Is there a direct correlations to Eastern religions and practices when once chooses to mediate or to visualize? No, I'm not talking about mediating on God's Word, God's way. What I have reference to is blatant Eastern practices and even occult practices that are in the church. There are folks in the Emerging Church movement that have put a spin on it and folks are buying into it.Our friend Marcia Montenegro, of Christian Answers for the New Age (CANA) has written an excellent article on the subject. Here is a sample of it for your exhortation and edification.
OUT OF YOUR MIND: MEDITATION AND VISUALIZATION
By Marcia Montenegro
[Note: The writer formerly practiced Tibetan Buddhist, Zen Buddhist, and Hindu meditation, as well as visualization and psychic techniques taught to her by those deeply involved in those traditions. She also experienced the trance/meditative states as part of her practice of astrology and methods learned in psychic development classes. ]
A voice intones: "Close your eyes...relax...let each muscle relax...let your mind go blank...see yourself as a cloud...floating...getting lighter and lighter..."
Click here to read the entire article. May we not be guilty of call evil good. (Isaiah 5:19-21).
(graphic courtesy: www.heartlight.org)
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