Although the focus may be at first on near death dexperiences, you'll discover ver soon that these are often the door to channeling of spirits, mediumship in which demonic impersonalitions of dead people may be conjured up, which was mostly confined to the old time seance as I recall, sixty or so years ago. Not much elaborate hocus pocus seems to be required any more to contact such beings it seems, the spirits are pretty ,much available on demand for those who feel called to this activity. Of course in the NDE s themseolves many supposed dead relatives and teachers and menotrs and spiritsual leaders may be encountered, includeing supposedly Jesus and even "God." Of course they are understood to be who they claim to be by the people who are into these things, but a Christian should know from scripture that they are demonic impersonations.
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There is also a trend to Eastern religions that can be strong in any particular person's experience. Paramahansa Yogananda seems to be a popular teacher who shows up in this reegard. Eastern religious practices are therefore pursued avidly among people who have these experiences, meditation in particular of course, done by different methods according to the particular teacher thosen. Also yoga postures are poular. Clairvoyance or what is these days called Remote Viewing is a common experience, and other mystical powers that are cultivated by various Hindu gurus but seem also to show up in individuals without any connection to Eastern practices too.
I've heard a couple of people report on having a Kundalini Awakening, which they may not have known by that name at first but learn later when they explore various teachers on these subjects.
Always there continues this theme that God is not the God we are taught about in Church, they are very sure of that. There is no judgmentalness in the God they encounter, he is all unconditional love. There is no fear of death, everything is beautiful Over There and they are sure that's where we all go when we die. Life is just a round of life after life for the purpose of learning various spiritual realities. Etc etc etc.
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The latest NDE testimonial I heard on this podcast called Next Level Soul, hosted by someone named Alec or Alex, has had quite an amazing array of related experiences, now amalgamated into the teachings of Eastern gurus. I was partic ularly impressed with the great breadth of her experiences. Typical NDEs in a way but full of Eastern religious themes. Yvonne Something. Her latest bhook is something like Soul Lessons From trhe Light, not sure I got that right. When I was reading about teachers like Yogananda back when I was reading my way to Christianity but didn't yet know where I was going to end up, I learned a lot about all these various powers such teachers may develop, and now I'm getting the impressionm that just ordinary people who are going about their business without any interest in any such tghings may suddenly be catapulted by an NDE into this realm and end up having experiences that sound to me like nothing short of what those guurs practice and teacxh.
Yvonne's concept of God comes from her personal experiences, she said, not from any learned concepts, such as what the bible teachers although she didn't specifiey any such source. She says she was taught as a child in church about God as an old man with a beard but has learned from her experiences that he's this amazine force that is everywhere, all love and energy or some such. All the religions of course know of the same God through their own difference lenses.
Unfortunately it seems to be possible for some Christians to accept aspects of such things as compatible with Biblical Christianity. This is scary. Christians are of course all at different levels of knowledge and Biblical understanding, and pastors don't spend time on this sort of subject to help them sort it out either.
Contrary to Yvonne's certainty that God can only be known in experience and not from a book, the fact is that only the Bible can show us the true reality of God. Convincing any one of this who has had contrary experiences seems highly unlikely of course, unless God has special mercy on some, but I would hope that Christians are open to learning the dangers of these things from the Bible. That's our only source of truth. That is God's own word to us. Satan works with our experiences ,although we hardlyl need his help to find experience more persuasive than books, but God's Book is His living Word and if we are born again we should be spiritually open to its revelations.
Tehy don't know they are headed down a pretty path to Hell. The Ultimate Primrose Path. Tehy being those who have such experiences and follow the teachigns that come out of such experiences.el
Have you ever heard the bombastic blather that comes out of a channeler, or out of the channeler's demonic pretenders to teachers of great wisdom? It makes me angry. No point in getting angry I'm sure but it makes me angry that people allow themselves to take this stuff seriously, that we are so easily deluded the demons get to turn us away from the truth, turn us against God and against salvation in Jesus Christ.
Again I'mn so very grateful for what Watc hman Nee wrote about Soul Power in his book the Latent Power of the Soul. It really does help to understand that all this is going on in the fallen human nature, the sin nature, which is the soul alone since the spirit was lost at the fall. It makes it clear that the soul is a great hing in itself, made by God to possess enormous powers, certainlyh greater powers in the original Creation than even those being manifested now through these paranormal experiences. But the soul in its fallen state is going to be deceived, by its own experiences and certainly by thedemons who have acceass to our minds and whose malevolence is hidden from us while tghey mamipulate our easily deceived selves into all sorts of false doctrines and turn us away from the only things that could truly benefit us. RThe soul has great capaacity for supernaturla level feels like unconditional love and it is a very seductive experience. But it is not the love of God and in the fallen state we cannot apprehend God at all. They attribute some of these experiences to God, they think they are contacting God, the Divine as they often call it or him, but if the Biblical account of our fallenness is true, and of course I'm saying it is, God isn't anywhere to be found in all this, it's all feelins the soul is capable of and the demons know how to manipulate them to so entangle us in deceit we can't escapte, or can'[t escapte without God's help anyway.
Poor sad human race.
Added later: Since many of the NDEs people have are experienced as a result of a serious medical condition or injuryu I began to wonder if this is one way the flesh is broken down to release the soul powers as Watchman Nee thinks of it. He mentions many methods invovling meditation and ascetic practices to suppress the body in order to release the soul powers, but perhaps the demons have discovered that phyiscal trauma works very effectively and arrange their NDEs for those occasions. The hard way to expoerience it of coruse, but apparently effective.
The other thought I hkeep having is how consistent this theme of there being no judgment is in these experiences. No punishment. Really no justice but they don't use that word. Why would you want to live in a world with no justice? To know a God who is not concerned about justice? They can't really be thinking very hard about this concept. It seems to go no deeper than one's own personal distaste for the idea of having to suffer for their own sins. Tehy aren't thinking of mass murderers and child molestors going unpunished.
And of course with this emphasis on there being no judgment the gospel of salvation is nowhere to be found in any of these experiences. If there is no judmgnet there is nothing we need to be saved from. No Hell, no ternal punishemnt for sin. So the whole purpose of Christianity is utterly lost in such a mindset. I gather that most of those who have such experiences never understood the gospel anyway, even those who say they had extensive experiences of church. No idea that the whole point of Christianity is salvation from Hell.
Yet later: Alex just asked a channeler's demon entities why there are so many different religions and "they" gave some poofy answer about different opportunities, to grow I guess. But Alex, the real answer is that all the religions are made up by Satan and his crew to try to get people to worship Satan and not God. That's basically what it's all about although they also teach various practices most of which are probably designed as Watchman Nee suggests to release the soul power which counterfiets the spiritual life and deceives people into thinking they are in touch with God. When it's lonly the demonic ralms they are in touch with. There is only one religion really, Alex, one truth that is ,and that is the sacrifice of Christ on the cross to pay for our sins so that we may have eternal life and not go to Hell. All other religions are a body of teachings that carry people away from God, but Christ is God and teaches the true worship fo the true God. That's the truth Alex. I hope you might come to realize it in this life, along with your various guests who are so deceived.
