Chris' Journey

"It was the greatest 'Ah Hah!' of my life when I first grasped the core truth of the Bushmen's spiritual wisdom", Chris remembered. "I was intrigued by my reaction, because there was nothing new, to me, anyway, about this wisdom. The same core truths have been espoused by countless spiritual traditions through the ages. But, for some reason, only the Bushman version of it managed to get through to me".

When asked, this is how Chris summarised the essence of the Bushmen's spiritual understanding:

"The secret of life is a warm heart for all of the Great God's creation. To be able to do this, you first have to have a warm heart for yourself. To be able to have a warm heart for yourself you merely have to read what the Great God wrote on your heart, telling you who you are and what you have to do in this life. Once you have a warm heart for all that you are, it is time to forget about yourself, realise all is one, and develop a warm heart for all of the Great God's creation."

Chris has subsequently learned of his numerous previous incarnations as a Bushman, including the lifetime just prior to this one. This probably explains why he could only hear the Bushmen version of the age-old truth.

What followed after Chris' (re-)discovery of the Bushman wisdom is a rather long, albeit fascinating story that still waits to be told. In short, Chris started researching all the old Bushman stories he could find. About six months into this process a Bushman shaman, known in historical documents as //Kabbo, appeared to him. "//Kabbo told me I had contracted to revive the forgotten Bushman spiritual wisdom through story telling", Chris recalled. "The Bushmen were renowned for their story-telling and mime ability. //Kabbo suggested I write a one-man play about their ancient wisdom in my home language, Afrikaans, and offered to co-author it with me. Much later I discovered that our play was the first ever written about the Bushmen."

The play, called //Kabbo op die Ysterspoor* ('//Kabbo on the Iron spoor'), was subsequently written and performed by Chris himself. It was at one of these performances that Chris' path crossed Issabella's.

A mutual friend told Issabella about Chris' 'excellent' play, as she phrased it. When Issabella learned it was his debut play and, even worse, that he had had no training or previous experience as an actor, she politely declined. "I really wasn't in the mood for a night of bad drama and excruciating acting", Issabella remembered. "Thank God my friend eventually persuaded me to go along! Never before had I heard more beautiful, poetic Afrikaans. And his acting..! He wasn't playing a Bushman character, he was a Bushman! But above all, it was his powerful message of the 'warm heart' being the key to the way Home that did it for me. For this was, and still is, the essence of everything I know. "

After the show their mutual friend introduced Chris and Issabella. She instantly recognised him from past lives, including one they shared as a Bushmen couple. But it wasn't time yet to resume where they left off in a past life. It took almost a year of (divine) preparation before they could once more combine their energies for the greater good.

Since Chris has started using the bocArus products his journey has entered a new phase. "By the time I met Issabella I had more or less succeeded in developing a warm heart for myself", Chris said. "I was ready for the next stage of the journey, namely to forget myself, realise all is one, and to develop a warm heart for all of the Great God's creation. In my case, it means acquiring new knowledge and skills, also regarding the unseen world. But most importantly, it requires from me a new way of being, one where the self is only interested in being of service to the God Self. I'm very grateful that Issabella, with her personal experience and intimate understanding of this stage of the journey, is here to always point me in the most fruitful direction. The bocArus products ease and accelerate my transformation process dramatically. I have no doubt the products are also co-responsible for the rapid disappearance of my attachment to the attractions, and distractions, of the physical world."

Chris was recently drawn to an introductory course in animal communication, only to discover he could already communicate expertly with all manner of animals, birds, reptiles, insects and other fauna. This, too, he knows to be largely due to effects of the bocArus products. "The CD lifts my vibration, and thus my consciousness. The Personal e.f.e anchors my gains in consciousness and, together with the other e.f.e's, create a pure space in which my original, God-given potential to connect to the Christed Grid, and thus my God Self, is restored. Also, by boosting my energy field the Personal e.f.e increases my ability to live unaffected by the low vibrations from people or the rest of the environment", he explained. "In this way, I soon reached a point where I was aligned enough with my God Self to access my innate ability to communicate with the animal kingdom. We all have this ability, of course". After some thought Chris added: "You know, of all the joys and advantages attached to this wonderful ability, the greatest is the lesson it teaches me about the oneness of all".

According to Chris, his main purpose in this lifetime is the spreading of joy and laughter. But, he said: "I've found it somewhat easier to be all joy and laughter as a barman or a diver, than when I'm attending to the myriad administrative tasks involved in a rapidly expanding business like bocArus! But I wouldn't want it any other way", he said emphatically. "This is just one more, excellent test on the way to always being who I am, regardless of circumstances."

* Christiaan Botha. //Kabbo op die Ysterspoor. 2005. Protea Boekhuis. Pretoria. (ISBN I-86919-063-7).