Some Definitions
- New Age Movement
- The New Age Movement is a collection of non-Christian and in many cases, anti-Christian sects, cults, and organizations who network together through some shared beliefs. These shared beliefs may include one or more of the following:
- "all is one" (monism),
- "all is God" (pantheism),
- gnosticism (secret wisdom can allow man to be like God),
- cosmic consciousness,
- neo-paganism,
- mysticism,
- channeling,
- holistic health,
- reincarnation,
- karma,
- esoteric interpretations of the Bible,
- non-existence of sin (one creates one's own reality),
- denial of the divinity of Christ in favor of the viewpoint that Jesus was one of many enlightened individuals such as Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, etc.
- material borrowed from such eastern philosophies and religions as
- Buddhism,
- Hinduism,
- Taoism,
- Druidism
- the occult, including:
- sorcery,
- divination,
- spiritism,
- astrology,
- witchcraft.
- Anthroposophy (and Waldorf Education)
- Anthroposophy is a cult founded by Rudolf Steiner based upon Theosophy and the occult. The cult pushes its beliefs upon unsuspecting children in more than 600 Waldorf schools in 32 countries. These are also called Rudolf Steiner Schools, and in Holland, Vrije Schools.
- Through an outdated yet devious curriculum based mainly upon rote learning and taught by teachers whose only requirements are one year of Anthroposophic study and a second year stressing the integration of Anthroposophic principles into their curricula, the schools brainwash children into the following beliefs:
- reincarnation, karma (working off sins over multiple lifetimes),
- biodynamics,
- occult practices such as,
- astral projection,
- astrology,
- clairvoyance,
- auras,
- a racial ethnography -- a hierarchy that places white people above black people (this is reinforced by an overall Steiner doctrine of colors and their effect upon spirituality and emotions: for example, children cannot use the color black until the second grade; all classrooms are painted specific colors depending upon grade and development; colored silks are believed to have healing properties),
- a theory of evolution based upon the lost continent of Atlantis and the supposition that humans originated on the planet Saturn,
- a classification system of children's abilities centered on four new-age "temperaments,"
- a theory of child development emphasizing the loss of baby teeth,
- wacky science teachings such as the fact that the heart is not a pump, rather the circulatory system is responsible for the motion of blood throughout the body.
- Other suspect characteristics and practices of Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education include:
- Practically no changes to their science curriculum in more than 75 years, Waldorf Education is very anti-technology. Students are strongly discouraged from computer or television use. Those who watch or compute are chastised in front of the class.
- Dietary restrictions have teachers removing foods from lunchboxes
- An MLM scheme based on Super Blue Green Algae and the (non-existent) nutritional properties thereof is rampant.
- Both parents and children are encouraged to wear wool undergarments.
- Steiner teaches that Jesus was merely a man who, after many reincarnations, had reached a high level of development like Osiris, Buddha, and others, and that there was no virgin birth, and that the "Christ impulse" left Jesus and became one with the ground when Jesus was crucified
- Anthroposophy teaches that there were two Jesuses.
- Steiner teachings include a "fifth gospel" providing an inverted Lord's Prayer, the lines of which are in reverse order with each line substituting antonyms for many of the words.
- Within an education system that has teachers believing they are more important than parents to the child's spiritual development, and who discuss the students' past lives in faculty meetings and strategize how to deceive the outside world, for example, through a global policy of referring to the daily New Age prayers as verses, it is no surprise that Anthroposophic (Waldorf) schools are being scrutinized and sued in many countries of the world.
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Spiritual Human Yoga (Human Universal Energy of Luong Minh Dang)
- Luong Minh Dang leads a number of doomsday cults whose main focus is on healing through "laying-on-of-hands." His techniques have been banned in several countries due to child deaths. When Dang is banned from one country, he moves on the next and establishes himself under a new name. His cults are:
- HUE (Human Universal Energy),
- IHUERI (Institute for Human and Universal Energy Research Inc.).
- CREHU (Centre de Recherche sur l'Energie Humaine Universelle),
- ENERGIE et PARTAGE,
- SHY (Spiritual Human Yoga),
- SEVA,
- CRISTAL,
- LEU18 (les 18 lumieres de l'EU),
- Harmonie et Energie des volcans d'Auvergne.
- After being arrested in Belgium in February of 1999, he was released on 50 million francs bail in April. He relocated to Saint Louis, Missouri, in June and is currently setting up his Spiritual Human Yoga cult in the United States. An article in the Times of February 3, 1999 reports that Luong Minh Dang refuses to be in the same room as a crucifix.
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- Wicca Witchcraft
- Wicca was founded by Gerald Gardner in 1951 to justify his own sexual abuse of children and is based upon the work of notorious Satanist, Aleister Crowley.
- According to Bob and Gretchen Passantino in their book "Satanism," Crowley was a Satanist who claimed that through natural and drug-induced trance states and through magical sex rituals he encountered demons and other kinds of evil spirits, sometimes even having sex with them. The focus of Crowley's magical system was the individual and one's self-fulfillment and self-indulgence as the highest goal of existence. It combined three elements of
- rejection of Christianity,
- assumption of the supremacy of the self;
- the use of magic to enhance one's experiences and reach one's goals.
- This became fundamental to contemporary Satanism. According to William Schnoebelen in "Wicca, Satan's Little White Lie," there are definite evidences that Gardner commissioned Crowley to write parts of his Wiccan bible, "The Book of Shadows."... Wicca was simply a clever packaging for Satanism. As one "advances" in Wicca, one is given Anton Szandor LaVey's book, "The Satanic Bible." And one is told condescendingly that the concept of Wicca was something for neophytes to believe; but potential adepts would have to plumb the depths of the goddess' descent into the underworld.