By Caryl Matrisciana When I was twenty years old, my family returned from India, where I was born and lived for most of my life, to England, our homeland. It was during the turbulent sixties, and I was about to be introduced to a movement that didn’t even have a name yet. How could I … [Read more…]
A Trip to India—to Learn the Truth About Hinduism and Yoga By Caryl Matrisciana Thirteen years had passed since my family had left India. Now I found myself on an airplane returning there. I was filled with excitement and nostalgic memories. Would I bump into old friends with whom I had lost contact over the … [Read more…]
Caryl’s Reflections on SORROW…… SORROW (the rendering of a number of Hebrew and Greek words) is understood to represent mental pain or grief that arises from the privation of some good [that we] actually possessed. It is the opposite of joy; contracts the heart, sinks the spirit, and injures the health. (Unger’s Bible Dictionary) In … [Read more…]
It is not often that Lighthouse Trails can report on a major Christian leader actually renouncing earlier endorsements of the contemplative mystics. Rick Warren, Beth Moore, Chuck Swindoll, David Jeremiah, and many others have written books that have promoted contemplative teachers, and Lighthouse Trails has documented many of these situations. And in every case, even … [Read more…]
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: Film maker and Lighthouse Trails author, Caryl Matrisciana (Out of India), has been in a serious bicycle accident and was airlifted to a Wisconsin hospital where she is in ICU being treated for external injuries and under observation for any possible internal injuries. They are particularly watching for any cranial pressure or … [Read more…]
By Caryl Matrisciana (author of Out of India) Cheryl sat in my office and tearfully told me her strange story. Just the day before, her pastor had taken her by the hands as he counseled her. The dimly lit room had been hushed. He unfolded her tightly-closed fists and gently pressed her palms against his … [Read more…]
by Caryl Matrisciana The Germany of the 1920s and 1930s was in social and economic despair, looking for a leader who would free her from the Great Depression. The man with the promise of hope was Adolph Hitler. A man with an affinity for the occult and “an abiding belief in astrology,”1 he claimed he … [Read more…]
