 Soul Theft: How Religions Seized Control of Humanity’s Spiritual Nature
This book is a compilation drawn primarily from Awakening The Soul: Book 2: Our Suppressed Spiritual Nature, providing a more mainstream look at the historical facts contained in the text. Those who purchase Awakening The Soul: Book 2, or Awakening The Soul: The Trilogy will find Soul Theft to be largely redundant.
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(This, the fifth book in the Awakening The Soul series, is the story of the discovery of what you are about to read. By the time you get to the end of this book, you will understand what Western Religions have done to the world. This realization grew to the point where it became obvious this most vital information needed a wider, more immediate audience for greater exposure than just to those actively seeking spiritual awakening. These historically-documented truths, many presented here for the first time, are something every contemporary Christian, Jew and Muslim should know.)
Preface: A Profound Sense of Betrayal
 Most of us have lived our lives comforted by reassuring psychological security in God, country and family, believing that each will remain a trustworthy mainstay in our lives. Yet, many of us have also experienced the bitter deceit caused by those who betray that trust in family or patriotic values we hold so dear. We know how deeply it hurts us to be betrayed by any authority figure.
But betrayal by God? No, never!
Impossible you say? Think again. Some of those who pose as God’s representatives on Earth, and particularly those who pose the most publicly and forcefully, are perpetuating the greatest betrayal of them all. We have all been victimized by this betrayal, and are still being victimized, unwittingly or intentionally, by those “men of God.”
This does not apply to those representatives of the Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism or Jainism. We are speaking of the past and present leaders of the primary Western religions Christianity, Judaism and Islam the dominant religions in the Americas, Europe, and Africa. They are the primary perpetrators of this massive betrayal of humanity.
They and their predecessors have stolen our true spiritual nature from us.
How could religions “steal” our spiritual nature? They didn’t physically take that nature away from us. They divorced us from our spiritual heritage by declaring each spiritual trait off-limits, frequently using intense terror tactics to suppress their presence in our lives. These “men of God” banned our spiritual nature item by item to control us. This was originally accomplished by declaring that each our of God-given personal spiritual experiences, traits or abilities was “heretical,” “evil,” “sinful,” “demonic,” “secret” or “no longer occurring.”
These bans were frequently enforced at the threat of death, instilling deep fear about exercising or displaying our God-given spiritual talents. Millions died for expressing or revealing these forbidden spiritual beliefs, talents and abilities. Thus, we have been forced for centuries to deny and suppress those mystical experiences that form our very own spiritual nature. We have been brain-washed into believing this spiritual deprivation is normal and proper. This has created the wide confusion and doubt surrounding everything “psychic” or “metaphysical” or “paranormal,” each in reality an example of suppressed evidence of our spiritual nature.
This suppression wasn’t executed by our current religious leaders, but rather by their predecessors. However, today’s Western religious leaders keep most of those spiritual barriers in place by upholding many of those ancient bans on experiencing our spiritual nature. The denial of these spiritual traits is ingrained into our consciousness to such a degree that we think it’s correct; that’s the way it should be. That’s how forcefully and completely our spiritual awareness has been erased from our psyches. This is the direct result of almost every active aspect of our spiritual nature being placed off-limits to humanity by Western religions, primarily Christianity, primarily the Roman Catholic Church. Judaism and Islam also contributed to this suppression, but to a much lesser degree. Several Protestant religions and individual Catholic dioceses have restored use to some of these spiritual traits, but many more are still off-limits.
Although all of us can still experience the rarified feeling of being “spiritual” or “mystical,” most of us are completely divorced from our true spiritual nature by the taboos placed upon a wide variety of spiritual experiences by religions. Most of us have little or no knowledge about these God-given spiritual traits, abilities, experiences, or events. We are also woefully ignorant about how we could vastly benefit from their restored presence in our lives. Most aren’t curious about their spiritual nature because their religions taught that each example of our very own spiritual nature is somehow evil or wrong.
This revelation was discovered almost “by accident” while researching a broad range of spiritual experiences for the recently-published Awakening The Soul: The Trilogy. (In the world of spirit, however, there is no such thing as an “accident.” Everything happens for a reason.) Much of this book is drawn directly from those volumes, condensed wherever possible.
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