"This video probes the profound history of the Cathars, a 12th-century spiritual movement which fostered peace, equality, and a deep connection to one's higher self. By popular demand, this 'Director's Cut' of our 5th Kind documentary examines how the Cathars' beliefs blended Platonic ideas of consciousness and spirituality, and offered the world a compelling alternative to the hierarchies and social control endemic to medieval Catholicism. The Cathars viewed themselves as a counterpart community of faith, the 'Church of Love.' Their mystical ideas about reincarnation, divine consciousness, and interdimensional guidance came to be regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as a serious threat to its power over Europe, a view which set the papacy on the path to a brutal century-long crusade to eradicate the Cathars and erase them from history. But why? What is their relevance to life in the twenty-first century? And how do echoes of Cathar thought resonate today?" -(Paul Wallis).