Catholic Contemplative Prayer can cause "kundalini awakenings"?

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These awakenings are demonic delusions that effect people involved in the occult and Eastern/New Age spirituality. I have researched and there have actually been devout Christians who fell victim to this awakening by using legit Christian contemplative prayer.

How is it possible for this to happen to a devout Catholic? Does this mean contemplative prayer is dangerous?

One example of this is a man named Phillip St. Romain, a devout Catholic. He came to this view through standard Catholic contemplative prayer. He tried to come up with a ‘Christian’ explanation for this experience, but none of his Catholic spiritual directors had an answer for him. So he turned to the Hindu explanation.
http://www.innerexplorations.com/ewtext/kun.htm

Also another disturbing aspect is a former New Age person who suffered from kundalini awakening was trying to free himself of these symptoms through Christian means (praying to Jesus, Mary, the Saints, reading Scripture, Attending Church, deliverances) but they didn’t go away or actually got worse:
http://www.innerexplorations.com/ewtext/moreon.htm

Why wasn’t he healed?
 
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He tried to come up with a ‘Christian’ explanation for this experience, but none of his Catholic spiritual directors had an answer for him. So he turned to the Hindu explanation.
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That doesn’t prove that the Hindu explanation is correct.
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Also another disturbing aspect is a former New Age person who suffered from kundalini awakening was trying to free himself of these symptoms through Christian means (praying to Jesus, Mary, the Saints, reading Scripture, Attending Church, deliverances) but they didn’t go away or actually got worse:
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Why wasn’t he healed?
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That’s not a question we can answer. There could be many reasons.

With all the problems you’ve had with things like this disturbing your faith, why do you continue to seek them out?
 
I’d be more afraid of someone walking into my office with an R15.
 
There could be other issues involved. Anything involved with the New Age should be avoided even if it includes information or practices from other beliefs, which my research shows does happen. I can’t give any medical advice.
 
It was probably centering prayer. Not contemplative prayer.
 
I’ve never heard of such a thing,so I Googled it. Seems like bad news. I don’t know it you’re Catholic or not, but if you are, I’d suggest you not waste your energy on that garbage. Just go to Mass, receive the sacraments frequently and be merciful to others.

God bless you.
 
Could you elaborate on that please? Why isn’t it possible? What kind of issues, and why isn’t it dangerous?
 
Natural ecstasies are possible, so it could be a natural phenomenon that is not perfectly explained in a harmonizing way with the Catholic Faith. Catholics have written on the possibility of natural ecstasies.
 
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It could be preternatural. I would advise praying excorcism prayers privately, discourage any resolve to peruse these natural ecstasies, and encourage vocal recitation of the Rosary.
 
I don’t believe it would be licit to seek after natural ecstasies.
 
No. That is different.

What I’m talking about would actually be the opposite: Someone trying to get close to Christ and receives a sketchy revelation and new sense of consciousness that may or may not be demonic in nature.

Prayer is supposed to be our safest place from evil, and it disturbs me that one can be led astray even during this.
 
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They can’t… get some better reading material Ben.
You open lots of these threads. The Church herself offers us the best options that you will ever find.
Trust the Church.
 
Well, …, you certainly can pray incorrectly. Any Catholic can pray incorrectly, with good intentions or no. Use an approved method. The Rosary is good.
 
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I have researched and there have actually been devout Christians who fell victim to this awakening by using legit Christian contemplative prayer.
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What sort of prayers were they using? In what manner? I know centering prayer has been marked off as contemplative prayer by some, though it’s roots are pagan.

Those formerly involved with New Age things can most definitely fall victim to demonic oppression once they start to take their faith seriously. The most terrifying is when Satan appears as an angel of light in order to confuse instead of strictly frighten.
 
Devout Catholics focus on Jesus, have trust in Jesus, confidence in Jesus, and probably trust and confidence in His mother too.

They have nothing to fear from demons or kundalini hooha, and such things will not creep into their minds somehow when they pray, nor will they go looking for “explanations” that somehow involve kundalini.
 
I just found out there’s an entire abbey of Norbertines near me holding a centering prayer session once a week. I’m going to go pray with them at some point. I doubt very much there will be demons involved with these mostly elderly and quite holy monks.
 
I was familiar with the info in the first article. The second one was interesting. It sounded like a sincere person trying to make sense of a strange experience in good faith.

We are mysteries. There is so much that science has not yet explained. But it doesn’t matter. We surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ. In doing so we accept in peace whatever is in his will for us. Of course that is the ideal, isn’t it. In reality we often struggle.
 
Is that a tax document? The IRS scares me too.
 
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