How should one regard Eastern Mystical teachings?

[tenderlynew]

I am woefully ignorant about these, have just had a discussion with my father who is equally ignorant but persists in writing about his anti-Christian beliefs. My friend, as noted in recent posts, introduced me to vortex healing and Amma. Vortex healing is nokey dokey, deals with magic, even I know that’s not a good thing. What about Amma? My friend did a video on her from which I learned she has built 35,000 homes for the homeless in India. I don’t know what this means about…hmmph

I am so ignorant but the point is this friend helped me, through the mercy of God, in straightening out an old mess involving another Catholic (like my friend) who had turned to Eastern mysticism. I have reopened the whole issue of my whole life with my father through bringing up these concepts to him. He is 80. He is cognitively disabled and has retreated into it. He remains immature (who am I to judge? I have suffered because of it.)

Perhaps this post belongs under prayer requests. Just want to make the point, I guess, that it is necessary to be educated about other faiths, and daunting to be 52 and so ignorant. All I know is that my father has exercised great power and influence over my life with terrible consequences. Is it okay that I told him to Google Amma and vortex healing with a slightly devilish intent to upset his applecart. There are serious matters at stake and I am proceeding in hope, fear, and confusion in equal measures. Even my marriage and divorce–just everything–is touched by this tiny moment, that’s the way my father works. At WordPress.com they say the best way to get to know a subject is to write a book about it. ???

 

[tenderlynew]

For instance, I told my father “I’m just putting another popsicle in your jar,” couldn’t think of the word I was really thinking, which was “candy cane” which has to do with caning in British primary schools in his day, nd I just felt him caning my fingers as I came to write this (I do believe he passes thoughts through to me, is this so strange? I have written about it in my blog); he could use a caning for certain things he tried to do to me eons ago, but it’s usually me that ends up getting one, candy-coated. So if I were going to write a book, would I write one about the issue of obedience to unruly parents? Eastern mysticism is secondary here. Something big is in the works, and my only concern is that it may have been brought on by my friend’s applying a “pink mantra”, the vortex, I can only pray that God is working it to the good according to* His *purposes.

 

[tenderlynew]

For instance, he refused to give me away to my husband, without saying anything to that effect, and disaster followed and finally, obviously, a divorce. I want my husband back. Everything happens British parliament style, it’s just like the film Breaker Morante, except NOBODY KNOWS that a woman of 52 has ben held captive all her life by deceitful parents, British in America, King’s English is so key in the way they keep their edge and sweep things under the rug.

 

[ClearWater]

I am woefully ignorant about these, have just had a discussion with my father who is equally ignorant but persists in writing about his anti-Christian beliefs. My friend, as noted in recent posts, introduced me to vortex healing and Amma. Vortex healing is nokey dokey, deals with magic, even I know that’s not a good thing. What about Amma? My friend did a video on her from which I learned she has built 35,000 homes for the homeless in India. I don’t know what this means about…hmmph

I am so ignorant but the point is this friend helped me, through the mercy of God, in straightening out an old mess involving another Catholic (like my friend) who had turned to Eastern mysticism. I have reopened the whole issue of my whole life with my father through bringing up these concepts to him. He is 80. He is cognitively disabled and has retreated into it. He remains immature (who am I to judge? I have suffered because of it.)

Perhaps this post belongs under prayer requests. Just want to make the point, I guess, that it is necessary to be educated about other faiths, and daunting to be 52 and so ignorant. All I know is that my father has exercised great power and influence over my life with terrible consequences. Is it okay that I told him to Google Amma and vortex healing with a slightly devilish intent to upset his applecart. There are serious matters at stake and I am proceeding in hope, fear, and confusion in equal measures. Even my marriage and divorce–just everything–is touched by this tiny moment, that’s the way my father works. At WordPress.com they say the best way to get to know a subject is to write a book about it. ???

As Catholics, we are to steer clear of other faiths, magic, and all that, stand firm in the faith.

 

[Origen52]

As Catholics, we are to steer clear of other faiths, magic, and all that, stand firm in the faith.

Clearwater, steering clear of other faiths is a bit harsh and not in the ecumenical spirit. I volunteer in a Baptist outreach program and am very good friends with the baptist minister who is the director. My commitment to the church is not so fragile that it will be destroyed by interacting with other faiths. If you are speaking about new age organizations, I agree. I find them unfocused and with a weak basis for their spirituality.