Monday, December 30, 2013

On Cults

How to recognize a cult: religious abuse and attempts to control their people. But "where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom." Amen!

God does not seek to control us, he gives us freedom to make our own choices. He does not micromanage us. He gives us free will.

Watch out for any religious person that seeks to control you etc.


Stories from people regarding cults:

"Our family was in a cult for 10 yrs before realizing we were being spiritually abused. The immorality came with being under false teaching mixed with doctrine. I was starving for those 10 years spiritually and was never satisfied. It catered for a lot of ego personalities wanting to be seen, heard and lifted. But there was a stirring and anger, but esp an emptiness in my soul that not even the saints could rub their spiritual wisdom around the rim of my empty soul with.

Then alcohol became my friend, sexual addiction became my confidante and lust of the eyes, flesh and pride of life became by partners. Suffice to say I escaped that lie and my husband followed a year later.


Now, we're serving the true and living God. A living hope, his faith revealed, his mercy enduring forever, his grace being sufficient for me."


Amen how awesome! :)  Praise God.

"Following the emotions (experience) is Kantism transcendental idealism... it is the ROOT, FOUNDATION, and SUBSTANCE of the charismatic movement.... they came out of Ralph Waldo Emerson's westernized teachings of Kant. passed down through FF Bosworth (founder of the assembly of God) he was the mentor of EW Kenyon the spiritual father of Hagin, Copeland, and it snowballed."

Yep. :(

"When a church isolates itself and judges others outside itself, the cultic spirit is already at work....Matt23:3-4 speaks of such ..these that set up man made rules and try to work their salvation in them, but cant keep what they set up.....when man becomes self Mr" I"...WHICH IS THE MOST SELFISH LETTER that shares in Pride and sin....the enemy is bound to settle his comfort and applies every weakness to its wheels or distortion."

"I was in a similar scenario. My last church pushed the idea of feelings, emotions, and a low regard for theology as a means to being close to God.  They taught that He must speak to you and that we had all blessings of healing and wealth in our hand etc. if only we believed it.  They taught that we had authority to speak good things and blessings into existence. Its called the  "charismatic" movement.  It also creates legalism, spiritual competiveness, works sanctification, and it's an "other" gospel."

(Yep :(  The biggest issue with speaking blessings into existence is God will only bless us if we deserve it.  We can't command that God does certain things for us.  But that is the other problem with the charismatic movement, thinking they can tell God what to do and when to do it.  But God is in charge of us, we are not in charge of him.  Amen.)

On the Prosperity Gospel etc.

"God's place is one of Lordship, not of service." God is our Lord and ruler, worthy of all honor, glory and praise. We do not rule God or tell Him what to do, ever.

When God revealed Himself to man He said that He was their Lord. We do not fully understand this concept of Lord in today's world for some reason. We think of God as a teddy bear now or a spiritual je...
anie. But he is very much neither of these things.

"God never came to answer man's questions; He came in order to call people to repentance and to do His will."

God never answered all of Job's questions. His answer was simply "I am God and you are not. End of discussion." lol

Man is subject to God, not God to man.

"In the world of witchcraft, the magical power is subject to the power wielder (the witch or warlock). But in God's Kingdom, the OPPOSITE is true."

This is the danger in the prosperity gospel. It closely resembles witchcraft, where by people try to use black magic to have power over things around them and manipulate things and people.

"Man cannot give orders to God and watch God obey. On the contrary, it is God that gives orders and man obeys."

We cannot tell God what he is going to do for us. He will do whatever he will do, in HIS time, not ours.

When we read the Word of God, we cannot judge it, because we cannot or should not judge God. We need to rather let God's word judge us and correct us.

The Prosperity Gospel, Word of Faith, witchcraft ... they're all based on the idea of God as subject to man's commands.

But if you believe in the sort of God that obeys whatever you say, you have a very faulty concept of God.

God is LORD, not our Jeanie to command. Amen  :)


"Watch man nee is a destructive cult/leader.  I debunked him many years ago.  He has written many books that are really damaging Bible wise to new believers and folks still follow him and base their beliefs from his books-not the Bible.  Many cults use his teachings and the fruits of it are destroying peoples lives." 
Very sad :( 

On cults and sexual abuse:

"I agree that religion, if used in the wrong way, can be very damaging to someone.  But I am not sure I could attribute his sexual abuse as being caused by that church. You either have the ability to abuse within you or you don't. I know many many people who have no affiliation to religion of any kind that do not abuse and some that do.  I think it is a personal thing within you and you need to learn to control that if you discover you have those feelings."

Who knows.  But it does seem to be a trend that people in cults sexually abuse more often.  Whether the sexual abuser becomes that way due to being in the cult, or sexual abusers are simply drawn to cults, because cults give people power, just like sexual abuse seems to.  That is why people sexually abuse, in order to have power over others.  They do it when they themselves feel very powerless.  Only God knows entirely the reasons why though. 

"Often the sexually abusive person is in a position of power so they like power.   They are used to getting people to do what they want etc."

"Yes the irony is they hide their powerlessness behind their apparent position of power and project it onto us in the form of abuse."

More on cults in general:

"Watchman Nee's teachings overemphasize emotions and puts them over God and the Bible.  "The Spirit is stuck" he may say and the "The Spirit flows through the channel of emotions" etc.  Nee becomes this philosophical, mystical cult leader, loaded down with all  kinds of mytaphysical garbage.  Nee said that the Holy Spirit only rides on feeling.  He said he received "revelations" in his, what he calls, "Holy Spirit memory revelations.  This is more metaphysical stupidity and human philosopy-which is man's wisdom -void of god or a demonic cult."





The Local Church Cult

My parents lived in Santa Ana for 10 years when I was a kid, where they got involved in "the local church," which was inspired by the teachings of Watchmen Nee and Witness Lee.  My mom regrets her time in that church, as it was a cult actually. :( 
 
The main thing that made it a cult was that they focused on mostly forgetting your mind and following your emotions.  They discouraged any contact with biological family members because your church family was your only family that mattered, in their eyes, even though my mom's family was Christian.  They saw themselves as more elite Christians than other Christians.  They called themselves "the saints."  They regulated what the women could wear.  They emphasized a works based salvation rather than saved by grace.  There was a also high degree of spiritual competition in that church.
 
This was the church, the cult, my dad was heavily involved in when he fell in the way that he did. 
 
It was overly religious and legalistic, so he struggled with his sin in secret, which is the worst thing you can do with your sin.  Sin needs to come out into the light in order to be healed.  But because the culture of this church was so judgmental, he probably felt that he couldn't talk about it with anyone.  He struggled with a sexual addiction, which no doubt began with just pornography, and escalated to possibly child porn and then child molestation.  Sin is a very slippery slope.  Be mindful to bring your sins into the light so that they do not fester and get worse.  May God give you wisdom in this and boldness to share with others and stay in community.  "Confess your sins to one another and pray for each other that you may be healed."  Amen!  God bless :)

Moving

My mom moved a lot as a kid. 

From 0 to 8 months she lived in Fort Worth, Texas.

From 8 months to 3 years old she lived in St. Lois, MO.

From age 3 to 9 she lived in Hixon, TN.

From 9 to 11 she lived in Cooledge, AZ.  (She said that move was really hard, because TN was so green and AZ was not at all.  Kind of like the move I did recently from MO to TX. From the forest to the desert.  Very sad indeed.  :)

From age 12 to 16 she lived in Gallup, NM.

From 16 to 18 she lived in Anaheim, CA.

And then from 18 to 20 she lived in Anaheim, Fullerton, Claremont for college at Scripps and then Santa Ana with my dad after they got married. 

Then when I was 6 and she was 30 we moved to Upland by my grandma, her mom. 

Two years later we moved to Nebraska where we lived for 5 years. 

Then back to California and she has been there ever since. :)

But they just sold their condo in Costa Mesa and are hopefully about to move to Austin, TX by us.  That would be awesome!  Pray for that please lol.  It's a toss up between Austin and Florida.  So we'll see.  May God guide them. 

God bless!

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Persevere to be Saved

Does getting saved and praying the prayer automatically guarantee our salvation no matter what? What about apostasy? What about when Jesus says that in the last days many "will fall from the faith?"

What about the verses in Hebrews and 2 Peter?

Hebrews 6:4-6
"It is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Hol...
y Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt."

2 Peter 2:20-22
"If, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

My take on salvation: us being saved is conditional on our persevering to the end. If we do not persevere to the end, if we do not do our part and do the best we can in our walk with God with God's help, God will not save us. "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."

"He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life." Rev. 3:5

"Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown." Rev. 3:11

Only if we persevere to the end will we be saved. The Christian walk is not about how you begin, but about how you end.

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Vaccination Side Effects

The main issue I have with vaccines after researching them more is that they possibly put aluminum, mercury and formaldehyde in the vaccines.  For what purpose do they do this is what I can't get. :(

Also whenever there is money involved things may not be totally safe.  Vaccines bring in money, therefore, corners might be cut, warnings might not be given etc.  If something makes money sometimes people will forgo precautions in order so that they can make a profit.  This is what the movie The Fugitive is all about in regards to medicines/drugs.

One example of profit over safety and health is McDonalds.  They mass produce food with all kinds of preservatives and additives.  They don't really care about the people who are eating their food, they just want to make money. 

So here are some accounts from friends about possible adverse reactions to vaccines in babies:

"I know that a family took their daughter to get vaccinations and then she became narcoleptic."
 
"My baby just had her 4 month shots and they made her a HOT MESS and super fussy for about 4 days."
 
(I wonder if that is why babies are vaccinated as opposed to older kids, because babies can't speak and tell you what the vaccinations are doing to their little bodies. :(  Very sad)
 
"I know of a little boy that became a paraplegic right after his vaccinations. I don't know if it was proven that the vaccinations were the cause or not, but the mother thought so."

"My kids didn't have a reaction to vaccines per se, however, my 3rd baby had all kinds of ADD, ADHD issues and allergies & unexplained heart condition! All of which he has overcome as an adult!"

:(

"I have researched vaccines for almost 3 years now. They are highly toxic and often cause horrific reactions."

"You can always go back and do them later, but you can never undo vaccine damage. My son was vaccine injured."  :(

"Yes, I had a bad reaction to vaccines...really bad...so did several of my friends...and all of us have a lot of health problems (could be connected, but I guess we'll never know).  My little brother never got any vaccines and he has the best immune system out of all of us though."

(yep)

"My fifth daughter contracted Spinal meningitis after receiving her MMR's at 6 weeks. She almost died. Strangely, several other babies in that same county got meningitis after getting their shots as well. I did not get child number 6 vaccinated."

"When I was a baby I got a bad rash...and I cried for the whole rest of the day...something like 12hrs."

"My oldest who is 21 now had a horrible reaction, but doctors will never admit it is related. When he was 4 he got his kindergarten shots and then lost all gross motor skills and stopped talking. I showed a family friend who is a doctor videos of him before his shots - age 2 to 4 and then a video 3 days after shots. She felt it was related but warned NO doctor would ever admit it because they would lose their license. If you met my son now you would not know how far he has come. He still has a language disability but it is more comprehension and attention than anything. He functions fine now. But it was years of therapy and special education."

"When I got the MMR vaccine I had a reaction to it . Stiffness of the joints and it lasted several years."

"I knew a family that had three kids. The oldest was severely "delayed" (about the same as retarded. I don't know the difference). And the second was slightly delayed. But the youngest was fine. The mother suspected that giving the first two kids an all-in-one vaccination had led to their mental problem. So she insisted that her third child be given separate vaccinations for each disease. The nurse didn't like it, but the mother insisted. 

I think I may be done with flu shots, myself. Because I'm reading too many negative things about vaccinations in general."


"I had a severe reaction to the pertussis vaccine...stopped breathing, in the picu for 5 days, on oxygen, and had seizures for 4 years. Needless to say, I did not get any boosters!"

"There's so much controversy around vaccinations and how they are the reason our country has autism and other issues.  I know doctors that don't vaccinate there own children."

"Our oldest had a bad reaction for like 3-4 days at 6 months so we stopped until he was 16 months. Now we only give 2 a visit so I can monitor each leg and we are selective about which ones we give. We try to evaluate it on whether they are likely to contract what we are vaccinating for. If its really rare we skip it or delay it. They want to give 3-6 a visit which is just crazy. What a freaking cocktail of drugs in their little bodies."

"Mine have. My daughter has had 2 severe reactions to the flu vaccine. The second one worse than the first. And my youngest had a severe reaction to the RSV vaccine."

Realistically anything they vaccinate for, if it is contracted, mostly likely won't kill a child.  The flu can kill a person but it is very rare.  I get the flu almost once every year and it hasn't killed me yet praise God! lol :) 

It sounds to me like the risks of vaccinating are greater and the side effects are worse than if a child were to actually get the disease they would have been vaccinated for.  Almost every kid gets chicken pox and survives etc.

The facts are, sometimes vaccinations can cause permanent damage if the child has a severe allergic reaction to them, such as spinal meningitis, fibro myalgia, joint stiffness, narcolepsy, paralysis, etc. where as getting the disease is just temporary and may last only around a week. 

Also mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde are in these vaccines.  Why?  What purpose does that serve in the vaccine?  These toxic substances should never be allowed to enter the human body, much less forcibly so.

We don't know all of the unspoken and naively unlinked side effects that vaccines may cause, such as chronic ear infections, chronic sinus infections, seizures, ADD or ADHD, mental retardation, possibly autism, allergies, asthma,  etc. 

How do we know that SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, is not also a result of vaccinations?  It usually happens, where infants mysteriously die, shortly after they get a round of vaccinations.  It seem that it is too much for a baby's tiny body to handle.  In getting the vaccine they essentially give them the virus.  Why would doctors give a tiny baby possibly 6 viruses in one day and expect their body to be able to handle that and fight them off so soon after they have newly come into the world?  It does not make any logical sense.  "Come let us reason together." :)

I say vaccines, if done at all, should be done only on older kids that are around 2 or 3 when their bodies are more developed and can handle the shock to their system that vaccines seem to cause, and then only one vaccine at a time every few weeks or so.

I know this theory may sound a bit crazy, like it's something out of the movie Conspiracy Theory, which I recommend you watch, but the people who are in charge of Planned Parenthood, who love to give out birth control etc, and perform as many abortions as possible, believe that our world is overpopulated and want as few humans to be alive as possible.  Their beliefs are like the computer in the matrix, that humans are merely an infectious disease on this planet using up all of the natural resources; that we need to be exterminated.  Why the carbon scare that we are using too much carbon?  Why all the abortions?  Because the secret is that they actually hate humans, as Satan does and I'm sure they are inspired by Satan, and they want to slowly kill us off and prevent the human race from being born.  The elite, the illuminate some call it, wants to kill off the common man so that they will have less people to rule and can then easily take over the world.  The movie The Hunger Games touches on this idea, as does the book 1984. 

That being said, who is to say that these people aren't also behind vaccinations?  How do we not know that their intention is to actually harm and diminish the human race rather than improve it and cause it's growth?

In China, if any woman, has more than one baby, they forcibly will drag the mother out of her house to have an abortion at the hospital, no matter how many months along she is.  I realize this only happens on the other side of the world as of now, but I believe it is only a matter of time before that happens here in the states and all over the world as well.  We were the number one country in terms of wealth and power for a long time, but that wealth and power is now in China's hands, not ours.  And "whoever has the gold makes the rules."

As Christians we are called to be "as wise as serpents but as innocent as doves."  Just because someone pretends to care about you does not, by any means, mean that they do.  There are con artists everywhere you look, hoping to deceive the naïve and exploit the overly trusting. 

A final song by Michael Jackson, that he would have sang in his final tour, had a line that he kept repeating, "All I'm really saying is they don't really care about us."  Who was he talking about?  The government perhaps, the elite, those in charge of the medical field, the bankers?  I am not saying the workers in the medical field are to blame, so please don't take this personally.  I am saying the head guys who call the shots and pull the strings and make the decisions, in the medical field, in banking, in politics etc, it is quite possible that they don't really care about us. 

Humans are by nature evil, very evil.  We are all born with original sin.  It is only by the grace of God that we are enabled to love others and give selflessly.  But the majority of our population, about 95% I would say, are only out for themselves.  "Narrow is the road that leads to life."  We cannot be so naïve and ignore evil in the world.  We cannot blindly think that everyone we meet has the best intentions for us and is actually concerned about our well being.  Most of humanity only thinks about themselves, what will profit them, how they can get more power etc. 

This is a hard truth to swallow but it is what it is.  As we mature we are better able to see reality for what it is.  We live in a very, very fallen and evil world, and Satan is the ruler of this world. 
 





Friday, December 27, 2013

To Vaccinate or Not

Some pretty amazing research I have found on the topic of vaccinations. 

I have wondered why there is such an epidemic now of ADHD in kids.  It could just be nervous anxiety, or it could be caused by their vaccinations. 

I met another pregnant girl on a recent cruise who said at dinner plainly, "I feel a lot better not vaccinating than vaccinating."  And now I can clearly see why.  Check out these quotes:

"Jini Patel Thompson who wrote Should I Vaccinate My Child, points out some interesting results of a study done by the WHO contradicting this statement,

“An unpublished study by the World Health Organization (WHO)...
on a “measles susceptible” (malnourished) group of children showed that the group who hadn’t been vaccinated contracted measles at the normal contract rate of 2.4%. Of the group who had received the measles vaccine (MMR), 33.5% contracted measles.’http://blog.naturalhealthyconcepts.com/2012/04/20/is-vaccination-really-necessary/


"For all of the people that are anti-abortion but still vaccinate their children…there is an ingredient in vaccines called human diploid cells, which come from aborted fetal tissue." how sad

"According to Naturopathic Physician, Keith Post, ND these are the filler ingredients we can find in our vaccines:
•Aborted human fetal tissue
•Dead animal tissues, such as chicken embryo, rabbit brain and ...
dog or monkey kidney
•Pig, horse or calf blood
•Toxic chemicals, such as formaldehyde (think embalming fluid) or phenol
•Antibiotics and yeast (think Candidiasis)
•Toxic heavy metal compounds made out of aluminum or mercury. The mercury compound is called thimerosal and is the subject of current litigation, because many parents and researchers link it to the alarming increase in post-vaccination autism." (yep)

" I found that there are in fact still trace amounts of mercury in vaccines. Even if it’s just trace amounts, isn’t it still very bad to put any aluminum and mercury into my 2 month old baby?! Why didn’t the doctor tell me this before we immunized!?"

"Here’s a list of just some of the vaccine reaction symptoms.
•Pronounced swelling, redness, heat or hardness at the site of the injection
•Body rash or hives
•Extreme sleepiness or long periods of unresponsiveness
•High fever (over 103 F)
•Weakness or paralysis of any part of the body
•Loss of eye contact or awareness or social withdrawal
•Loss of ability to roll over, sit up or stand up
•Vision or hearing loss
•Restlessness, hyperactivity or inability to concentrate
•Sleep disturbances that change wake/sleep pattern
•Onset of chronic ear or respiratory infections (I had those
•Violent or persistent diarrhea or chronic constipation
•Breathing problems (asthma)
•Excessive bleeding (thrombocytopenia) or anemia....

wow.
 
"Mary attends a holistic moms group and has told me about a mom whose little baby turned into a “vegetable” hours after the DPT vaccine and other mothers who watched their baby die shortly after being immunized."

"There are about 20-thousand adverse reactions reported each year."

"There also have been quite a few studies that have shown a link to autism in children with family history of depress...
ion, anxiety and Alzheimer’s. Some doctors and pediatricians don't vaccinate infants with family histories of these diseases as they feel the child will be at an increased risk of developing autism after being vaccinated as an autoimmune response." (wow)

"I was vaccinated against the whooping cough and got it years later."

"I had three posts on three diff sites asking this question and out of all of the non vaccinated kids, they are all healthy. I mainly hear more so than the vaccinated ones!"

"While I in no way wish pain or discomfort on anyone, having a fever is there for a purpose. Too often we rush to give Tylenol or Advil and in the process we negate what the bodies natural response is meant to do and we jeopardize the health of the liver and kidneys." (yep)....
http://www.circleofmoms.com/welcome-to-circle-of-moms/has-anyone-decided-to-not-vaccinate-their-babies-485173
 

"Just because you vaccinate doesn't mean you won't get it. I had all my shots as a child and I still got a few of the things. They actually don't keep you from getting the diseases. I had the whooping cough shot and still had it very badly as well."

"An ER doctor said she kept having kids coming in to the ER having seizures and the parents kept stating that the child just had their shots." (yep)...


"We don't get the regular flu shot cause every time we got one in the past we still ended up getting the flu, and the times we didn't get it, we didn't get the flu." (ha)

"About the H1N1 shot, my mom got the shot... 10 days after the shot she woke up with the whole left side of her face PARALYZED. Can not blink her eye, use her mouth and now she has ringing in her ear and needs sleeping pills and an eye patch to keep her eyelid closed." (wow)

"Polio: protects against polio, the vaccine is also known as IPV ..Sometimes the vaccine was causing the disease."

(wow) "Of 253 infant death cases awarded more than $61 million by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in the 1990s under the compensation program, 224, or 86 percent, were attributed to vaccination with DTP, the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough) shot."

"A mom drove to the public health clinic and her baby was given oral Polio and DPT shot. He never woke up for his 3:00 am feed."

"My baby stopped breathing after her second hep b shot. She is okay now. I am not."

"We started vaccinating our first son on the normal vaccine schedule, but when we discovered he had autism, we began to rethink our decision."

how sad :(
 

"In 1975 Japan raised the minimum age for infant vaccinations to 2 years. As a result, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or, crib death) and infant convulsions virtually disappeared. In the 80's, Japan lowered the minimum age back down to... 3 months and the rate of SIDS returned to previous levels."

"A group of recruits were immunized for Rubella, and all produced the expected antibodies. When later exposed to the disease, 80% of the recruits contracted it."

"The use of live viral vaccines introduce foreign genetic material into the human system, which has contributed to the unprecedented escalation of auto-immune disorders (like multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, cancer, Crohn's disease, asthma, etc.) in recent decades."

"75% of British people who contracted smallpox had been vaccinated."
http://www.healingwell.com/library/health/thompson2.asp

"How much synthetic vitamin K is in the shot? Shockingly, the national standard mandated by most states for US hospitals to administer is over 100 times the infant’s RDA of this nutrient. Since studies have linked large doses of vitamin K with childhood cancers and leukemia, this large dose of synthetic K administered within minutes of birth seems questionable at best." - See more at: http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/skip-that-newborn-vitamin-k-shot/#sthash.THmWbj8Z.dpuf (wow)

"The manufacturer’s insert included with the shot includes the following warning, 'Severe reactions, including fatalities, have occurred during and immediately after intravenous injection of phytonadione even when precautions have been taken to dilute the vitamin and avoid rapid infusion …”
 
Wow.

Here the CDC openly lists all the possible negative side effects for each immunization.  Wow.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm

"A vaccine, like any medicine, could cause serious problems, such as a severe allergic reaction or even death."

Wow.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Walking in the Light

Some great quotes from a book I'm reading "Walking in the Light" by Neil T. Anderson, who also wrote Bondage Breaker, great book also! :)

"Hinduism and Taoism are metaphysical, relying on mysticism for divine guidance.  The Eastern mystic sees the mind as the problem.  If truth is to be known, the mind must be bypassed."  oh dear :( lol  A good book on this topic: "Don't Check your Brains at the Door" by Josh McDowell and "Love the Lord Your God with All Your Mind" by J.P. Moreland

"The Church of Religious Science....teaches that we are creating our own day-to-day experiences by the form and procession of our thoughts. (like the book Oprah raved about "The Secret")  They teach that man, by the way he thinks, can bring whatever he desires into his experience.....this is New Age thinking."  (This is somewhat like things Joel Osteen speaks about.  However it is biblical to "take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ."  Our thoughts do somewhat dictate our destiny, but we cannot create things necessarily with our thoughts.  Will Smith talks in this way and seem to have adopted this New Age psychology sadly. :(  Pray for him.)

"The New Age movement is not seen as a religion but a new way to think and understand reality.  It's very attractive to the natural man who has become disillusioned with organized religion and Western rationalism.  He desires spiritual reality but doesn't want to give up materialism, deal with his moral problems or come under authority."  (This is spirituality apart from the Bible, the word of God.  We all need to worship something.  This causes one to worship the self rather than God, since it says that the self can achieve anything one wants to achieve.  The person becomes a god in a sense and thinks they have the same power as God.  No bueno. :(  God help us. 

"New Agers create their own reality.  They believe they can determine reality by what they believe, so by changing what they believe, they can change reality....There are no moral absolutes because there is no distinction between good and evil."  (This thought has somewhat infiltrated the church and many popular evangelists.  We need to be careful of thinking this way.)

Anderson quotes John Wesley, "Do not hastily ascribe things to God.  Do not easily suppose dreams, voices, impressions, visions or revelations to be from God.  They may be from Him.  They may be from nature (as in our own conscious).  They may be from the devil.  Therefore, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they be from God."  (How do we try the spirits?  Does what they say or do match up with Scripture?  If yes, they are of God.  If not, they are not of God.  The Bible is our litmus test for all supernatural activity etc.)

"In our culture, if a person is hearing voices or struggling with his thought life, it is assumed to be a psychology or neurological problem.  But I have personally counseled hundreds of people who are hearing voices and most situations, if not all, have been demonic."  (Satan talks to us all the time.  But we can choose to listen to him, or choose to not listen to him.  When we listen to him he establishes a foothold in our minds.  We need to refute his thoughts in our minds with the word of God as Jesus did.  Amen. :)

"Mental health experts define a mentally healthy person as someone who is in touch with reality and relatively free of anxiety.  From a secular perspective, every person harassed by deceiving spirits would be mentally ill. (Because Satan causes fear and anxiety in a person.)  The secular counselor would conclude that the voices people hear or the images they see are only hallucinations. (Hallucinations generally are people seeing the spiritual world, angels or demons.)  From God's perspective, it is the secular person who isn't in touch with reality.  The spiritual world is very real."  (Amen!  All cannot be explained by science.  "Our battle is against...spiritual forces.")

(Ignorance is bliss, except when it comes to understanding how Satan works.  We are to be "as wise as serpents but as innocent as doves."  Satan does talk to people; he does cause people to see things.  These things are not imagined or not really happening.  They are not someone going crazy.  They are Satan trying to defeat a person and break them down.  If you ever hear or see something strange say "By the power and blood of Jesus Satan be gone!" and the thoughts will leave you or the visions or "hallucination" will be over.  We have power in Jesus' name, more power than we realize.  If anything causes fear in any way it is of Satan, not God.  You can have authority over that.  Amen.)