By Mary Fairchild Willow Creek/Politics
Saturday Evening Post, May 4, 1968.
Millions of Beatles’ fans became convinced that transcendental meditation (TM) was an even more powerful way to alter your consciousness than drugs. “You go Beatles?” was the question of the driver for one of Life Magazine’s journalists who made the trip the same week that the Beatles planned to visit Maharishi’s ashram. “Many, many others had gone Beatles,” continued the driver on their way to Rishikesh, India. In and around Rishikesh there are hundreds of gurus. When they reached Rishikesh a motorboat was needed to cross the Ganges River. The boat was crowded with pilgrims, many asking if the journalist had “went Beatles?” Maharishi greeted them saying, “If everybody in our two countries could be persuaded to meditate, then there would be peace in the world for 1,000 generations.” One of the followers then responded with, “We’ll hit ‘em all at once, Maharishi. TV… magazines…. lectures…saturation.” Another follower, who also dominated the music scene, the Beach Boys’ Mike Love, approved by saying, “Groovy.” The holy city of Rishikesh was considered “the hub of the universe” (2, p.23-29).
During a time when patriotism had hit an all time low and young people on college campuses demonstrated their defiance and hatred toward America, Maharishi promoted his form of TM through the Beatles. Maharishi’s saturation in the United States is partly attributed to our nation’s fear of war after WWII. The Western culture was being viewed as a “destructive culture” and the holistic consciousness and culture was the way to peace as young men dodged the draft and many turned to drugs and immoral lifestyles. Rock music played an important role in their life and many musicians practiced Satan worship and followed Eastern religious cults (4, p.475-6).
This new “consciousness” is best summed up by the poet Walt Whitman whose poetry was a combination of mysticism and sexuality, a celebration of the kingdom of consciousness that can be found in the forms of spirit and matter”(8).
The first line of John Lennon’s song “I Am the Walrus” describes this belief in the unity of all things: “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” John Lennon believed that the only worthwhile revolution had to come about from spiritual change and not violence. “You say you want a revolution, well, you know, we all want to change the world. You tell me that its evolution, well you know, we all want to change the world”(14, p.5, 6).
After their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Beatles dominated the music of the 60’s and led America’s youth into Eastern mysticism. Cosmic humanism, also called the New Age Movement, is the belief that all forms of life are believed to be evolving to higher states of consciousness where there exists absolute unity. It combines humanism and Eastern mysticism as it calls all religions and creeds and people to unite in a new world order that will revive the environment and end all wars(3, p.234).
Maharishi’s meditation involves the use of a simple word or sound(a mantra) through gradually finer levels of consciousness to the level of the absolute unity. The latter level is defined as “the kingdom of heaven within” and “a state of unknowable bliss” (2, p.24).
George Harrison deliberately incorporated the chant to the Hindu god Hare Krishna simultaneously with the biblical shout of praise “Hallelujah” through his song “My Sweet Lord.” The actual Hare Krishna chant is 108 mantras in a round 16 times a day for two hours for the minimum guru requirement. This has a hypnotizing and brainwashing effect. A mantra is a word, or a phrase, or a name of a demon god that is repeated over and over again to bring a person to a certain vibration level. This vibration level will attract that which is being chanted for(10).
Maharishi spoke to his followers of a time when there would be spiritual regeneration, specifically in every major city of the world. In 1965 the movement set up a subsidiary corporation and the Student International Meditation Society in order to deal with the awakening interest on college campuses. The corporation could send money to a third subsidiary in Switzerland where it could then be sent to India. Students at U.C.L.A. and at the University of California at Berkeley, where Maharishi’s TM had a large following, had centers that resembled campaign headquarters (2, p.23-29).
By 1979 the World Congress of Hinduism stated that their main mission in the West had been a great success and that the end of Christianity has come near, and at the 1981 conference in India a spokesman confirmed that the entire mission of TM’s emergence was to counter the demon of ever spreading Christianity. Gurus are awaiting for the reincarnation of Christ’s spirit, and he is predicted to have the psychic powers to prove it (10).
Hippies addicted to drugs were turning into “pure Vaishnavas” who voluntarily became servants of Krishna and humanity according to A.C. Bhakti Vedanta Swami Prabhupada in his 1975 book “Srimad Bhagavatam” which claims to be “a cultural presentation for the re-spiritualization of the entire human society,” or “spiritual Communism.” “If a person unaware of the effective potency of a certain medicine takes that medicine…it will act even without his knowledge because its potency does not depend on the patient’s understanding… Similarly, even though one does not know the value of chanting….if one chants…the chanting will be very effective” (6, p. 110).
Charles Manson’s Communal Living
Charles Manson believed that the Bible predicted the Beatles. He was able to redefine reality through drugs and was able to produce a hypnotic kind of state among his family. His communal life was very spiritual. They believed in magic, astrology, and cosmic consciousness was what explained everything. Together the family prophesied that one day they would go into Los Angeles to set off the apocalypse of chapter nine in the Book of Revelation. He believed that if you have god on your side anything is justified. After leaving prison for theft in 1967 he began controlling the drug-addicted kids who came to escape a cynical society at San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury area.
His familiar philosophy was: “Everything in the world belonged to all its people—thus there could be no theft; all humans were part of some homogeneous and mystic whole—thus there could be no real death.” His sex-and-drug devoted commune ‘family’ was responsible for as many as 20 killings under his almost mystical rule. Manson used flattery, fear, and sexual attention to lure young girls into his group much like a pimp. He was able to manipulate his new converts through their weaknesses, their fragmentary sense of religion, and their interest in drugs. He was known to take in young girls with a certain middle-class morality and see to it that it was torn down. He did this with sex. Girls were expected to have sex anywhere at anytime with anyone or she would be made to feel guilty. This had a way of eliminating the controls that normally govern our lives (7, p.22-24).
Sexy Sadie What Have You Done?
Beatles John and Paul wrote “Mother Nature’s Son” in India after listening to a lecture on the unity of man and nature given by the Maharishi. It is considered part of what made “The White Album” most interesting due to its “mood swings.” In the end, although “many, many had gone the Beatles’ route,” the Beatles ended all relations with the Maharishi when they discovered that he had tried to “forcefully seek unity with visiting American actress Mia Farrow while they were there for a retreat. Upon hearing of the attempted rape, the Beatles immediately left the retreat. Maharishi asked them why they would leave and Lennon’s reply was, “If you are so cosmic, you’ll know why.” The song “Sexy Sadie” describes Lennon’s total dissatisfaction with the Maharishi in the end and “Sexy Sadie” is actually the Maharishi in this song:
“Sexy Sadie what have you done, you made a fool of everyone. You made a fool of everyone, sexy Sadie, ooh, what have you done? Sexy Sadie you broke the rules; you laid it down for all to see. One sunny day the world was waiting for a lover. She came along to turn on everyone, sexy Sadie, the greatest of them all. Sexy Sadie, how did you know, the world was waiting just for you. The world was waiting just for you, sexy Sadie, ooh, how did you know? Sexy Sadie, you’ll get yours yet, however big you think you are. However big you think you are, sexy Sadie, ooh, you’ll get yours yet. We gave her everything we owned, just to sit at her table; just a smile would lighten everything. Sexy Sadie she’s the latest and the greatest of them all, ha, she made a fool of everyone, sexy Sadie. Ha, however big you think you are, Sexy Sadie”(14, p.2-4).
By the end of the 60s this social/sexual revolution had witnessed the occurrence of murder, rape, drugs, and violence in public schools. By the 1990s 20-27 million Americans who attended high school were functionally illiterate and many musicians practiced Satan worship and followed Eastern religious cults.
For twenty years Beach Boy’s Brian Wilson claims that he has heard voices in his head say “I’m gonna kill you.” He shared his torment on a weekly Hollywood entertainment show fall of 2004. He attributes his condition to the stress of his business and the fact that he had been using LSD, marijuana, and amphetamines. Aside from severe paranoia, the musician frequently “heard voices” that threatened with “shut up,” and “you’re not going to live more than two months.”
Evolution Revolution
We share a common master, Gaia, and we are not to dominate nature but become co creators with nature in a life sustaining way. Breathing techniques, biofeedback, and meditation will allow our organism to be “released.”
“Our revolution is not just for us, but for our children, for the generations of living being to come,” claims Rosemary Radford Ruether, a professor of theology and author of “Gaia & God.” She concludes that spirituality and corporate liturgies will symbolize and express our “altered consciousness” and that this can be brought through the streets in protest marches and demonstrations. Not only does she promote “public liturgies” that can be sought through the arts of music and dance as a model of “transformed consciousness,” but that we have to “think globally because we are all interdependent.” She refers to international organizations like the UN that can link us up with movements that will have political forums (19, p. 86-87, 270).
Hinduism was promoted as self-improvement, self-hypnosis, visualization, and mind dynamics blended with psychology. Maharishi’s “sidhi yoga” is used to develop psychic powers such as levitation. Breathing exercises teach you to absorb karma, the energy life force in the cosmos, and to channel it into the psychic channels (chakras) awakening the kundalini force to bring out psychic powers which are a prevalent part of yoga(10).
Ancient religious philosophies equated the electrical energy that is at work in our bodies as “energy with God.” The ancient mystery religions, through which knowledge was passed by initiation, held a satanically inspired view of life. Their technology was a result of inspiration by demons, and resulted in medical practices steeped in sorcery and witchcraft.
Eastern medicine (shamanism) utilizes herbs, exercise, and guidance from spirit forces through meditation. Acupuncturists usually adhere to Taoist philosophy which includes eastern metaphysical meditation techniques and yoga-like exercises. These open the patient’s mind to receive from the spirit realm. All acupuncturists have learned their art by submitting to eastern religious thought(27).
Winner of the “Omplace Conscious Living Award,” “Innertalk” offers products and services to assist in facilitating self-actualization. The mind is our ultimate frontier and experts say we have only been using 10% of our brain’s potential. “Our mind can actually control things formerly thought to be a matter of DNA. Health, relationships, business, school, etc., are but elements in the path we take. We can bring these elements into a unified place of harmony and wholeness”(17).
Psychic Edgar Cayce writes, “….changes are coming,…an evolution, or revolution, in the ideas of religious thought…Each spirit, each manifestation of Life is One, and a manifestation either in this, that or the other sphere…or space of development towards the knowledge, …the conception of the One—Him—I am Jehovah—Yah—All One! In conclusion, in the manifestation of all force, power, motion, vibration, ….is in its essence of the One Force” (9, p. VIII, 24).
The United Nations Promotes Eastern Mysticm
America joined the UN just after WWII where she surrendered her national sovereignty to international control. On December 5, 1980, the United Nations General Assembly formulated the Global Education Project. Based on UN assistant secretary-general Robert Muller’s World Core Curriculum, a model for global education for every nation was set up in Costa Rica called the University for Peace. Stressing “thinking skills” rather than academics, it is designed to instill non-competitive group consciousness, critical thinking, and global citizenship.
Muller is an evolutionist who believes man is about to take a quantum leap toward becoming a new species. He believes that the earth is going to be transformed into “the planet of God.” To him “God” is the “planetary age” or the “age of Aquarius.” He agrees with the Hindus in calling the earth God. This is the foundation of our radical environmentalists today. They are striving for a spiritual at-one-ment with nature—a unified world system where the individual is subordinated into the whole. Under the United Nations, education will lead the way to this realization (18, p. 8-10).
This World Core Curriculum promotes Eastern meditation techniques, including “guided fantasies into space,” which is also called “out-of-body travel” or “astral projection.” Muller’s concepts are actually taken from occultist Alice Bailey’s writings which were channeled the spirit guide Djwhal Kuhl, also known as the Tibetan. These channeled spirit guides are from an alleged group of evolutionary beings who have attained a high degree of evolutionary perfection which released them from bondage to the material world. This holistic view of life views the planet as interconnected, with no life form having any greater standing than any other life form. Imperfect while we are still man, our next stage is said to take us to a level that is psychologically, spiritually, and physically superior where we will be a true “planetary citizen” (18, p. 9-10).
Music To Create Psychological Movement Inward
Transcendental innerspace music attempts to convey the listener inward and upward to higher planes of consciousness, and is often ascending or descending tonal movements are common characteristics of this subcategory. The trend of cross-cultural fusions welcomes the opportunity for the audience to extend their psychological experience beyond western cultural paradigms and immerse themselves in the musical ideas and emotions of the other worlds(16).
British composer John Tavener feels as though he is “out on a limb,” not unlike actress Shirley McClaine, because we are living in an age that does not believe that sound is capable of putting us in touch with higher levels of reality. He feels that music has a messianic role and has to do with religious uniting. In a recent work he explained that he was creating a lyrical icon in sound. He has tried to “capture some of the power of the mother of God….The world is in an appalling state…. Perhaps it can be the artist who can bring about, from the inside, some kind of healing of the world… No religious tradition can remain exclusive anymore… It is pure nonsense to say that there is no salvation outside of Christ. I have no patience with that. Beyond the different forms, it’s the same God and the same Creation.” He cites as one of his inspirations St. Chankara—famous for practicing Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam all at the same time—and expresses a hope that music can bridge the differences among cultures and faiths.” British composer John Tavener(23).
Mystery, Darkness, Walking on Water… Hearing Voices
Peter Jones’ biography includes “I was born in Liverpool, England, where I would buy fish and chips on Penny Lane with John Lennon, a high school friend with whom I shared a desk for five years. Not that we did much at those desks! ….We played music together at school, but I never became a Beatle, because my Christian parents wouldn’t allow me to go to clubs…. In 1989…I decided to accept an invitation to teach at Westminster Theological Seminary in California. But America was not the same country I had first seen in 1964 (when the Beatles landed on the US shores). The culture shock…led me to write ‘Gnostic Empire Strikes Back’(1992)…. A new spirituality had taken over America…. Rebecca (as she has always done) willingly shares her energies to help me accomplish my kingdom plans (Notice “my” kingdom plans, not the Lord’s). She is an instructor for Graduate Writing Skills and is also on the board of directors for “The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood” which claims to be helping the church deal biblically with gender issues” (22).
In the article, “Lord, If it’s You…When Your Teen Walks on Water,” Rebecca Jones, of her husband’s apologetics ministry’s web site “Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet” writes, “Mom’s let your teens read your diaries” as she exposes, “Surprise, surprise, …next he (her husband Peter Jones) describes his angst at becoming bald and mentions the particularly attractive outfit his girlfriend wore that weekend!”
Rebecca also chooses to focus on “mystery” as she claims that there is something “mysterious” in the apostle Peter’s fear to walk on the water. Then she continues to claim that teen’s will reach a moment when they need to discover if Jesus Christ is real too, “…they need to discover it by stepping out into the darkness and onto the water. This is a terribly dangerous moment. The darkness makes both those in the boat and the one stepping out unable to see Christ clearly. But the real danger is the fear itself.” But this is not true for believers, everything from the Lord is sweet. In her closing paragraph she concludes “…only as we listen to Christ’s voice, “fear not!”….we will then be able to turn our children’s gaze away from the waters… and say to them, ‘Keep looking at Jesus’…. Look up from the dark waters to the One who loves you far more than I ever can…. some can’t see their Savior waiting, since the mists have settled in and they are temporarily blinded….. they seem enamored with their own reflection….children have a great deal of confidence in our opinions…let them see the sinful struggles of your heart right now….. confide in them the struggle you have… or the time you were tempted to leave your marriage for another woman… Don’t tell them all the doctrinal things all over again at this moment.”
Ex-pastor of Willow Creek, John Ortberg wrote “You Can’t Walk on Water Until You Get out of the Boat,” and New Age author, Madeleine L’Engle, wrote “Walking on Water.”
New Age Alice Bailey who was channeled by the demon/ spirit guide Djwhal Khul writes, in “Discipleship in the New Age I – The Six Stages of Discipleship – Part V, “……certain developments take place which enable him to see the vision more clearly and to know what he must do. The aspirant makes a transition in consciousness from the astral plane to the mental…..The aspirant becomes aware of glamour as something from which he must eventually free himself and aid in freeing the world. These …. stages have been dealt with in a “Book of Rules For Disciples”…. “The one upon the Way leaps forward, leaving the world of fluid life…. He walks upon the water and is not submerged therein… “The one upon the way gazes around and sees life through a haze. The fogs and mists glamour rest upon the valleys and the hills of life and these he must dispel….”(21).
“New Age Dominican priest Matthew Fox calls Eckhart his favorite mystic and claims to actually communicate with this dead monk. Fox wrote a book called ‘Meditations with Meister Eckhart: A Centering Book’ for all those daring to make the mystical, spiritual journey… Fox quotes Eckhart as saying there is a four-fold path to God, the last being something ‘deep’ called ‘breakthrough,’ where one begins to hear voices”(29).
Karen Mains writes on the “Hungry Souls” web site, “That inner voice which I have learned to know so well, came to me in the middle of the night like it has so many times before.”
Mystic Parker Palmer shares the similar theme in his transcripts on “Spirituality in Education On-line (click on picture above to read; http://csf.colorado.edu/sine/transcripts/palmer.html ) when he writes:
” I remember a night in the middle of one of those devastating depressions when I heard a voice I’ve never heard before or since. The voice simply said, “I love you, Parker.” He continues, “….one thing about the soul. It is like a wild animal: tough, self-sufficient…but also exceedingly shy…. if you are willing to go into the woods and sit quietly at the base of a tree, that wild animal will, after a few hours, reveal itself to you…. I’m fearful. I have fear. But I don’t need to be here in my fear. I can choose a different place in me, a place of fellow feeling, of fellow traveling, of journeying together in some mystery that I know we share. I can ‘be not afraid’ even while I have fear…..Barbara McClintock….in her obituary, she was eulogized….as ‘a mystic who knew where the mysteries lie but who did not mystify.’”
Mysticism is the idea that truth can be found in experience. It is a denial of the authority of the Scripture for human experience. “I have discovered truth, I have labeled an experience truthfully by my own experience and intuition.” This began around the turn of the century in 1900 in Kansas with the beginning of the Pentecostal church. For decades it was considered a very occult-like sect by many although there were many dear Christians that were involved, but they were just mistaken in their understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit. It was pretty much limited to Assemblies of God and Pentecostal worship until 1960 in the Episcopal church in Van Ives, California where Dennis and Rita Bennet used the rector of the Episcopal church there supposedly to get the second blessing and this experience. It moved then into the denominations and that’s sometimes called the second wave around charismatic teachers. From there it spread out from just the Pentecostal Assembly of Gods and Church of Gods into the mainline denominations. It even spread into Catholicism. The third wave is the Vineyard movement and it has spread now into all evangelicalism (28).
The real problem in for the apostle Paul in Corinth was found when he declared, “Brethren, I cannot speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ”—clearly to fleshly people. They were acting like those who are dominated by the flesh—they were acting like all of the rest of the world and they were not functioning in the wisdom of God. They were judging by the world’s criteria—what the world considered successful and that dynamic. They were looking for experiences–some of them from their former lives and they were being deceived by Satan into following a number of lies they labeled things from the Holy Spirit but Paul says they were not.
In their former life, in their pre-Christian life, especially in Greece, they lived in a center of pagan mystery religions and they grew up with this all around them. They had a word “ecstasis” which described a trance-like state that they valued highly as perhaps the greatest religious experience that you could have. We get the word “ecstasy” from it. The more bizarre the experience, the more spiritual it was in their eyes. The emphasis was on what self got out of an experience in his relationship to God.
Paul says in Ephesians 2:20 that the apostles and prophets are the foundation of the church. Once a foundation is laid you don’t build another foundation. There are no people around today that would qualify to be apostles—that were personally called by the Lord, that have seen the risen Lord. As the apostles passed from the scene so did the need for the credential gifts as they gave the New Testament revelation and so they passed from the scene. In fact, the miracle gifts are only mentioned in the earliest of epistles, 1 Corinthians being one of the earliest ones and only Paul speaks of the gift of tongues at all. Peter doesn’t James doesn’t John doesn’t Jude doesn’t .. so they were relatively unimportant in that sense in the body of Christ as a whole. New revelation for the church age ceased with the completion of the cannon. God has given us the Truth he wanted to to communicate to us and he’s no longer doing that(31).
Phillip R. Johnson visited the Anaheim Vineyard as part of research in writing a book about the “Toronto Blessing.” John Wimber is the pastor at Anaheim and his church is considered the “original Vineyard.” He recalls the first thing he notices was “dancing girls.” Eight to twelve girls danced around the aisles in flowing gowns in carefully choreographed moves. Johnson reiterates the gist of the pastor:
“In a moment I’m going to call down the Holy Spirit. Things like you’ve never seen will begin to happen. People will laugh. Some with shake and quiver. Others may make strange animal noises. Don’t be alarmed by anything you see; it’s just the Holy Spirit working in His own special way. We don’t put limits on how God can and cannot work. He may even surprise us with something new tonight. So no matter what you see happen, don’t be alarmed. And above all, don’t try to rationally evaluate the things you will see. God isn’t trying to reach your mind; He wants to reach your heart. Analyzing spiritual phenomena through the grid of human logic or religious presuppositions is the quickest way to quench what the spirit is doing. Subjecting the revival to doctrinal tests is the surest way to put out the fire. Don’t try to find reasonable explanations for what is happening; just turn your heart lose and let the spirit flow through your emotions. Only then can the Spirit have his way in your life.”
Next Johnson recalls a woman who led in prayer which included “…We refuse to critique with our minds the work that You want to do in our hearts. We refuse to subject Your work to our little doctrinal tests.” Most of the service was entirely chaotic. Several people jumped up and down in the spirit. Some were lying down on the floor with imaginary birth pangs with others shouting for them to birth it. Some teens laid on the floor in what appeared to be convulsions while a man raced around in sweat waving his arms. Others wept, laughed, barked like dogs, and roared like wild animals (30).
Shirley McClaine Out on a Limb
The famous Hollywood actress Shirley McClaine describes her altered states of consciousness in her book “Out on a Limb:” “…I couldn’t sleep. My legs were vibrating with a strange, almost magnetic energy from inside… I felt the same vibration in my fingertips and around my lips. It felt physical but at the same time I could feel the energy emanating from my mind somehow. …I tried to stretch my legs attempting to neutralize the magnetic stream of energy flaming inside…. I felt I needed to somehow ground myself in the here and now on earth… In a ball of vibrating confusion, I rolled over and finally fell asleep.” Her first research into the occult included the purchase of Edgar Case materials.
Mystical experiences, found by dabbling into the occult, or realm of fallen angels, are the key to uniting many diverse groups of people into this movement. Her book completely covers the worldwide scope of this movement which gives heed to seducing spirits via the psycho-technologies of drugs, meditation, visualization, hypnosis, etc. Not only does her book include reincarnation, but attacks on Bible and the Church (from disembodied “entities”) (4, p.78). The late American psychic Edgar Case writes while channeling a spirit guide, “The entity’s music may be the means of arousing and awakening the best hope in the heart and soul of those who will and do listen. Is not music the universal language…. is it not a manner of universal expression? ….Music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree… The Prince of Peace was a harpist himself. …Music should be a part of each soul’s development. ….The entity was among those (Atlanteans in Egypt) who first set the chants…this aided in…bringing mental attributes of those who had determined to be channels…” (9, p.67).
Cultureal Creatives
Sociologist Paul H. Ray was the guest on Jeffrey Mishloves’ “Thinking Allowed” talk show on the Wisdom Channel this past July. He spoke about “Cultural Creatives.” A third population has emerged since the 60s. Rather than calling the cultural creatives “post-modern” they are considered “transmodern” which is something that cuts across making their own synthesis of the traditionals and the moderns, finding the best stuff and trying to create a new kind of culture. These are folks from all different social classes, races, ethnic groups, and heavily women who want a new way of life. What they thought was real changed to accept the idea that the world is “not just that hard stuff you can bump your shins on—physical reality only. They did not have a group structure to promote themselves, they merely “went out on a limb.” They want a world that is ecologically sustainable—they’re concerned about the whole planet, not just a nationalistic perspective but a large planetary view but also an inner development set of concerns with what is subjectively true is true for me has to really work and it also has to work in the big picture of the whole planet.”
The cultural creatives have one thing in common, those concerns for environment, for women’s issues, for relationships, for social justice, and alternative healthcare which all grow out of the 60s, 70s, 80S, and 90s social movements—a whole set of changes in consciousness that we could call “consciousness movements”—big trends and movements with people demonstrating on the barricades but all the cultural creatives are supporters of the people they don’t have to be the most active of activists. Each of the movements engaged in reframing. Those reframings were really deep and fundamental because they all took a casual explanation that was new and added new moral categories so Americans who consider themselves very moral are rather different than the Americans who saw the world in a moral stance in the 50s and 60s.
Part of the issue with psychedelics, holistic health instead of standard medical care, personal growth psychology was dealing directly with the issue of what’s personally authentic. “What’s real for me ‘inwardly’ is a big deal” and has gotten redefined just as the large planetary concerns or social justice concerns have gotten redefined. So we’ve literally added 15-20 moral categories that we did not have. And we’ve created a kind of systemsy worldview instead of the fragmented factoids of modernism—nose tight to the grindstone focus, business as usual and the traditionals are kind of fending things off while the cultural creatives are picking this fact and that one…and are creating a new worldview. We want a work environment that satisfies our “inner being.”
Conclusion
Yogis teach the same lie as the Bible says the serpent introduced to Eve, “Death is merely the doorway to reincarnation and humans can become gods.” The serpent has been known as “energy” or “the force” and worshiped as the symbol of wisdom and immortality in every religion and culture. Only in the Judeo-Christian Bible is the serpent identified as a deceiver and archenemy of God and man (10).
“‘The Serpent Power,’ a book written in the 1800s by British scholar Sir John Woodroff calls the specific mantras used by TM, a ‘garland of letters,’ each letter summoning a Hindu ‘demon’ (a legion for the price of one). TM Initiators are coached in methods to camouflage the noisome aspects of demonic activity and warned not to allow initiates to meditate more than a few minutes to prevent vomiting. A window was opened and incense burned to dispel offensive odors” (13, p.97).
With over 330 million deities, Hinduism worships everything in nature except man. Their belief in reincarnation teaches that life is a continuous cycle and that their soul will pass from one life form to another. The insect or the animal may be a reincarnated relative so the people live in poverty with filthy streets disease ridden with insects, and while animals roam freely millions starve rather than kill them for food (5, p. 45-53).
Under Hindu rule, the practice of “sati,” requiring Hindu women to throw themselves on their husband’s funeral pyre to be cremated alive, was common. Not until the English brought Christianity to India did the government outlaw sati. (3, p.127).
Christianity has given the base for form and freedom in society. The last six commandments are the basis of Western law—the basis of our Constitution…..The basic beliefs in what is right and wrong. “Thou shalt not steal, …bear false witness, …commit murder, …commit adultery, …covet your neighbor’s possessions, …thou shalt honor your father and mother.”
The 60’s marked the age of personal peace and affluence. If there is no absolute to judge society, then society is absolute. The late theologian Francis Schaeffer explains that without absolutes to judge a society the only humanistic social option is authoritarianism. In the future this would be one man or an elite giving authoritative arbitrary absolutes. It would be a manipulative authoritarian elite where it would be chemical agents and genetic condition that would determine what kind of people should live in the future. Authoritarianism is most easily accepted if it is brought in while seeming to keep the outward forms of constitutionality(26).
The apostle John is given a vision in Revelation 17 and 18 that describes a time when the world will be united economically, politically, and religiously. The heart of the New Age Movement is that man needs to rediscover his divinity; to be enlightened (Babylonian mysticism). Although John wrote the book of Revelation, like all Scripture, God is the real author. The authority of the triune God is carried out as God the Father gave John the book, through His Son Jesus Christ, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. He announced that Jesus was coming to judge the world and exalted Jesus as the Alpha and Omega, the eternal and almighty Lord.
The late American psychic Edgar Cayce, channeled by a demon, foresaw the end of Russian Communism and, in 1932, he stated “Changes are coming…the basis of it for the world will eventually come out of Russia; not Communism, no!—but rather that which is the basis of same, as Christ taught—His kind of Communism” (9, p.VIII).
Related
- Nancy Ortberg Speaks at Willow Creek: Bill Hybels’ Women Unveil Deep Ecumenism
- Willow Creek Community Church 2013: Cool Global Engagement Strategy (Dominion over politics, business, and culture.)
- Globalism and Willow Creek Church (Bono avoids taxes, Gergen, Carter, Blair)
- Willow Creek Community Church: Manipulating the Church to Globalism (Dr. Robert Klenck)
- The Human Potential Movement (Manly P. Hall, Vincent Peale, Robert Schuller, Bill Hybels…)
- Freemasonry: The One Eternal Religion
- Revelation and Church History
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