3 – Meditation Pathway to Deception

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Hello, I’m Chuck Smith.

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And I’m Carol Metriciana.

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Welcome to this edition of the Pagan Invasion.

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Eastern meditation is a religious practice that has successfully penetrated the ranks of mainstream American society.

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Unknown to most, however, is the fact that this is exactly what was planned and hoped for by a group of Indian mystics just over 100 years ago.

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It was during the 19th century out of Calcutta, the black magic capital of India, that parahamsa Madhavi Saji emerged as an enthusiastic reformer of yoga.

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He deliberately changed the packaging of this ancient religious practice so as to make it more acceptable to the Western mindset.

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Since that time, a new modern scientific approach, having been aggressively marketed by leading gurus and their disciples, has now taken root in the American consciousness.

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Yoga and meditation were originally intended to be used only by the elderly who were nearing death.

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The yoga position, the chanting and meditative state, were designed to put the practitioner in contact with the Hindu deities, who are said to be able to guide them into their next phase of reincarnation.

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The physical body would experience a controlled heartbeat and breath rate, along with a mind that is deadened to reality.

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This would then supposedly make the entry into death easier and less traumatic.

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How incredibly ironic.

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It is, then, that this ancient practice, which was designed to assist the agent Hindu in dying, is today being used by vibrant young businessmen, athletes and even children for achieving better healthier living.

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Today, yoga and meditation is promoted as an exercise to relieve stress and worry and offers escape from the confusion of everyday life.

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It is acknowledged to lower blood pressure and claims to offer freedom from poverty and suffering by supplying good health and wealth.

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Yoga and meditation have now been incorporated into a number of branches of medicine.

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Many large businesses require their employees to practice it, hoping to stimulate higher productivity.

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Members of the United Nations and the Pentagon are encouraged to meditate before considering major decisions.

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And public school students.

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In many instances.

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Are required to participate in Hindu rituals of yoga and meditation.

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Despite the separation of church and state.

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The danger lies in the fact that despite its packaging.

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Despite its surface benefits.

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And despite its claims to the contrary.

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Meditation remains.

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As it was originally designed.

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A religious practice used for making contact with a dark spiritual realm.

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India, land of mystery is the 7th largest land mass and second most populated nation in the world.

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It is rich in resources and manpower, yet its people are among the poorest and most suffering on earth.

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Millions of Indians suffer from malnutrition, disease and poverty.

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The people are apathetic because their religion has taught them to be detached.

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Observers, disregarding the agonizing lifestyle which imprisons them.

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I was a member of the Social Service League at the college.

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We were trying to do what we could, help people in the villagers.

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A gentleman who was head of the department of Hindi came around to us and said, why are you doing this? These people who are suffering in the villages take good seas or whatever have come to us in this state because they’ve done something wrong in their past lives.

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Now, no matter what you do to them, if you cut short, they’re suffering in this life.

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What will happen is they will simply come back in the next life in the same state or a worse state.

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So you’re really wasting your time.

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It is part of the world of illusion, and the goal is to withdraw and detach yourself from it.

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So there’s no high view of, say, social action or compassion or an outrage concern to see justice in this world.

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On the contrary, if you do things like that, very often you’re just tinkering with a person’s karma.

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They believe that when a person suffers that that is what he’s do as a result of the law of karma, because you’ve done something very sinful in this lifetime or in a past lifetime, so there’s very little compassion.

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One just was taught to ignore all of the dreadful intolerable poverty and suffering of India.

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There were beggars clustering around the gates of the ashram day and night, children starving, living in surrounding what was supposed to be a religious community.

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The contradiction was disgusting to me, but most of us and young men failed to notice it.

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It appeared not to bother them in the least.

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We feel that the cause of suffering is within.

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And so to allow people to experience peace themselves, we teach courses in meditation.

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They seek to escape suffering by numbing their emotions and compassion through meditation.

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Although the Hindu tries to convince himself that suffering is only in his mind, an illusion, as he calls it, maya at the same time, he believes that he has to suffer again and again by forever being forced to return to this world through reincarnation.

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All the gurus that I know of in the western world teach reincarnation, a doctrine very central to Hinduism.

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Reincarnation is all about dying and coming back to this world in one form or the other.

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Park and people believe in transmigration of the soul, as they prefer to call it, traveling from body to body to body.

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These physical bodies don’t last forever, even though the soul does.

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So in the same way that a driver needs to change cars, in the same way we need to change from one body to another.

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Gandhi called reincarnation a burden too great to bear.

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Yet it is being eagerly embraced in the west in diluted form as part of a patent blend of Hinduism and Zen buddhism.

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Camouflaged with psychological terminology.

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This new age religion is promoted through thousands of worldwide networks and hundreds of major gatherings such as this mind, body, spirit, festival held in Los Angeles.

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and meditations.

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The festival, now international, was started in London in 1977 by Graham Wilson.

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He explained the New Age interpretation of reincarnation as an upward evolution to a higher species of mankind.

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We don’t just reincarnate as an individual soul into a new body each time, but more of the collective consciousness of souls, which is why I think we have access to a lot more information than we realize.

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I noticed that in the Western world, reincarnation has become something of a fad.

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However, in India and in Asia as a whole, reincarnation is certainly not a fad.

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It is a form of punishment.

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Within Hinduism, reincarnation is considered to be a terrible concept.

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The aim of the Hindu religion is to somehow try and escape from this endless imprisonment of life and death.

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And the means by which they believe one can get out of this hopeless trap is through the practice of yoga.

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Yoga goes all the way back to the Hindu god Shiva, who is called Yogeshwara, meaning Lord of Yoga.

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You find yoga in several of the major Hindu scriptures.

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Krishna, one of the many Hindu gods, was an advocate of yoga.

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Yoga is also mentioned in the Gita as the main means to attaining salvation.

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The word means basically to yoke union.

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The goal of the Hindu is to be yoked with Brahman.

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Brahman is the Hindu concept of God, the all or the absolute.

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Dave Hunt is an internationally recognized cult expert and bestselling author of more than a dozen books dealing with Eastern mysticism, psychic phenomenon, cults and the occult.

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I recently asked Dave to share his thoughts concerning the Eastern religious concepts of meditation, reincarnation and karma.

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Karma says that what you sow you will reap.

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If I’m a husband in this life who beats his wife, I must come back in the next life as a wife who’s beaten by her husband, which means that my husband and that life must come back as a wife who is beaten by her husband.

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And it goes on and on.

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If I’m a murderer, I must become the victim of a murder, which means that the one who murders me must then become the victim of a murder.

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So karma does not solve the problem of evil.

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It perpetuates evil now, whether you want to believe it or not.

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In contrast, the Bible says, yes, we do suffer the consequences of our deeds, but at the hands of a righteous God who has made a provision for our sins through God himself, becoming a man to die for our sins.

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And if we accept his payment of the judgment we deserve, then we’re forgiven.

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So the Bible does offer a solution to evil, whereas karma, in my opinion, does not.

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Gandhi called reincarnation a burden too great to bear, yet more than 60% of people today in the west believe in this.

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Why do they find it so appealing? Gandhi said, as you just told me, it’s a burden too great to bear.

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It’s considered punishment in the east.

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It’s popularized and fantasized in the west, and it’s put off as some kind of an escape.

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They imagine they are escaping God’s judgment.

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The Bible says it’s a point on a man wants to die after this, the judgment.

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They don’t want to face God in judgment.

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They’d rather believe they can come back and have another chance.

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And so I think it’s a delusion.

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It’s a misunderstanding of what reincarnation really is that causes people to want it.

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I remember a young man who had been a professing Christian, came to see me one night to tell me he believed in reincarnation.

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He was going to shake me up, I guess.

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And I said, well, do you know anything about reincarnation? Oh, yeah.

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He said I could end up a bug in the next slide for a tree or something.

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And I looked at him and I said, I can’t believe you.

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You will not allow Jesus Christ to guide your life and to solve the problem of sin and to lead you into heaven, but you will turn yourself over to some impersonal law of karma that could turn you into a bug or a tree.

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You got to be insane.

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It’s hard to believe why people would embrace something like this, but they think it’s an escape from the judgment of God.

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Dave, could you explain the purpose of yoga in relation to reincarnation? The Hindu talks about a wheel of reincarnation.

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It goes on and on, forever and forever, and the only escape is through yoga.

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Who said so? Who proved it? As a matter of fact, it doesn’t work.

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It doesn’t make sense.

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I mean, if I have to suffer from my sin, how can I escape from that penalty, the law of karma? By going into an altered state of consciousness and realizing that I’m God.

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It’s a delusion to imagine that I’m God and that this somehow is going to dissolve this law of karma.

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But that’s the teaching that through yoga you can escape the wheel of reincarnation, the consequences of the law of karma.

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When people involve themselves in some of these Eastern practices like yoga or stress management, do you think they consciously make a decision to follow the religion of Hinduism? Some people realize they’re involved in something that came from the east.

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They probably don’t associate it with Hinduism.

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Maharishi Mahishogi, as you know, deliberately lies.

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He says it is not religion, has nothing to do with religion.

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It’s purely scientific.

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As a matter of fact, it is Hinduism.

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It comes right out of the Hindu Vedas.

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It’s not always called yoga, but very often it is called yoga in the YMCA’s across America.

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But they don’t think that this is religion.

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So I think most people don’t consciously get involved in Hinduism.

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They think they’re buying into health when they’re getting Hinduism.

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They think they’re getting science, when in fact, they’re getting religion.

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Could you tell us some of the ways that Eastern meditation is practiced in our society today? But we have to go back first and remember what it’s about.

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There’s a pagan invasion.

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Paul defines paganism in Romans, chapter one.

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They worship the creation instead of the creator.

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So it’s an attempt to find the reality, the solution to all problems within, in creation around me and myself and my consciousness.

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So any system out there that we have in the Western world, which is an attempt to manipulate reality by going within, getting in this altered state of consciousness, it could be in success, motivation techniques that are taught in the business world, that by the power of my mind, through positive affirmations, through visualization, through developing my potential.

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The whole human potential movement is really based upon the same premise that yoga and reincarnation are based upon.

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It’s very pervasive.

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It’s in sports, in the sports world, developing super powers.

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Somehow we can, through the mind, create a new reality and become super beings.

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Literally.

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It’s the lie of the serpent in the garden of Eden that we can be God and that we have these powers within it’s in the hospitals.

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It’s in the medical profession ways of healing.

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Supposedly, even in the Pentagon, they have a meditation club headed by Ed Winchester who imagines that they’re going to create peace by meditation, a psychic shield of peace around the world.

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Within orthodox Hinduism, yoga and meditation are important religious rituals designed to stimulate occult powers that are necessary for the reincarnation process.

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Yet most people who practice these techniques are unaware of their origins or dangers.

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Let’s continue our investigation by examining the various types of yoga and meditations that are being sold today here in the west.

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Yoga in its many westernized forms, is also at the heart of the new age movement that has adopted Hinduism’s basic beliefs and goals.

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In spite of the seeming variety in hundreds of competitive schools of yoga, all forms come out of India and lead into the occult.

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Though most westerners are not aware of this, yoga techniques include breathing exercises or prana positions called asanas, dissolving the mind known as leia, psychic powers called sidhis, repetitious chanting named mantra, and deliberately cultivating black magic known as tantra.

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In my extensive travels in India, I have encountered a number of westerners who have got into Hinduism and began following Hindu gurus as a result of a very simple initiation into a yoga class.

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Yoga is in many ways, the heart of Hinduism.

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There is no Hinduism without yoga, and there is no yoga without Hinduism.

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Although there are many types of yoga, the one most familiar in the west often passes for physical exercise and is called Hafa yoga.

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It promises mental and physical health, but its Hindu roots and real goal to yoke with brahmin are seldom taught.

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Ellen believes that Raja yoga, or yoga of the mind is the highest form of Hinduism, the Bhumakumari.

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Raj yoga is a form of meditation where the soul begins to understand itself clearly and has a connection with the Supreme Being.

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Raj means royal and yoga means union.

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So the link with the supreme being.

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And through this yoga, I become the ruler over my own self, over my mind and my life.

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Johanna Michelson, former yoga teacher and assistant to a psychic surgeon, tells of her experiences in the occult in her autobiography The Beautiful Side of Evil.

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Another word for mantra is charm, or to cast a spell if you will.

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And in mantra yoga, a word or phrase or the name of a demon god is repeated over and over and over again to bring the individual to a vibration level that will attract that which is being chanted for, to bring about the desired effect.

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It’s exactly what the white witches and magicians so called use in the casting of their spells.

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We were always told, no, it’s just a meaningless sound, had nothing to do with Hindu gods.

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But every time a person would sit down, they’d be invoking a Hindu god by thinking that mantra over and over again and be stronger in their life.

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108 mantras is one round and they chant that 16 times a day.

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That takes 2 hours to do every day.

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That’s the minimum requirement.

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The guru get it from that.

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It’s sometimes referred to as a hypnotizing or brainwash technique because whenever you’re having a problem or running into some confrontation, you retreat to the security of the chanting instead of thinking a problem through.

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George Harrison of the Beatles made mantra yoga acceptable to the world through his son my sweet Lord, where he incorporated a chant to a Hindu god, Hari Krishna, simultaneously with the biblical shout of praise hallelujah.

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He said he did this deliberately to show that both religions are the same and to make Hinduism more acceptable.

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To pretend that all religions are the same is dishonest, as is the merger of various religious techniques.

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For instance, more and more Christians use the name Jesus much like a mantra.

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They claim that it’s a tool to get them into the presence of God.

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Jesus said that repetitious prayer is not acceptable to God.

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Maharishi Maheshiogi, originator of PM, claims to have put eastern meditation on the mystical map.

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With over 3 million followers, TM is the largest guru movement ever to invade the west.

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The Beatles much publicized visit to Maharishi’s community in India in the 60s convinced their millions of fans that PM, the Socalled scientific yoga was an even more powerful way to bliss consciousness than drugs.

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What makes TM unique and different from any other practice that’s going on today is that it offers enlightenment.

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Very quickly I started experiencing being lost in this state of awareness called the absolute.

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In essence, Marie she taught that we all come from that nothingness, and that is the source of all our consciousness, of all of our thinking and everything we do.

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Maharishi’s primary thrust is the marketing of his city yoga, which is designed to develop psychic powers such as levitation.

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These courses, like most guru programs, cost thousands of dollars.

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Rob was able to finance his advanced training through government student loans totaling $6,000 during these sessions.

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It’s a very strange environment.

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People speak in tongues.

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They yell and they scream.

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They talk in foreign languages.

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It’s like a madhouse, and it’s real crazy.

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Everyone is bouncing around with foam pads line up in the air.

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Rajnish is one of India’s most controversial gurus, largely because of his endorsement of shocking sexual practices as a prerequisite for salvation.

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His brand of yoga, called dynamic meditation, is a new age combination of Hinduism and psychotherapies.

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This exercise, involving rigorous breathing and hyperventilation, is designed to arouse the serpent force called kundalini, which the gurus believe lies coiled in the base of the spine.

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I did dynamic meditation every day.

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We also called it Kundalini meditation.

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It starts off with a cathartic breathing, and the reason for it is just to move your energy and to get you out of your head and into your body, and you just breathe.

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The next phase, the screening phase of dynamic meditation, feels like when you finally had an opportunity to do a pantry.

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By the time you get to the third phase of jumping up and down and yelling who.

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You’re hardly there at all.

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And so it’s pretty hard to remember what happens when you’re there.

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I guess the closest thing I can associate it with is mindlessness.

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You get to a place where your mind actually leaves your body.

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Your body is just jumping up and down, and your voice from your gut is yelling, who.

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And you’re not doing it anymore.

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You become one with this whole energy.

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Someone else stops, and you’ve just been doing 30 minutes of intense catharsis.

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And what happens after being in such incredibly intense movement for so long is just a feeling of peacefulness and stillness.

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My mind actually stops, and I feel awareness with the whole universe.

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There have been glowing reports published giving credit to the gurus and their pseudo psychological techniques, but neglecting to mention the thousands of cases of emotional and mental breakdowns, insanity, suicide, beatings, murder, rapes going on in guru centers, various guru centers worldwide.

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It is alarming to realize these dangerous techniques for enlightenment are being incorporated in psychotherapies selfhelp seminars and are even being accepted in mainstream Protestant and Catholic churches and seminaries.

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One of the fastest growing yogas in the west today is Tantra.

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Seductively offered as an exotic means for enhancing one’s sexual experiences.

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Like all yoga, it is designed to provoke possession by Indian spirits in order to break the chain of reincarnation.

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In tantra, advanced disciples indulge in the most degenerate behavior, from human sacrifices to sexual perversion.

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And sorcery Santa yoga is the extreme expression of Hinduism, if you will.

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It’s the black and so called white magic in which the Shakti, the kundalini force is aroused.

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The psychic powers that accompany it are in full bloom.

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And the individual.

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Depending on his personal preference.

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Can channel this force either into the black magic.

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Which includes rites of meditating upon severed heads.

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Human heads in India.

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And eating bits of flesh.

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And the unconsumed parts of the cremation rights and other practices.

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Horrifying practices.

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Or they can take it into what they call the white magic part of it.

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In which they are using this power.

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This force.

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For healing.

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For the benefit of mankind.

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If you will.

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Yet Antonio Bay, the pope of the First Church of Satan, has said it very explicitly.

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He said that to believe there’s any such thing as white magic, as mythology, there is no such thing as white magic.

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All of it has its source in occult, psychic power, and it has nothing whatever to do with God.

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Toby is a yoga teacher at the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School in aHUS, Denmark, which promotes pantra yoga.

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Pantra means to free the mind through expanding the awareness.

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That means to be able to meet more and more of the reality in everyday life.

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In India, meditation is designed to separate the practitioner from his surroundings.

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How does this differ from the biblical way to cope with our present stresses and problems? First of all, you can’t escape from your surroundings by going within and fantasizing imagining that you have control, that you have escaped.

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The surroundings are still there.

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The problems are still there.

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There’s a difference between meditation, as we have noted, in the west, which has always meant contemplation.

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For example, Psalm One says in his law, God’s word doth he meditate day and night.

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Psalm 119, he talks about meditating upon his statutes, his precepts, his laws.

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But in the east, meditation has the opposite meaning.

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It means you tune it out.

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You don’t contemplate, but you get into an altered state of consciousness.

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You may focus on a flickering flame or the tip of your nose, or the third eye in the middle of your forehead or whatever, but the whole idea is to tune out, to release yourself from conscious thought and from time, space, and the elements and everything around you, and to get into another state, because they believe that we create reality with our minds.

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And so if you can just blank it out, it doesn’t work, it doesn’t go away.

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We don’t create reality with our minds.

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I didn’t create the atom, for example, the stars, the distant galaxies.

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There’s a whole universe within the atom that our scientists haven’t even discovered.

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And to suggest that my mind has created my reality, I mean, pardon me, it’s ludicrous.

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What are some of the mental and spiritual dangers of Eastern meditation? One of the most obvious is disillusionment when you find out.

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You can’t manipulate reality with your mind, and you’ve been told you could.

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You even have lawsuits.

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Now, some horrendous cases, for example, someone who got into life spring and thought that they could manipulate reality with her mind.

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I remember one case of a woman who thought she could turn a red light to green with her mind, and she drove through a red light and had a wreck.

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Well, she sued, and I think she got 800,000 damage or something like that.

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But there can be a horrible disillusionment.

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But the spiritual side of it is even worse.

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For example, W Brujoy, who was a medical doctor who got involved in Eastern mysticism, became a guru.

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He says, not one person knows what psychic power is.

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And of course, that’s what you develop in these states of consciousness or all of its aspects, and no one has ever known, despite attempts over thousands of years to master this knowledge.

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So you’re playing with fire.

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That’s what astonishes me.

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These people would do it.

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He says, tapping these energies is fire, and the consequences can be psychosis, aggravation of neuroses, acceleration of disease processes, and suicide.

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So here’s a man who says, hey, the water is full of pranas, but if you dive in and swim fast enough, you might get to the other side.

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And if you do, you got some terrific powers waiting for you.

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There are horrible dangers, but the worst danger is spirit contact.

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That’s what this whole thing is designed for to make contact with the spirit world, to pick up spirit guides.

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And I have talked with many people in yoga.

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I have made contact with spirit entities that have led them down a horrendous path of evil and destruction.

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rebirthers.

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It’s another way it comes in.

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They regress you back.

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It’s in psychology and psychotherapy, and they regress you back, and you relive this birthing process.

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And he became a Christian.

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And he said that after his observation of this whole New Age scene out there, he became convinced that these techniques were specifically designed to break open doors and knock down barriers that God has placed within us to prevent a demonic invasion.

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And of course, that’s what the whole pagan world is about.

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One of the reasons the JudeoChristian Bible warns against involvement with the occult such as tantric yoga and meditation is because it is said to open one up to spiritual deception by demonic powers whose very purpose is to lead people away from knowing the true God.

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Tragically, many Christians, after naively practicing these techniques, have felt compelled to alter or reject their beliefs.

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A common byproduct of meditation is the replacement of God with oneself.

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Maharishi Maheshiogi, originator of Transcendental Meditation, said that the purpose of his meditation is to be still and know that I, the practitioner, am God.

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After meditating, singer John Denver was quoted as saying, I can do anything one of these days, I will be God.

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Actress and bestseller author Shirley McLean claims that meditation helped her to realize that she was God.

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Although yoga is sold to the west through various gimmicks and techniques, its basic occultism remains the same.

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The hope of immortality is at its heart, and the dream of realizing one’s own inherent divinity is its ultimate purpose.

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Becoming a Christ, they call it.

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Despite the claim that yoga is only physical and non religious, it is the very essence of Hinduism spirituality that eventually leads to the realm of the spiritual, to meditation, where the person looks into himself to find the true self.

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And in finding the true self, he believes he’s finding God.

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The frightening thing to me now as I look back, is I started having the experience that I was God.

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And as God, I could completely structure my life in my universe exactly the way I wanted it.

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The breathing exercises are designed to teach you to absorb the prana, the energy life force in the cosmos, to channel it into the chakras, the psychic channels, thus awakening the shakti force, the kundalini force, and bringing about those psychic powers which are such an integral and prevalent part in yoga.

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So very slowly, let’s breathe into our nose.

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Very slowly, breathe out.

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There are many dangers in the breathing techniques.

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Even the writers and the proponents of these exercises are quick to warn that not only do these things trigger emotional and mental diseases, which have been known to place people even in the same silence for the rest of their lives, but they also recognize that these exercises can open your soul and your mind and your entire being to a takeover by demonic forces.

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Many people don’t realize this, but it’s terribly dangerous to go into a meditative state in which the mind is simply left blank.

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And that, ultimately, is the purpose of the meditations in yoga.

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It’s like opening the door to a room.

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Whatever comes through, you have no control over.

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Many argue that certain yoga techniques can be used as merely exercise.

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Yet that is not yoga’s intention.

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It can be compared to joining the military.

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While a soldier may get stronger and more vigorous, the purpose of the army is certainly not healthcare.

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The aim is to learn how to kill.

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And so it is with yoga.

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All yogic exercise was designed to kill the will mind and emotions, hence releasing the soul from the endless cycle of reincarnation.

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I thought I was being strengthened, but what I was really doing is flipping into an altered state of consciousness, a form of self hypnosis, which is very weakening to the mind and to the body.

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But this weakness made me afraid to give it up.

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The biggest danger I found in practicing transcendental meditation was the dependency on the technique itself.

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It’s kind of like drugs.

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A drug addict doesn’t want to give up his drugs.

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And because the experience is.

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So pleasing.

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And he feels his life will crumple around him if he doesn’t have it.

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I thought I’d have the experience of leaving Shangrila and all of a sudden treating old and weak and disintegrating.

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I was afraid that I would lose my clarity and my energy.

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But little did I know, when I did give it up, I gained all these things that I never had.

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When I meditated.

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In Psalm One, David speaks about God’s blessed man.

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One of his characteristics is that he meditated in the law of God both day and night.

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Paul, when writing to the Philippians, told them that whatsoever things were pure, whatsoever things were good, whatsoever things were holy.

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Think on these things.

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The result would be that the God of Peace would keep your heart and your mind.

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And so with the Christian as we meditate upon the Lord, the things of the Lord.

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It is far different from the meditation of the east, which is an emptying of your mind in order that these visions or these imaginations might come in and fill the void that is there.

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Christian meditation is not creating a mental void.

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It is actually concentrating on the glory of God, the blessedness of God and the things of God which brings the true peace of God to our lives.

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Satan’s counterfeit will lead to a false sense of peace, but in the end will lead to turmoil.

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Do not accept Satan’s substitute, but keep your heart and mind centered upon the Lord and upon Jesus Christ and you’ll find the richness of his peace filling your heart continually.

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Within all of us there is a God shaped vacuum.

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Throughout the ages, man has attempted to fill that void with the things of the world.

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But it is only through a relationship with our creator that we can be truly satisfied.

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His holy scriptures reveal the way in which we can be reconciled to God, and that is through the provisions of his son, Jesus Christ.

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I’m Chuck Smith.

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And I’m Carol Patriciana.

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Join us again for another edition of the Pagan Invasion.