(Note: Please see links to further information on each doctor at the end of the article, after the Addendum). Health care has become infected with New Age and occult […]
This is a general overview and cannot replace more detailed articles on the CANA site on Yoga, Meditation, and Energy Healing. For articles on Yoga, Meditation, and Contemplative topics, please […]
In her book, Eat, Pray, Love (NY: Penguin Books, 2006), Elizabeth Gilbert narrates her journey through three countries, Italy, India, and Indonesia, which parallels the exploration of three stages of her post-divorce […]
The CANA article, “The Basic Spirituality of Yoga,” is hosted by Midwest Christian Outreach
Yoga is increasingly being presented under other names. Sometimes it is called Christian Yoga or Sacred Moves; it may be called “Mind Body Spirit,” or another innocuous-sounding name. But whoever […]
A children’s section of the March 7, 2010 Washington Post (“The Mini Page”), called “Go Yoga,” highlighted Yoga with stories, photos, and puzzles. The feature also offered New Age websites […]
Yoga has become so well packaged as an exercise that people even believe this was the original intent of yoga, often calling yoga “stretching exercises.” People in the U.S. and […]
Yoga in India is taught and practiced in many forms because there are various forms of yoga. In this country, we most often encounter hatha yoga, the physical form of […]
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 […]
All “energy” used in energy healing from psychics, New Agers, witches, spiritualists, Reiki healers; the “energy” (no matter the label) that underpins beliefs and practices like acupuncture, homeopathy, Tapping/EFT, vitalism, Yoga kundalini, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Touch for Health; and has spawned non-medical devices (such as Rife machines, Zyto scanners, etc.) that allegedly diagnore and/or treat various ailments are in the same category and are essentially the same thing: an occult “energy” either imagined or triggered through beliefs and actions. Learning what this is and where we see it is a way to discern it.