I keep getting into New Age

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I have to post this alot because even though I try to strengthen my faith, I keep getting back into New Age. please help, I pray The Rosary and St. Michael prayer but it doesn’t seem to be working, I need something very strong!!! Thank you! 🙂

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I keep going on and off, and I know why I go off, God really wants all of us to follow him and I’m trying but I feel like I have let him down… I don’t want to though 😦
 
What do you mean by “keep getting back into” it?

Are you having a rough time reordering the things you believe to accept what you’re learning about Catholicism? Are you engaging in bizarre practices? Laying out crystals? Reading or watching videos about new age?

Alan
 
What I mean is I believe in their teachings, like spirit guides, I have a deep interest in them!! And it’s pulling me away from God and the Holy Saints!
 
I understand what you mean. There are things that seem intriguing and can draw us away from God.

It helps me to remember that sin begins as a thought. If you can nip it there, when it first comes into your mind, you will grow stronger. Otherwise the thought tirns into an obsession and before you know it, you’re into New Age again.

Be careful to keep your thoughts captive. Pray that God will help you to hold your thoughts captive. Whenever you detect any thought about New Age stuff, immediately begin to pray, read your Bible, and maybe start doing something to distract yourself - do the dishes, go for a jog, anything that is productive and not New Age. Every time you do this successfully you will grow stronger to fight this temptation.
 
You don’t need a spirit guide.
You have your own Guardian Angel.

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church
vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p5.htm

"336 From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession.202 "Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life."203 Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God. "

The New Age movement:

ignatius.com/promotions/catholic-truth-society/download/understanding-the-new-age-movement.pdf
catholicassociates.com/leaflets/Somedeceptionsfthenewage.pdf
catholic-pages.com/dir/new_age.asp

May God bless and protect you,
Trish:)
 
Pray to have remorse then go to confession.

Pray to love God the most and not wanted to offend him.

It is a serious sin to worship other Gods because this is what new age is about.

God is merciful, please repent and if yo have no remorse, again pray to have them.

Read Mother Mary message, read about the Saints. I personally love watching DVD but their are great book too.
 
I want to add that Jesus was very graphic regarding sin, if your hand make you sin, cut it for it is best to enter Heaven without it then to go to Hell with it.

He isn’t saying to literally cut the hand but i think for you, you should cut the tie with your friend that is involved in New Age. Pray Mother Mary to help you.
 
everythingiscon said:
What I mean is I believe in their teachings, like spirit guides, I have a deep interest in them!! And it’s pulling me away from God and the Holy Saints!
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Why don’t we have it out right here? How about a compare/contrast among “spirit guides,” the Holy Spirit, and guardian angels? Instead of trying to “brute force” your mind into rejecting one and embracing the other, maybe there are common characteristics we can admit to, and since HS and GA’s are true and SG’s are new age, they should have contrasting characteristics (or beliefs about them) that are superior. If we can’t come up with that difference, then you’re trying to make your mind believe in labels without understanding the differences in the underlying substance.

What do you see about “spirit guides” that coincides with, or differs from, Catholic teachings?

Alan
 
OK if you really want help you have to change yourself. Seek and you SHALL find. It works. Pray, read the bible, (start with the new testament) begin a regular confession and ask the Holy Spirit to remind you of anyone you need to forgive. Re live the moment in your mind and then change it by making the decision to forgive them. These are all important. There are other things too but the one I think you should begin now is try to remember to think about God or Jesus at regular intervals in the day. Stop sinning as best you can.

Leave yourself a note on your steering wheel, back of the toilet door or even on your watch. ‘think God’. Talk to him like he’s right there because he is. Keep doing these things and then you will get to a point where you will actually be able to feel his presence.

You need to completely seek him and then you will find. You won’t believe how good your life will get after that. how good it feels. OH learn about spiritual warfare as well. (new testament) The demons will try to scare you off the pursuit of God. In my case they started giving my children nightmares and my wife became my biggest adversary, anti me anytime I mentioned God or Jesus. Thought I was becoming a religeous nut job. But when they do that. Have faith, Jesus won dominion over all things and he’s allowing you to exercise his authority. Pray through it. With God you will win.
 
AlanFromWichita said:
Why don’t we have it out right here? How about a compare/contrast among “spirit guides,” the Holy Spirit, and guardian angels? Instead of trying to “brute force” your mind into rejecting one and embracing the other, maybe there are common characteristics we can admit to, and since HS and GA’s are true and SG’s are new age, they should have contrasting characteristics (or beliefs about them) that are superior. If we can’t come up with that difference, then you’re trying to make your mind believe in labels without understanding the differences in the underlying substance.

What do you see about “spirit guides” that coincides with, or differs from, Catholic teachings?

Alan
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Well, New Age believes we all have spirit guides AND guardian angels, I don’t show an interest in one or the other. Spirit guides were humans, guardian angels were angels, Spirit guides guide you to your ‘‘spiritual awakening’’’ but guardian angels protect you, we have alot of spirit guides [they say 20 or more], we have a main spirit guide that has stayed with us from our whole lifetime, some spirit guides come and go regularly, others pop in and go to the next one. Even if spirit guides are demons, why can’t we think of them as saints?

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everythingiscon said:
Well, New Age believes we all have spirit guides AND guardian angels, I don’t show an interest in one or the other. Spirit guides were humans, guardian angels were angels, Spirit guides guide you to your ‘‘spiritual awakening’’’ but guardian angels protect you, we have alot of spirit guides [they say 20 or more], we have a main spirit guide that has stayed with us from our whole lifetime, some spirit guides come and go regularly, others pop in and go to the next one. Even if spirit guides are demons, why can’t we think of them as saints?

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So a spirit guide is a flesh and blood person that is now living, or someone who has died?

If they don’t have to be alive in flesh-and-blood form, Jesus is one of my “spirit guides,” as well as St. Paul and like you say all the other saints.

If they are alive in flesh and blood form, then how do they differ from Spiritual Directors?

So far I’ve seen more in common with what you say is “new age” than in contrast. 🤷

Alan
 
everythingiscon said:
Well, New Age believes we all have spirit guides AND guardian angels, I don’t show an interest in one or the other. Spirit guides were humans, guardian angels were angels, Spirit guides guide you to your ‘‘spiritual awakening’’’ but guardian angels protect you, we have alot of spirit guides [they say 20 or more], we have a main spirit guide that has stayed with us from our whole lifetime, some spirit guides come and go regularly, others pop in and go to the next one. Even if spirit guides are demons, why can’t we think of them as saints?

The thing I don’t l
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There is no biblical foundation for believing in spirit guides. Your last statement is either a typo or you are terribly confused. If you think a spirit guide is a demon, how can you then think of it as a saint? Demons and saints are not compatible. The strategy of a demon is to lead you ultimately to your destruction. Even if everything comes true, the end game is always the same, destruction of your immortal soul. Playing with spirit guides and the like is far more dangerous to your eternal happiness than you apparently realize. Trust me, if you play with fire you will get burnt.

Go to your dear Mother in heaven. Turn your life over to her and she will protect you as she leads you to her Son. There is one advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, but there is no stronger advocate with Jesus Christ Himself than His Mother. Do not believe that the Rosary is weak. It brought you to seek help in this forum, did it not? Mary’s foot is on the head of the serpent, and her rosary is a most powerful weapon against evil.
 
everythingiscon said:
I have to post this alot because even though I try to strengthen my faith, I keep getting back into New Age. please help, I pray The Rosary and St. Michael prayer but it doesn’t seem to be working, I need something very strong!!! Thank you! 🙂

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I keep going on and off, and I know why I go off, God really wants all of us to follow him and I’m trying but I feel like I have let him down… I don’t want to though 😦
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I think that there is a time in everyone’s life for a very stable, unwavering orthodoxy. I am hearing that desire in your posts.

The Catholic Church is just the place. As opposed to new age, the Church’s orthodoxy is founded on thousands of years of guidance by the Spirit, where new age is more of a conglomeration of many modern ideologies. It seems to me that if what you are needing is stability, then what is called for is a commitment on your part, though, a commitment to a faith.

Once you have committed yourself, there is no reason whatsoever to discontinue respecting friends who are into new age. “New Age”, though difficult to describe in terms of standard theologies, has plenty of good ideas and well-meaning followers and concepts. When new age includes ideas of love and forgiveness, then it has much in common with Christianity. When new age includes ideas of two powers, one great evil and one great good, it shares the dualistic ideas of the Manichean heresy, which is much more prevalent among Catholics than people realize.

Remember, Catholicism is not “just another religion”. Catholicism, as with all Christianity, focuses on the person of Christ Jesus. My own reverence and commitment is focused on Jesus and all that He is. The gospel is an amazing story of a man who forgave everyone, even those who condemned and killed Him. Jesus as a person escaped slavery from His human nature, (not that human nature is bad). The passion is a story of a man who freed Himself from His human drive for status and popularity, freed Himself from the human drive to condemn and punish. We can look at the crucified Christ and remember that He forgave us, unconditionally, from that very position. Does this reflect the Father you know within?

So, why not take the leap? Find a community of believers you like, and rest in the security of commitment. (BTW, if your faith is more supported as an Episcopalian in a family of believers, that still may be the best for you.)
 
JamesCaruso said:
There is no biblical foundation for believing in spirit guides. Your last statement is either a typo or you are terribly confused. If you think a spirit guide is a demon, how can you then think of it as a saint? Demons and saints are not compatible. The strategy of a demon is to lead you ultimately to your destruction.
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Sorry I had to type fast because I had to go somewhere, I know their is a difference between demons and saints:D but I am trying to say maybe we shouldn’t pass judgement about the spirit guide thing, I know it isn’t in the bible but in New Age beliefs, they believe it someone dead looking after you, it could be your grandmother, old ancestor you never knew, or Michael Jackson[lol] so maybe we could identify it with [in Catholic beliefs] they are saints BUT at the same time, they don’t believe all spirit guides are saints, a saint could be a spirit guide or the spirit guide could have been an atheist in their lifetime. Don’t mind me I am deeply confused and you are right I should go to my Holy Mother and Jesus, I asked them to pray for me.
 
everythingiscon said:
I have to post this alot because even though I try to strengthen my faith, I keep getting back into New Age. please help, I pray The Rosary and St. Michael prayer but it doesn’t seem to be working, I need something very strong!!! Thank you! 🙂

Edit:
I keep going on and off, and I know why I go off, God really wants all of us to follow him and I’m trying but I feel like I have let him down… I don’t want to though 😦
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Keep praying… and if you have any new age books etc, get rid of them (just throw them out so others don’t read them too). If you have any links/ etc on your ‘favourites’ on your computer, get rid of this too. Whenever you even get curious or interested to read about it (if you do) or do any new age practices, pray right away and distract yourself and do something else… the interest in it should decrease over time I think 🙂

God bless you!
 
everythingiscon said:
What I mean is I believe in their teachings, like spirit guides, I have a deep interest in them!! And it’s pulling me away from God and the Holy Saints!
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why do you need spirit guides if you have Jesus looking after you?

think of Jesus, Mary, the Saints, and your guardian angel (the Catholic understanding not the new age). Why do you need others? isn’t God and Mary and the Saints and Angels WAYYY more powerful? 🙂

with the new age there’s really no discernment… almost everything is accepted as “good”, and it’s all subjectified. But - in the spiritual world, it’s either very good or very bad. There’s no middle ground. Why risk it? If you’re trying to “contact” spirits etc, how do you know who they are truly? With Catholicism, you can know better, because you’re not trying to “contact” anyone, - and if you do have a spiritual experience there are ways to discern it, but we shouldn’t seek those experiences, only accept them if God chooses to give them. But it needs to be left up to Him, not sought. It’s easy to get deceived this way. But if you just pray to God and ask Mary and the Saints to pray for you, and if you stick to Catholic practices, you’ll be on a right track and it’s much harder to get deceived than in the new age, and even if a person did get deceived, they can figure that out with God’s help and with the advice of a spiritual director who knows Catholic theology.

Just remember that Christianity is the truth… you don’t need spirit guides and all the rest.

I’ve often heard of really scary experiences that people have had with the new age… at first it seems very nice, and then it shows it’s true colours so to speak. But with Catholicism, it only gets better (look at the Saints! :)).

I would maybe spend time reading good Catholic books, and this could help you. If you have a curiosity about spiritual experiences, I would not focus on that because we should seek God first and not experiences (so we don’t get deceived), and we should only want them IF they bring us closer to God and ONLY if they’re God’s will… not sought by us. Maybe try praying the Rosary with the intention to break this attachment.

I recommend going to Adoration too 🙂
 
Monica4316 said:
I’ve often heard of really scary experiences that people have had with the new age… at first it seems very nice, and then it shows it’s true colours so to speak. But with Catholicism, it only gets better (look at the Saints! :)).
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Wow, do you have any links of these stories?? I’d love to hear them! 🙂
 
Honestly, I am done, I am crying right now because I can’t get over New Age and probably never will, I pray The Rosary, I believe it is powerful but it’s just not working for me perhaps I need to really mean the words. I think I give up 😦 sorry

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I am not giving up on Jesus though, just myself…
 
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