs, including a number of theologians and scientists. Judaism is not innocent in this regard, as it does share lesser responsibility in this suppression, but the Jews are not nearly as guilty. Islam, however, did not repress science, but encouraged it. Protestant faiths also vigorously continued the repression of science and our mystical spiritual nature after the Reformation. However, a few Protestant religions later embraced various aspects of our spiritual nature and made them part of their belief systems, notably the “born again” and Pentecostal movements.

This is what history shows, despite the abundance of inbred Church apologists who try to dust off as “old news” the intense persecution of other religions, the assault on all “heretics” (i.e., anyone who thought differently about practically anything), the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Witch Hunts, and the suppression of science. These events may have happened a long time ago, but they continue to haunt and limit us today in the way our belief systems, history, culture, society, and laws are structured.

This is also the case with our suppressed spiritual nature. The Church’s 2,000 years of spiritual suppression almost erased our spiritual memory. It was the outright theft of our spiritual nature, regardless of what any modern-day theologian might say to mitigate the horrific damage it has caused to our collective and individual psyches. It is no wonder we feel lost and confused on Planet Earth. The early Church’s repression was so widespread and so intense that it created what we now call the Dark Ages, an 800-year period of illiteracy and ignorance. The Church also created a Dark Age of the Soul for Western humanity, from which we are just awakening. Had we known and nurtured our true spiritual nature for the past 2,000 years, we would be far more confident, far more in control of our destiny, far more able to deal with our difficulties, and much less dependent upon religion as a crutch to sanity. We were forced to embrace religion and to believe a particular brand of dogma, while denying almost all our God-given talents as spiritual beings of free will.

Awakening The Soul: Book 2: Our Suppressed Spiritual Nature - Review

REVIEW: Awakening the Soul Book 2: Our Suppressed Spiritual Nature
By Bill Missett
(Author House: 2005)
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Review by Bob Yehling

Everyone who has experienced spiritual awakening must confront and deal with a stark and dark reality: At some point along the way, a person, book or religion sought to suppress and/or manipulate deep truths of the soul to advance their mission, thesis or dogma. The realization is not easy. It feels like walking from open sky into a tangled, thorny berry bramble that doesn’t seem to end.

Such is the walk-in point on Bill Missett’s second book in the Awakening the Soul trilogy, Our Suppressed Spiritual Nature. Missett meticulously laid out the proof of our spiritual nature in his first book, and showed us how to reclaim and restore our divine inheritance in his third book. However, something very terrible began to happen on the planet three thousand years ago: Hundreds or thousands of spiritual teachings and schools with pure, divine missions and practices were eradicated and consolidated. This was exacerbated by the struggles for control and power to proselytize to the world following Christ’s death, a struggle that reached its first peak during the Crusades. It’s a struggle that continues to this day, as evidenced by the war of more than words between the west and the Muslim east, and the sharp ultra-conservative turn by the political, social, judicial and religious elements of both.

Never has a book been better timed – or more necessary to read – for a populace in search of its individual and collective soul at a time when some world leaders are acting more like their forbears of past millennia than progressive 21st century human beings. Our Suppressed Spiritual Nature documents hundreds of intentional, deliberate actions taken by the three predominant religions – Catholicism, Judaism and Islam – to suppress the spiritual power and truth of the people to whom they’ve ministered.

The chapter titles of this book give you a sense of this difficult journey; four of them are “Slipping Into Darkness,” “Why We Can’t Remember,” “How Science Was Silenced” and “The Deception Disintegrates.”
Missett confined most of his research to matters inside the Vatican, from the time the Church rolled out its plan to rule the world a century after Christ’s death to the present day. Within the 396 pages of this book is the 118-page title chapter, “Suppressing Our Spiritual Nature,” that cites incident after incident of dogmatic transgression. When reading the blood and gore that followed, one feels caught in a horror movie. To think these terrors actually happened to people seeking to know God is unfathomable. To realize they were perpetrated and carried out by the body that deemed itself God’s representative on Earth is worse.

Missett’s case builds from spiritual falsehoods that the Church instilled forcibly into the people as it spread throughout the social, political, judicial, spiritual and scientific institutions of the world. The concepts, as Missett writes, included belief in original sin, living only once, an angry, vengeful God, an angry Devil, belief in perpetual Hell, belief that the Catholic Church was the only salvation for humanity, our concept of Sin, belief that Church sacraments were necessary for salvation, belief that all spiritual matters were wrong or evil, and so on.
Missett spells out the crimes the Church perpetrated against our souls and spiritual truth itself with the hammer and chisel he utilized as a no-nonsense newspaper journalist for more than 30 years – and which he utilized in Proof Of Our Spiritual Nature and Restoring Our Spiritual Nature as well. Every incident is well-documented, and he connects the dots throughout so that the long, egregious pattern feels to the reader like it felt to those who suffered through it – a matrix that, until recently, offered little chance for escape. The way in which he presents and shares this information illustrates the deep wisdom, contemplation and realization of a man who’s been there (he was raised Catholic) and done that (experienced spiritual awakening and changed his life accordingly).
During this discourse, the author takes care to explain spiritual or religious concepts. He also provides a welcome personal touch by interspersing the battery of incidents with anecdotal evidence – not the least of which are accounts of saints and sages suffering the same fate as wayward citizens. It’s not an easy thing to do when you’re digging through ten years of intense research that keeps piling up as the spiritual suppression continues to this day (does the controversy over stem-cell research ring any bells?).

The most telling segment of this book concerns the Biblical saying, “The kingdom of God is within you.” Christ’s admonition is in plain King James English in Luke 17:21. No doubt about where to look for God, right? This was perhaps the main tenet of Christ’s mission on earth, the core teaching of anyone seeking a personal relationship with God. It was recorded and re-recorded by his apostles. However, two centuries later, the Church declared the teaching heretical.

From there, the author tells us the reason why: If you know that God is within you, then no institution can exercise control, power or its dogma over you.

Our Suppressed Spiritual Nature should not be viewed solely as an indictment of the Catholic Church. The author’s purpose for writing this book – and the whole Awakening the Soul trilogy – is to enlighten us on who we are, how we were taken into the dark, and how we can reclaim the light that’s always been within us.

Sometimes, it takes a brick on the head to stir us from our slumber. Here’s the brick.