The Invasion of Health Care

The Cult of Spiritual Care

Hospitals and hospices have redefined what is means to provide "pastoral care". Pastoral care is now called "Spiritual Care" in nearly all heralth facilities. Medical institutions have differentiated between spirituality and religion. Their definition of religion is "a religious practice that focuses on rituals and beliefs" while spirituality is defined as focusing in on that which "brings emotional wholeness, meaning and purpose, and the values of the individual". If you notice, their definition of religion and spirituality both leave out God.

There are two praimary reasons why God has been omitted from health care. First, health care is Medicare driven. Perhaps you didn't know that health institutions depend greatly on Medicare for their funding. In turn, Medicare has stipulated a job description for nearly all professions within the health industry including chapolaincy. Because of this, chaplains can no longer express their personal faith but must act as spiritual chameleaons validating anyone's faith or lack of faith even if it directly violates their own beliefs. Second, hsopitals and other health care institutions are concerned about their accrediation. The Joint Committee on Acreditation and Compliance for Health Care Organizations, (or JACHO) is the accrediting body for health care. Again, JACHO's view of spirituality is that it must be an all-inclusive form of spiritual care that generically provides care for all faiths and beliefs even if one contardicts the other, or contradicts the spiritual values of those providing care.

Because of these two factors, hospitals and hospices prohibit chaplains from talking with patients about their paricular belief system. This includds Christian chaplains, Muslim chpalins, Christian Science chaplains or any chaplain. Chaplains have to violate their own faith beliefs or run the risk of loosing their jobs. To put it in the vernacular, hospitals and hospices take the view that "there are many pathways to God". If a chaplain is a sincere Christian, he or she will find themselves in a "Catch 22" situation where they must contradict their personal integrity and their own faith belief system in order to have a job. This means that regardless of their faith background, chaplains must violate their own personal integrity in order to have a job.

What does all of this mean to Christians. First, it means that Christians who are patients at health care facilities may want to think twice about relying on chpaliancy care instead of the pastoral care provided by their church. Chaplains may validate your faith, but they may be prohibited from sharing that which is spiritually helpful to you. In fact, they may even mislead or misguide you in order to meet their institutional requirements. Second, chaplains in the industry who not only must support the relious beliefs of all individuals but embrace them as well may want to re-consider if they want to work in an environment that violates their own personal belief system at all. As believers we must adhere to the words or Jude 3 which states that we are to "contend for the faith". Health care is being invaded today by a form of spirituality which denies the very existence of God and instead, mbraces every religious belief that opposes the name of Christ. Let us be discerning and differentiate between faith in CChrist and the idea of "spritual care'".

Distance Healing

The Story of Mouse 37

Therapeutic Touch is one of t he most openly occult practices of any form of alternative medicine. Read the following story by Delores Krieger, co-founder of Therapeutic Touch and see how blatantly the occult connection is made.
 

The concept of non-locality arises from an assumption that consciousness has no boundaries in space or time. Scientists have been aware for centuries that creative ideas and break through hypothesis can occur at the same time to several people who are in different parts of the world. From evidence such as this, the assumption has been developed that the mind is able to transmit information over distance and to act upon it at that distant place, under appropriate conditions.

 

The control offered by contemporary researchers considered by society to be one way to assure that inexperience has some measure of validity and reliability. One of the healing experiences that lends itself into a wide range of personal interpretation is healing at a distance, in which the healer and the healee are geographically removed from one place to another.

 

Healing Mouse 37 at a distance Dolores Krieger shares a story about several years ago at the Nutrition Institute of America which was then under the directorship of Gary Null, PhD. There was the largest single experiment to date of two models of healing-healing by direct contact and healing at a distance. Dr. Krieger states that she was asked by Dr. Null to participate in the study and received a photograph of Mouse 37 who she was to send healing energy to. For some time she journaled concerning her impressions about Mouse 37 that she received from a distance and later on she called and found that Mouse 37 was doing well but the control mouse in the same cage had died.

 

About a year later at the end of June Dr. Krieger said that she met a man at a cocktail party in San Francisco who worked with the study with Dr. Null concerning mice and he related to her that Mouse 37 was one of only three mice who is still alive. She continued to send mouse 37 healing energy and later that year she heard from Dr. Null Mouse 37 was still healthy and hearty. To celebrate the event, one of Dr. Krieger's friends offered to retire mouse 37 to her ranch in Sonoma County. And most did well there for several months until the following June. Finally, Dr. Null wrote her and said Mouse 37 recently died of old age. It had lived longer than any of the other mice, and had lived without discomfort and in a seemingly normal state of health.

 

The study gave me a deep sense of satisfaction in that year and a half, my interaction with Mouse 37 have become quite real to me and I had learned a great deal from it concerning distance healing. The nature of the controlled study was such that there were occasions which gave me an opportunity to check my impressions directly, and the verification of my own work and involvement of this experiment was validated. This helps me to test the validity and reliability of visualization at a distance which I called Vivid Visualizations.

Visionary experiences ancient industry ported in all cultures of the world. For instance, a unique feature of the Native American culture is a strong dependence upon individual visions as basic guides and life decisions. And you'll do, you visualizations of persons or events at a distance are regarded as naturally occurring as a result of yogic experience. Visualization is a subjective process, however, that continues to be poorly understood. This is a paradox, for scientific methodology itself relies upon visualization in an introspective act as for example, in the capacity to see a problem, the intuitive skill to clearly state a hypothesis, the capacity to perceive an analysis of data, and the genius to foresee the inferences of research findings-all depend on the capacity for visualization.

The Occult

Presidential Trail Into the Occult

The occult is mainstreaming into American society. The evidence is easily seen in the over abundance of paranormal television shows, the extremely popular movies in theaters like "Twilight", "New Moon", and "Harry Potter".

But the occult phenomena isn't simply relegated to the realm of fantasy, it is mainstreaming into the hearts nd homes of everyday Americans. Frighteningly, the occult has also been worming its way into some of the lives of some our most prestigious government officials. One group that has been affected by occult practices is the presidents of the United States.

One of the very first presidents on the trail to the occult was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln was grief struck by the premature deaths of three of her sons. In her grief, she turned to mediums to conduct seances in the White House in an attempt to reconnect with her deceased children. Mary Todd's seances were held on a regular basis. While we are never told of her success in contacting her sons, she did persuade our 16th president to attend at least one seance.

Another president that used the occult to predict the future of his presidency was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt made regular appointments to have his future read by the world famous psychic Jeanne Dixon. Dixon correctly predicted the favorable result of WWII. Much to Roosevelt's horror, she also predicted his impending death in Hot Springs Georgia.

While Richard Nixon did not dabble in the occult as far as we know, it was his famous trip to Red China that opened the door for the practice of alternative medicine in the United States. During the trip, his press secretary became violently ill with appendicitis and had to have immediate surgery. Doctors used acupuncture to reduce pain during the operation. Reports of this procedure hit the headlines of many of the nations largest papers and magazine who in turn, ran large stories regarding the use of alternative therapies. This served to popularize their use.

Finally, Nancy Regan was well known for consulting an astrologer during her husbands 8 years in the White House. She prohibited the president from signing important documents and treaties if her psychic forecaster felt that the astrological signs were not favorable.

It is so easy to become unintentionally involved in the occult. It may start with something as simple as reading a fortune cookie or the daily horoscope and blossom into something else entirely. Many who have seen occult based movies report to have been bothered by nightmares and worse during months and even years following a visit to their local theater. Scores remember being "spooked" when they saw the glide on the Ouija Board begin to spell out words revealing private information. Who doesn't remember all the Call 1-900-psychic" phone numbers.

People are hungry for spiritual truth. They want an encounter with a "higher power". Many want assurance for the future, some want contact with deceased loved ones. Spiritual contact outside of the parameters established in the Bible are really encounters with the demonic. Satan is the great deceiver and one of his greatest deceptions is that spiritual and emotional needs can be met outside of Christ. Galatians 6:7 warns us to stay away from Satan's lies, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap".

God has a better plan for your life. Curious about the future, the future is in God';s hands. Jeremiah 29: 11 reminds us, "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future". Do you miss a family member or a friend who has died? God understands your pain and offers the comfort that only He can give. 2 Corinthians 1:3,4 reminds us that, "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God".

God loves us. He not only has the answers you are desperately seeking for, He is the answer you are seeking for. There is a familiar chorus that says this very thing. "Jesus is the answer for the world today. Without Him there is no other, Jesus is the way." Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. . . " (John 14:6). If your feel lost on the pathway of life, you don't have to turn to the occult to find answers, you can turn to Christ. He is all the answer you need.

Alternative Medicine

Touch Therapies and the Occult   

So what do Touch Therapies have to do with the occult? The answer is lots. Touch therapies are saturated with occult practices that each one of us should be aware of. Lets take a moment and explore various occult practices and how they are part of alternative medicine's touch therapies.

Clairsentience - This is the occult method of gaining supernatural insight and information through "touch". It is the primary method used in all touch therapies treatments. Practitioners will use their hands to feel for hot and cold spots, changes in electromagnetic frequency and energy deletions.

Claircognizance - This is the occult method of knowing or of having sudden inspirations of insight. It is an inner sense of knowing. Often, claircognizance is portrayed as having premonitions or flashes of insight. Touch therapies use claircognizance to gain knowledge of illnesses reasons, causes and cures. Practitioners may refer to it as making a psychic connection with their clients.

Clairvoyance - This occult method of insight comes from the 17th Century French word meaning  "to see". Seeing the supernatural is one method used by touch therapists to "read auras", see depletion's in the "human bio-field" and visualize deceased family members, angels and spirit guides to get information and assistance in performing touch therapies.

Clairaudience - This occult practice uses sound and hearing to attain supernatural insight. Practitioners hear voices, receive impressions and communicate back and forth with spirits and the deceased. This information is often used to ascertain information privy to the deceased and a loving family member to bring assurance of life beyond death. "Hearing" the voices of supernatural beings, deceased family members and receiving "impressions" from them is how touch therapists gain insight in gathering information which can assist in a client's healing process.

These are just a few ways that touch therapists use to connect with the occult in their practice of touch medicine. All of these terms come from the practice of spiritism, seances and the occult. How can any of these be termed "alternative medicine"? As we have shown time after time, touch therapy is a religious belief and practice - it is not medicine at all.

As Christians, we should avoid the slightest contact with the dark arts which are so enmeshed with the occult and the demonic. Instead, we are to expose these things to the light of Christ. John the Apostle said, "God is light and in Him is no darkness at all". Ouija Boards, movies and  TV programs that portray the practice of the occult should not be part of the Christian's life or one his forms of entertainment. These practices are not entertainment, are not simply fascinating topics to explore, these practices are from the Abyss and they seek to fascinate a world, hungry for a spiritual experience but looking for it outside of Christ.

Just because paranormal experiences, vampires and Harry Potter are among the most popular forms of entertainment today, doesn't mean that Christians should join the crowd and become enamored with them. Jesus told us, "Be in the world, but be not of the world". The world  is this world's present evil system, opposed to God and opposed to those in Christ. The Bible commands us, "Come out from among them and be ye separate". We are to be "Holy as he is Holy".

Let's make a decision to stand out from the crowd, to be as different as it takes to let others know that we stand with Christ. If you find that you have been involved in toxic alternative therapies, or have got weighted down with occult entertainments, you can make a change right now. Tell your heavenly Father of your new determination to change and renounce your former lifestyle. Turn 180 degrees around and begin to live your life in a different way.

Exposing Buddhism

Buddhism and Touch Therapies

Siddhartha Guatama was born about 500 B.C. i a province of northern India. He was the son of a local Raja or King and a member of the Brahman caste system. Living a sheltered life in the royal court, Siddhartha enjoyed every luxury of life. At his birth, it was prophesied that he would either be a great ruler or if he chose the religious way of life, the savior of the world. On Siddhartha's 20th birthday, his father gave him the gift of 40,000 dancing girls. He eventually chose his cousin Yodhartha to be his wife.

Siddhartha was curious about the outside world and stole away from the palace to explore it. When he escaped the confines of the palace, he observed the suffering of the world for the first time. On the night of his only son's birth, he left the palace never to return. Instead, Siddhartha entered the monastic way of life and became a monk. traveling from place to place and practicing asceticism, he tried to find a way to escape the sufferings of this life. While sitting under a tree in Deer Park in a city in northern India, Siddhartha experienced a spiritual transformation and became the Buddha or "Enlightened One". Buddha traveled the countryside preaching his gospel of an ethical system which would deliver those who heard it from the struggles of everyday life. He died of poison at the age of 80.

The Buddha's teaching introduced three major ideas; 1. The existence of Nirvana. Nirvana is the goal of life. It simply means "nothingness". The goal is to empty the self of all anxiety and self and merge with the energy force that consists of all things. In this, Buddha introduced the idea of an impersonal god. This concept of god is called Pantheism or that "god is all and all is god". All living things are part of the god consciousness. 2. The second belief that the Buddha introduced is the idea of karma. The way that that people achieve freedom from suffering is through a system of good works. The worked that you do determine what form you take in the next life.  3. The final concept that the Buddha introduced is reincarnation. Escape from the sufferings of this present life is found through an endless cycle of death and rebirth into higher and higher forms of life. The goal is to merge with the Universal life force and empty oneself of all personal identity. The means of doing this is achieved through Karma.

Touch therapies are based on Buddhism's pantheistic ideas of god. In touch therapy, the existence of a Universal Life Force is key to understanding how healing works. This all-pervasive energy is channeled by the therapist into the bodies of the clients to produce healing. This concept is a direct derivative of Buddhism. Touch therapies also hold to a pantheistic view of God in that all things are related by spirit. Not only do people have a spirit, but o do animals and inanimate objects such as rocks and trees. These may be contacted in touch therapy sessions for information and direction. The spirits of the dead are contacted as well. Deceased family members and the spirits of deceased teachers are channeled in order to assist the therapist in healing. Some say that these help them perform psychic surgery. Touch therapies practice the principles of karma and reincarnation believing that they can regress into past and future lives to affect events contained within both.

Christians should not have anything to do with touch therapies. Touch therapies are based on religious ideas that deny the core of the Christian gospel. They deny the sinfulness of man, the need for Christ's vicarious death and the hope of a bodily resurrection. Christians need to plainly realize that touch therapies are not alternative medical choices but are in essence religious ideas based on Eastern religion and the occult.

Touch Therapies

Healing Touch

Healing Touch was developed by Janet Mentger in 1985 out of Colorado Community College in Denver. In many ways it is very similar to Therapeutic Touch except that Mentger developed a whole educational curriculum and licensing process that R.N.'s must comply with in order to be recognized as Healing Touch prcttioners. The program is five years in length and requires 1,000 hours of supervised practiced before sitting for boards.

Healing Touch is based on the scientific idea that the earth has an electromagnetic field which surrounds all matter. This field measures 8 mgz and is exactly the same electrical field generated by Healing Touch practitioners as they administer their therapy. Low frequescies are detected in the human bio-field and energy is restored through the touch therapy.

However,Healing Touch theory is not only dependent on scientific interaction with the human bio-field, it is also dependent on Eastern religion and the cult of Theosophy. It seems like none of the touch therapies can rely strictly on a scientific explanation but must also rely on a form of spirituality as well. Healing Touch depends on the teachings of the Theosophical Society, Hinduism and occult ideas. Courses offered require reading assignments from all the founders of Theosophy, Hindu ideas of the chakra system, meridian lines, and marma points. It also makes extensive use of occult ideas such as auras, etheric bodies, Higher Sense Perception and Hara Lines.

The deceifulness of Healing Touch is that it attempts to masquerade itself in Christian terminology to appeal to mainstream America. It recently opened a Judeo-Christian educational Center at its Denver facility, to promote Healing Touch in synogogues and Churches. It purports to be an extension of the healing ministry of Jesus and interests Christians in this manner.

Healing Touch is a dangeous touch therapy because it attempts to blend itself with Christianity. However, the two stand diametrically opposed to one another. "What fellowship can Christ have with Belial?" This is a key question. Never forget that Jesus is our healer. Any system that attempts to substitute other healing methods for the power of the healing touch of Christ offers a model devoid of the presence of the Holy Spirit and should be avoided. 

Touch Therapies
Therapuetic Touch


Therapeutic Touch is the second touch therapy covered in my book "The Occult Invasion of Health Care". Conceived by Dora Kunz and Delories Krieger in the early 1970's, Therapeutict Touch has spread thoughout the nursing system and is taught in more than 80 medical schools and corresponding nursing programs.


The concept is based in two centers of thought: one scientific, the other religious. Scientifically, it is linked to physics, field theory and the idea of psychogenic fields. Religiously, it is linked to Hinduism and other Eastern metaphysical practices. Kunz also claimed to be a 14th generation clairvoyant with the power to see the "bio-field" or aura, surrounding each person. She claimed that she could induce healing by channeling "prana" or energy into the aura. Kunz was also president of the Theosophical Society in America, a well-known cult, and editor of its publishing house. She was committed to many strange spiritual ideas.


Krieger hold a PhD in nursing and is the primary designer of "Frontieers In Nursing", the Therapeutic Touch graduate program taught in most nursing programs affiliated with the therapy. Krieger bases her thought on scientific and spiritual concepts as well. In addition to the methods alluded to by Kunz she also interjects electromagnetic theory. Krieger's spiritual conncetion drifts out of the mainstream and into African and Native American religious ideas called Aninism. Animism is the practice of communicating with the spirits of inanimate objects such as animals, mountains, plants and trees. Krieger openly discusses her involvement in the occult as well. She goes so far as to detail the use of occult methods in her healing practice.


Christians need to beware of Therapeutic Touch. None of its "scientific mechanisms" have ever been validated by medical professionals. This means that the only support base it enjoys is based in Hinduism and occult practice. As Christians, we must "flee the appearance of evil". In the Old testament, God condemned such practices and said that they were an abomination. The penalty for practicing such things under the Old Testament economy was death.


In the New Testament, the apostle Paul also condemns the practice of all such behaviors and reiterates that those who practice such things are worthy of the ultimate penalty. Instead, let us focus on the healing power of Jesus Christ. He who "bore our infirmities and ws chastised for our weakness and by whose stripes we have been healed" (Isaiah 53:5). Jesus paid the price for our healing on the Cross of Calvary. Not only is His healing power available to us today, but we should witness that same power to those who do not yet know Him.