Category: New Age movement

by Gregory Reid
April 4, 2017

The church has opened the door to the New Age. What started out as just a crack has now become a wide open door. In just a few short decades, the walls of biblical discernment have been so completely torn down that the majority of church goers seem completely oblivious to the deception that has entered.

by Michael Houdmann

The idea of the power of positive thinking was popularized by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale in his book The Power of Positive Thinking (1952). According to Peale, people can change future outcomes and events by “thinking” them into existence.

by Marcia Montenegro
April 12, 2016    

You have unlimited potential.” “Success comes from within.” “Empower yourself.” These and other similar phrases are used to publicize and market seminars originating from what is best known as the Human Potential Movement.

by Warren B Smith
September 5, 2016

Leonard Sweet’s mission is to help the church become more culturally relevant in the 21st century. However, as he attempts to walk the narrow line between the Gospel and the world, he frequently walks over that line into the false teachings of the New Age/New Spirituality.

by Debbie Dewart

Scott Peck began his trek down The Road Less Traveled as a Buddhist when he wrote his best selling book by that title. By the time his second book was published, he claimed a conversion to Christianity. However, his Buddhist teachings remain a vital part of his writings, along with other aberrations such as process theology, Mormonism, New Age doctrine, and the secular humanist values of psychotherapy.

by Ray Yungen

One of the main tenets of New Age thought is peace, goodwill, and the unity of all humanity. In context with this idea, the term cleansing is quite disturbing. Various New Age writers consider resisters as eventually the only hindrance in allowing this global spirituality to occur.

by Viola Larson – Watchman Fellowship

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born in Russia in 1831. As a young woman Helen Blavatsky was involved in Spiritualism.  In 1875 she founded the Theosophy Society which has influenced the New Age movement of today.

by T.A. McMahon
February 1, 2016

Beliefs and practices include alternative healing methods, astrology, spiritual energies, meditation, parapsychology, witchcraft, yoga, quantum mysticism, Gaia and goddess worship, reincarnation, UFOs, channeling, karma, hallucinogenic drugs, feng shui, altered states of consciousness, the martial arts, spiritualism, the kabbala, transpersonal psychology, and the human potential movement.

by T.A. McMahon
March 1, 2016

Many of the teachings and practices of the New Age Movement  have become so accepted in Western society that they’re commonplace, seemingly far removed from their Eastern mystical roots. Terms like karma, yoga, meditation, guru, mantra, etc., have become part of our everyday language, without any hint of their religious origins and connections for most people. Additionally, a number of programs have arisen that deceptively promote Eastern meditation as non-religious science by calling it mindfulness.

by T.A. McMahon
May 1, 2016

In this series dealing with the intrusion of Eastern mysticism into the church, it would be a huge error to overlook another growing practice among Christians—a practice that may even exceed the numbers of those involved in yoga: Christianized martial arts.