Growth of the Occult
Health Care, the Growing Edge of the Occult

You may ask “How did you happen to write a book on “The Occult Invasion of Health Care?

a.    My Experience. I worked as a pastor for 20 years and 9 years as a health care chaplain. My supervisor practiced Wicca/Reiki Master and subtly pressured the entire nursing staff to take training in Reiki. * Except for me because she knew that I was a born again Christian and Reiki would have no effect on me. In fact I would serve as a barrier to her success in training the rest of the staff.
       
b.    Because I taught Parish Nursing classes. All of these nurses were Christians who wanted to work in the framework of the church. My subject matter was “Touch Therapies” Reiki, Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch. (Which I will talk about more later.)

Most of these nurses were aware of touch therapies and many had received training from their jobs at the hospital or hospice in them. However, no one had made them aware of the spirituality connected with touch therapies and when I was finished with the class; they were in a quandary as to how they could respond in their jobs where they were expected to practice Reiki Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch.

c.    I wrote this book because touch therapies are growing at a rapid pace in our hospital(25%) and hospice environments and by and large people are unaware of their diabolical nature.

The occult is comng to our health care system. No longer is it relegated to books, movies and television genres. The occult is stepping out of the celluoid shadows into the daylight of our society. Christians have a responsibility to do as I have done and make others aware of the growing edge of the occult, not only in health care but in every area of society in which it makes its advance.

Spiritual Autopsy

The Death of Chaplaincy in Health Care


You may have ask yourself, don't hospitals and hospices hire Chaplains. Aren't they providing pastoral care?

    The role of Chaplain has been emasculated, become impotent.

-    Pastoral care has become "spiritual care".
-    Differentiates religion from spirituality. Religion = practices and rituals. Spirituality = emotional well-being,
      devotion to nature, family and whatever else brings peace and freedom from anxiety.
-    I call it "the cult of spiritual care" because it is based on a belief system with its own clergy. It is very 
      controlling and manipulates others.
-    Cannot share their personal faith in Christ
-    Must support all faiths or lack of faith and reassure people.
-    Cannot use their theological training.
-    Have become "spiritual social workers".
-    Have to embrace alternative care!


**My testimony. One man cursed me when I walked in the door and yelled for sometime. His wife was embarrassed. I ended up talking with him about a mutual interest – fishing – he died two days later and I never had the chance to tell him about Christ.

Christian, chaplaincy is no longer about pastoral care, its about calming and comforting agitated , depressed or anxious patients. This is a sad state because the spiritual power of the ministry has been ripped away from the powerful role of the chaplain and they have been stripped of their former efficacy. I know this because of my work as a chaplain for over nine years. We must pray that the chaplains who do know Christ will once again find the place to reclaim the ministry of Jesus Christ in our health care system.

Chakras
Center of the Soul


Within the context of all Touch Therapies: Reiki, Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch is the common belief in imaginary structures within the body called Chakras, Meridian Line and Marma Points. What are these structures exactly and why are they called imaginary?

Practioner’s of Touch Therapies borrow this terminology heavily from Eastern Religion and philosophy. It is primarily rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine and its influence from Taoism as well as Buddhism and Hinduism. The theory goes something like this:

• Chakras: Within the body are seven energy vortexes or ports that receive energy from the Universal life force. These ports begin with the crown of the head, the neck, the solar plexus, the genitalia and so forth down the body. The idea of a Universal Life Force is primarily a Buddhist idea based on the Pantheistic idea that ‘god is all and all is god’ This force is radiated from all living things and empowered by the life force of all living elements together. As the flood of Buddhism conquered the East, the idea of the chakra system became of common feature of Hinduism and folk religion as well.


• Meridian Lines: Meridian lines evolved largely from Traditional Chinese Medicine and practices such as Chinese massage, acupuncture and acupressure. The idea is that there are 12 primary and 2 secondary energy lines that connect with the chakra system and act as conduits to move the Universal Life Force energy from the chakras throughout the human body to each of the major organ systems in order to effect their healing power. Of course there is absolutely no medical evidence that chakras or meridian lines even exist.

• Marma Points: Meridian lines are the 450 where the power of the Universal Life Force is directly absorbed from the Meridian Lines into specific points needing the efficacy of healing power. This is a major concept behind the ideas expressed in acupuncture, Chinese Massage and even many Chiropractic techniques.

There is absolutely no medical information to support the theory of the Chakra System and continues at best to be a religious belief based on Pantheism and its concept of the Universal Life Force.

The only life force that we as Christians are to be connected to is the life force as found in the saving work of Christ on the Cross. His resurrection is the life force which promises us complete healing and guarantees our resurrection as well. Christian understand their relationship to their Creator . . . He is God and beside Him there is no other. We also understand that the Universal Life Force is under the supervision of Satan, after all, he is the “Prince and Power of the Air”.

Millions involved in Hinduism, Buddhism and Traditional Chinese medicine have been blinded by the “god of this world”. They desperately need Christ and we have a responsibility to help them find Him.

Spread of the Occult
Media Spearheads Occult Influx
A plethora of Occult themes is being spearheaded by the multi-media. For instance: our movie theaters have led the charge of the occult invasion for years. Who can forget the lines of people who stood outside theaters to watch the 70’s movie the Exorcist? Yes, there have been fright flicks before has for years among these being hoax films  such as various films about Count Dracula, the Wolf Man, the mummy and other cult movies. However, these were poorly done and did not carry the same weight of demonic presence as those films that followed from the 70’s to the present. Some of these satanically devised films that followed were:

•    Children of the Corn
•    Rosemary’s Baby
•    Halloween
•    Amityville Horror
•    Pet Cemetery
•    Nightmare On Elm Street
•    The Shinning
•    Salem’s Lot
•    Texas Chainsaw Massacre
•    Last House on the Left
•    Ghost
•    Twilight
•    Eclipse
•    New Moon
•    Paranormal Activity

Just to name a few:

Television started off with some rather cute shows like:

•    Bewitched
•    I Dream of Jeannie
•    The Munsters
•    The Adams Family

But then moved on to:

•    Dark Shadows
•    The Mentalist
•    Medium
•    Ghost Whisperer
•    Paranormal
•    Most Haunted
•    The Haunting
•    Supernatural
•    Charmed

To Name a Few.

Why do people flock to these films and television shows? Some say that its because people like to be scared. However, I say that its more than that. People are curious about the occult. Each of us has a longing for spiritual things. Unfortunately, those without Christ flock to spiritualistic entertainment because it fills  void in their lives. Descartes, the French mathematician said “that in every man is a God shaped void that can only be filled by God Himself.” How true. But I believe that if people do not turn to God to fill this void, they often turn to the occult to find its fullness.

The Bible is explicit in its condemnation of involvement with the occult or playing around its fringes, Deuteronomy 18:10-12 states “There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God will drive them out from before you.

Television and movies may seem harmless but they are not. The multi-media exposes all of us to the occult and creates a desensitization within our psyche as to its dangers. They mollify us and put us to sleep. May Christians everywhere wake from its trance-like induced state and make other choices in the field of entertainment. May unbelievers realize the futileness of turning to false spirituality to fill their God-shaped void.

Satan's Foothold

Beliefs of Therapeutic Touch

Synopsis

Therapeutic Touch developed in 1972, by two nurse/PhD: Delores Krieger and Dora Kunz. TT is an “energy medicine” much like Reiki. TT practices healing techniques by channeling the universal “Vital Life Force” through the body’s Chakras (or invisible energy ports) using various hand positions. The hands channel this energy to rebalance and heal the body. Nurses certified in Therapeutic Touch are expected to read a wide range of books on occult philosophy and engage in training that includes channeling “angels” or “spirit guides”. TherapeuticTouch is being welcomed in churches in the guise of Christian healing practiced by Jesus and 1st Century Christianity.

Dora Kunz, The Spiritual Dimension of TherapeuticTouch, 2004, based on early 20th Century writings of Charles Leadbeater (1847-1934) a clairvoyant, former curate in the Church of England who converted to Buddhism. Defines Energy as prana or chi which is believed to flow through chakras or energy points located in the hands which flow through along meridian lines representing various vital organs. Directs workshops targeted at Professional Nurses.

Theory

1. Utilizes and merges a scientific model with a spiritual model.
1. The scientific model makes use of Quantum Physics, Field Theory, and Psychology to create an intellectual rationale for Therapeutic Touch.
2. At the same time, it also draws on a wide variety of eastern religions and occult practices (like; Spiritism, clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, spirit guides, angels, Animism, Buddhism, Hinduism) to actually put TT into practice. TT practitioners are not partial to any form of spirituality but use a hodge-podge of anything which makes Therapeutic Touch more effective.

2. Therapeutic Touch is “experience based” or what those who practice TT feel and claimed to have happened. Although arguing that it is rooted in science, its offers little or no scientific proof to support its claims.

3. Practices include talking with rocks, trees, and animals. Belief in sacred sites which magnify spiritual energy.

4. Utilize a healthcare model, conducting pseudo-medical studies to offer evidence of its effectiveness. TT is practiced primarily in hospice, care centers and clinics as well in hospitals. Over 70,000 nurses have been trained in Therapeutic Touch.

5. Since a guiding premise of TT is the expression of “Compassion”, it is primarily practiced by nurses as caregivers. TT lacks scientific evidence that physicians require.

Practices

Level I – Teaches

1.) Centering meditatively; (inward focus not outward

toward God)

2.) assessing the patient’s energy field; (listening for

spiritual information about)

3.) decongesting negative energy which is the cause of

illness;

4.) taps into the “Vital Life Energy” to refill the body’s

depleted energy and rebalances this energy through the

hand’s chakras to bring healing. (Becomes a channel)

Level II– Teaches:

1.) Clearing negative energy patterns of the individuals

Aura (energy field which surrounds the body);

2.) Developing a Higher Sense of Perception (HSP) such as

clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, spirit guides

and guardian angels.

3.) Channeling or Healing involving spirit guides and

performing “etheric operations (of the aura) through

the hands of the practitioner.

Levels III– Teaches:

1.) How to become a Certified Therapeutic Touch Practitioner;

2.) Conduct and document Therapeutic Touch sessions;

3.) Learn at least 10 additional alternative healing

techniques; Reiki is usually the most popular.

Demons and the Occult
The Doctrine of Demons

"Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons" (1 Timothy 1:4)

"In the last days people will depart from the faith". Faith here is either Christian doctrine or the Christian faith as a religious movement. For discussion see 1 Tim 1:2 and 3:9. As in those two passages it is more likely that Christian doctrine (or, teachings) is meant here in 4:1, too. Depart comes from a Greek verb from which is derived the word "apostasy" and which literally means "to stand off from." It refers primarily to the act of turning away from what is accepted by the community as true belief, hence "abandon" (TEV), "turn from" (CEV), "renounce" (NRSV), "desert" (NJB), "forsake" (REB). An alternative translation model for depart from the faith is "stop believing in (or, renounce) the Christian teachings."

The cause of their apostasy is that they "will obey" deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. Giving heed translates a participle that means "pay attention to" (NRSV), both in terms of mental assent (for example REB "surrender their minds") and of action (hence TEV "obey . . . follow"). Deceitful comes from a word that means "erroneous," "wrong," "misleading," hence TEV "lying." These spirits are contrasted with the Spirit, who is the source of true teaching. See 1 Tim 3:16 for a discussion of "Spirit" and "spirits."

The two expressions deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons are obviously related, but the relationship is not all that clear. Ways of defining their relationship are as follows:

(1) The spirits and demons may be taken as parallel and as referring to evil spirits. The whole expression can then be restructured as "the teachings of deceitful demonic (or evil) spirits," or "deceitful demonic spirits and their doctrines," or even "deceitful evil spirits and their demonic doctrines."

(2) The spirits may refer to the false teachers, and their teachings are described as doctrines of demons. In this sense the spirits are identical with the liars in verse 2. No translation has chosen this alternative, however.

(3) The spirits may refer to evil spirits, while doctrines of demons can be taken as human teachings that are inspired by demonic forces. The translation that comes closest to this position is REB: "subversive spirits and demon-inspired doctrines." It is recommended by this Handbook that translators follow this interpretation.

An alternative translation model for this verse is:

God's Spirit clearly says (or, states) that in these last days some people will stop believing the Christian teachings; they will instead obey false teachings inspired by lying evil (or, dirty) spirits (or, demons).

The way that the doctrine of demons is taught is through people who have sold themselves to their false belief systems. Some of these teachers are found among the cults such as: Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science and hosts of others. Some teach the doctrine of demons among occult practices like: Satanism, Spiritism, Witchcraft and the New Age Movement. Still others teach the doctrine of demons through alternative medicine like Reiki, Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch.

Christians, wherever you are it is certain that many will attempt to seduce you into abandoning your faith. Be warned, these are nothing more than evil, lying, deceitful spirits who goal is to entrap you into abandoning the faith.

Distance Healing Through 

Therapeutic Touch

Healing Mouse 37

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.

Satan can mimic the power of God but always fail to meet God's final test of being accurate 100% of the time. For those who are sick the scripture is very specific in telling us how to seek healing. James 5:14 & instructs us "Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven."

Embracing the Darkness
A Personal Testimony

I was barely aware of touch therapies before I became a chaplain. I had heard of Healing Touch and knew there was something wrong with it innately. But it was only when I became a chaplain that I began to see the emergence of a new kind of spirituality creeping into chaplaincy which was traditionally a Christian vocation.

I began working in hospice where for the first time I encountered a new "medical modality" or alternative therapy called "Reiki". Reiki, I discovered, was founded by a Japanese man who had been a former Bible College professor, forsook his Christian faith and returned to Buddhism. In that context, he received a vision that gave him the power to heal.

Hospice not only encouraged the practice of Reiki, but the supervisory staff strongly encouraged all disciplines to take Reiki training and use it in the treatment of their patients. As a chaplain, I was also encouraged to take Reiki training but decided not to participate. I knew that the practice of Reiki encouraged contact with "spirit guides", energy therapy, and a Buddhist world view which I wanted nothing to do with as a believer in Christ Jesus. As a believer in Christ, I knew that Reiki stood in opposition to my faith.

The horrible difficulty that I encountered was with was when the organization I worked for differentiated between the "pastoral care" and "spiritual care". Pastoral care they said, "included all the rite, rituals and practices of organized religion (or the church). Spiritual Care on the other hand was "tolerant" of all faith and appealed to the spirit of the individual through the means of stressing the blessing of family, the transcendence of nature, the values and particular path one took to God (all being equally valid), or in not being religious at all one could still be spiritual.

It was my duty as a chaplain to leave the premises of ante-dated pastoral care and embrace the practice of the new spirituality. In fact, the new spirituality was valued so greatly by management that I was prohibited to share my faith in Christ upon pains of being called "judgmental" and being fired from my job. I knew that by doing so, I was embracing the darkness of Eastern religion, a religion whose goal is annihilation and a religion without hope and without Christ. I found that in good conscience I could not embrace the new spirituality.

 As my workplace got deeper into the realms of the new spirituality they introduced other alternative therapies such as Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch, both branches of Eastern Religion and a nice mix of cult and occult practices. I found that I could no longer work in such an environment. Daily, I felt "pricked in my heart" by the voice of the Holy Spirit that I needed leave this environment. Not only did my job environment require me to embrace the new spirituality but it forced me to deny my faith in Christ and embrace a spirituality that was contradictory to the integrity of my own beliefs. It also forced me to mislead and misguide those who were near death with a gospel other than the gospel of Christ. I found this intolerable and am happy to day to be able to declare the name of our Living Lord, Jesus Christ without impunity.

The Housewife Who 

Confounded Two Countries 

Mrs. Lenora Piper

In the city of Boston in 1885, Mrs. Leonora E. Piper, wife of a Boston merchant, and possessed of but limited education, began what was to be a 40 year career as a spiritualistic medium, a career which was to be confounded the best minds in psychic research in both the United States and Europe with scientifically validated evidence which has never been refuted. Mrs. Piper became interested in spiritism after visiting a clairvoyant for the relief of severe pain after the birth of her first child. It was during sessions with and she lapsed into trances during which. She could answer with amazing accuracy questions concerning persons who had died.

For some 26 years she continued under the various spirits controls that possessed her during her trances as a medium and stopped only 1911 when the spirits suggested that her health would not bear the strain of their manifestation. In 1924 Mrs. Piper conducted a special series of séances and the records of these séances run more than 3000 pages in length with a fantastic score for accuracy.

Mrs. Piper gave some 88 sittings, for example, carefully observed at all times by members of the British Society for psychic research. Prof. Oliver Lodge, later Sir Oliver Lodge, one of England's most brilliant scientist and a careful psychic investigator, complied a checklist complied a checklist compiled a checklist of some 41 specific incidences were in Mrs. Piper stated facts and general information concerning those who attended her séances, facts which were unknown to those persons at the very time the séances were in session! This was carefully verified in his beyond reputation.

Mrs. Piper also had the amazing capacity to find lost objects and to relate incidents which were taking place menu hundreds of miles away from where she was in a trance. Prof. William James testified to this when Mrs. Piper informed him that his handsome living over 200 miles away in New York had died earlier that very morning. According to James: "On reaching home an hour later I found a telegram reading as follows: aunt Kate passed away a few minutes after midnight."

Dr. James, undaunted by Mrs. Piper's capabilities, went so far as to bring visiting professors from foreign universities with the Mrs. Piper was not acquainted only to have her give the correct names of the professors, some of their parents, from which they died. James once wrote of her:

I now believe her to be in possession of the power as yet unexplained.

The British Society for psychic research enlisted the aid of detectives and investigators who observed Mrs. Piper under all conditions while she was in England, and Dr. Richard Hodgson, during the course of three months of exhaustive investigation. During the course of that investigation she told them the exact movements of persons in distant cities, and at another time under the control of the Spirit who identified himself as George Pelleuw, Mrs. Piper informed Dr. Hodgson of events and facts which were subsequently verified by more than 30 of Pelleuw's friends. Pelleuw correctly rejected more than 100 persons claiming to have known him in life and showed only those whom he had known!

Under the control of Pelleuw, Mrs. Piper translated perfectly a Greek phrase composed on the spur of the moment by classical Greek scholar. Mrs. Piper knew no Greek whatever, but George Pelleuw did. She also reported under Pelleuw's control with complete accuracy what Pelleuw's father, who lived in another city, was doing at that moment.

Prof. James Hyslop of Columbia University was totally the world are by Mrs. Piper win with the cooperation of Dr. Hodgson, he interviewed Mrs. Piper in science 17 times, only to be told by her his correct name in perfect answers to the questions which he addressed to her though she could not possibly have an access to the answers. Dr. Hyslop ended up believing that through Mrs. Piper he had actually communicated with the spirit of his department father!
Mrs. Piper herself believed that the powers which he possessed were not supernatural. In fact, she stated:

"I never heard of anything being said by myself during the trance which might not have been latent in my own mind or in the mind of the sitters or in the mind of some absent person alive somewhere else in the world. The theory of telepathy strongly appeals to me as the most plausible solution of the problem."

Despite this modest statement Mrs. Piper convinced Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William crooks, Dr. William James, Dr. Hodgson and Dr. Hyslop , after more than fit $150,000 was spent on the most prolonged investigation in the history of psychic research, that she was indeed possessed of supernatural capacities and as the American Mercury pointed out, "Mrs. Piper is the only famous medium against whom no charger fraud was ever brought."

Conclusion

Evidence such as this cannot be dismissed but must indeed be studied carefully and will, I believe, demonstrate beyond the question of the doubt not only the existence of a spiritual dimension of reality of which the Bible speaks consistently but other capacity of some to penetrate this dimension. In the terms of Scripture such penetration can only culminate in a liaison with the forces of darkness of whom, in the light of Scripture, Mrs. Piper was a vehicle of communication.