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have you been into new age or eastern religions?
if so please say something about it.
 
I was into new age a bit before I was baptized and lost all interest in it after baptism. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. It opens doors to the enemy. My experience with it - it drew me in and I was really interested but what I found in Christianity is much much greater 🙂 (same with Eastern religions though I never practiced them).
 
I fell into an eastern meditation path, complete with a guru for a long time, when I was away from the Church. Thanks to the Holy Spirit, I gravitated back to the Church five years ago. I find the eastern path to be so very lacking compared to our faith, which includes reason. I’m beginning to read “Interior Castles” by St. Theresa of Avila and she says it all as regards meditation…and then some.
There is such a vast treasure of knowledge and writings by the saints.
My :twocents:
 
I used to be sort of New Agey for a while, several years ago. Well… I think I wanted to be, but it just never felt right for me. Not that I tried very heard, mind you.

Come to think of it, I think it was the “New Age” music that I liked rather than the actual movement. 😛
 
I used to believe totally in Astrology. Thought it explained people’s characters completely. Now that I am back in the faith, I don’t think much about it is true at all.

The new age movement is full of charlatans too. Many many false prophets and snake oil salemen make their living off of it. Stay away from it is my advice!
 
I was involved as well. Practiced Wicca for a long time. It was so empty. Like a doughnut. Sweet and sugary, but no substance. No nutrition.
 
I was also into new age for a few months and then came back. It all started with me believing all that stuff about the law of attraction and indigo children and later I found myself casting spells but Jesus and saint Michael led me back home and im grateful for their help.
 
When I was in High School, during the first year or two, I considered myself to be a wiccan. I did a few rituals, even. Wicca seemed the ideal religion to me; mix-and-match dieties and rituals to suit your taste and mood.

I came to realize that made it pretty meaningless.
 
RosalieM said:
I fell into an eastern meditation path, complete with a guru for a long time, when I was away from the Church.
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How does having a Guu differ from having a Spiritual Director?
and did you just leave all you eastern friends behind you?
 
Hello my friend. I have been involved with the Hare Krishnas and with Buddhism as well. It is a wonderful experience. I am a practicing pagan focusing in the Voodoo and Santeria path mostly. I am an ordained high priestess and I love my life.
 
I was involved in the live and let live type of new age… read books on numerology, astrology, tea leaf reading, and that mumbo jumbo nonsense. Then came Oprah, and I was off with her “spirituality”, “name your angel” try to see your angel, Oye!!

I was led back quite physically and suddenly through an experience with a demon and starting to fear that there was nothing after death. That’s where all this stuff led me to. Fear and anxiety and demons.
The Lord allowed these in order to bring me back to Him. He wanted me to beg Him for help and He was most happy to be there to catch me. From the moment I cried and prayed and begged for His help, the fears left me, just like that! It was nothing short of a miracle. That was when I slowly found my way back to His Church again.
 
Loboto-Me said:
I was led back quite physically and suddenly through an experience with a demon and starting to fear that there was nothing after death. That’s where all this stuff led me to. Fear and anxiety and demons.
The Lord allowed these in order to bring me back to Him. He wanted me to beg Him for help and He was most happy to be there to catch me. From the moment I cried and prayed and begged for His help, the fears left me, just like that! It was nothing short of a miracle. That was when I slowly found my way back to His Church again.
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did you experience that you were one with Jesus when he was suffering? People often come back Christianity because of that?
 
henrikhank,
When God "caught’ me and brought me back I was still in the egotistic, greedy stage of my life, so no, I wasn’t feeling Jesus’ pain, I was feeling my own. That changed from daily fear and anxiety about afterlife and existance of God for months to finally looking for help from the only one who I wasn’t even sure about, and within one week after that fervent prayer, it was all gone. God often asks of us to just turn to Him in times of needs, and as long as it’s His will at that time for us, and that we are willing to accept that will, He will be there for us.

I was at the point that I asked Him to give me an accident so that I could lose the thoughts that were collecting in my head. I told Him that all I wanted to do is believe and have faith in His providence for humankind and if it takes me getting brain damage, I was very willing to do it. Basically I was “sacrificing” my intellect for His sake. It didn’t get to that… obviously, He felt sorry for this poor little creature 🙂
 
I used to dabble in new age stuff in my early 20’s before I came back to the Church in my 30’s. I didn’t “worship” anything, really, but I got into Mother Earth and nature and The Great Spirit. Sort of like native American indian spirituality. I was actually pretty happy in that state. But I always felt like something big was missing. Like I was only seeing half the picture.
It was actually my intellect that brought me back to the one True God and His church. The more I loved nature the more I realized it didn’t come about by chance. The complexity of life and the world drew me directly to God. Scripture then led me back to His true Church. Now, I’m longer “pretty happy”, I am extremely joyful!! I see the complete picture now! 🙂
 
This is a nice thread. It’s so great to hear how people came back to the Church and God.🙂
 
henrikhank said:
How does having a Guu differ from having a Spiritual Director?
and did you just leave all you eastern friends behind you?
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Hi, I wasn’t notified of further messages in this thread. So here’s a belated response:

The “guru” was very different from a spiritual director. Whatever he said was law, and you had to follow to the letter. There was no free will involved, no discernment.
Whereas a spiritual director, like the one I speak to now, gives gentle, wise suggestions that trigger one’s own discernment and opens one to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 👍 The guru was directing me towards his own will.
The spiritual director directs me towards God’s will. The Truth has set me free.

And yes, sadly I had to leave many of my eastern path friends behind. I lost my best friend and that still hurts from time to time. We had huge get-togethers a couple times a year with hundreds of people. It’s quite lonely now in comparison. But I offer my lonliness to the Lord whenever I feel that way. And then I am happy.
They pretty much shunned me when I converted … or rather reverted back to the Church. But it’s cause for joy. In that way, they persecuted me for following him and that’s a huge blessing.🙂
 
Loboto-Me said:
henrikhank,
When God "caught’ me and brought me back I was still in the egotistic, greedy stage of my life, so no, I wasn’t feeling Jesus’ pain, I was feeling my own.
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What is the differnce between our feelings and God’s.
The crucified Jesus and thinking I was him helped me come back to the Church.
 
RosalieM said:
Hi, I wasn’t notified of further messages in this thread. So here’s a belated response:

The “guru” was very different from a spiritual director. Whatever he said was law, and you had to follow to the letter. There was no free will involved, no discernment.
Whereas a spiritual director, like the one I speak to now, gives gentle, wise suggestions that trigger one’s own discernment and opens one to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 👍 The guru was directing me towards his own will.
The spiritual director directs me towards God’s will. The Truth has set me free.

And yes, sadly I had to leave many of my eastern path friends behind. I lost my best friend and that still hurts from time to time. We had huge get-togethers a couple times a year with hundreds of people. It’s quite lonely now in comparison. But I offer my lonliness to the Lord whenever I feel that way. And then I am happy.
They pretty much shunned me when I converted … or rather reverted back to the Church. But it’s cause for joy. In that way, they persecuted me for following him and that’s a huge blessing.🙂
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Your last paragraph is very touching and both inspires me and gives me hope! I have yet to leave behind friends who, at times, mock the Church in very hurtful ways. I know they don’t mean ill will but I did have one fallen-away Catholic friend call the Blessed Sacrament a “cookie”. I’m still his friend but I feel a deep calling to either evangelize or distance myself. I’m not very strong so evangelizing is improbable. Your last sentence made me see the light of Christ on you for sharing in His persecution and prompting me to do the same. Your message is a blessing to me!! Thanks!!!
 
There’s something that many people involved in the new age go through… first it’s all nice and positive, they feel good, etc… but eventually it becomes scary and the demonic starts to manifest itself (whereas in the beginning, it was hidden). This is true for paganism, wicca, etc, as well.
 
Monica4316 said:
There’s something that many people involved in the new age go through… first it’s all nice and positive, they feel good, etc… but eventually it becomes scary and the demonic starts to manifest itself (whereas in the beginning, it was hidden). This is true for paganism, wicca, etc, as well.
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not to mention the emptiness, and meaninglessness of it all.
 
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