Television programs, movies, and online websites featuring psychics have helped to popularize and mainstream ideas of psychic abilities. Psychics (sometimes called clairvoyants) will tell you that everyone has psychic ability […]
Parker Brothers did not invent the Ouija Board. It had already been around for awhile when it was bought by Parker Brothers in 1966 and turned into a commercial success […]
Definition of the Occult The occult is an umbrella term which includes many practices linked to various belief systems. The concepts and teachings are usually based on beliefs that: […]
Some of the things God has to say about what we call the occult are listed here. First, what is the occult? The occult is a set of practices that […]
The occult is a set of practices associated with diverse beliefs listed in Deuteronomy 18:10-12. The New Age and the occult are two separate categories, though they overlap in practice. […]
The injection of Shamanism, Buddhism, and Psychic Healing into Mainstream Medical Care By Marcia Montenegro, April 2010 A circular advertising several yoga classes (including Vinyasa Yoga, in which one asana […]
The New Age can best be described as a network of beliefs. It borrows from and synthesizes many views: Gnostic, Eastern Spirituality, and New Thought. Gnostic […]
The author of this article is a former practitioner of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, and Zen meditation for a total of 14 years The advocacy of mindfulness meditation in secular […]
[First published in Midwest Christian Outreach Journal, Volume 20, No. 1, Fall, 2014; slight modifications and editing have been added to this online version] The author of this article […]
The author of this article practiced Tibetan, Hindu, and Zen Buddhist meditation for 14 years, with Mindfulness for 12 years of those 14 years prior to becoming a Christian. […]