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 […]
(With a Brief Look at Magic) [This article is primarily for parents wondering about or wrestling with the issue of Harry Potter and a biblical worldview. For further information, please […]
Defenders of the Enneagram and other dubious or false ideas and teachings often state that God can redeem it. But this needs to be thought through carefully. What does God redeem according to Scripture?
See another article on Feng Shui by author published in the Christian Research Journal, Vol 26, No. 1, 2003, NOTE: Due to the complexity and varieties of feng shui practice, […]
What is your number, the Enneagram asks. What is the Enneagram, you may ask back. An increasingly popular tool of personality analysis, the Enneagram is a diagram depicting numbers one […]
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.
Do you know what the symbol for Yin and Yang really means? It is not about good vs. evil, nor is it about a bit of bad in the good and a bit of good in the bad. It is more complicated than that and it has a distinct spiritual meaning that has found its way into Western culture, especially in alternative/complementary/integrative modalities.
Due to the fact we are in a post-truth age where the idea of absolutes and checking out facts is vanishing, too many things like functional medicine are flourishing. This is one reason there is a profliteration of New Age ideas and practices.