TRUE VS. FALSE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES

St. Catherine of Sienna questioned Our Lord about how to tell a true extraordinary experience from a false one.  The Lord responded that false experiences and visions often bring a feeling of exhilaration and happiness, later turning to uneasiness, doubt, and fear.  Lucifer is an angel of light and can masquerade as a good angel.  Counterfeit healings occur which seem to validate a person's experience. New Age healers announce to their clients the coming enlightenment of the planet, the "coming of age" of the individual who should reject outmoded concepts of sin and guilt. 

"Instead they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened."   Romans 1:21
 

FRUITS OF FALSE EXPERIENCES

Vivid dreams and visions often precede, accompany, or follows contact with New Age healers, channelers, or counselors which contain deep truths, predict wonderful occurrences, include the figures of Our Lord, Our Lady, angels and saints.  Oracular spirits know how to weave an intricate pattern of seduction and betrayal. 

FALSE TEACHINGS OF NEW AGE "HEALERS"

Denying The Cross
Healers often recommend "clients" get rid of the negative people in their lives and accept the true power within, and follow the path of the magician.  Deepok Chapra is one of the most loving deceptive teachers of this doctrine now. 

The False Idol of the Self and Individualism
Healers teach we are all a part of God, and christs in the making.  Thus, the normal reality checks of community, priest, and scripture are taken away.

Mixing Pop Psychology with Spiritualism
Healers "open up" clients deeply on subconscious levels, introduce spiritual attachments, and excite emotional turmoil.  Through a variety of aggressive psychological techniques, often mixed with psychic practices, healers lead clients into what they say is "processing" material and letting go of past life blocks.  Clients are thrown into intense psychological states, which can also throw their families into turmoil. 

CAFETERIA CATHOLICISM 
Many of the most powerful New Age healers are Catholics who continue to frequent services and claim to follow the teachings of their faith.

"Elijah appealed to all the people and said, 'How long will you straddle the issue?  If the Lord is God, follow Him; if Baal, follow him.'" 1 Kings 18:21

Cafeteria Catholics abound who practice healing, psychic channeling and counseling.  They feel they practice a deeper or more enlightened Catholicism and look with bemused pity and compassion on those of us who are not liberated.  A number of them are schooled in seminaries and Catholic universities in Christian counseling and have licenses as counselors. 

A TIME FOR DELIVERANCE AND HEALING
"It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves'".    Isaiah 56:7, Luke 19:46

From my own personal contact with healers referred for assistance who are in spiritual, emotional or physical crisis, New Age healers and youth especially are now under the severe influence of spirits because of their occult practices and contacts (such as trance channeling, necromancy and divination). 

New Age Healers are now becoming severely ill due to their exposure to others' sins without the protection of the Holy Spirit.  Families of clients who seek occult healing can be opened to suffering similar problems such as erratic behavior, rages, compulsions and oppressions such as severe depression as spirits enter their homes.

WHAT CAN WE DO? 

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE….

As the Lord spoke against sorcerers, "I will tear off your veils and rescue my people from your power, so that they shall no longer be prey to your hands.  Thus you shall know that I am the Lord." 
Ezekiel 13:21

1.  Make sure your physical therapist, nurse, psychologist or doctor does not utilize New Age techniques.

2.  Do not assume you can easily discern true healing from false.  We now walk in great spiritual darkness.  Get the facts on any technique with which you are not familiar.

3.  Work with a group of committed Catholics to remove these teachings and practices from Catholic hospitals, retreat centers, colleges, pastoral counseling programs and practices. 

5.  Create Eucharistic healing centers instead where patients and retreatants can receive true healing from the sacraments.