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However, an understanding of the spiritual roots to these practices is necessary to ensure that prudence accompanies their use. These practices can be dangerous at the spiritual level. In this sense they can be not good for the soul.

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From: Diane Benedek To: michaelprabhu@vsnl.net Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 9:43 PM

Subject: Thank you for the website

+Hi Michael,

My name is Diane and I am from Pennsylvania, in the United States. I wanted to thank you for this website which is filled with so much information on the new age.

I have noticed that there is a large infiltration of new age in many so-called Catholic retreat houses and in nursing and in other areas of modern life here in the U.S. A friend of my sister’s wants her to help her out with a woman’s clinic.  If she wants to work there, she would have to learn how to do Reiki. My sister tried to explain to her friend that this was bad, but her friend is convinced that there is a Christian Reiki. A neighbor went to a so-called Christian Reiki retreat and than saw a demonic figure out her window two weeks later. They did prayers and used holy oil and it seemed to have worked.  I said if you are not tapping into the Holy Spirit, than it must be the evil spirit.

Also, she wanted to know if there is such a thing as Christian yoga. Can you do the exercises without doing the meditations?  I’ve heard that the poses in yoga are actually poses to pagan gods.

Thanks so much for the wealth of information that you have compiled. This is so helpful. God bless you and your ministry and your family too. 

Diane Benedek
ROME ORDERS DECREE AGAINST REIKI-PROMOTING PRIEST WHO IS SANCTIONED AND LAICIZED

From: MLP To: michaelprabhu@vsnl.net Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:11 PM Subject: Reiki

Dear Michael,

A Spanish Bishop has issued a decree against a former priest who teaches "Christ-cantered" reiki (reiki "cristico" in Spanish). The decree is posted on the Diocese's website: http://www.obispadodeourense.com/noticias/2012/08/decretopenal.pdf.
I am translating for you hereunder the information as published by Infories (a Spanish and South American organization who studies new religious groups and cults):

"The Bishop of Ourense (Spain) José Leonardo Lemos Montanet has issued a penal sanction in accordance with canon law against the priest – which is already reduced to lay state – Gumersino Meiriño, who together with the Zen master Maria Benetti spreads the doctrine of "Reiki cristico". That is how the information was summarized by the digital media Religion en Libertad.

On 11 May 2011, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ordered that a penal decree be issued against Meiriño, under penalty of Interdict, for having disobeyed the orders of his former bishop, Hugo Norberto Santiago of the Diocese of Santo Tomé in Argentina, asking him to cease to spread those "erroneous doctrines". Since Mgr. Santiago was unable to issue the decree, it is done by Mgr José Leonardo.

The bishop's decree forbids him from "continuing to defend and spread those heterodox doctrines" and warns him that "if those errors are not corrected in a public way and with verifiable acts" he will risk the penalty of Interdict, which among other things impedes him to receive the sacraments."
Regarding the penalty of Interdict, there is an article explaining it here: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08073a.htm

The most important point for me is that the order to issue the decree came from the Vatican. This is hugely important for your ministry.

Unfortunately, the information is only available in Spanish and French for the moment. But it would be excellent if you could include it in your website and therefore make it known in English. I translated the information very quickly, so the English would need some polishing.

I hope this info will be a great encouragement for you!

MLP, Switzerland

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From: Diane Benedek To: 'prabhu' Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 6:55 PM

Subject: RE: A REPORT FROM THIS MINISTRY AND ARTICLES ON FALSE MYSTIC VASSULA RYDEN IN THE CONTEXT OF HER CURRENT VISIT TO INDIA

+Hi Michael,

I have heard negative things regarding her also.

Thank you for the information.

I don’t know if you have heard but I saw that a religious brother (I think from Australia) has written a book about Reiki, Yoga, etc. teaching how bad it is. I probably should get it because I know of people who are into both.

I have to tell you a story about something which happened to my sister. She had become friends with a girl in her exercise class. This woman turned out to be a practicing witch and my sister had no idea. She told my sister that she was into herbal remedies and could help my sister with a minor physical ailment. So my sister went to her and she had my sister lay on a table (which were surrounded by crystals) and than she proceeded to touch different parts of my sister’s body and this woman claims that her body responded to her touch.  (She was performing Reiki on her).  So several days later my sister told me what she was doing, how this woman had also given her herbal remedies. And that my sister was feeling really good. I was really concerned about this woman. She had a brochure explaining what exactly she does such as Reiki, animal communication, herbal remedies. She also went to live with some pagan tribe in South America to learn from them. 

I told my sister that if this woman wasn’t tapping into the Holy Spirit than she was tapping into the evil spirit. My sister thought I was being too cautious and was planning on continuing to see this woman. After I spoke with my sister, I was really concerned so I said a short prayer to St. Michael and I asked him to let my sister see what this woman was really doing.

The next day, I got a frantic call from my sister. It was in the morning and she told me she was on her way to church.  She told me last night after she and her husband were asleep her husband woke up and sat up in bed and said "Who’s there, who are you?" The figure disappeared. When my sister woke up he told her that he had seen a figure standing next to her side of the bed. The figure was cloaked in a dark velvet type robe and was holding a candle. He said the figure looked to be huge and was possibly floating above the ground. 



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Now my brother-in-law is not one to make things up like this. He said he was awake when he saw the figure.  My sister was so upset that she put a rosary around her neck and somehow was able to get back to sleep. But after she fell asleep she felt a great pressure on her chest as if something was trying to enter into her body. She was able to fight it off because of the Blessed Mother. 

When she called me I told her that I had prayed to St. Michael to help her to see what was behind this woman’s true motive. She got rid of the medicines and she tried to find a priest that would help her but it seems as if they didn’t believe her or didn’t know what to do. For a while she had all kinds of demonic activity going on in her house and we were finally able to find help for her. My sister was told that this woman used her body as a Ouija board.  We finally found a good priest to help her. And after my sister and her family consecrated themselves and their house to the Sacred Heart the activity stopped.

Everything that I have shared with you is the truth. This was the sister I was telling you about who someone recently approached her and asked her to learn how to do yoga and teach it in a class. But my sister is very wary of anything new age now so she declined. This other woman claims that there is a Christian yoga and Christian reiki but my sister tried to explain everything which happened to her. 

There is a lot more to the story but I have written so much.  I wanted to share this with you because I think it might be able to help someone else and also to confirm to you to continue to do the good work that you are doing.

God bless, In Jesus, Diane


The "Creeping" Effect - The New Age and Evangelical Christianity

http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=5365

By Ray Yungen, December 6, 2010

If you have ever wondered why New Age authors and their teachings are creeping past many Christians, then maybe the definition of creeping might help. The term means: slowly advancing at a speed that is not really apparent until you look back over a long time period. For instance, creeping inflation is not noticed in the short term, but when one looks back over twenty to thirty years, it is shocking. A meal that cost two dollars in 1970 now may cost eight dollars—however, the increase moved so slowly that the impact was diminished.

This same kind of movement has happened within our society and has gradually become mainstream. What was once seen as flaky is normal today—even useful. This trend is impacting evangelical Christianity at only a slightly lesser degree than secular society. The reason for the slight variance is that many, perhaps most, Christians have not yet grasped, or come to terms with, the practical mystic approach that New Age proponents have already incorporated into the secular world, as well as Christendom.

A mystical pragmatism is growing particularly fast through various New Age healing techniques. One such procedure is called Reiki (pronounced ray-key), a Japanese word that translates to Universal Life Energy or God energy. It has also been referred to as the radiance technique. Reiki is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist healing system, rediscovered by a Japanese man in the 1800s, that only recently has come to the West.

The Reiki technique consists of placing the hands on the recipient and then activating the energy to flow through the practitioner and into the recipient. One practitioner describes the experience in the following way:

When doing it, I become a channel through which this force, this juice of the universe, comes pouring from my palms into the body of the person I am touching, sometimes lightly, almost imperceptibly, sometimes in famished sucking drafts. I get it even as I’m giving it. It surrounds the two of us, patient and practitioner.1

What is this “juice of the universe?” The answer is an important one, given by a renowned Reiki master who explains:

A Reiki attunement is an initiation into a sacred metaphysical order that has been present on earth for thousands of years . . . By becoming part of this group, you will also be receiving help from the Reiki guides and other spiritual beings who are also working toward these goals.2

 While this is not widely advertised, Reiki practitioners depend on this “spirit guide” connection as an integral aspect of Reiki. In fact, it is the very foundation and energy behind Reiki. One Reiki master who has enrolled hundreds of other masters spoke of her interaction with the spirit guides:

For me, the Reiki guides make themselves the most felt while attunements are being passed. They stand behind me and direct the whole process, and I assume they also do this for every Reiki Master. When I pass attunements, I feel their presence strongly and constantly. Sometimes I can see them.3

A Christian’s initial response to this information might be, “So what? I don’t travel in those circles, so it does not concern me.” This nonchalant viewpoint would be valid except for the fact that Reiki is currently growing to enormous proportions and in some very influential circles. (It may even be in your local hospitals, schools, and youth organizations.) It is essential to know that many nurses, counselors, and especially massage therapists use Reiki as a supplement to their work. It is often promoted as a complementary service.

Even more significant are the numbers involved in this practice. Examine the following figures to catch just a glimpse of the growing popularity of Reiki. In 1998, there were approximately 33,000 Reiki listings on the Internet. Today that number, on some search engines, constitutes over 22,000,000 listings. In just ten years, that number has increased almost 700 fold! As I said in the first chapter of this book, there are now over one million Reiki practitioners in the U.S. One Reiki master delightfully noted this surge of interest when he stated:

Over the years, there has been a shift in the belief system of the general public, allowing for greater acceptance of alternative medicine. As a result, we are seeing a growing interest in Reiki from the public at large. People from all backgrounds are coming for treatments and taking classes.4


One very revealing statistic involves Louisville, Kentucky, where 102 people were initiated into Reiki in just a single weekend.5 This denotes a large number of people are drawn to Reiki in the Bible belt, traditionally a conservative part of America.

It is important to understand the way in which Reiki is presented to the public at large. Despite its underlying metaphysical foundation, when one reads the literature put out by Reiki practitioners it is not at all apparent. One Reiki master who runs a day spa repeatedly uses words like comfort and nurture in her brochure. Reiki is something that will give you pleasure. Another woman who is a professional counselor tells her potential clients that Reiki will give them deep relaxation and reduce pain. Again and again these same themes emerge from promotional literature on Reiki—relaxation, well-being, reduce illness, reduce stress, balance your mind, etc.  How can one say that Reiki is bad when it claims to help people?

The reason for this level of acceptance is easy to understand. Most people, many Christians included, believe if something is spiritually positive then it is of God. A pastor friend of mine recounted a situation in which a Christian, who had some physical problems, turned to Reiki for comfort. When this pastor advised the man that Reiki fundamentally opposed the Christian faith he became furious and responded with the following defense, “How can you say this is bad when it helped me?” That is why I titled a chapter in my book “Discernment.” To discern is to “try the spirits” (1 John 4:1). If something is of God it will conform to the very cornerstone of God’s plan to show His grace through Christ Jesus and Him alone (Ephesians 2:7). Reiki, as I defined earlier, is based on the occult view of God.

This assessment of Reiki is beyond question. Every Reiki book I have ever seen is chock full of pronouncements that back up the point I am trying to make. In The Everything Reiki Book, the following clears up any doubt about Reiki’s incompatibility with Christianity:

During the Reiki attunement process, the avenue that is opened within the body to allow Reiki to flow through also opens up the psychic communication centers.  This is why many Reiki practitioners report having verbalized channeled communications with the spirit world.6

What is even more disturbing is that the Reiki channeler may not even have control over this “energy” as the following comment shows:

Nurses and massage therapists who have been attuned to Reiki may never disclose when Reiki starts flowing from their palms as they handle their patients. Reiki will naturally “kick in” when it is needed and will continue to flow for as long as the recipient is subconsciously open to receiving it.7

Another such method is Therapeutic Touch. Like Reiki, it is based on the occultic chakra system, portrayed as the seven energy centers in the body aligned with spiritual forces. The seventh chakra identifies with the God-in-all view. Therapeutic Touch is widely practiced by nurses in clinics and hospitals. It is seen as a helpful and healing adjunct to nursing care.

If the connection between Reiki healing and other metaphysical practices can be seen, then we more fully understand why the following quote is one of the most powerful statements as to the true nature of contemplative prayer. A Reiki master in the course of promoting the acceptance of this method relayed:

Anyone familiar with the work of . . . or the thought of . . . [she then listed a string of notable New Age writers with Thomas Merton right in the center of them] will find compatibility and resonance with the theory and practices of Reiki.8

Reiki comes from Buddhism, and as one Merton scholar wrote, “The God he [Merton] knew in prayer was the same experience that Buddhists describe in their enlightenment.”9
This is why it is so important to understand the connection between the writings of Richard Foster and Brennan Manning with Merton. Promotion indicates attachment, and attachment indicates common ground. Something is terribly wrong when a Reiki master and two of the most influential figures in the evangelical church today both point to the same man as an example of their spiritual path.(from chapter 5, A Time of Departing, Ray Yungen)

Notes:

1. “Healing Hands” (New Woman Magazine, March, 1986), p. 78.


2. William Rand, Reiki: The Healing Touch (Southfield, MI: Vision Pub., 1991), p. 48.
3. Diane Stein, Essential Reiki (Berkley, CA: Crossing Press, 1995), p. 107.
4. William Lee Rand, “Reiki, A New Direction” (Reiki News, Spring 1998, http://www.reiki.org/reikinews/reikinewdir.html, p. 4.
5. Reiki News, Winter, 1998, p. 5.
6. Phylameana lila Desy, The Everything Reiki Book (Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2004), p. 144.
7. Ibid., p. 270.
8. Janeanne Narrin, One Degree beyond: a Reiki Journey into Energy Medicine (Seattle, WA: Little White Buffalo, 1998), p. xviii.
9. Brian C. Taylor, Setting the Gospel Free (New York, NY: Continuum Publishing, 1996), p. 76.
The Truth about Energy Healing

http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=12017

By Ray Yungen, Lighthouse Trails, June 24, 2013



Energy Healing
In the book, Forever Fit, Cher speaks of a friend of hers who is a metaphysical “healer”:

She heals with her hands and, boy, if she puts her hands on you, you know you’ve been touched. Even near your body you feel it. It’s simply unbelievable. But she is truly tuned in to some kind of higher power.1

New Agers and occultists believe that man has more than one body, that there are other invisible bodies superimposed on the physical body. They refer to one of these as the etheric body and believe there lies within it energy centers called chakras (pronounced shock-ras). The term chakra means whirling wheel in Sanskrit, the ancient Hindu language. They were seen by those with clairvoyant powers as spinning balls of psychic energy. It is taught that there are seven chakras, which start at the base of the spine and end at the crown chakra at the top of the head.

Each chakra is supposed to have a different function corresponding to certain levels of awareness. The chakras act as conduits or conductors for what is called kundalini or serpent energy. They say this force lies coiled but dormant at the base of the spine like a snake. When awakened during meditation, it is supposed to travel up the spine activating each chakra as it surges upward. When the kundalini force hits the crown chakra, the person experiences enlightenment or Self-realization. This mystical current results in the person knowing himself to be God. That is why kundalini is sometimes referred to as the divine energy. According to New Age proponents, all meditative methods involve energy and power, and the greater the power, the greater the experience.


Basically, what all energy healing entails is opening up the chakras through meditation or transferring the kundalini power from someone already attuned to it:

At the sixth chakra, a person opens to a higher level of intuition and inner guidance. At the seventh, the person feels a sense of merging with Spirit.2

I want people to know that energy healing is fundamentally supernatural in nature. It is not based on something physically tangible as massage or chiropractic. The chakras are not something you can open up surgically and look at like you can the physical organs like the heart or spleen.

The chakra system is the basis for virtually all energy-healing techniques. In energy-healing, the power is channeled into the patient, thus bringing about the desired wellness and wholeness of the person receiving it. Currently, there are a number of energy-healing systems. Although they have different names, the energy that they use is from the same source.


Reiki
One of the fastest growing New Age healing techniques being used today is Reiki, (pronounced ray-key), a Japanese word which translates universal life energy or God energy. It has also been referred to as the Radiance Technique. Reiki is an ancient Tibetan healing system which was rediscovered by a Japanese man in the 1880s and has only recently been brought to the West.

The technique consists of placing the hands on the recipient and then activating the energy to flow through the practitioner into the recipient. One practitioner describes the experience in the following way:

When doing it, I become a channel through which this force, this juice of the universe, comes pouring from my palms into the body of the person I am touching, sometimes lightly, almost imperceptibly, sometimes in famished sucking drafts. I get it even as I’m giving it. It surrounds the two of us, patient and practitioner.3

One obtains this power to perform Reiki by being attuned by a Reiki master. This is done in four sessions in which the master activates the chakras, creating an open channel for the energy. The attunement process is not made known for general information, but is held in secrecy for only those being initiated.

One of the main reasons Reiki has become so popular is its apparently pleasurable experience. Those who have experienced Reiki report feeling a powerful sense of warmth and security. One woman, now a Reiki master, remarked after her first encounter: “I don’t know what this is you’ve got but I just have to have it.”4 People don’t make such comments unless there is an appeal involved. A successful business woman gives Reiki the following praise:

Reiki should be available through every medical, chiropractic and mental health facility in this country. Your fees are a small price to pay for such impressive results. I don’t know how Reiki works, but it works; that’s all that counts in my book.5

New Age teaching is that once someone is attuned he or she can never lose the power; it is for life. Even distance is not a barrier for the Reiki energy, for the channeler may engage in something called absentee healing, in which the energy is sent over long distances, even thousands of miles.

One master relates:

Just by having the name or an object of the person or perhaps even a picture in your hand, you can send Reiki to them to wherever they are in the world.6

Over one million people are practicing Reiki in the United States alone today.7 In many cases, these are people who treat or work with others on a therapeutic basis, such as health professionals, body workers, chiropractors, and counselors. Despite its bizarre and unconventional nature, Reiki has struck a chord with an incredible number of average people. In Europe alone, the number of people accepting Reiki is very impressive. One Reiki master claims that in the thirteen years she lived in Europe she alone initiated 45,000 people into Reiki as channelers.8


What Reiki is really about is using this power to transform others into New Age consciousness. As one Reiki leader states:

It also makes a level of spiritual transformation available to non-meditators, that is usually reserved for those with a meditative path.9

Statements like this reveal that Reiki is in line with all the other New Age transformation efforts. It changes the way people perceive reality. Most practitioners acknowledge the truth of this. A German Reiki channeler makes this comment:

It frequently happens that patients will come into contact with new ideas after a few Reiki treatments. Some will start doing yoga or autogenous training or start to meditate or practise [sic] some other kind of spiritual method. . . . Fundamental changes will set in and new things will start to develop. You will find it easier to cast off old, outlived structures and you will notice that you are being led and guided more and more.10

What concerns me is that Reiki apparently can be combined with regular massage techniques without the recipient even knowing it. A letter in the Reiki Journal reveals:

Reiki is a whole new experience when used in my massage therapy practice. Massage, I thought, would be an excellent tool to spread the radiance of this universal energy and a client would benefit and really not realize what a wonderful growth was happening in his or her being (emphasis mine).11

Of all the New Age practices and modalities, Reiki holds the title to being the most intriguing and perhaps eerie one. This is brought out in the following observations made by one of the leading Reiki masters in the country. He reveals:

When I looked psychically at the energy, I could often see it as thousands of small particles of light, like “corpuscles” filled with radiant Reiki energy flowing through me and out of my hands. It was as though these Reiki “corpuscles” of light had a purpose and intelligence.12

Since Reiki is not something taught intellectually even children can be brought into it. In one Reiki magazine, I found an ad that was offering a Children’s Reiki Handbook: A Guide to Energy Healing for Kids. The book is described as a “guide that provides kids with what they need to prepare for their first Reiki Attunement.”13

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