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Our Unapparent Perfection

1/12/2015

How often are we all plagued with feelings if inadequacy, doubt, imperfection? They often become stronger once we begin to awaken and experience the luminous, perfection of God and our higher divine nature. This can make facing our dark, imperfect aspects of our human nature even more difficult.
In this post I'll muse over some of my insights and illuminations on perceiving our imperfections in an larger context which reframes them in a way which makes them easier to embrace, and to honor as perfect in the eyes of God.

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An Invitation from Mary

1/9/2015

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I was the mother of God. That is not an overstatement. You must understand who my son was. It is critically important that you do so at this time. Jesus was unlike any other human being to have ever walked the earth. He was the fullness of the Godhead incarnate. He did what no one else has ever done before nor has done since. The specialness of this movement of the divine must be comprehended for this new age to be born. There are many forces both on and off the planet that would seek to obscure, deny or otherwise obfuscate the truth of what he was. This was all predicted in the Bible and as such it has come to pass.

I have been coming to you again and again over the centuries to prepare the way for the Second Coming. And I am speaking to you now through this messenger to once again communicate the all-important truth of who my son was.

There is not time for the vast majority of you, my children, to find your way to God, to redeem yourselves from the fallen state of human existence, without divine help. This is not to judge you or where you are, for from the largest perspective it is all perfect. These lower realms, outside of the divine domains which my son called the Kingdom of Heaven, are where God is yet becoming. Life is gradually evolving to become an ever greater manifestation of the One. These domains are truly a work in process. God is exploring itself on these matter planets and so the perfection of the Godhead is simply not to be known or experienced here as an outer manifestation, except on very rare occasions and at very important moments.

This is what my son demonstrated: the perfection of the Godhead made manifest, done, complete, a supreme gift to all of you. He did it, so you do not have to. Through his life and especially his death and resurrection he created the perfect template through which humanity might awaken and redeem itself and ultimately be raised into the same state that he demonstrated.

I come today to ask you to please open your hearts and minds to him and to me, for we are working to assist you to be raised through grace into the state that you somehow know is possible. It is time for this to happen now. The birth can no longer wait. There is no choice any longer to sit on the fence, for that time is over. You are finding yourself now rapidly moving in one direction or another, either towards the light and awakening or towards darkness and greater forgetting.

The light is upon you and within you. The Second Coming is when the Christ, the Holy Son and Daughter, awakens in you as you. You may feel the pressure of this process within and without. The diamond that you are becoming requires the carbon that you have been to be placed under great pressure and fire.

We are here to help you; to show you the way, and most importantly to give you, through grace, a divine template that will enable you to unfold the Christ in you with the greatest ease possible. I am here to help you prepare your soul to be the fertile ground in which the Christ may fully descend and unfold within you. Come to me and ask me for that assistance and I will gladly give it. But you must ask, for the law of free will does not allow any divine being to intercede without being requested. If you ask from your heart and soul, I will be with you continuously until you have completed this journey of realizing and birthing your true nature.

I will point you always towards my son, the Christ. For he to is waiting to give you everything you need to become the manifestation of your true nature as a soul, an aspect of God. The symbolism of the wine and the bread during the Last Supper was meant to convey the message of his role as savior. “Take of my body and eat. Take of my blood and drink.” The Christ is offering you his being, the completeness of God in human form as a gift through grace.

This is everything you want and would strive for -- the very end and fruit of the soul's journey. All that is asked of you is to realize the truth and reality of what he is offering and then to open your heart and mind to receive it. Are you willing to receive? For if you open the door just a crack to his love and light and give him a chance to show you what he is here to give you, I am sure that you will experience the greatest joy, peace and awakening, far beyond anything you can imagine.

I ask you to please contemplate my words in your heart and feel the truth of them. And then know that I and my son are always here waiting for you, waiting for you to open to receive the gifts that we have come to give.

I thank you and love you.

Your Mother,

Mary

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A Christmas Message

12/22/2014

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A message from the Christ came through Barry this morning for this Christmas time. We are reminded that the real message of Christmas is the birth of the Christ in each of us. This is especially important as we stand in the threshold of the Second Coming. Now is the time to remember and consecrate our lives to realizing what he did. Let us come back to the core essence of what Christmas is meant to be…..

This was recorded, as will many of the future posts be, to better convey the energy~consciousness behind the words…

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Coming Home to the Christ -- Karen's Story

12/4/2014

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Barry and I were talking about a friend’s suggestion that, now that the Way of the Christ website has been launched, we create a monthly webinar based on the structure of a church service. We realized neither of us had any desire to offer anything that resembled a church service.

“This is not about church,” Barry said.

We saw that, for many people, Christ has gotten so conflated with Christianity and “churchianity” that Christ is hard to find, independent of all those trappings. As we continued our talk, Barry asked me about my own flight from Christianity, and therefore, the Christ.

Karen: I’ve often wondered why so many of us in the West who were raised within the Christian Church ran as far as we could from Christianity -- and, by extension, the Christ -- when we began to awaken spiritually. Maybe we were turned off by the dogma that surrounded the way the Christ’s teachings were shared. Or we didn’t like the lack of tolerance for those who didn’t fit within the church’s “acceptable” lists. More than a few of us no doubt remembered being burned at the stake in previous lives, or other horrors perpetrated by “the faithful” against those they did not understand.

In any case, millions of us traveled off to explore more exotic spiritual paths and practices, and in the process, we may have “thrown the baby out with the bathwater.” In leaving the church, we lost the Christ.

When I was young, I didn't find much within the Protestant church my family attended that felt meaningful or relevant to me and my life. I enjoyed the beautiful celebrations at Christmas and Easter, with music and decorations and flowers. I felt the power in the Catholic rituals and sacraments when we went to mass with family friends, but it never occurred to me to convert to Catholicism -- my family was Protestant, and that was that.

At church, people so often seemed to be going through the motions -- no one appeared to be lit up with spiritual fire. I certainly wasn’t ignited by anything that went on. In Sunday school, we learned about the life and teachings of Jesus, but this felt like another subject to master, not anything that might impact my own experience. We were supposed to revere this being, but I really didn’t understand why. I had no other spiritual icons to compare him to, and had no idea what the events of 2000 years ago had to do with anything going on now.

The emphasis was on worshipping Jesus, and everyone seemed to hold him high above everybody else. Nothing was ever said about becoming like him. We were supposed to memorize certain Bible verses, like John 3:16, which sounded beautiful but I really had no idea what it meant. No one ever explained it, either -- we were supposed to just take it on faith. Other Bible verses were never mentioned -- for instance, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

Now that would have been galvanizing!

I also didn’t see much Christianity in action at church, or in the world at large, although nearly everyone professed to be a Christian. What did that really mean, when it didn’t prevent people from being mean and hateful? How did Christians reconcile Christ’s teachings with treating human beings who looked different on the outside as though they were unworthy of respect? The hypocrisy seemed so blatant, and so rampant, that I didn't want anything to do with it.

It got to the point where I just didn’t see any reason to keep going to church. When I was twelve, I told my mother I didn’t want to go anymore. To my amazement, she responded, “That's okay, we were just going there for you and your brother, anyway.” Apparently they felt a responsibility to provide us with some sort of religious education.

From then on, our family stayed home on Sunday mornings and read the New York Times in bed, passing the sections from room to room until Mom made us Sunday brunch and we finally emerged from our respective nests. Sunday lost its sacredness; it became just another secular day. I would not realize what had been lost until decades later.

Barry: So when you began to wake up, it didn't seem like an option to go towards Christ or anything Christian?

Karen: In my mind, Christ and Christianity had become one thing, and when I left Christianity, I left the Christ. After all the hypocrisy I’d witnessed in my own so-called “Christian” culture, every other spiritual tradition on the planet seemed to have more to offer than Christianity. I read widely, and occasionally I’d include something by Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, or another Christian writer someone recommended, but overall, this tradition did not play a big part in my spiritual education. It wasn’t intentional, but it would be easy for someone who charted the progression of my spiritual journey to conclude that I deliberately left out Christianity altogether.

Barry: So how did you come back to the Christ?

Karen: Christ came to me. Barry had experienced openings to Christ a couple of years before we were brought together, so his connection with the Christ was very fresh and alive for him (and has remained that way). I found this a challenge as I got to know Barry, since I still carried a lot of resistance to Christ over what people had done in his name, and I hadn’t had any kind of direct experience of the blessing-grace of the Christ.

But then, when I least expected it, the Christ came into my life. It happened during a time when my process of awakening led me into the depths of my karmic patterns of suffering over all my lifetimes on Earth. During one session, I reached what seemed to be absolute bottom. It all looked utterly hopeless and I had no idea how to get through the impasse. Barry suggested I turn it all over to the Divine.

That seemed like the only thing left to do. In this life, I’d struggled with these patterns of suffering for decades and hadn’t managed to free myself from them, although I’d tried many therapeutic modalities.

I took a deep breath and handed the whole thing over to the One.

A profound stillness overtook me. The exalted frequencies pouring in rendered me speechless, filled with indescribable awe. I stood up, basking in the vastness of the blessing-grace. I was surrounded by it and infused with it.

When I could finally speak again, from a realm beyond thought words arose in response to Barry’s query about what I was experiencing: “It’s...the Firmament...of the Christ.”

The words, and the entire experience, filled me with the most beautiful feeling I had ever had. As the blessing-grace continued to pour in, I received exactly the energy and consciousness needed to transcend the imprisoning double-bind that had followed me from one life to the next.

That story is told in greater detail in our third book, We are the Awakening Christ.

This breakthrough led to other experiences, and my communion with the Christ deepened over time until it became a foundational aspect of my life. I also began to receive messages and feel the unmistakable energies of Mary, Christ’s mother, in some of Her sacred places around the world. I’ll save those stories for another time.

Barry is there anything else you would like to share about Christ?

Karen: It's important for us all to realize that what most of us experienced in church as we grew up was nothing like connecting with the living Christ. It's possible for any and all of us to experience the Christ, both as a vast presence and as a personal embodiment through Jesus. The Christ appears to each of us in the way that is right for us.

But there might be a lot of baggage that we have to release in order to open to that experience. We can bring our awareness to the emotional residue from our Christian upbringing and release the pain of it. We might need to face and feel the ways that Christianity has perpetrated suffering in our own lives and the lives of others. We may have to do some inner work to go beyond rejecting the Christ because of the suffering related to Christianity. Doing that work allows us to come back home to the Christ.

It seems sad to me now that so many people I know and love have turned away from the Christ -- just as I did for so many years. I know from personal experience that it is possible to go beyond the pain of what’s been perpetrated in the name of this Great One, and to be showered with the blessing-grace this being emanates.

If you are carrying scars related to anything discussed here, please remember that Barry and I are available to go into it with you in sessions. Amazing things happen when we turn our suffering over to the Divine. This is what our lives are about, and we’d be honored to walk alongside you as you discover the place beyond the pain and suffering and open to the blessing-grace of the Christ.

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Coming Home to the Christ -- Barry's Story

12/4/2014

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    Christ Jesus asked us to create this website and offer the Way of the Christ work because this is the time we all knew was coming. It is the time of the Second Coming, and the Christ is calling many of us home because it is our time. We are the Second Coming. We are the awakening Christ, and now is the time for the Christ to be awakened and made manifest through many of us.

   For the first blog post, I felt to tell you the story of how I got to where I am today, a co-creator with Christ and my beloved Karen of this Way of the Christ website and work. I’d like to share a very condensed version of my journey, because it may also be your story.

   Many of us who were born in the West turned away from Christianity and thus from Christ early on. We found the churches of our childhood devoid of spirit, lacking anything that truly resonated deeply in our hearts and souls. When the primal impulse arose to awaken and realize our deeper nature, to commune with things of God and spirit, we turned to many diverse paths -- Eastern religions, New Age teachings, shamanistic practices, Native American wisdom, Sufism, etc. Like many of you, I walked on many of these paths, seeking to find the ultimate truth and reality of my being. We gained much from our experiences, as each of these paths is an inextricable thread in the larger tapestry of the collective human soul’s journey to Self-realization.

   But along the way something unexpected happened in my journey -- something that would turn out to be the pivotal spiritual moment in this and maybe all my lifetimes. It occurred as part of a kundalini awakening through the grace of my satguru, Mahavatar Babaji. Just as these awakenings began to unfold, another divine being appeared in my life. As I was entering a time of profound ego shredding and dissolution that would lead up to the awakenings, the Christ came. At first, I experienced him as a universal presence that enfolded me, giving me comfort and spiritual strength as my inner and outer worlds disintegrated. In retrospect, I realize that the Christ was also overlighting and catalyzing my awakenings with Babaji, but from behind the scenes.

   After the kundalini awakening, the Christ came to me as Christ Jesus or Yeshua, who felt like a personal friend and soon became the central focus of my spiritual life. It wasn’t long thereafter that Christ Jesus asked me if I would serve the Office of the Christ, which is a grouping of ascended masters and other divine beings (in and out of body) working together to bring forth an awakened, Christ-conscious species. The Office of the Christ is focalized by Christ Jesus, who is the Planetary Christ. The Christ, in essence, chose me, because the way of the Christ or Christ path was my true and ultimate destiny, as it is the destiny of many who are now awakening.

   As the Christ revealed itself to me both as Jesus/Yeshua and the universal being~presence that is also the deepest core essence of my being, I came to understand the absolute importance of the Christ at this time on the planet. In coming into deep communion with Christ Jesus, who was to become my satguru alongside or even beyond Babaji, I was gifted with the most profound and important revelations of my journey.

   The Christ has revealed itself to be the source of the most potent spiritual blessing-grace in my life. I realized that this being was truly the Way, the Truth, and the Life, as he said two thousand years ago. By this I do not mean that he was a way-shower, or one who reveals the truth, or even one who leads us more deeply into union with life. Instead, I came to experience that through his realization he literally became the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

   Another way of saying this is that he became these divine realities through his realization that he was the fullness of the Godhead incarnate (“I and the Father are One”). Thus, the Christ is the doorway to the omnipotent grace and power of Source. Through this blessing-grace, we can be brought into full Self~God Realization.

   The Christ is coming to many of us now as a planetary satguru, one who overlights the planetary ascension process on the vastest of levels, yet is available to us in the most personal ways. The Christ does not ask us to put aside or abandon the practices and paths that we have walked and found beneficial, but wants to offer us something additional and possibly even more rich, full, and complete than anything we've previously experienced. This has certainly been true in the case of me and my beloved partner and wife, Karen.

   You will unmistakably know if the Christ is calling you, just as Karen and I did. You may even experience the kind of resistance and conflict that we felt in fully embracing and allowing the Christ into our lives. You may also go through many of the passages, activations, and awakenings that we have experienced, along with your own unique revelations and openings.

   This website and work are for you if you feel the Christ calling you Home to who you truly are. If the Christ is really part of your soul’s DNA, you will know it. At this time of the Second Coming you will come face-to-face with Christ if that is in the highest for your soul. We invite you to journey with us on this Way of the Christ adventure. Our soul purpose is to assist others on this path.

   As a first step in deepening your Christ-communion, you might consider downloading the empowered image of the Christ that is available for free on this website. This image of Christ Jesus is especially powerful because it was painted directly from the Shroud of Turin by Ariel Agemion, an Armenian artist. A print of this painting was given to me while living in Germany in the mid-80s by a priest who was also a devotee of Babaji. This image was the conduit or portal through which I was brought into conscious communion with the Christ. It is an empowered image. Christ Jesus has assured me that those who commune with it will also receive his blessing-grace and assistance in coming into conscious communion with the Christ as the Universal Christ, Jesus, and your true, eternal or Christed Self, as is right for you.

   Our third book, We are the Awakening Christ, contains the story of our experience on the Christ path, overlit and and guided by the Christ. It is not just our story, but a blueprint of an archetypal journey that many are destined to walk in these times. The book also contains many experiences of and messages from the Christ that are imbued with the transmission of the Living Christ Presence. Many have found reading this book to be a powerful activation and deepening of their journey of Self Realization and Christ communion.

   An empowered activation process available as an mp3, Christ Communion, is also available in the website Store. You may find it very helpful in experiencing conscious communion with Christ.

   Coming together with us directly in this unified purpose may be the most potent way for Christ Communion to be activated in you. This is the focus of the Christ Communion sessions we offer, which also serve to deepen your conscious communion with the Christ in you, your true, eternal Self.

   We offer a complementary 20 min. consultation by phone or Skype to explore how our work might assist you in your journey. If you feel a soul prompting, please contact us.

Much love and many blessings,
Barry

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After decades of exploring many spiritual paths, Karen Anderson and Barry Martin Snyder were brought back home to the Christ, discovering to their great surprise the true path of their souls. There soul purpose is to assist others to walk the Way of the Christ

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