Dear Editors at Lighthouse Trails,
The new edition of your booklet on Reiki, chakras, and energy healing is a good and needed resource. I was sorry and surprised to read in your newsletter that you had received two calls in one week about chakras being taught in a positive light at two different churches. That seems so blatantly Hindu it’s hard to believe! I praise and thank the Lord that those two callers understood that was not right and contacted your ministry. It’s just wonderful that Lighthouse Trails and a handful of other sound, biblical warning ministries are available to help people. Your work is so valuable! For some time now, I pray for you daily.
My family has come across things like this in churches, too. A recent instance was at a very conservative Mennonite church we attended out of state while traveling. An acquaintance there, seeing I am disabled, asked for my phone number and called later to tell me about a health product, patches worn on the skin, she feels helped her and her son. It is a multi-level marketed product that she also happens to sell. I knew from her description of it that it was nothing I would be interested in, but to be polite I told her I would look at the website. There I learned that it claimed to work by aiding the flow of Qi energy. Then I felt I had no choice but to let this lady know of the spiritual wrongness of this health product, especially since her church standards limit Internet use, meaning she might not have had access to the information. I wrote her a letter and sent a book excerpt explaining the matter. Sadly, a few weeks later, she called to tell me she had read my letter but believed that just because some people think that the method isn’t of God, her family chose to believe the healing was from God, so that made it right for them to use and sell the product. I feel terrible for them.
I think the way a lot of people in conservative Baptist and Mennonite churches get drawn into spiritually wrong health practices is by recommendations their chiropractors make.
Blessings on your day!
Laura
(image from istockphoto.com; used with permission)
The founder of chiropractic claimed he received it from an already dead physician in “the other world” (aka necromantic channeling) and he was a spiritualist who considered chiropractic a religious/spiritual work, and wrote of himself as the figure head of this new spiritual movement of chiropractic, comparing himself with Christ or Mohammed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_David_Palmer
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I appreciate reading this woman’s letter, I’ve noticed that it’s literally everywhere, it doesn’t matter how conservative the churches are, I see it everywhere. I remember back in 2015 sending a letter with links to it concerning all the heretical teachings from women’s Bible studies like Beth Moore. They initially rejected me from the church but a year later removed those study books. There’s a definite pushback that I experienced even making accusations about me, my husband said that was enough, and we left the church. Initially, I was a bit naïve. I thought if I showed them biblically that this was wrong that they would be happy to know about it, but this is rarely what happens.
. I have benefited fromTherapeutic Massage but I don’t go anymore because of all the Hindu practices used by these people. a friend of mine told me a great woman to work on me so I went and had a massage and I noticed as it was getting up that there were all these statues of different Hindu gods, so I won’t go back, even though my friend will. I suffered with a lot of health issues, especially with fibromyalgia and arthritis and a good Therapeutic Massage is very beneficial, but I’m not going to expose myself to these practitioners. Here’s the reality They think they really are doing a good thing. Linda
Just a tiny thought about chiropractic as relates to the final sentence of the letter and the John J comment. We’ve seen dogs with a dislocated hip… and watched the vet manipulate it back into place. My chiropractor does the same thing! It’s nothing religious. I have decades of experience warning against occult/cult/Eastern practices—I’m on alert! And yes, I know (and talk with) Christians who are naïve about the chakra system. But we must also be careful about sweeping statements. Rather, when we know a chiropractor (or lawyer, bank clerk, neighbor, teacher…) who is leaning into dangerous teaching/practice, we can personally—with kind, legitimate concern—aim to steer them toward the Lord’s truth.