Title: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Mark on March 04, 2012, 05:48:33 am This is all from, Inside the New Age Nightmare: For the First Time Ever...a Former Top New Age Leader Takes You on a Dramatic Journey by Randall N. Baer. A very good book on the new-age. You can download the book here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/34781548/Baer-Inside-the-New-Age-Nightmare-Former-New-Age-Leader-Exposes-the-Movement-1989
FOUR THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT: A FORMER INSIDER'S VIEW Let me tell you what the New Age Movement is really like, from the perspective of one who has lived it, breathed it, and worshipped it for 15 years. By holding up the serpent's original temptation to partake of the forbidden fruit, the New Age Movement has seduced many millions of people into accepting the promises of personal godhood, unlimited power, and immor-tality through reincarnation. Quite the temptation. However, there is a dark underside to the movement's banner cries of love, light, peace, and universal brotherhood that needs to be exposed for what it truly is. Introduction: What is the New Age Movement? Essentially, it is a Satan-controlled, modern-day mass revival of occult-based philosophies and practices in both obvious and cleverly disguised forms. In effect, it is an end- times "plague of the spirit" propagating the "powerful delusion that they should believe the lie."1 It is nothing more than a glitteringly seductive, broad road leading only to eventual destruction. The New Age is actually not anything new at all. It always has been active throughout history in numerous and widespread Western occult traditions and Eastern mystical religions. Over the last three decades, however, an enormous and unprecedented massive revival of occult-based practices has been taking place, some of it disguised as being non-occult in nature. To many peoples' surprise, New Age philosophy and practices have crept into the very fabric of American society in both subtle and profound ways. The magnitude and momentum of this movement is to such an extent that it poses one of the fastest-growing threats to Christianity today, especially in the years ahead as the end times unfold. What do most people think of when they hear the term New Age? Shirley MacLaine? Harmonic Convergence? Reincarnation? Crystal power? Channeling? Psychic readers? In fact these are only a part of a very broad spectrum of different New Age forms, strategies, and practices. To make matters all the more difficult, the term New Age is sometimes not even used when something is actually New Age at the core. The attempt to answer the sometimes slippery complexities of the question, "What, exactly, is the New Age Movement?" will be the recurring theme to be explored from many angles throughout the rest of this book. The New Age Explosion The New Age Movement needs to be understood as one of the fastest-growing uprisings of the end-times powerful delusion occurring in the world today. In fact, it has expanded with explosive diversification in the last three decades to a much greater extent than many realize. Today's rapid growth of the New Age phenomenon is nothing less than a major branch of the prophesied latter-day rise of the Antichrist forces. It is in this context that the most penetrating insights into the greatest deceptions and dangers of the movement are seen. Bible prophecy warns: "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told you in advance" (Matt. 24:24, 25). Due to its deep and inextricable involvements in Scripturally forbidden practices2 —like divination, witchcraft, sorcery, mediumship, spiritism, and numerous others —the New Age opens the gates for the adversary and his demonic legions to unleash an end times Pandora's box of unrighteousness. In effect, the movement acts as a rapidly enlarging breeding ground for the seeding, propagation, and unleashing of a plaque of the spirit. The massive releasing of ghouls and demons in the movies, Ghostbusters and Poltergeist, the New Age acts in a very similar way in opening the gateways for Satan's demons. Dave Hunt, in his excellent book, America: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, comments on this theme: "Today's world confronts a strange and growing paradox that could very well mark a pivotal point in human history. Even as the scientific and technological advancement which ushered in the space age is accelerating at an exponential rate, we are witnessing far and away the greatest occult explosion of all time." One thing is certain: "the winds spreading the seeds of sorcery have reached gale proportions." The words of a leading New Age spokesman, Marilyn Ferguson, author of the landmark New Age manifesto, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980's, speak to the magnitude of the forces in motion: "Broader than reform, deeper than revolution, this benign conspiracy for a new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history. This great shuddering, irrevocable shift overtaking us is not a new political, religious, philosophical system. It is a new mind —the ascendence of a startling worldview." Further elaborating on the magnitude of this "benign conspiracy," Ferguson's book states: "This network —the Aquarian Conspiracy —has already enlisted the minds, hearts, and resources of some of our most advanced thinkers, including Nobel laureate scientists, philosophers, statesmen, celebrities, and steadily growing numbers from every corner of American society. "... [the] network is working to create a different kind of society based on a vastly enlarged concept of human potential [and] ... shows us how the technologies for expanding and transforming personal consciousness, once the secret of an elite, are now generating massive change in every cultural institution —medicine, politics, business, education, religions, and the family. "Will our present turmoil lead to a worldwide breakdown of society — or to a breakthrough to the next step of human evolution? The answer may depend in large measure on the influence of the Aquarian Conspiracy." The roots of the Movement go deep, much deeper than they would appear at first glance. In a tempestuous world and a society filled with millions of restless people thirsting for answers and spiritual fulfillment, it offers a huge array of tempting alternatives to the Christian faith —"the faith once for all delivered to the saints."7 The New Age offers multitudes of age-old, occult-based temptations re-packaged in the glossy modernized guise of a new, improved New Age. The influences of this phenomenon are much more pervasive in our society than it might appear on the surface. To cite just a few indicators and examples: • A University of Chicago poll showed that 67 percent of Ameri-cans now believe in the supernatural; and 42 percent believe they have been in contact with the dead. • The Christian film, "Gods of the New Age," asserts an estimate of 60-million Americans as being involved in one aspect of the New Age or another. • Twenty-three percent of Americans believe in reincarnation.8 • Forty million Americans believe in astrology, and there are 1- billion astrology believers worldwide.9 • Forbes Magazine estimates that the (obviously) New Age market does $3.43 billion in business each year. • Business corporations (including numerous Fortune 500 companies) spend $4 billion on management and employee programs that subtly but distinctly are based on New Age philosophies and practices. In some cases, employees are required to undergo these programs if they want to keep their jobs. • A 1978 Gallup poll indicated 10-million Americans to be engaged in some form of Eastern mysticism. (Note: Eastern mysticism is only one of many branches of the New Age Movement.) • The best-selling book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, is reported by the author, Richard Bach, to have been channeled by a spirit, and which is totally based on New Age philosophy, has sold over 25-million copies and met with tremendous popular appeal. This is only one of many examples of subtle intrusion into mass public exposure of New Age ideas in a way not explicitly labeled New Age. • The philosophy of "The Force" so graphically depicted in the "Star Wars" trilogy is a veritable primer of the New Age gospel, exposing millions of young minds in a subtle, entertaining way to the New Age hero-image of the Jedi Knight. • There are over 200,000 registered witches in America. Untold numbers are unregistered. • The use of psychics by lawyers and police departments has become much more commonplace today than at any time before. • The B. Dalton Booksellers chain reported a 95-percent sales increase of New Age books during the week after Shirley MacLaine's mini-series, "Out on a Limb," and sales continue to rise steadily. • Robert Muller, former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, has written a book, The New Genesis: Shaping a Global Spirituality, calling for a globalistic "New Order" based on many aspects of New Age philosophy. • Jean Houston, Ph.D., one of the most renowned New Age lead-ers, reports having led a three-day intensive workshop for 150 highranking government officials, and other workshops included top-level corporate businessmen and government officials.10 • Fifty-two publishing houses have formed the New Age Publishing and Retail Alliance, whose slogan is "A Consciousness Whose Time Has Come." In all, New Age books account for approximately $lbillion publishing dollars per year. • Professor Carl Raschke, of the University of Denver, a New Age critic, calls this movement the "most powerful social force in the country today." He adds: "If you look at it carefully you see that it represents a complete rejection of Judeo-Christian and bedrock American values."11 These examples are but the tip of the iceberg. Clearly, this fastrising movement demands serious attention. An End Times Force to Contend With We live today in a time of revolutionary stirrings and worldwide shakings: The realm of orthodox science and technology is making many awesome, world-shaking advances. Profound worldwide socio-political changes are in motion. National and international economic forces are shifting. Global ecological deterioration plus the increased frequency natural disasters have become facts of planetary life. Many other deep-seated worldwide changes are astir. The Biblically prophesied end-times stage is set. Commenting on the New Age uprising, John Ankerberg and John Weldon state in their book, The Facts of the New Age Movement: "Thus the stage has been set for a revival of spiritism that could dwarf earlier eras. Some have asserted that channeling will one day be 'bigger than fundamentalism.' Regardless, spirit contact has be-come in many quarters a socially acceptable practice—and the spirits have served notice that they intend to influence our future."12 Yes, the spirits have indeed served notice in many ways. A prime example being Lazaris, by far the most influential spirit being channeled in the late 1980s, who has stated this point clearly: "Those who hide behind their masks of fear and confusion hope this thing called the New Age will pass. However, that which is truly new in this age of rising consciousness will be the bridge to the future and the hope of humanity."13 The New Age makes no real attempt to hide its fundamental underlying agenda—its "bridge to the future and the hope of humanity." This agenda is nothing less than the complete revolutionizing of the very foundations of not only America but the entire world. Such a plan calls for the total restructuring of planetary civilization into an enlightened One-World Federation in which national boundaries and sovereignty are secondary, and "planetary citizenship" in the "global village" is the order of the day. This innovative orthodox science bearing many new advances combined with a "Universal Oneness" philosophy (a neo-New Age world view) is to offer a world in desperate need, a grand solution to profound global problems. Apparent world peace and unprecedented opportunities for "actualizes the human god-potential" (i.e., New Age higher consciousness) are to be unveiled. Herein lies the Antichrist's last temptation, offered to all the world. What does the New Age Movement hold for the future? One view is that it is an occult revival that will die down or level out in due course. Another view is that it will be rather insignificant relative to other national and international factors. But it also could very well be something else —a major tool of the adversary's latter day deception that has really only just begun to hit its stride. It could certainly be a platform upon which the Antichrist will rise to world domination. Dave Hunt, in America: The Sorcerer's New Apprentice, shares some sobering thoughts to consider: "The last time anything approaching this mass flight from reason to mysticism occurred was in the 1920s and 30s. It was very likely this great occult resurgence in Western Europe, and particularly in Austria and Germany, which helped to set the stage for Germany's acceptance of ****sm. Some historians, in fact, have referred to Hitler as the 'Occult Messiah.'" "... Something of great significance is occurring, and it must be taken seriously. The last revival of occultism played into Adolf Hitler's hands, and the eventual victims numbered in the millions. One can only wonder where the current and far more pervasive renaissance of such occultism will lead."14 In effect, the New Age is one of several major gateways for the adversary to unleash his plans and forces for global domination. The Antichrist comes bearing an innovative orthodox science in one hand and a Universal Oneness (neo-New Age) philosophy in the other, seated on a politico-economic throne of worldly power. A One- World Order, headed by the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing, offers a desperate world many miracles, gifts, and wonders in the name of peace, love, planetary healing and universal brotherhood. What used to be as obvious as an orange-robed Hare Krishna devotee or a blissed-out hippie may come today as a man in a threepiece suit or laboratory coat. The New Age as "Spiritual Humanism" This movement can actually best be understood as a broad spectrum of non-Christian philosophies and practices that can be categorized as NEW AGE SPIRITUAL HUMANISM. The cornerstone of this humanism is the belief that man is divine in nature, and is therefore essentially "God" or an enlightened "God-man." New Age man, believing himself to be divinely perfect and ultimately all-powerful, sets himself up on a cosmic throne. This highly touted god-man claims to have inherently unlimited powers to command and manipulate the universe according to his sovereign will. Man is elevated to divinity, deity, and sovereignty —the essence of the blasphemy of New Age spiritual humanism that seeks to exalt sinful man to godhood and to displace Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The New Age school of thought offers myriad substitutes and counterfeits for the Chief Cornerstone.15 Different from the atheist/ agnostic orientation of secular humanism in many fundamental ways, New Age spiritual humanism presents a spiritually based set of belief-system alternatives to the Christian faith. Just as secular humanism offers its own type of anti-religious deceits to certain types of people, so does spiritual humanism offer spiritually based counterfeits to an entirely different strata of people in our society, people who hunger for and search for spiritual meaning, truth, and fulfillment in their lives. Secular humanism denies Deity and exalts man's own intellectual, creative, and moral powers as the way to find true meaning in life On the other hand, spiritual humanism affirms Deity (though a distinctly different Deity concept than Christian theology) that casts man in the role of a higher race of cosmic gods, with correspondingly grandiose god-power —the ultimate "power trip." Secular humanism puts man on an earthbound throne of scienti-fic rationalism, self-generated truth, and self-created destiny; spiri-tual humanism assigns man to a throne that spans the heavens and the earth in a divine heritage of universal lordship, omnipotence, and selfcreated glory. In The New Age Rage, Robert L. Burrows amplifies this topic: "Ironically, New Age spiritually echoes, and is a logical extension of, the secularism it repudiates. Both deny the reality of the Creator, and both see humanity as the final arbiter of truth and value. New Age spirituality simply heightens secularism's mistakes by inflating humanity's significance, yielding what Brooks Alexander dubs 'cosmic humanism."'16 In Unmasking the New Age, Douglas Groothuis further clarifies this important philosophical point: "The old-fashioned secular humanist... said, 'There is no Deity. Long live humanity.' The new transpersonal or cosmic humanist says, 'There is no Deity but humanity.' God is pulled into the human breast. Scientific prowess and rationality as the crowning human achievements are outstripped by psychic abilities and unlimited potentials."17 However, the falseness and deep-seated dangers of the forces of secular humanism are well documented in Christian literature. What this book seeks to do is to help expose and define the often-underestimated grave dangers that New Age spiritual humanism, in tandem with secular humanism, poses as the Antichrist forces magnify their plans today and tomorrow. Surveying the Landscape of Spiritual Humanism The New Age is an extremely difficult movement to define with anything other than generalized statements. In many ways it is as difficult as trying to represent the broad spectrum represented by the term Christianity. Even as all Christians are united in their faith in Jesus Christ, there are very diverse, oftentimes conflicting views between Baptist Christians, Greek Orthodox Christians, Catholic Christians, Pentecostal Christians, etc. So, too, there are at least as many different sectarian schools of New Age thought. There are no centralized organizations controlling all doctrines, activities, or agendas. No single committee, council, or organization dictates the doctrines and agenda, or controls all activities. The landmark manifesto, The Aquarian Conspiracy, terms it "a leaderless but powerful network." This characteristic has allowed room for an immense variety of philosophies and phenomena to flourish via all manner of diverse individuals and organizations.18 In any given large city, there are hundreds to thousands of informal and professional groups, businesses, organizations, classes, teachers, New Age professionals, psychics, etc. Even in most smaller cities and towns across America there are loose networks, organiza-tions, and businesses of New Agers. What the movement touts as its Network has indeed spread throughout the land, and into every available socio-cultural niche. The New Age spectrum runs the full gamut of types of people and areas of society involved. What used to be an arena composed of gurus, witches, and weirdos is now flooded with virtually every type of person in society. Furthermore, the New Age has so many faces and directions to its overall agenda that it has infiltrated into every facet of American society in both obvious and very subtle, deeply underlying ways. From religion, business, and politics to music, education, and science the New Age has wended and wormed its way into the very cornerstones of Western civilization —more so than many people realize. Let us explore this further: New Age spiritual humanism is primarily born of a deep-seated disillusionment or dissatisfaction with any or all of a variety of orthodox mainstream Western values and institutions. This attitude increased primarily in the youth and avant garde of the late 1950s and the 1960s, but throughout the 1970s and 1980s a much more across-the-board, society-wide trend toward rejecting some or all of mainstream Western values and institutions strongly surged. This was born of an intense searching for new alternatives to the problems and challenges of human existence and spiritual fulfillment. For more and more people there was a perception that Western society just did not provide adequate answers or fulfillment on personal, interpersonal, societal, and global scales. Commenting on the undercurrents of mood and thought of the ninety thousand people attending a 1978 "Festival for Mind and Body," columnist Bernard Levin wrote: "What the world lives by at the moment just will not do. Nor will it; nor do very many people suppose any longer that it will. Countries like ours are full of people who have all the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it ... it aches. "Those who attended the festival were seeking something-not certainty, but understanding: understanding of themselves."19 Searching For a New Age Worldview This grass roots swell of discontent finds millions of all varieties of people searching and experimenting in new directions for peace wholeness, and happiness. Those people looking in New Age directions find an eclectic grab-bag of opportunities drawing from the foundational sources of the New Age spectrum: • Ancient and modern occult traditions. • Eastern and Western mystical religions. • Neopaganism —natural religions and goddess worship. • New Age-based psychologies. • And modernized sorcery. Furthermore, a host of contemporary innovations and eclectic syntheses have blended many of these elements together into countless New Age hybrids. American drive, ingenuity, and entrepreneurial skills have instilled tremendous vigor to the New Age agenda. These searching people, reaching out for new answers, new alternatives, new directions, seized upon every facet of human experience to remold according to sets of New Age principles. The spectrum of issues and activities addressed is indicative of why the New Age is so widespread today in every corner of American (and Western) culture. These areas include: religion and spirituality; government and politics; education; environmental issues; women's rights; psychology; art; music; health care; science and technology; diet; child care; human potential; creativity; sports; economics; social change; interpersonal relationships; marriage and family; brain-mind research; and many others. What is important to note here is that the New Age Movement is not just confined to obviously occult, cultic, or otherwise fringe elements of society. Rather, New Age thought encompasses all aspects of human experience. In essence, it is an attempt to revolutionize every facet of life on personal, interpersonal, societal, and global scales. There is no aspect of the human experience or societal issues that New Age spiritual humanism does not attempt to remold into non-Biblebased counterfeit solutions and alternatives. It is what spokesperson Marilyn Ferguson calls the "new mind —the ascendance of a startling worldview." Whatever the issue, whatever aspect of the human experience being questioned, spiritual humanism attempts to creatively draw upon other cultures and ancient traditions and combine them with contemporary innovations to remold the subject area into a more enlightened, less limiting, more advanced, and more fulfilling format. Essentially, the New Age takes all that the Bible states about human nature, principles for living a righteous and fulfilling life, and the Way to salvation, and attempts to redesign everything according to supposedly superior concepts. It's a matter of taking the Creator's perfect design for man as revealed in the Bible and trying to create something better and more perfect. Therefore, in reevaluating the area of marriage and family, for example, spiritual humanism rejects the Bible's revealed wisdom as old-fashioned or unevolved or just not my thing. Instead, it explores a multitude of open-ended do-it-yourself possibilities that appear attractive and viable to the new mind of New Age man. Indeed, there is not just one perfect New Age model for revolutionizing marriage and family, but an entire spectrum of different options are outlined for each person to choose from according to his or her own personal preference. There's a basic credo that says "create your own reality according to what feels right for you." For example, whether a person chooses to be homosexual, bisexual, monogamous, polygamous or whatever is OK as long as "It's right for me" or "It's done with love and no one's hurt." This is a kind of relativistic, human-founded ethics (or designyour- own ethics). In effect, New Age persons pick and choose from the multitudes of options in each area of life according to their own personal preferences. Here you pick your own truth, your own morals, and your own wisdom. The absolute moral standards and eternal principles of wisdom revealed in the Holy Bible are either selectively picked through a la carte or they are tossed out the win-dow completely. The Alternative New Age Menu The New Age menu encompasses the practical, the socially acceptable, the avant garde, the routine, the down-to-earth, the adventurous, the bizarre —all types and forms appealing to the spectrum of humanity's tastes and interests. To provide an idea of the multiplicity of New Age topics, here's part of the table of contents from one of the most successful New Age media ventures, San Francisco's "New Dimensions Radio": "Self-Help," "Consciousness, Personal Growth, and Personal Transformation," "Body Awareness," "Holistic Health and Wellness," "Visionary Futures," "Practical Philosophy," "Mov-ing into Space," "Appropriate Energy and Technology," "Medicine People and Healing Visions," "Right Living," "Evolutionary Economics," "Psychology Tomorrow," "Birthing, Babies, and Beyond," "Shamans, Sorcerers, Wizards, and Other Wonders," "Myths to Live By," and "The Spiritual Quest." Also, here are some week-long topics from a vacation seminar center: "Inspired Poetics," "Writing for Enlightenment and Profit," "Learn to Relax," "Green Politics," "Dreams and Your Personal Mythology," "Massage and Acupressure: Healing from the Heart," "New Approaches to Birth, Sex, and Death," "Communication Skills: Talk (and Listen) Straight from the Heart," and "Personal Spirituality and Social Responsibility." It's easy to see from these short lists that any number of the topics sound positive, unflaky, and even sometimes socially responsible. Mixed in with the obviously occultic (like "Shamans, Sorcerers, Wizards, and Other Wonders") are topics that sound like something a concerned, thinking person might want to explore. What is not so obvious is that each subject area is a New Age version of economics, interpersonal psychology, space travel, poetics, self-help, spirituality, etc. Even further, sometimes the way that the subject is presented is not blatantly New Age but instead a quite subtle and implicit expression of the spiritual humanistic agenda. For the unwary, spiritual humanistic views sometimes can be assimilated without even realizing it. It's not hard to begin seeing how the extensive branching of the New Age Movement has opened doors at every turn of human experience, at every angle of human issues. Few stones are left unturned in its quest to revolutionize the world and every individual in it. Two Major Schools of New Age Thought Let's explore a brief overview of two overlapping but different major schools of New Age thought: In The New Age Journal, an article on "What is the New Age?" in the Jan./Feb. 1988 issue generally defines the first viewpoint of New Age thought as "Consciousness Renaissance." "In its broadest sense, new age thinking can be characterized as a form of utopianism, the desire to create a better society, a 'new age' in which humanity lives in harmony with itself, nature, and the cosmos. "... unlike the biblical "Second Coming" or most other millenar-ian visions, the new age being discussed today by a number of philosophers, scientists, and social critics will not result from a future upheaval brought about solely by God. Rather, they say society is now in the midst of the transformation, a change potentially as sweeping as the Renaissance or the Protestant Reformation. What's more, it is occurring in society from the inside out, as more and more people begin to question traditional assumptions about life, the future of the planet, and the nature of reality."20 Consciousness Renaissance sees humankind currently experiencing the beginning of a new spiritual and socio-political awakening, a modernday super-Renaissance destined to lead man into a new era of enlightened spiritual humanism. Spurning the thought of man needing divine intervention to assist in the creation of a global utopia, this perspective sees the awakening of "unlimited human god-potential" as the means by which "heaven on earth" will manifest. In essence, as man achieves higher states of "god-consciousness" through New Age practices, heaven will dawn on Earth only through the dawning of man's enlightened "higher consciousness." As a leading spokesman of this position, David Spangler, writes: "... The essence of new age thinking is the process of seeing the heaven that is right here on earth every day, a process ... called 'renaming the sacred.' "... To rename the sacred is to have a different view of the universe. ... It is to re-expand those boundaries we have placed around God, even to redefine the nature of divinity. It is to look at the objects, people, and events in our lives and to say, 'You are sacred.'"21 What this school of thought basically asserts is that by elevating man's consciousness, the "heaven" that always has been here on Earth is then perceived. The veils of man's limited thinking are then lifted and, lo and behold, heaven was here on Earth all along. Man is divine and perfect, the world is divine and perfect, and the cosmos is divine and perfect. Man has simply been blind to this eternal fact because he has been veiled by a limited consciousness, a state of ignorance that needs to be overcome by awakening into cosmic enlightenment. The second major branch of New Age thought can be termed "Quantum Leap of Consciousness." A quote in literature from a New Age center in Florida typifies this school of thought: "We are on the brink of a new age, a whole new world. In the twinkling of an eye, mankind's awareness, our collective consciousness, is going to make an instantaneous quantum leap into the heavens. Everything will change in a flash of divine Light. Get ready. Your heavenly heritage awaits. Come on in; the water's fine ... He who hesitates is lost. ... He who chooses life is found."22 In this theory, humanity now has reached a critical phase of individual and collective evolutionary growth. When sufficient momentum is generated by enough people having developed "higher consciousness," then the entire world will be ready to make a collective quanturn leap into a higher dimension of the heavenly realm. Earth and humanity will literally leap in a flash of light into the heavens above. In contrast to the Consciousness Renaissance view, this Quantum Leap of Consciousness model is directly tied to some form of divine intervention. Though there are a rich variety of concepts about the nature and form of this divine intervention, essentially a sovereign and omnipotent celestial force is said to deliver Earth into the heavens above. Various groups attribute this intervention to different sources. Examples include "highly evolved extraterrestrials," a "Council of Ascended Masters," an "Enlightened World Teacher," or some other allpowerful "divine" being(s). Earth and humanity are to be pulled up to the next major notch on the evolutionary ladder, thereafter to be governed benevolently by the intervening celestial force(s). Man's task right now, according to this view, is to help generate enough people with higher consciousness in order to meet the re91 quirements for intervention to occur. It's like meeting a quota before the next stage of the job can begin. The distortions of Scriptural prophecies are abundant; for example, many who believe in the Quantum Leap of Consciousness hold that the false prophets, earthquakes, plagues, wars, famines, etc. prophesied in the Bible will be magically bypassed by enough people meditating for peace, thereby avoiding this kind of "man-created negative thinking." Furthermore, this school of thought maintains that some other "World Teacher" or "Council of Ascended Masters" will have divine authority in the New Age, not Christ. Another variation on this skewed theme is that it is not the personal and visible Jesus who returns, but rather "Christ consciousness" that descends into the minds of all earthly inhabitants. Yet others believe that the world will be delivered via extraterrestrials' intervention during a time of enormous, out-of-control world tumult. From the article, "What is the New Age?" this tension between the two perspectives is highlighted: "Some new age fundamentalists do predict that a literal apocalypse is imminent and that it will be brought about by mystical, extraterrestrial, or cosmic forces. But for many others, the new age has become a metaphor for the unprecedented changes now occurring in many aspects of daily life, a process of rapid personal and social transformation ..."23 Many of the Consciousness Renaissance camp try to distance themselves somewhat from what they regard as the flakier side of the New Age —UFO telepathic communications, crystal power, glorification of channeling, and the like. These folk tend to focus more on integrating increasingly socially acceptable New Age values into personal and societal life. This is the side of the New Age that has made especially strong inroads into areas such as the corporate business world, psychology, entertainment media, education, health care, and science (among others). In terms of value-system and practical-level infiltration into mainstream American culture, this aspect of the New Age has proven the more successful of the two schools of thought due to its subtler humanistic approach. Though there is much overlapping between these two major philosophies, the Quantum Leap of Consciousness viewpoint is much more predisposed to the metaphysical-occult end of the spectrum. In particular, the predominant themes lie much more towards mediumship, spiritism, witchcraft, psychic powers, and sorceries in myriad shapes and forms. One of the primary dangers from this branch of the New Age is its major contribution to the historically unprecedented unleashing of demonic forces into the world today. What Type of People are Attracted to the New Age Spectrum? No longer is the New Age the sole province of gurus, hippies, witches, psychic readers, mediums, fortune-tellers, and all the other popular associations with New Age. Today, people involved in one aspect of the New Age spectrum or another cut across all boundaries, come in all forms, and from all walks of life. Marilyn Ferguson, in The Aquarian Conspiracy, comments on the incredibly wide range of conspirators. "The Aquarian Conspirators range across all levels of income and education, from the humblest to the highest. There are schoolteachers and office workers, famous scientists, government officials and lawmakers, artists and millionaires, taxi drivers and celebrities, leaders in medicine, education, law, psychology. Some are open in their advocacy, and their names may be familiar. Others are quiet about their involvement, believing they can be more effective if they are not identified with ideas that have all too often been misunderstood."24 Here are some primary categories of people who often are attracted to the movement. As you will see in this quick overview, it cuts into every level of American culture. 1) Socio-cultural rebels who have a profound disillusionment with every level of Western culture, and feel a powerful need to search out ancient and contemporary countercultural alternatives. This kind of person can come in any kind of guise, from an organic farmer to a corporate business executive. 2) Regular folks looking for answers to the many challenges and problems of human life, as well as sometimes looking for new excitement and adventure. People looking for answers to such diverse things as stress, psychological blocks, interpersonal communications problems, sexual dissatisfaction, weight reduction, and many others sometimes unknowingly can be introduced to New Age ideas and techniques. 3) A significant number of people have carried the lineages of mystery schools, goddess worship cults, witchcraft, esoteric elite circles, and other such metaphysical-occult traditions and schools throughout the centuries. There always have been New Agers continuously active throughout history. 4) People who turn away from the Christian faith due to rebellion, apathy, curiosity, lukewarm faith, backsliding, serious personal problems that cloud judgment, or who are unwary. 5) People who are prone to trying new fads, trends, what's hotthose who like to experiment, adventure, and dabble in new and exciting things. 6) Teenagers and young adults who are finding themselves, rebelling from authority, experimenting with new things, checking out powerful experiences, going along with peer pressure, or trying to find truth along misguided directions. 7) People who are bored and have a lot of extra time on their hands sometimes wind up dabbling and experimenting with various options on the New Age menu. 8) People who are lonely and become involved in New Age circles to find acceptance and companionship. 9) People who are spiritually, psychologically, and/or physically sick and who delve into New Age alternatives claiming to provide relief, healing, and fulfillment. 10) People looking for personal power and control over them selves, others, and/or universal forces. The New Age has an enticement for every weakness in natural man. Different Pictures of the New Age Spectrum Now, let me give you several snapshots of the New Age spectrum from different perspectives. The purpose here is not to give a complete and exhaustive overview of the New Age; rather, it is intended more as a helpful introduction toward understanding the multi-faceted nature of the movement as the reader continues through the chapters ahead. Examples of the New Age Spectrum Yoga; est seminars (now called The Forum); Transcendental Meditation; developing psychic powers; subliminal cassette tapes for self-improvement; "writing your own ticket with God" ("create your own reality" seminars); "tapping into the powers of your Higher Self" seminars; pendulums, dowsing rods, and the I Ching; astrology; contacting spirit guides techniques; neopagan nature religions; consulting psychic readers; dabbling with Ouija boards; and LSD and other psychedelic drugs. Some Dangers of the New Age Deep self-delusion; rejection of Christ Jesus; false happiness and contentment; demonic possession; physical/mental/emotional breakdowns; love of untruth and abomination; family disintegration; making wrong life-decisions; more frustration and discontent in life; committing immoral acts; performing scripturally forbidden practices; and, judgment into the lake of fire. Examples of Obvious New Age Phenomenon Ouija boards; astrology; yoga; past life regressions; crystal power; Shirley MacLaine; spoon-bending with mind power; firewalking; out-of-body experiences; astral traveling; psychic readings; pyramid power; channeling; spirit guides; tarot cards; and witchcraft paraphernalia. Examples of Sometimes Not-So-Obvious New Age Phenomenon Some types of guided mental-visualization exercises; some mentalpower development techniques; subliminal programming cassette tapes and videos; hypnosis; some types of holistic health care; Hatha Yoga classes at the local YMCA; meditation techniques subtly based on Eastern mystical philosophies; "Dungeons and Dragons"; "transpersonal psychology"; "humanistic psychology"; world peace meditation events; brain-drive machines; re-birthing techniques; and some children's cartoons and toys. Examples of Some of Today's "Hottest" New Age Phenomenon Channeling; crystal power; contacting your "Higher Self"; going to geographical "vortexes" (occult "power spots"); goddess worship; world peace meditations; psychic readings; self-empowerment seminars; occult-based success and prosperity seminars; interpersonal development and sex workshops; and, telepathically contacting UFOs. Thus, in this chapter we see that far from being a tempest in a teapot, the winds of New Age spiritual humanism are blowing through grass-roots America with alarmingly increasing force. This mounting threat to American society and the Church is not based on simplistic strategies but is instead a complex, multi-level phenomenon which is an end-times force whose prophesied time has come. Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Mark on March 04, 2012, 06:15:55 am FIVE
NEW AGE SORCERIES AND IDOLATRIES: A PANDORA'S BOX OF FORBIDDEN PRACTICES Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, 7, the Lord, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, And spreading out the earth all alone, Causing the omens of boasters to fail, Making fools out of diviners, Causing wise men to draw back, And turning their knowledge into foolishness, Confirming the word of His servant, And performing the purpose of His messengers" (Isa. 44:24, 25). "You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. "Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?" (I Cor. 10:21, 22). Up until recent times, the better part of occult phenomena, especially the innermost secrets and most powerful practices, were kept relatively hidden from the masses by the elite of the various worldwide esoteric traditions. While a basic body of teachings was avail-able to the average "man on the street," the higher levels of teachings were reserved for the privileged inner circles of occult societies. In the last three decades, though, an unparalleled revealing of the higher echelons of elite occult secrets has occurred. One of the rallying cries of the New Age is that what was in the old age reserved for the privileged few is now available to the entire planetary populace, so that each and every individual may awaken his "god-powers" toward paving the way for the Aquarian Age of planetary enlightenment. What before was known only by inner circle esoteric initiates is now readily available in neighborhood bookstores and weekend public seminars. The secrets of yesterday are the common knowledge of today. What I ignored as being "restrictive" and "limiting to my spiritual growth" when I was a teenager and young adult just starting to delve into Oriental mysticism and yoga has a tremendous amount of Divine wisdom behind it. This is to say, using my own standards of man's "wisdom" and sloughing off Divine wisdom that appeared to be "odd," "uncool," and "unnecessarily limiting," I walked into a lion's den that Satan makes to appear as a heavenly Utopia of New Age higher consciousness. Dagers of New Age Involvement The forbidden fruit of the New Age appears so glowingly golden, so delightfully compelling, so promising of peace, healing, and higher truths—yet underneath all the layers of gilded power and distorted truth is a rotten core of Satanic bondage. People may enjoy a host of apparent benefits —amazing out-of-body experiences, sometimes accurate psychic readings, apparently effective healings, temporary relief from some problems, etc.— but eventually the rotten core creeps more and more into the person's life. It is then that the demonic tentacles tighten their grip, the New Ager's addiction to occult activities intensifies, and a harvest of dark fruit starts to corrode a person's life from the inside out. All this rarely occurs overnight, though instantaneous full demonic possession is always a possibility in occult dealings. In most cases, it is only after regular, habitual indulgences in New Age practices that the most severe dangers manifest. However, as pointed out earlier in this chapter, the very first dabbling in any New Age activity often sets a demonic hook into a person's life in subtle but insistent ways. Some of the dangers of New Age involvement include: • A short-term rush of energy and peace into one's life followed by a fall-off into anxiety, disorientation, depression, and a driving desire for another occult experience to alleviate the inner emptiness. • A severe fall-off in job performance, family relations, and other responsibilities as the person becomes more self-absorbed, distracted, and moody. • A change in personality marked by a hyper-happy, starry-eyed, blissfully enthusiastic attitude. This floating on a New Age cloud nine mentality can sometimes last for months, but usually ends with disappointment, frustration, and sometimes disillusionment, or seeking out yet another New Age high. • A progressively absorbing addiction to seeking the advice of psychic readers and channels to gain ego-strokes, security about the future, self-glorification, answers to problems, etc. This can be as addictive as any drug, and sometimes more expensive. • An absorption into some grand vision quest—like preparing for a UFO beam-up or discovering an ancient artifact of worldimportance in Peru or some other planet-shaking event — to the extent of totally ignoring the rest of one's life (job, family, mortgage, etc.) as it disintegrates. • An awakening of the kundalini ("serpent power" said in the occult to lay dormant at the base of the spine) through occult practices can lead to many severe problems including: mental/emotional upheavals and breakdown, intense involuntary body spasms, severe brain and perceptual distortions, and sometimes even psychosis and insanity. • An abrupt intrusion of a demon-spirit into one's life leading to various kinds of possession and control. • An erosion of Biblical morals into a more lax and liberal viewpoint that opens the way to committing sins such as adultery, fornication, and spiritism. • An overload of occult energy into one's system, resulting in a type of "circuit overload"—severe hyper-tension and anxiety, mental and emotional disorders, deep depression, rapid breakdown of physical health, and others. • An increasing hardening of the heart and dulling of the ear to the Good News of Jesus-this becomes particularly ingrained the more one delves into the New Age. There are many other disorders, breakdowns, personality aberrations, delusions, and types of possession but this should suffice to demonstrate the manifest dangers a person risks with any type of dabbling or habitual involvement in the New Age. Becoming involved in occult snares is a classic catch-22 situation. Those who are deluded are not aware that they are in fact deluded. Anything shown to the contrary is regarded by the New Ager as a delusion. Spiritism: The Root of New Age Evil "But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons" (I Tim. 4:1). In one form or another, to one degree or another, the influence of "spiritual wickedness in heavenly places"1 lies at the root of all occult evils. Satan's demons work their charms both directly and indirectly, overtly and extremely subtly. In The Facts on the New Age Movement, John Ankerberg and John Weldon state: "To put it simply, the teachings of the New Age are the teachings of spirits. What the New Age teaches and believes is what the spirit world has revealed and wishes men to believe ... the New Age teachings and practices are not simply the enlightened discoveries of men, but more precisely the deliberately revealed teachings of the spirits that men have adopted and utilized. They merely appear to be enlightened teachings because the spirits use psychological principles and spiritual language; they speak of God and love; and they satisfy many of the genuine desires of fallen men. ... The spirits are coming out of the closet in force, in numerous disguises, doing all they can to spread the teachings of the New Age." Sometimes the workings of spirits are quite obvious —like the phenomenon of "trance channeling" where the medium allows a spirit-entity to occupy his body and completely take it over for a time. In other cases, where a person has an inner spirit guide or wise friend with which he communicates, again we have the activity of spirits feeding people information and invisible influences. Ouija boards and automatic writing, as well, are a specific way of asking for spirits' direct input. In other ways, the influence of unclean spirits is much more subtle. For example, the use of pendulums (for divination), astrology, tea leaf reading, runes, fortune-telling, and palmistry all use a defined method as a focal point for discerning specific types of information through occult means. Especially in the more subtle spiritistically based New Age practices, it can be difficult-to-impossible to outwardly discern whether the practitioner is receiving influences from spirits. Some astrologers, for example, would deny categorically that they are in contact with any spirits whatsoever in rendering a person's astrological chart interpretation. Such astrologers may perceive themselves as simply using their own intuition or psychic abilities or even confining themselves to solely rational input. However, the crucial point here is no matter what the astrologer's (or palmist's or pendulum user's) perception is of what he is doing, because of the occult method he is using there is an open invitation to demons to subtly weave their works, oftentimes in invisible, devious ways. On still another level, there are scores of other occultic avenues that are less obviously forbidden, but must be understood as spiritistic in nature in order to be aware of their horrific dangers. For example, the use of psychedelic drugs in the New Age to achieve "higher states of enlightened consciousness" is not obviously spiritistic in nature, but it is just that. In short, psychedelics are often a type of metaphysical doorway to spirit contacts and demonically counterfeited domains of glittery darkness. Though the Bible does not specifically prohibit the use of LSD or "magic mushrooms" or peyote buttons, the fact is the function and actual effects of these drugs is often to open doorways in the mind to possible "other spirit influences." This makes the practice "implicit spiritism." This category of Bible-prohibited practices —implicitly forbidden —means that even though the Bible does not name something outright as forbidden, the actual function of the practice is directly occult in nature, and therefore definitely comes under the category of scripturally forbidden practices. Other examples to be further discussed in this chapter include: occult breathing exercises, telepathic UFO contacts, occult sex practices, past life regression sessions, "create your own reality" practices, out-of-body experiences, and numerous others that are all implicitly forbidden. In one way or another all the other listed categories of Bibleprohibited practices —like casting spells, witchcraft, walking through fire, necromancy, and idolatry —and their implicit counterparts rely directly on the rulers, authorities, and powers of darkness. Altered States of Consciousness (ASC): Open Windows to Spirit Contacts and Influences One of the most powerful strategies in Satan's New Age trickeries is the use of a large variety of altered states of consciousness to induce contact and interaction with demon-spirits and their manyfaceted powers. In the great majority of cases, ASCs are thought by New Agers to be absolutely healthy means to open oneself to positive, benign, and beneficial spiritual and psychological influences. It is thought that an integral part of developing one's unlimited human potential is learning how to put oneself into various types of higher states of consciousness, that is, ASCs. The basic idea is that there are thousands and thousands of different levels of higher consciousness available to man, each level accessing a different type of universal experience and corresponding benefit. It is said that man's evolutionary imperative is to claim these aspects of his unlimited divine heritage in order to grow into a more evolved, more advanced human being — the New Age god-man of unlimited consciousness abilities. There are a host of supposed positive benefits, including: • Contacting higher sources of universal wisdom. • Releasing psychological traumas. • Getting in touch with one's intuition and creative powers. • Developing a variety of psychic powers. • Reducing stress. • Contacting spirit guides. • Creating health, prosperity, and happiness. • Having fun. • Becoming more centered and together. • Programming the subconscious with positive attitudes. • Exploring the higher heavenly realms. • And many others. An altered state of consciousness basically can be defined as a trance or trance-like state of mind, normally induced by specific techniques, rituals, or other sorts of volitional efforts. In most ASCs the person is in a deeply relaxed, very passive, receptive, nonrational state in which he is opening himself to psychological and/or spiritual higher consciousness experiences. ASCs can occur with eyes open or closed. The primary problem is that the person indulging is opening a door in the mind that weakens the rational, critical faculties as hypnotically mesmerizing influences increase vulnerability to many sorts of undesirable influences. At the core, ASCs are like occult windows to the New Age beyond. The recurring theme in inducing ASCs is relaxed passivity and decreased rational, analytical faculties in a trance-type state. Instructions for entering an ASC often include: • "Let go and surrender." • "Allow your body to feel like it's dissolving into infinity." • "Release all rational analysis and let it all flow." • "Visualize yourself as a perfect being of light." • "Feel like you're floating into another dimension." • "See yourself spiralling upwards into the spirit realms." • "Let go of your body and float upwards." • "Just flow through any feelings of fear, alarm, or suspicion." • "Feel your body becoming warm and tingling all over as you release yourself into deeper and deeper relaxation." • "Just allow any thoughts or emotions to arise, surrender to them, and let them flow through you." Instructions such as these and many other variations lead the participant step-by-step into taking down his guard, relaxing into a deep state of passivity and vulnerability, and surrendering to higher forces, energies, and experiences. There are many associated tools and methods used for inducing ASCs, including: • Mystical New Age music. • Looking into a mirror for extended periods. • Guided creative visualization. • Hypnosis. • Swirling, psychedelic light-shows. • Repetitious drum beating. • Repetitious chanting. • Occult breathing techniques. • New Age deep relaxation exercises. • Psychedelic drugs. • Yoga positions. • Gazing at esoteric geometric figures. • Metaphysical sex practices. • Brain-relaxation machines. • Self-hypnosis. • All types of New Age meditation. • Subliminal cassette and video tapes. • Twirling occult dances and repetitious body movements. • Crystal power techniques. • Multitudes of others. In effect, by opening up forbidden doors, the participant creates a breach through which demons can infiltrate, often in quite subtle ways. Channeling "We want to talk to you of love. We want to blend with you - we want to blend our energy with yours so we can touch each other—so we can work together." - Lazaris, an internationally famous spiritentity channeled by Jack Pursell. "We are here to merge, to blend with your human egos, to help your race become the central guidance system of a vast new being." - Angels, channeled by popular New Age leader Ken Carey. Channeling is indeed a blending, a merging, a touching, between humans and disincarnate spirits. However, behind the oh-so-friendly and wise facade are demons who touch to deceive, blend to invade, and merge to possess. They come with an olive branch of peace, love, and universal brotherhood in one hand, and a smoking gun concealed behind their back in the other. Channeling, both by high-priced, internationally renowned mediums and by the many thousands of regional and grass-roots mediums, is the single most influential phenomenon on the New Age scene today. A virtual avalanche of seminars, consultation sessions, books, cassette tapes, and videos has cascaded into every corner of the New Age Movement, infusing it with an entirely new level of vigor, upgraded philosophies, and powers of deceit. Millions of people today are fashioning their lives on the ideas of some exalted, evolutionarily superior spirit-entity. The repercussions go much deeper, as increasing numbers of health care professionals, psychologists, philosophers, educators, and other influential people subtly integrate these concepts into their respective professional fields. Channeling started to become really hot around 1982-85, coinciding with the beginning of the "Shirley MacLaine era," and its exponential rise to the present day height shows no sign of let-up. If anything, it is accelerating today even faster along its ascent to fame, power, influence, and glory. Commenting on this, Christian authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon write: "Thus the stage has been set for a revival of spiritism that could dwarf earlier eras."4 In my years as a New Ager, I went to many channeling sessions, and have heard the alluring words of high cosmic wisdom of multitudes of spirits claiming to be an "Ascended Master," a spirit-God, an extraterrestrial visitor, a dolphin, the Council of Twelve, and others of this unholy host of creative demonic tricksters. On stage, the medium goes into a trance and often twitches involuntarily as the spirit takes over the body and the medium relinquishes control. In many cases, virtually a total change of posture, overall demeanor, voice tone, speech style, and general bearing occurs as the spirit's presence manifests itself through the medium's body. Often there is a perceptible tingling, buzzing, electric sensations and high-pitched ear ringing experienced by many in attendance as the spirit starts to assert its powers of subliminal persuasion and hypnotic charms. The audience is spellbound as the veil between heaven and Earth ostensibly is parted, and the gods from above are about to impart their celestial dewdrops to the elite privileged in attendance. Using an almost invariably highly dramatic, glib style, the spirit proceeds to dispense exalted proclamations and predictions, sometimes accompanied by miracles (and promises of miracles) of many bedazzling varieties. While the disguised demon is seeding an outpouring of New Age thoughts into peoples' minds, there is much more going on than meets the eye. Carl Raschke, professor of religion at the University of Denver, comments, "I'm convinced there is some kind of mass hypnosis going on."5 This is exactly the case. Through speech cadence, orchestrated body and hand movements, voice inflections, and invisible demonic powers that fill the room, the spirit weaves a hypnotic web of rainbowgilded infiltration. Not only do the participants take in false information but, more deeply, they absorb the permeating influences of the demon's formidable powers into the heart, mind, soul, and spirit. Often, a type of open-eyed trance-state overtakes the listeners with a sense of relaxation, pleasant tingling sensations, and rapt fascination with the goings-on. Acquiring Familiar Spirits Familiar spirits operate in a somewhat different manner than those involved in trance channeling, though they all work toward the same ends. While trance channeling involves the spirit fully inhabiting the medium's body while the medium is absent, familiar spirits function more like counselors or inner friends who communicate invisibly with the person during an altered state of consciousness. In this case, the person usually employs some form of step-bystep ASC induction technique to get into a deeply relaxed, receptive, (and vulnerable) state of mind. At this point, the familiar spirit is contacted, and some form of inter-communication occurs. The manner of intercommunication is as unique as the individual. But, usually there is a mental imaging (or visualization) or some other type of volitional opening of the lines of intercommunication with inner guides, who present themselves in many ways including: • A friend. • A wise one. • An inner counselor. • A spirit guide. • An inner council. • An inner healer. • A master. • The Higher Self. • An Ascended Master. • A friendly extraterrestrial. • A power animal. • A dolphin deva. • An archetype. • A council of Masters. • An angel of light. • A crystal helper. • A bodiless sphere of light. • A spark of Universal Intelligence. • And a creative array of others. The practice of engaging familiar spirits is one of the most diverse, pervasive, and influential New Age methods in use today. In terms of mainstream societal infiltration, some types of familiar spirit practices have made the deepest New Age inroads of all. Such practices have made deep advances in the areas of psychology, inner healing, success/motivation techniques, creativity enhancement methods, mind-power schools of thought, stress management, creative visualization techniques, intuition building, and others. A great degree of discernment is necessary here. Too many people acquire familiar spirits without even realizing that this is what's actually happening. Essentially, any type of method that establishes an inner helper of one sort or another, and accesses it during any type of ASC is a familiar spirit practice that should be avoided like the plague that it is. Once a spirit helper of one variety or another is acquired, the individual indeed has acquired something —a deceiving, parasitic influence. It is not uncommon for information or influences received via the inner helper actually to prove helpful in some real but relative way, as it did for me. But like a parasite that offers a few presents and promises in order to "set the hook" into the victim, the familiar spirit gives short-term rewards but long-term victimization. Mystical Out-of-Body Experiences Some of the most seductive of all Satan's wiles are in mystical outof- body experiences (OBE). Here are a few samples of such experiences: An LSD user, in the book The Varieties of Psychedelic Experiences, by R. E. L. Masters, and Jean Houston, Ph.D., relates his experience: "Although consciousness of self seemed extinguished, I knew that the boundaries of my being now had been dissolved and that all other boundaries also were dissolved. All, including what had been myself, was an ever more rapid molecular whirling that then became something else, a pure and seething energy that was the whole of Being."6 Fritjof Capra, a foremost New Age scientist, details his seminal mystical experience for writing the landmark New Age book, The Tao of Physics: "I 'saw' cascades of energy coming down from outer space, in which particles were created and destroyed in rhythmic pulses; I 'saw' the atoms of the elements and those of my body participating in this cosmic dance; I felt its rhythm and I 'heard' its sound, and at that moment I knew this was the Dance of Shiva"7 (note: Shiva is a Hindu deity of destruction and devouring). Shirley MacLaine's televised dramatization of her hot tub mystical experience relates: "My whole body seemed to float. Slowly, slowly I became the water. ... I felt the inner connection of my breathing with the pulse of the energy around me. In fact, I was the air, the water, the darkness, the walls, the bubbles, the candle, the wet rocks under the water, and even the sound of the rushing river outside."8 The high gloss and glamour of attaining these often exquisitely beautiful altered states of consciousness is like an utterly seductive forbidden fruit promising enlightenment, infinite knowledge, and ultimate fulfillment. I, myself, have explored these mystical terrains with considerable enthusiasm and vigor over my many years in the New Age Movement. Some of the most spectacular of Satan's counterfeit heavenly domains are accessed via such out-of-body experiences. A sort of high-tech gloss is painted over sheer darkness in these dazzling celestial principalities. But in fact, they are bedazzling to the point of blinding and binding the pilgrim to the underlying consuming darkness. Crystal Power: A New Age Millstone Crystals and gemstones have no power or light in and of themselves— they are neutral and inert objects. In the context of mindpower- based and other types of New Age techniques there are some types of unusual effects experienced subjectively, sometimes powerfully so. These effects scientifically are not measurable, and therefore subject to all sorts of wild metaphysical theories, speculations, and fantasies, serving only as yet another powerful New Age delusionary influence. Crystals have a long history of usage as power objects in the practices of witches, wizards, sorcerers, alchemists, shamans, and other occultic figures. When such power objects are applied in conjunction with occult practices, there is sometimes the subjective experience that the crystal is assisting in some ways in manipulating occult forces. Though it is not scientifically verifiable, this is the reason why crystals have such a long history in the occult and why so many millions of New Agers today are in such a craze about crystal power. Seeing from the eyes of a Christian now, I realize that if Jesus had wanted us to use crystals for healing or spiritual reasons, surely He would have brought up the subject clearly in His teachings. The New Testament does not show the apostle Peter, Paul, or John holding a crystal to their third eye to pray or to tune into Universal Intelligence or for any other purposes whatsoever. Crystal power applications in the New Age invariably are involved with scripturally forbidden practices, either explicitly or implicitly. This is the ultimate and irrevocable flaw. Instead of being crystals of light, they are actually yet another glossy New Age millstone. Initiations Initiations involve a ritual infusion of occult, mystical power into the recipient, who thereby receives various gifts, powers, and awakenings. Though there are innumerable varieties of initiations within the spectrum of New Age activities, all involve a direct interlinking of the individual with demonic powers and domains via the intermediary human initiator. By choosing to walk through this kind of door, the person undergoes a marriage of sorts with the principality of darkness that sponsors and controls each different type of initiation. Often, powerful experiences of apparent bliss, joy, and love accompany initiations. Profoundly altered states of consciousness and out-of-body experiences are also quite common. In addition, it is not uncommon for certain types of psychic powers, worldly good fortune, inner feelings of peace and contentment, and other apparently positive effects to be received by the initiate. For such a person, all these apparently marvelous effects tend to give confirmation that they have undergone a profound growth step toward enlightenment. I underwent several types of initiations, entering into them as enthusiastically as millions of others. Each initiation felt like a major spiritual breakthrough into new plateaus of higher consciousness and psychic powers, but I see so very clearly now that it was in reality being plugged into yet another of Satan's principalities, like an electric cord into a socket of dark power. The UFO Issue I was deeply involved in the UFO phenomenon. But because it is such a weird subject, I feel it inappropriate to comment at this point, and rather let the words of various Christian leaders and authorities speak for themselves, perhaps provoking the reader to curiosity and further thought: Brooke Alexander, president of the respected (Christian) Spiritual Counterfeits Project, commented on the "John Ankerberg Show": "A lot of the characteristics that attend UFO 'close encounters' are also highly characteristic of demonic encounters ... more than anything else, the thing that we came to understand was that these UFOs are not extraterrestrial space vehicles, but they are extra-dimensional beings."9 Dave Hunt, noted Christian author and New Age critic, reports the research of the renowned astrophysicist and computer scientist, Jacques Vallee, Ph.D., on the "John Ankerberg Show": "... a very brilliant man who has just done logical, scientific research for 20 some years on the subject. He says four things about UFOs. He says, 'Number one, they're real. ... Number two,' he says, 'They're not physical.'... 'Number three,' he says, 'They're messengers of deception' ... 'Number four. ... They are psychologically programming, setting up the human race, for some ultimate delusion that is too horrible even to imagine as yet.'"10 In Confronting the New Age, Christian author Douglas Groothuis reports, "Those supposedly contacted by the UFOs often display traits common in other kinds of occult phenomena such as a trance state, automatic writing, peering into crystals, the poltergeist effect, levitation, psychic control, psychic healing and out-of-body experiences."11 Billy Graham, in his book Angels: God's Secret Agents, comments: "Some Christian writers have speculated that UFOs could very well be a part of God's angelic host who preside over the physical affairs of universal creation. While we cannot assert such a view with certainty, many people are now seeking some type of supernatural explanation for these phenomena. Nothing can hide the fact, however, that these unexplained events are occurring with greater frequency around the entire world and in unexpected places." Zola Levitt, Jewish Christian authority, in a taped lecture, "UFOs: What on Earth is Happening?" states: "We think the UFOs represent demon activity come out in the open in the end times."12 It is most interesting that so many conservatively sided, Biblebelieving Christian authorities are willing to give serious comment on the subject of UFOs. Whitley Strieber, famous novelist, has been the subject of national exposure in his best-selling books on his UFO encounters, Communion and Transformation. With no previous involvements in any metaphysical areas, formerly a staunch secular rationalist, Strieber has gone through a radical change of beliefs and spiritual philosophy due to alleged direct encounters with extraterrestrials. He reports that the visitors "have caused me to slough off my old view of the world like the dismal skin that it was and seek a completely new vision of this magnificent, mysterious, and fiercely alive universe."13 He adds: "What ever the visitors are, I suspect they have been responsible for much paranormal phenomena, ranging from the appearance of gods, angels, fairies, ghosts, and miraculous beings to the landing of UFOs in the backyards of America. ... "It should not be forgotten that the visitors —if I am right about them — represent the most powerful of all forces acting in human culture. They may be extraterrestrials managing the evolution of the human mind."14 As with me (when a New Ager) and so many millions of New Agers, contact with forces or entities identifying themselves as extraterrestrials, Strieber has undergone a radical higher consciousness transformation that propelled him into a New Age type of philosophy. From the perspective of past, personal, first-hand involvement in the UFO phenomenon, now viewing it with the eyes of a Christian, I believe that this subject merits the most serious investigation, for it could hold a very real threat to the entire world in both expected and highly unexpected ways. From millions of New Agers' experiences, there is a profoundly potent force behind whatever the UFOs really are. That force is definitely demonic in nature and has extraordinary delusionary brainwashing effects on people. I believe that, whatever new information may be uncovered about this phenomenon in the years ahead, UFOs are messengers of deception, nothing else. Former President Ronald Reagan made an interesting comment at the 42nd General Assembly of the United Nations on September 21, 1988: "In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." Could this be a major worldwide issue of the future? We shall see. Astrology This scripturally prohibited practice of divining the influence of stars and planets (and their various interrelationships) on human affairs and terrestrial events is one of the more popular and seemingly benign phenomena. Every day, in newspapers circulated in every city, astrology holds out an open invitation to the curious, the dabblers, and the believers. Thousands of professional and semi-professional astrologers offer their services through an incredible variety of avenues, both in New Age circles and mainstream society. The temptation to dabble in astrology has been a doorway for many an unwary person leading into deeper involvement in the New Age. I have come across numerous New Agers who swear by astrology for charting out their daily lives in every detail. During "Mercury retrograde" days, for example, they anxiously would minimize their daily routines in dread of the negative, downpulling effects of the planets. From the choosing of marriage partners to the planning of business ventures to the making of major life decisions, those involved in astrology essentially become slaves, or at least servants, of the stars, the planets, and the demons behind this type of divination. Instead of being more free, those who use astrology cuff themselves with yet another shackle. Professional astrologers make sophisticated arguments for both the scientific and spiritual aspects of this discipline, and point to a host of apparent benefits and levels of accuracy. The bottom line, in response to any and all of their arguments, is that: 1) the Biblical faith of Jesus is not the chief cornerstone15 of astrology, and 2) astrology is specifically forbidden in the Bible.16 Firewalking This practice has been in existence throughout the centuries, and enjoyed a dramatic revival in the New Age during the early 1980s. The reader may be surprised to know that people actually do walk on searingly hot coals for significant periods of time, and (most) come through totally unscathed. Even National Geographic scientists have set up controlled circumstances to observe this phenomenon and, though they cannot yet agree on the scientific rationale, they have verified its factualness. As supernatural as firewalking may seem, it is yet another entrapment scheme. Firewalking seminars always have specific ways of building up an altered state of consciousness of high intensity. Whipped up into a controlled high-trance frenzy, the participants dare to do the impossible. The reluctant and even the very fearful are swept along as the mass hypnotic force generated by the whole group reaches its peak, and the demons are freed to do their work. An extreme high is commonly experienced, which is, unfortunately, a combination of adrenaline rush plus demonic intrusion. The Bible specifically prohibits "passing through the fire."17 Occult Sex Practices The allure of mystically enhanced super-sex is one of the New Age's hottest items. Under the guise of spiritual development a host of occult breathing practices, meditation techniques, kundalini awakening (serpent power), and intricate intercourse techniques are used in a wide variety of ways to generate occultic forces via sex. The experiences can induce a host of mystical and out-of-body experiences, as well as the intoxications of drinking the nectar of awakened serpent power. Past Life Regressions By inducing a deep trance state (an ASC) via meditation or hypnosis, a person searches the depths of his mind (referred to as the collective unconscious) to recall supposed past lives. From personal experience, I can report that such experiences can be quite richly detailed and vividly perceived. You actually can feel like you're in the body of some past incarnation of you, experiencing all the thoughts and sensations of that past incarnation. The environmental landscape surrounding the past you can be incredibly detailed, whether it appears as Renaissance Europe, the Christian Crusades, or even sometimes alien planets and extraterrestrial spaceships. The apparent authenticity and depth of experience can be most convincing and invigorating. It seems that entirely new vistas of the multidimensional you are there for unendingly fascinating exploration and review. I see now that such experiences are sophisticated fabrications perpetrated upon the unwary person by unclean spirits. As the individual leaves himself vulnerable during the trance-state (ASC), demons have free rein to create all kinds of fairy tales with the person experiencing it all in dramatic detail. Not only does each past life regression excursion open the person's mind to further levels of New Age brainwashing, the New Ager often comes out with severe identity problems. People actually start to believe that, for example, they are Cleopatra, Leonardo da Vinci, and John the Baptist all wrapped up in one big, multi-dimensional persona. One of the most curious facts about this popular practice is that, almost invariably, the past lives are those of: • Royalty. • High priests and priestesses. • Leading historical characters. • Famous scientists. • Super-advanced alien intelligences. • Angelic beings in human form. • Celestial super-beings. • And all manner of other exalted, glorified figures. Seldom have they been involved in normal, unremarkable past incarnations. How curious. You wouldn't believe the hyper-inflated spiritual ego-trips that come spewing out of the demonic dens marked "Past-Life Regressions: Come on in, and see the untold wonders and mysteries of you, glorious you!" Psychic Powers: Clairvoyance, Telepathy Precognition, Psychometry, Psychokinesis, Remove Viewing, and Others Waving high the banner of awaken your unlimited divine godpotential, the development of a large spectrum of psychic powers is a major New Age directive. Psychic powers are supposed to be evidence of a superior, more "god-realized" person. While some who claim to have psychic powers are victims of their own wishful thinking or are merely shams, there are surprising numbers of those who have real psychic powers. It is important not to shrug off the notion of psychic powers. The Bible is abundantly filled with references to the real powers of sorcerers, magicians, enchanters, and the like (though the almighty power of the Heavenly Father always proved superior and ultimately sovereign).18 Also, the end-times prophecies point to "counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders,"19 and "great signs and wonders"20 that clearly foretell an end-time proliferation of superhuman powers. Though much could be said on this subject, Dave Hunt provides some eye-raising observations in America: The Sorcerer's New Apprentice: "... inside informants continue to insist that the United States government is taking psychic power seriously enough to spend millions on secret research, and that the Soviets are doing likewise. ... Representative Charles Rose (D-NC), a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, calls the possibility of 'psychic war' all too real."21 And: "there are many serious researchers who are now convinced that psychic phenomena may well involve something potentially no less dangerous than atomic energy."22 I have seen and personally experienced too many demonstrations of psychic powers, many of them of the "false wonders" variety,23 to discount the distinct possibility that they are real. The growing body of scientific verification points to the fact that this subject merits serious consideration.24 Once, I was in training using numerous advanced yoga methods to prepare literally to walk on water. Believe it or not, I was serious about this, and spent hours and hours building up the yogic siddhis (powers) toward the big event. But, I sank like a rock. The other major problem is that psychic powers ultimately draw upon demonic principalities as their source of power. At no place in the Gospel does Jesus provide lessons on the development of psychic power. The power of the Holy Spirit alone, not man's, is all each of us needs. Anything beyond this not only is superfluous but also ultimately deadly. The following are definitions of some psychic powers: • Remote viewing: the ability to psychically see distant locations and occurrences. • Levitation: defying the law of gravity. • Clairvoyance: the general ability to see the future, remote happenings, "auras," ghosts, etc. • Telepathy: the ability to communicate thoughts directly from one mind to another, without need of speech. • Psychometry: the ability to take an object and psychically trace its past history, every event that has happened to it, and every person who has come into contact with it. Another type of psychometry can take a map or an object from a piece of land, and psychically "see" the geographical characteristics of the land at a distance. • Psychokinesis: mind over matter —the ability of the mind to physically influence matter. • Precognition: the ability to foresee events before they happen via psychic means. Yoga The aim of the many kinds of yoga schools of thought is for the individual to be absorbed into a state of Universal Oneness-Bliss, like a drop of water dissolving into a great cosmic sea. Individual identity is lost, as a type of self-less Nirvana is attained. Self becomes "God"—the root of New Age heresy. In order to do this, the different yoga traditions all have systematic disciplines for awakening the kundalini-serpent power that is said to reside dormantly at the base of the spine. Through long, diligent hours of emptying the mind or endlessly repeating mantras (Hindu deity-names) in meditation, a progressive evolutionary ladder is said to be climbed over thousands of reincarnations. Along the way, a spectrum of siddhis (psychic powers) are acquired that help the yogi to master space, time, and matter with powers of the mind. Extended fasting, strict vegetarian diet, Hatha Yoga, chanting, and diverse prescribed physical purification exercises (like slipping a length of cloth down the throat to the stomach, and pulling it back up again) all are combined into a highly disciplined regimen. From having delved seriously into the mysterious world of yoga myself, several observations come to mind, from a Christian perspective: 1) There are extreme dangers involved in awakening the kundalini practices. I have observed numerous New Agers experiencing the subtle and extreme casualties — mental and emotional disruptions, involuntary physical movements (from uncontrollable spasms to incessant quivering), nervous system burn-out, outrageous ego-inflations, sexual obsessions, intense delusionary states, hallucinations, and other quite undesirable side-effects. Several times through these years my mind felt like it was racing uncontrollably, like a wind-swept wildfire. Nothing could stop it, and a few times I felt like I was teetering on the brink of insanity. For several months after such an incident, I would treat certain advanced practices with extreme caution, but I didn't do the smart thing, and stop totally. 2) The extensive yogic practices easily can take the better part of a day, depending on how serious the yoga practitioner is. There is so much focus on self-development that there is little or no time spent on serving and caring for others. Yoga often leads into a selfabsorbed type of meditative narcissism. 3) Invariably, different schools of yoga have gurus positioned at the top of the hierarchical religious ladder, claiming to function as the necessary interconnection between "God" and the yoga aspirants, who must bow to the personage and will of the guru. Obviously, the guru is a type of false christ, attempting to take the place of Jesus as the only Way (Jn. 14:6). 4) Hatha Yoga—the pretzel and stretching exercises —is being offered with alarming frequency through such bedrock institutions as YMCAs, colleges, continuing education college classes, high school phys-ed classes, and in other areas of society. Often it is thought that Hatha Yoga is benign and somehow disassociated from the rest of the total Yoga system. This is a potentially dangerous fallacy, for Hatha Yoga is part and parcel of the whole of yoga, with many of the same dangers. In addition, Hatha Yoga also functions as a door through which the curious sometimes walk to explore the other aspects of the New Age. Create Your Own Reality: The "Health, Wealth, and Godhood" Doctrine One of the loudest trumpet calls in the New Age Movement is CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY. The myriad variations on this trumpeting theme include: • Vision your life perfect. • You are god and can create all things. • By my power, all things are created by me. • Write your own ticket with God. • Mind power creates all success. • By my faith and power, I create all things. • Thought power controls all reality. • My powers of godhood manipulate all universal energies. • Psychic powers are man's divine heritage. • And my thoughts and words are binding on the powers of the cosmos. The New Age teaches faith in man. Jesus teaches faith in Him. The New Age teaches power to man. The Bible teaches the almighty power of the Most High. The New Age teaches "I am in control." The Holy Bible teaches "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me" (Phil. 4:13). Power-by-me vs. power-by-the-Lord is a fundamental dividing line between the New Age and Christianity. The New Age uses decrees, creative visualizations, mantras, repeated affirmations, and occult invocations to create its own reality. New Age man steps on the pedestal of "godhood" and seeks to command the universe according to his beck and call. Jesus says: "Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted" (Matt. 23:12). Pantheistic Worship Practices In a neo-paganistic revival, New Agers bow to the god they think is contained in every aspect of creation. Stars are god, trees are god, planet Earth is god, dolphins are god, everything is god. They worship creation rather than the Transcendent Creator. This fundamental flaw leads to countless pantheistic errors. For example, sun worship and nature worship practices are rampant. All kinds of ceremonies and rituals are performed for invoking the spirits of trees, animals, birds, plants, lakes, rivers, mother earth, whales, and the like for purposes of healing, consciousness expan116 sion, and communion and co-participation with the powers of the universe. Pantheism makes an idol out of creation and its various parts and is a direct violation of the second commandment. Divination Practices Examples of some divination practices include: • Tarot cards (a set of occult symbolic cards). • I Ching (an ancient Chinese "Book of Changes"). • Rune stones (an ancient Nordic technique using stones with hieroglyphics inscribed on them). • Palmistry (divining personal knowledge from the palm). • Dowsing (using pendulums, wands, angle rods, etc.). • "Star + Gate" (a new New Age divination "game"). • "The way of Cartouche" (an Egyptian divination tradition). • Astrology (already discussed before). • Reading tea leaves (attempting to divine meaning from patterns of remnant tea leaves). • Ouija boards (see below). Sometimes such divination techniques can appear to be accurate, but any such relative effectiveness ultimately is flawed. By using a Biblically prohibited practice the person opens up subtle or overt demonic doorways. One of the main dangers of such practices is that the more a person uses them, the more deeply involved he becomes. In my personal experiences with I Ching and using pendulums to divine questions about the status of my life and for making lifedecisions, I found a momentum was evoked that made me want to use the techniques more and more often. In the beginning, I used the practices sparingly and only for important issues. Later on, I found myself using them with increasing frequency for smaller and smaller issues. A growing dependence on them arose before I realized what was happening. At times I would feel compelled to consult these divination methods 20-30 times every day, sometimes for the most minute decisions. After a time, I simply quit the practice because of the obvious dependence. Divination may took harmless to some, but it most certainly acts as a subtle snare to further involvements in occult dependencies. Aura Readings Some New Agers claim to have clairvoyant super-sight that allows them to view rainbow colors that are said to radiate around each individual. Different color-patterns and levels of brightness and dimness are said to indicate facts about the person on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. Ouija Boards This occult tool is likely one of the most dabbled-with of all. Looking to be fun, different, an interesting experience, just something to do, a mysterious adventure, and so many others reasons, people, young and old, have played with this seemingly innocent game. To many a person's great surprise, some invisible force actually will start to move the ouija indicator with a volition of its own. The very act of choosing to use the ouija board and the utilizing of the board opens a potential demonic "window" into the situation. Though this does not happen every time, this game is no game at all; it is really a matter of playing with occult fire. This is a potent technique for demonic familiar spirits to entice the curious, ensnare the dabbler, and possess the habitual user. Automatic Writing This is another form of channeling in which the medium goes into a light-to-deep trance and allows a spirit to take over the arms and hands only in order to write down information. Innumerable volumes of New Age books have been written in this way, with the medium sometimes being totally unknowledgable in the subject matter. Ruth Montgomery, formerly a highly influential Washington syndicated columnist, quit her prestigious job when a council of spirits started to write voluminously via automatic writing through her. She has written numerous landmark books in this way, and is known to many as "The Herald of the New Age." Talismans/Amulets Talismans are believed to be power objects that attract and emit different kinds of occult energy. When applied directly in an occultbased ritual or related New Age activities, there is sometimes the subjective experience of these occult tools acting to help manipulate the cosmic forces. Orthodox science finds no hard evidence to confirm or verify such observations or claims. On the other hand, centuries of occultists—including alchemists, wizards, witches, sorcerers, shamans, and medicine men—consistently have used occult tools as an integral part of their tools of the trade. Examples of talismans and amulets include: • Ankhs (an ancient Egyptian occult symbol). • Scarabs (beetle figures —another Egyptian symbol). • Crystal skulls (a figure of a human skull carved out of quartz crystal or other precious stone). • Crystal wands (for "energy focusing and amplification"). • Kachina dolls (American Indian idols). • Fetishes (feathers, crystals, special dried plants, and other items tied together in a bundle). • Medicine pouches (a collection of different talismans, supposed to be the wearer's power focus). Talismans fall under the same category as crystals —they are inert objects but, when combined with occult practices, they apparently can be instrumental in producing various subjectively experienced, but unmeasureable, effects. The Dolphin Movement The New Age really has gone ga-ga on this one. Quite popular is the belief that dolphins are repositories of virtual libraries of information from super-advanced ancient civilizations (like Atlantis), and can communicate this knowledge telepathically to those tuned in on the New Age wavelength. Another well-liked view is that dolphins are also beacons of contact with UFO intelligences and can relay intergalactic communications through to their New Age friends. Some even believe that dolphins are a superior life-form to humans. On one occasion I was teaching a seminar at an upscale hotel in Los Angeles. Coming back from a break I heard an incredibly piercing series of high-pitched noises that sounded like someone was being choked to death, or at least two cats having quite a battle. When I realized that this was coming from my conference room, I flipped. There was a growing crowd of businessmen from another conference room gathering around the door, peering in. I ran in, expecting to see the room in shambles and somebody seriously hurt. Instead it turned out to be a New Ager's exceptionally loud, off-key imitation of a dolphin. (She thought she was a dolphin in a previous life and practices her dolphin cries for a couple of hours every day.) Life in the New Age was not dull. "Dreamwork" Here's an ad which appears for "Creative Dreaming": "Plan dreams in advance, control them while they are happening, recall them with startling clarity after awakening and banish nightmares forever!" Dreamwork is an enduring area of New Age interest and over a thousand books on the subject teach how to develop a type of psychic power over dreams and how to contact higher dimensions and spirit-beings while asleep. This area is actually a type of occult meditation transferred over into the sleep state. I used some of these techniques and found them leading to experiences very similar to out-of-body experiences and occult meditational experiences. Occult Breathing Exercises There are any number of ways to perform special breathing exercises to induce altered states of consciousness. In yoga, this is called pranayama—carefully controlled breathing cycles used to regulate consciousness. Some of these exercises are done very slowly over 15-30 minutes and calm the mind into a state of meditative emptiness. Some other varieties involve a dramatic display of huffing and puffing to awaken the kundalini-serpent power. Recently Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., one authority, developed a state-of-the-art holotropic breathing technique which is designed to induce psychedelic experiences without the use of psychedelics. Whatever the technique, such breathing exercises are just another line dangling tempting bait to the unwary as well as the seasoned New Age veteran. Psychic Readings If people want to waste their hard-earned money and also clog their minds with all sorts of ego-tempting clutter, psychic readings are just the thing. The domain of shams, clever people-readers, halfbaked psychic abilities, full-blown psychic powers, as well as potent demonizers, psychic readings and fortune telling are a highly popular hotbed of demons' dens. For the curiosity seekers who are looking for a relaxing afternoon's recreational diversion or just something new to explore, entry into these dens costs not only money but also a price exacted at Satan's toll booth. For veteran New Agers these psychic three-ring circuses are yet another playground in which to romp and gleefully absorb layer after layer of psychic drivel and gilded rainbow follies. Other names by which psychic readings present themselves include: • Life Readings. • Reading the Akaschic Records of Your Life. • Whole Person Insights. • Identity Readings. • Intuitive Personality Profiles. • Shamanic Counseling. • Transpersonal Counseling. • And Readings for Life Success. Conclusion After my extensive excursions through many Biblically forbidden New Age doors in pursuit of truth and fulfillment, I came up empty. The rainbows of light crumbled into dust, leaving only the face of consuming darkness, which was there all along but was cunningly hidden. Would that I had obeyed my Heavenly Father's commands instead of following my own well-rationalized desires — the lesson I learned is that simple. Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Psalm 51:17 on March 04, 2012, 08:28:02 am I remember hearing his testimony 2 years ago on youtube - thanks! Will bookmark this for later reading!
Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Mark on March 04, 2012, 09:24:58 am I remember hearing his testimony 2 years ago on youtube - thanks! Will bookmark this for later reading! Randall N Baer – Inside the New Age Nightmare 1 – 10 Randall Baer, a former naturopathic doctor, was an internationally known authority in the area of crystals, sacred sciences and spiritual teachings. Formally a co-director of the Starcrest Academy of Interdimensional Law and Science in Northern New Mexico. The week he published his book “Inside the New Age Nightmare” Randall met a puzzling and untimely death. Upon completing a lecture tour in New Mexico on the topic of the New Age movement , his car ran off a mountain pass. The price many of us pay to expose the truth. HAS ALL 10 PARTS http://newagedeception.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/randall-n-baer-inside-the-new-age-nightmare-part-1/ Here is the testimony on Sermon Audio Author murdered!! A few days before his revealing book was ready for distribution, Randall Baer died under“very suspicious circumstances” in an automobile “accident” in Colorado. His car went over a 350ft. precipice near Del Norte,in South Central Colorado. There were no skidmarks in the vicinity. Was Baer murdered for having blown the cover off the New Age movement through his book and this audio? By the grace of Jesus he released this audio to warn christians of the many faces of the new Age Movement and how it is influencing everything, churches,Bibles,Business,schools, government,exercise,medicine and so much more, having been in the NewAge movement for 15 years and a best selling author of New Age Books, he came to the Lord Jesus, then made this audio and wrote a book exposing the New Age Movement. 5 days before the book was to be released, he was killed. But they could not stop us from getting this audio. so we share it with you. He died to get us this message, let us not let his death be in vain. http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1240616437 Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: tennis shoe on March 04, 2012, 12:35:37 pm Somewhat exhaustive list of all the lures or snares of the enemy. One thing left out though. People must fist be convinced that their lives aren’t good enough before it will work. This can be though trauma (induced by the same beings offering the solution) or through the natural thought that there has to be something more to life. (which is true) God has the solution to both dilemmas if one is willing to ask Him.
Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Mark on March 07, 2012, 07:51:47 am I personally have run across this in a LOT of new age writing. Especially in channeled UFO messages.
A Perverse "Separating the Wheat from the Chaff" In end-times terms, similar dangers potentially apply to all those who oppose the Antichrist's plans. Any philosophy that can logically justify murder, abortion, and the like, can be turned to rationalize the "cleansing" of all those who oppose it. John Ankerberg and John Weldon comment on the ultimate logical flaw and potentially serious danger of New Age philosophy in The Facts on the New Age Movement: "A thorough reading of New Age literature will show that some New Agers sanction the persecution of Christians. They do so on the basis of the need to remove those who may refuse to accept or attempt to 'prevent' a spiritual uniting of humanity. "This is one of the darker aspects to the New Age, yet it is consistent with the overall world of the NAM [New Age Movement]. If true globalism —or world unity—is eventually to be a reality, then by definition all dissenting voices must either be converted, silenced, or removed. That, of course, is the 'rub,'—the New Age of love and harmony may have to be repressive for a time to usher in their version of peace on Earth."8 There are many examples of different New Age leaders and channeled spirits pointing to this time of "purification." Here are a few quotes from noted figures to supplement the earlier quotation on the weeding out of the "fit" from the "unfit" by the TM Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Ruth Montgomery, former nationally syndicated political columnist turned leading New Age author, dubbed as being "The Herald of the New Age," has written: "We are indeed on the threshold of a New Age, which the [spirit guides] guides say will be ushered in by a shift of the Earth on its axis at the close of this century. "... The souls who helped to bring on the chaos of the present century will have passed into spirit to rethink their attitudes, and the new race will engage in peaceful pursuits and the uplifting of spirits."9 Jewish Christian leader Zola Levitt reports in his taped lecture, "UFOs: What on Earth is Happening?" that there is a popular "Berkeley Messiah" who has risen up as yet another New Age herald. This "messiah" states that he is the prime representative between Earth and "Masters" who coordinate the UFO hierarchy. The UFOs, this false messiah states, will intervene at a time of world tumult. At this point, the "Divine Plan" will be presented to the world by these intervening forces. The UFOs are to use "radiomagnetic rays" on Christians and all others who oppose the "New Order" in order to "cleanse the Earth of an element that holds back the evolutionary process for the rest of the world."10 A leading New Age channel and author, Ken Carey, in a new book released in late 1988 entitled Return of the Bird Tribes says: "The Great Day of Purification has begun, a short but essential cycle of division that will gather those who promote fear and violence and separate them from this season of the world as chaff is separated from wheat at threshing."11 David Spangler, a long-time leading New Age spokesman, channels a spirit posing as "Limitless Love and Truth," which states: "In revealing a New Age ... I can be a sword that divides and separates. You must be prepared to accept this and not resist it if such separation occurs."12 J. Randolph Price, New Age writer and primary inspirer and organizer of numerous large-scale World Peace Meditation events, asserts that those who deny "the divinity of all men" (i.e., man is a god) are of the "Antichrist." His spirit-guide, an "awakened one" called "Asher," has informed him that "Nature will soon enter her cleansing cycle" during which those of "lower vibratory rates" will be purified off the planet. In effect, following this line of reasoning, those who oppose the coming "New World Order" —remaining Christians, Jews and any others who resist —are by definition of a "lower vibratory rate," and thereby are blocking the fullness of the New Age from happening. All resisters are seen as an anchor that holds the planet down so that it is not yet of a sufficient "higher vibratory rate" for the Golden Aquarian Age to fully dawn. Therefore, all those "ignorant, evolutionarily inferior souls of a lower vibratory rate must be compassionately transferred to another world of their own choosing that fits their lower spiritual level." Furthermore, any persecution and woes experienced by "lower vibration people" also can be justified as the reaping of "bad collective karma? New Age author Moira Timms, in her book, Prophecies and Predictions, distorts the meaning of the plagues of Revelation into being "special packages of karma visited upon the obstinate that they might awaken to their wrong attitudes."13 The New Age attitude would be: "They chose to bring this on themselves. Karma is divine justice. We must not attempt to disrupt the workings of universal law. Those souls will use the situation as a positive, spiritual, learning experience. Who are we to oppose divine justice?" The blatant hatred of the ****s for the Jews is re-wrapped into a New Age version of detached, compassionate concern for spiritual laggards. New Age literature is filled with obvious and implicit targeting of specific types of people who resist the "New World Order," and uses "enlightened and compassionate" reasoning to justify the "purification" process. Using reincarnation-based logic, the "cleansing" process is said to be merely re-locating these laggard souls into other incarnations in less evolved worlds. The horrifying gas chambers of the Holocaust were a crude and obvious forerunner of a much slicker, glossier plan to round up dissidents and take them to "re-education centers of love and peace." In essence, there is a time in the New Age agenda where it is a "holy duty" to "purify all oppositional elements that are holding back the fullness of the New World Order." When enlightened philosophy can justify mass murder as a holy duty, therein lies a gruesome danger. My bone marrow chills at the thought of smiling-faced New Agers, who have succumbed to the Antichrist's "powerful delusion" lovingly embracing those whom they are rounding up to send off to the "re-education centers." "It'll be great." They will say, "You'll receive so much more love and light than you can possibly imagine. You'll find peace there, and you'll go with your own brethren to your very own 'new world."' Yes, Hitler's version of the Holocaust was a crude, barbaric, and absurd rehearsal for the slick and sophisticated plans of the Antichrist. If you would have told me this five or 10 years ago, I would have laughed uproariously. Such a notion would have seemed patently absurd. However, in view of the end-times rise of the New Age "plague of the spirit" and how it feeds into the plans of the Antichrist, New Age leaders and channeled demon-spirits are indeed laying out the basic agenda for a glowingly golden Age of Aquarius. Peace, love, and brotherhood are its mottos that cunningly conceal the devouring face of darkness that is behind it all. Sadly, the people who are swept up in the Antichrist's powerful delusion will have little to no idea of the Neo-Holocaust that they are helping to perpetrate. Just as most New Agers today would scoff at these ideas, they are blinded to the fact that Satan is the author of this movement, serving his purposes alone in preparing the way for the False Messiah. Douglas Groothuis, in Confronting the New Age: How to Resist a Growing Religious Movement, concludes on this subject: "... the mixing of messianic and millennial enthusiasm, apocalyptic expectation, ethical relativism and occult intrigue makes for a very combustible compound. There is every possibility that if the people of God do not rise up in the Spirit's power ... it will assume an increasingly potent and sinister form marked by hostility toward its opponents."14 Dave Hunt, posing the question, "Are We in Any Real Danger?" writes: "Something of great significance is occurring, and it must be taken seriously. The last revival of occultism played into Adolf Hitler's hands, and the eventual victims numbered in the millions. One can only wonder where the current and far more pervasive renaissance of such occultism will lead."13 Joseph Carr, who investigates the occult basis of the **** regime in The Twisted Cross, notes parallels between New Age philosophy and **** National Socialism: "One cannot argue against the claim that the **** worldview and major elements of the New Age Movement worldview are identical. They should be, after all, for they both grew out of the same occultic root: theosophy. Their respective cosmogony, cosmology, and philosophies are identical."16 Further, he states that the New Age is "an Antichrist movement that could easily spawn another Adolf Hitler — and a holocaust that makes the killing of the Jews during World War II look like a minor action."17 Finally, in the classic book, The Occult and the Third Reich, a due forewarning is given: "Those who induced Germany to embrace the swastika are not dead. They are still among us, just as they have been in every era, and doubtless will continue to be until the Apocalypse. National Socialism was for them but a means, and Hitler was but an instrument. The undertaking failed. What they are now trying to do is revive the myth using other means."18 Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Psalm 51:17 on March 07, 2012, 08:42:37 am I've only read 20 or so pages of Baer's book online, but it is a FASCINATING read, thus far, nonetheless. Pretty much everywhere he went to get "New Age enlightenment", short-term it would be great, but long-term it would wear out, and he would hop onto another bandwagon.
Will give my thoughts later when I finish the book, but yeah, it's important that we be wise as serpents and know our enemies - something the modern-day church refuses to do. Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Mark on March 07, 2012, 08:58:05 am it's important that we be wise as serpents and know our enemies - something the modern-day church refuses to do. and on that note I will post the Appedix. I think this was one of the major factors that he was killed, as the New-Age tends to guard this info above all else. Constance Cumbey also hints at this in her books. So here is the appedix's, loaded with just the code words and organizations and how to spot new-age stuff people and places. Appedix A: Practices and Techniques Advertised of Listed in New Age-Based Magazines, Books, and Newsletters 3HO Superhealth; Acu-massage; Acupressure; Africa Training; Alexander Technique; Alexander Training; Aroma Therapy; Aura Readings; Ayurveda Kinesiology; Ayurveda: The Yoga of Medicine; Beijing T'ai Chi Gong Breathing Exercises; Bioenergetics; Body Electronics Acupressure; Bodymind Acupressure; Bodynamic Psychotherapy; Brain Gym Edu-Kinesthetics; Breath Therapy; Breathwork; Chakra Harmonization; Chakra Balancing; Color Healing; Crystal Healing; Depth Psychology; Dianetics; Domain Shift; Dream Therapy; Electro-Therapy & the Evolving Soul; Emotional Clearing; Ericksonian Hypnosis; Feldenkrais Method; Flower Essences; Food Additives to Enhance Psychic Abilities; Gem Tinctures; Gestalt; Harner Method Shamanic Counseling; Healing Stones; Healing at a Distance; Hellerwork; Hemispheric Synchronization; Herbal Essences; Hoffman Quadrinity Process; Holonomic Touchwork; Holonomic Movement Awareness; Homeopathy; Intuitive Massage; Jin Shin Do Acupressure; Johrei; Laying on of Stones; Lomi Bodywork; Looyen Work; Macrobiotics; Mentastics; Mind-Body Medicine; Movement Psychotherapy; Naturo-Vet Services; Neo- Rechian Massage; NLP —Neuro-Linguistic Programming; O Sensei Training; Open Heart Therapy; Ortho-Bionomy; Past Life Regression; Past Life Therapy; Polarity Therapy; Primal Therapy; Psychic Surgery; Psycho-Psi Dynamics; Psycho-Synthesis; Psychospiritual Integration; Quan Yin Acupuncture; Radiance Technique; Rajneesh Rebalancing; Rayid Iris Interpretation; Rebirth Yourself; Rebirthing; Rechian Therapy; Reflexology; Reiki; Relaxation Therapy; Rolling; Rosen Method Bodywork & Psychotherapy; Self- Imagery; Self-Improvement Counseling Classes; Sending Energy at a Distance; Senoi Dream Education; Shen: Physio-emotional Release Therapy; Shiatsu; Soma Neuro-muscular Integration; Spinning: Energetic Repatterning; Strategic Hypnotherapy; Subliminal Programming; Swedish-Esalen Massage; Symmetrical Movement Technique; T'ai Chi; Therapeutic Touch; Touch for Health; Traditional Acupuncture; Trager; Trance-Action; Transformational Counseling; Transpersonal Psychology; Transpersonal Hypnotherapy; Vibrational Healing Massage; Whole Brain Learning; Yoga for Health; Zen Shiatsu. Appendix B: New Age Buzzwords, Groups, and Potpourri Academies of Universal Science; Affirmations; Age of Aquarius; Agni Yoga; Aikido; Akashic Records; Alchemy; Alpha Awareness Techniques; Alpha Pacer II Brain Machine; American Indian Rituals; Amulets; Ancient Crystal Technology; Angelic Music; Anthroposophy; Ascended Masters; Astral Projection; Astrocartography; Astrology; Atlantean Healing Paddles; Atlantis; Attraction Modules; Automatic Writing; Awakening the Master Healer Within; Balancing the Male and Female Within; Bhakti Yoga; Bi-Location; Blending Yoga and Mysticism; Bodhisatva; Brain Machines; Buddhism; Celestial-Seed; Ceremonial Scepters; Channelled Music; Charms; Chi Kung: The Act of Mastering the Unseen Life Force; Clairsentience; Clairvoyance; Comics & Cartoons as Transformative Tools; Conscious Conception; Continuum Meditation; Cosmic Consciousness; Council of Twelve; Course in Miracles; Create Your Own Reality; Creative Visualization for Achieving Goals; Creative Visualization; Creative Listening; Crystal Skulls; Crystal Visioning; Crystal Dreaming; Crystal Pet Halters; Crystal Gridworks; Crystal Light- Tools; Crystal Flute; Crystal Jewelry; Da Free John —Dawn House Teachings; The Daemon Deck-meditation/therapy cards; Dance the Dance of Your Power Animal; Dances of Universal Peace; Devas; Dharma Voodoo; Divination; Divine Science; Dolphin Dream-Time Workshop; Dowsing; Dream Crystals; Dream Therapy; Dream Discovery: Diving into the Deep; Dreams and Your Personal Mythology; Druids; Dungeons and Dragons; Dzogchen Contemplation; Earth Chakra Activation Pilgrimages; Earth Initiations; Eckankar: The New Age Religion; Egyptian Sand Reading; Egyptology; Equinox Celebrations; Esalen; Esoteric Science; ESP; est; Fairies; Feminist Wicca; Finally ... A bridge between ancient and modern technology, The Findhorn; Finding Your Soul-Mate; Firewalking; Form Energy; Forum; Full Moon Rites; Gemstone Elixirs; Genesis II; Geomancy; The Gnostic View of Life; The Great Invocation; Great White Brotherhood; Handwriting Analysis; Harmonic Convergence; Hatha Yoga; Healing Wands; Healing Wands; High Tech Meditation; Higher-Self; Hinduism; How to Become an Angel; Human Potential Movement; Hypnosis; I Ching; Imaging; Incan Religion; Inner Peace Movement; Innerquest; Insight Training; Integral Yoga; Interdimensional Communication; Invocations; Iyengar Yoga; Jewelled Wand Pendants; Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Kabbalah; Kahuna; Karma of Vocation; Karma Cards; Ki; Kirlian Photography; Klark Kent Super Science; Kripalu Yoga; Kriya Yoga; Kundalini Yoga; Kundalini; Learn How to Build a Psychic Shield; Lemuria; Levitation; Life After Life; Life Purpose; Lifespring; Light Body Activation; Light Ceremonies for World Peace; Lightbased Technologies; The Lion's Path; Lost Emerald Tablets; Lucid Dreaming; Magic Mandates from the Right Side of the Brain; Magnetic Alignment of the Chakras; Mandelas; Mantras; Mayan Religion; Medicine Wheels; Mediumship; Megalearning; The Michael Group; Middle Earth; Mind Expansion Without Drugs; Money Mantras; Moon Signs; The Motherpeace Tarot Playbook; Mu; Mud-ras; Mystery Schools; Necromancy; Neo-Reichian Education; The New Sacred Psychology; New World Ascension Process; New Age Music; New Age Expos; New Age ESP Expo; Nirvana; Occult Numerology; Ooahpse Bible; Open Relationships; Oracles; Orgone Energy Accumulator Blanket; Ouija Boards; Palmistry; Pendulums; Personal and Planetary Ascension; Personal Transformation through Sound; Physics and Mysticism; Plant Spirits; The Power of the Sacred Pipe; Power Animals; Power Objects; Power Spots; Prana; Precognition; Programming Crystals; Prosperity Affirmations; Prosperity Imaging; Psychic Spoon-Bending Parties; Psychokinesis; Psychome-try; Psychotronics; Pyramid Power; Radionics; Radix; Rainbow Warriors; Raja Yoga; Right Brain, Left Brain Balancing; Runes; Sacred Scarabs; Sacred Geometry; Sacred Science; SAGE Seminars; Samadhi; Satori; Scientology; Scrying; Seances; Secret Spiritual Names; Sedona: The Psychic Vortex Experience; Self-Development Using Gemstones, Color, Sound, and Herbs; Sensory Imagery and Meditations to Heal the Mind and Body; The Seven Rays; Sexual Astrology; Shamanic Movement Exploration; Shamanism; Shamballah; Silva Mind Control; Solstice Celebrations; Sorcery; Soul-Mates; Spirit Guides; Spiritism; Spiritual Hierarchy of Light; Spontaneous Drawing; Star-Gate; Star-Seed; Sufi Dancing; Sufi; Summon Wine; Sun Signs; SuperLearning; Supersensonics; Sweat Lodge; Sweat Lodge Ceremonies; Synchronicity; Talisman; Tantric Yoga; The Tao Way to Total Sexual Fitness for Men; Tarot; Telekinesis; Temples of Light; Third Eye; Tibetan Book of the Dead; TM; Trager Mentastics; Transformational Workshops; UFO Advanced Psychic and Mental Abilities; UFO Super-Advanced Technologies; UFO "Universal Religion"; UFO "Universal Brotherhood"; UFO Crystal Technologies; UFO Intergalactic Brotherhood of Peace and Love; Ultra Meditation; Unified Energy Fields; Universal Mind; Universal Intelligence; Universarius; Vpanishads; Vedas; Vipassana Meditation; Vision Quest; Visionary Art Pictures; Vortexes; Walk-ins; The Way of Cartouche; White Crystal Medicine; White Shamanism; White Tantric Yoga; Whole Life Expos; Whole-Light Beings; Wicca; Witchcraft; World Hunger Project; World Peace Movement; Yantras; Yin-Yang; Zen. Appendix C: Some Organizations Advertised or LISTED IN NEW AGE-ORIENTED MAGAZINES AND BOOKS Acupressure Institute; Acupressure-Acupuncture Institute; Alchemical Hypnotherapy Institute; Alive and Well!: Institute of Conscious Bodywork; American Society for Psychical Research; American Association of Meta-Science; American Institute of Hypnotherapy; The American Center for the Alexander Technique, Inc.; Ananda Marga; Antioch University San Francisco; Association for Humanistic Psychology; Association for Humanistic Psychology; Association for Holistic Health; Association for Research and Enlightenment; Astara; The Aston Training Center; The Body of Knowledge; The Boeing Employees Parapsychology Club; Boulder College; Cadake Industries; California Institute of Integral Studies; California School of Herbal Studies; California Institute of Integral Studies; Camp Lenox; The Center of Light; Center for Transpersonal and Expressive Arts; Center for Shamanic Studies; Center for Applied Institution; Chinook Learning Community; Chinook Learning Center; Choices; Dialogue House; Doctor Jay Scherer's Academy of Natural Healing; Dr. Edward Bach Healing Society; Esalen Institute; The Esoteric Philosophy Center; Feathered Pipe Foundation; The Female Principle; Flower Essence Society; The Focusing Institute; Foundation for Life Action; Foundation; Hakomi Therapy; Harbin Hot Springs; Heart Center; Heartsong Center for Expanded Perception; Heartwood Healing Arts Institute; The Himalayan International Institute of Yoga; Holistic Dental Association; Hollyhock Farm; Infinity International School of Hypnotherapy; Institute for Biogenetics and Gestalt; Institute for Evolutionary Research; Institute for Transpersonal Psychology; Institute of Noetic Sciences; Integral Yoga Institute; Interdimensional Sciences; Interface; International Rolf Institute; International Foundation for Homeopathy; International Association of Holistic-Health Practitioners; International Association for Psychotronic Research; International Kirlian Research Association; International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association; John Bastyr College; John F. Kennedy University; John-David Learning Institute; Joy Lake Mountain Seminar Center; Ken Keyes Center; Kushi Institute; The Kushi Foundation; Lesley College Graduate School; Life Integration Trainings; Life Sciences Counseling Services; The Light Ages Foundation; The Lomi School, Macrobiotic Learning Center; Lorian Association; The Lucis Trust; Maharishi Ayurveda Association of America; Melia Foundation; Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences; Mount Madonna Center; The Naropa Institute; National Center for Homeopathy; The New Mexico Academy of Massage and Advanced Healing Arts; New York School of Astrology; New England Sound Healers; New York Open Center; New Life Health Center; New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics; Nyingma Institute; Oasis Center; Oasis Center for Human Potential; Omega Institute for Holistic Studies; Omega Institute for Holistic Studies; The Option Institute; Parapsychological Services Institute; Piedmont Yoga Center; Polarity Therapy Center of San Francisco; Potomac MyoTherapy Institute; PSI Research; The Radionic Association; Rocky Mountain Dharma Center; Rocky Mountain Peace Center; Rosicrucian Order, AMORC; Rowe Conference Center; The Rudolf Steiner Institute; Rudolf Steiner College; The Sedona Institute; The Self Center; Self Realization Fellowship; Shakti Center; Sirius Community; Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm; Sivanda Yoga Vendanta Center; The Society of Metaphysicians; Southwestern College of Life Sciences; Spiritual Emergence Network; Spiritual Emergence Network; Sri Chinmoy Center; Strong, Stretched, and Centered, Taoist Esoteric Yoga Center and Sufi Order; Theosophical Society in America; Three Mountain Foundation; Touch for Health Foundation; Traditional Acupuncture Foundation; The Trager Institute; Transcendental Meditation; Transformation Arts Institute; Vega Study Center; Vipassana Meditation Center; Wainwright House; White Lotus Foundation; Windstar Foundation; Wise Woman Center; World College West; World Peace University. Appendix D: Some New Age-Oriented Journals, Magazines, Resources and Newsletters Balance Magazine; Beyond Avalon; Body, Mind and Spirit Magazine; Brain/Mind Bulletin Newsletter; Common Ground; Common Boundary Between Spirituality & Psychotherapy; Earth Star/New England; East West Journal; The Essential Whole Earth Catalog; Fate Magazine; Free Spirit; Harmonist Magazine; Holistic Health; Life Times; The Light Connection; The Loving Brotherhood Newsletter; Magical Blend; Meditation Magazine; The Monk; National New Age Yellow Pages; The New Times; New Age Exchange; New Dimensions Radio Network; New Frontier Magazine; New Frontiers Newsletter; New Age Journal; New Realities; Orange County Resources; Reflections; Whole Again Resource Guide; Whole Life Magazine; Whole Life Monthly; Yoga Journal. Appedix E: Names of Some of the More POPULAR SPIRITS BEING CHANNELED Adept; Alexander; Alien Soul; Ascended Masters; Ashtar Command; Basher; Celestial Seed; Crystal Woman; Divine Flame Holder; Divine Counterpart; Djwhal Khul; Dr. Peebles; El Morya; Eleutheria; Emmanuel; Enchantment; Enlightened Master; Etherion; Fortuneteller; Global Dreamer; Goddess; Guru; Healer; High Priest; Hilarion; Holy One; Initiate; Jaguar Woman; Jason; "Jesus"; John; Jonah; Konar; Kristos; Kuthumi; Lanto; Lazaris; Light Worker; Lilly; Maat; Mafu; Magician; Maitreya; Master R; Master; Medicine Woman; Medicine Man; Medicine Man Sorcerer; Mentor; Mystic; Mystical Traveler; Old Chinese; Oracle; Orion; Power Woman; Prophet; Quan Yin; Ra; Ramtha; Saint; Sananda; Savant; Seer; Seth; Shaman; Shepherd; Soli; Soothsayer; Soul Projection; St. Germain; Star Seed Rainbow Warrior; Sunat Kumara; The Michael Entity; Visionary; Warlock; White Eagle; Witch Doctor; Witch; Wizard; Xax; Zosh. Appendix F: Examples of Some Titles of New Age Workshops 33 Steps Beyond the Earth Plane; A Transpersonal Dream Healing Ceremony; Activating Your Place in God's Plan for Earth; Acupressure for Pregnancy; Akashic Records and Reincarnation; Alchemy of Success; and Science; "Angels and Archetypes"; Astral Projection to the Moon, the Other Planets, and Beyond; Awakening the Heart: Relationship as a Transformative Journey; Balancing the Global Energy Network; Change Your Life with Science of Mind; Conscious Evolution and Transforming Personal Rules; Creative Imagination with Colors; Death, Dying, and Transcendence; Developing a Prosperity Consciousness and Learning to Receive; Dialogue with Infinity; Earth Ascending: Preparation for Planetary Empowerment; The Egyptian Mysteries; Emotions and Money; ESP: Extended Sensory Perception is a Natural Function for Everyone; Finding an Authentic Feminine Spirituality; Getting Used to the Idea of Being God; Goddesses is Every Woman; The Harmonics of Health and Wholeness; Healing Our Relationships Through a "Course in Miracles": Crystal Healing with Breath Using Ancient Egyptian Techniques; Herbs: Sacraments for Spiritual Growth and Healing; Hermetic Wisdom: Qabalistic Path to Wholeness; Holistic Dentistry; Hot Tub Workshop; How to Become an Angel; How to Attract Money; Intuitive Development ... Keys to Inner Self; The Inward Arc: Developing Intuition for Healing and Wholeness; The Joy is in the Journey Through Hatha Yoga ... Body, Mind, and Spirit; Learn How to Slow the Aging Process and be Forever Young with Magician, Shaman, Priest, and Priestess: A Look at Esoteric Art Making Love Work: A Personal Growth Seminar; Medicine; Multi-dimensional Energy Transference; Multidimensional Art; Opening the Creative Flow; Overcoming Situations of Love, Sex, Rejection, and Jealousy via Precision Psychodrama; The Path to Mastership; The Path of Power; Peruvian Whistling Vessels; Planetary Herbology: A Training in Clinical Chinese-Western Power Primal Fusion Music; Psychic Aura-Clearing; Relationship Discoveries; Rod Workshop; Sacred Healing Temples of the Past, Present, and Future; The Sacred Science of Chakra Balancing and Activation; Secrets of Esoteric Sexuality; Self-hypnosis; Shamanic Healing: Journeying and the Dreamtime Experience; Taoist Internal Alchemical Yoga; Theosophical Attitude to Non-violence; Thoughtform Technology; Touch for Health Therapy; Tree of Life Study and Meditation; The Unfolding Female Master; Using Crystals as Holographic Computers; The Vision Maker's Workshop; Visualizations: A Powerful Aid to Cancer Rehabilitation; The Way of the Warrior Priest; White Tantric Yoga', Women's Mysteries: Discovering the Goddess Within; You are the Light; Your Lover is Your Healer: Tantra Yoga. Appendix G: Power Trips: Ideals and Self-Images of New Agers Adept; Alien Soul; Causal-Plane Overseer; Celestial Seed; Clairvoyant Channel; Crystal Woman; Divine Counterpart; Divine Flame Holder; Enlightened Master; Fortuneteller; Geomancer; Global Dreamer; Goddess; Guru; Healer; High Priest; Holder of the Universal Keys; Initiate; Jaguar Woman; Kahuna; Keeper of the Flame; Light Worker; Magician; Master; Medicine Woman; Medicine Man Sorcerer; Medicine Man; Mentalist; Mind-Master; Necromancer; Oracle; Power Woman; Power-Masters; Prince; Princess; Prophet; Psychic Consultant; Saint, Mystic, Holy One; Savant; Seer; Shaman; Shepherd; Soothsayer; Soul Projection; Spiritual Counselor; Star Seed Rainbow Warrior; Trance Channel; Transformational Channel; Upholders of the Light; Visionary; Warlock; Warriors; Witch; Witch Doctor; Wizard. Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Mark on March 07, 2012, 08:59:29 am p.s. I have both of Cumbeys books for those who are interested.
Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Psalm 51:17 on March 07, 2012, 09:09:55 am p.s. I have both of Cumbeys books for those who are interested. Are they in PDF formats or just regular book formats? Thank you for the Appendixes - to be frank, I generally end up avoiding appendixes in general(just a habit, that's all). Looks like this is a very important one. Also, remember this asian "missionary prophet" I talked about recently? Baer talked about how when he was in the New Age movement, he would get thrusted into seeing the "spiritual world", it's as if his mind was really in speed control. These false prophets(like the one I mentioned recently) have these "visions" of the SAME THINGS. Didn't Paul(or Peter) say that "no man hath seen God at any time"(except for the Apostles, that is)? Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: tennis shoe on March 07, 2012, 09:14:41 am Tribulation Clip: Helen Hannah's Day of Wonders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuKOROav42k&feature=related This 1999 movie inspired me and still does. Astonishingly, the term “hater”, which was rather foreign back then is now common. 9/11 hadn’t happened yet, so terrorism wasn’t a common idea. The public attitudes depicted then are manifesting now in real life. None of the actors are backed by Hollywood anymore. Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Mark on March 07, 2012, 10:20:42 am Are they in PDF formats or just regular book formats? Thank you for the Appendixes - to be frank, I generally end up avoiding appendixes in general(just a habit, that's all). Looks like this is a very important one. Also, remember this asian "missionary prophet" I talked about recently? Baer talked about how when he was in the New Age movement, he would get thrusted into seeing the "spiritual world", it's as if his mind was really in speed control. These false prophets(like the one I mentioned recently) have these "visions" of the SAME THINGS. Didn't Paul(or Peter) say that "no man hath seen God at any time"(except for the Apostles, that is)? I believe they are both PDF, if you want i can send them when i get home. Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Mark on March 07, 2012, 10:22:21 am Tribulation Clip: Helen Hannah's Day of Wonders This 1999 movie inspired me and still does. Astonishingly, the term “hater”, which was rather foreign back then is now common. 9/11 hadn’t happened yet, so terrorism wasn’t a common idea. The public attitudes depicted then are manifesting now in real life. None of the actors are backed by Hollywood anymore. I feel the same way ever since i saw that movie, i see the term HATER being applied more and more on the Christian. I have some good links just cant post right now. will update later on how this applies. Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Psalm 51:17 on March 07, 2012, 10:53:26 am I believe they are both PDF, if you want i can send them when i get home. Yes, I do. Thank you! :) Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Psalm 51:17 on March 07, 2012, 10:56:09 am I feel the same way ever since i saw that movie, i see the term HATER being applied more and more on the Christian. I have some good links just cant post right now. will update later on how this applies. The modern-day church has no idea what "hate" means anymore - if, let's say you MERELY criticize a pastor or a church leader for all the wrong he's(obviously) doing, you are just that.(ie-get these responses when I point out Rick Warren's wrong-doings almost all the time) It's as if the modern-day church has no idea what wolves in sheep's clothing are. And it's as if they wouldn't care if a convicted child molester taught at their kid's kindergarten school anymore. Title: Re: Inside the New Age Nightmare: excerpts... Post by: Psalm 51:17 on March 08, 2012, 05:33:26 pm Am only 1/3 of the way through Baer's book(Inside the New Age Nightmare), however, it is thus far a FASCINATING read. This was written in the 1980's, but I believe what he went through was going on BEFORE the 1980's - having reading it, you would have thought this was being written IN OUR PRESENT DAY! UFO's, modern pseudo-technology, and all kinds of very subtlely deceptive resources used for sorcery in alot of products. It also sounded like a wide range of businesses, institutions, and workforces are involved in the New Age as well. And the kicker about the New Age movement is some of the sectors are VERY subtle, b/c they don't make themselves look too obvious, and aren't "cults" per se! Also, while the New Age movement is first and foremost haters of Christianity, it's not like they ignore the bible completely. What they do is merely pick and choose scripture verses to their liking, and interpret them to their liking. Isn't this what modern-day Churchianity does? Sometimes I wonder if almost all of these so-called Churchianity pastors are New Agers themselves. Will give more thoughts on this when I finish it, but I HIGHLY recommend this reading if you haven't read it yet! |