Biogenesis question

[MickeyM927]

I know this is probably not the most appropriate forum to place this question on, but I’m not sure which forum would be the best, and since I’ve received such wonderful feedback here, I thought it would be ok to post this.

Does anyone know anything about this “healing tool” used to “restore harmony” to one’s life? A Catholic friend of mine has a sister who apparently “does” Biogenesis. From what I gather, she takes crystals of some sort and waves them around a person’s body “healing” them. My friend did it and said she felt cooling and warming sensations and a peace thereafter. I was VERY skeptical about this (thinking it sounds like a New Age type thing) … but my friend insisted it was “harmless” and it “felt good.” She originally said she thought it was “hokey-pokey” originally until her sister insisted she try it. Her sister who is performing this is also Catholic.

Then it even got more weird, because my friend said her sister can “talk to spirits.” I explained how that is not something the Church promotes. She continued to go on about how the Church can be wrong about things like this especially because her sister “knows” these are all good and positive spirits. I proceeded to tell her that no one can “know” that … especially because the devil will give you 99% of the truth but that 1% lie is what leads you astray … so the spirits may seem good, but they probably aren’t.

I don’t know what else to tell my friend about this. I don’t know enough about it. I know when I talk about Yoga, it’s easy to defend that the positions and meditations are actual prayers to Hindu gods … but I don’t know enough about this to say how it goes against the Church.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much … and God bless!!

 

[liturgy96]

Sounds New Age to me, especially if the person can talk to spirits… plus the seeming manipulation of energy fields which is not supported by science. Anyway, I hope this source may be able to help: newagedeception.com/new/

I have to admit, when I first saw the thread title, I thought you would be asking about the idea that life only comes from life and how to explain how inorganic molecules were able to form the organisms we now have today (the Life Sciences major at work haha)

 

[PaulfromIowa]

It doesn’t just “sound like” New Age, it is New Age and not compatible with Christianity.

scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c1a1.htm#2116

Divination and magic

2115 God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future, and giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it. Improvidence, however, can constitute a lack of responsibility.

2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to “unveil” the future.48 Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.

2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one’s service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another’s credulity.