New Age Seen Penetrating Catholic Circles

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**New Age Seen Penetrating Catholic Circles

**MADRID, Spain, JULY 18, 2005 (Zenit.org).- New Age thinking has been penetrating Catholic realms, says an adviser to the Argentine bishops’ conference.

José Baamonde established the Service for the Elucidation of Sects and New Religious Movements (SPES) Foundation, in 1989. He currently heads the foundation’s documentation-and-research section.

In the context of a congress on “Psychological Manipulation, Sectarian Groups and Other Alternative Movements,” which closed Saturday at Madrid’s Autonomous University, Baamonde gave a lecture on “The Permeability of New Age in Religions.”

According to the expert, a fundamental element of New Age is man’s self-divinization, explained as follows: “God is within me; God and I are one same conscience; I am God.”

Baamonde applied this process to the Silva Method of mind control, a typical practice of this new spirituality, which “is practiced even by some priests and nuns.”

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[KnightoftheRose]

shrug The New Age movement is an attractive one. It is materialistic, yet claims to be spiritual. There are no real rules, no real consequences, and perhaps a flowery afterlife. It is also a movement of ignorance - I mean, c’mon, you really have to be blind not to realize how utterly contrived the whole thing is. But, considering how ignorant we as a society are becoming, that just makes the whole New Age movement more appealing.

So, it really wouldn’t surprise me if the New Age infiltrated Western churches - heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if it supplanted Christianity entirely in certain areas before too long.

 

[Jay74]

shrug The New Age movement is an attractive one. It is materialistic, yet claims to be spiritual. There are no real rules, no real consequences, and perhaps a flowery afterlife. It is also a movement of ignorance - I mean, c’mon, you really have to be blind not to realize how utterly contrived the whole thing is. But, considering how ignorant we as a society are becoming, that just makes the whole New Age movement more appealing.

So, it really wouldn’t surprise me if the New Age infiltrated Western churches - heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if it supplanted Christianity entirely in certain areas before too long.

Not much of an antidote to it either. Being self-serving, materialistic, and fulfilling every whim is a very comfortable position compared to growing up and disciplining yourself.

It wouldn’t surprise me of it infiltrated churches either. The tragedy of modern Christianity is it forsaken its message of the law and the need for redemption to avoid eternal consequence, and replaced it with a message of “Christ will make your life better.” WIthout seeing the consequence of sin, many are drawn to it, even in Churches.

Very, very sad.

 

[4HisChurch]

Jay74:

Not much of an antidote to it either. Being self-serving, materialistic, and fulfilling every whim is a very comfortable position compared to growing up and disciplining yourself.

It wouldn’t surprise me of it infiltrated churches either. The tragedy of modern Christianity is it forsaken its message of the law and the need for redemption to avoid eternal consequence, and replaced it with a message of “Christ will make your life better.” WIthout seeing the consequence of sin, many are drawn to it, even in Churches.

Very, very sad.

I agree. Some reformers tried to cut the ties with so called “legalism” and just “focus on Christ.” All well and good, until you fast forward to modern times when Christ has been whitewashed into an unrecognizable shadow of His former self.

 

[FightingFat]

I’ve seen a few people get sucked in by this. They soon figure out how shallow and empty and inward looking it all is. Shame is it can mean they end up with no faith in anything any more.

 

[Cockney_Clive]

Its here already, in Holy Mother Church herself. All those retreat houses offering Enneagrams and Labyrinths and Reiki Healing. Their shops full of ‘Healing Crystals’ and books on Numerology and Divination. Teaching a Faith whitewashed of Christ, Sin, Redemption.

You know who they are. Don’t support 'em.