by Chris Lawson of Spiritual Research Network
Sadly, the New Age style of meditation is not what Biblical meditation is at all. Yet churches and pastors are being swept up in the gayity of just embracing everything, including eastern oriented contemplative prayer / occult style meditation with no discernment whatsoever.
To equate New Age style meditating (an occult technique for connecting with the ‘divine essence’) with biblical meditation (Psalm 1) is not only completetly undiscerning, it is dangerous. The Bible does not teach the emptying of the mind to engage in an occult ‘experience’.
Yet… Marianne Williamson has come to Rick Warren’s aid and meditation and global peace is the common ground between them. For this entire commentary, click here.
