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In every case, occult techniques have been encouraged, endorsed, and recommended by\u00a0_____ staff nurses and others (who do them themselves!) &#8211; and outside occult &#8220;therapists&#8221; have been brought in as part of the courses to &#8220;educate&#8221; sufferers about the &#8220;benefits.&#8221; We were astonished at how effective this was at recruiting MS sufferers into joining their local groups as &#8211; right in front of us &#8211; pretty much everyone apart from we two signed up immediately afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I have become increasingly alarmed that so many UK Christians seem to be &#8220;sleepwalking into danger.&#8221; If a respected medical-professional endorses something, it&#8217;s often just accepted uncritically by many Christians here. The thought that it may be some sort of spiritual &#8220;Trojan Horse&#8221; is unthinkable. By way of example, one greatly-respected local pastor-teacher and his wife (both of our acquaintance) were recently so persuaded to try a &#8220;Christianised&#8221; form of Tai Chi &amp; Qigong to help with his depression. We warned them, to no avail; they tell us that they have tried it, it really helps, they would recommend it, and our warnings are clearly just paranoia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An elder and pastor-teacher in\u00a0\u00a0__________ Church, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&gt; UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Lighthouse Trails: My wife&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,90,114,606,475],"tags":[18,21,80,2930,498,585,2050,2051],"class_list":["post-13812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystical-practices-the-role-of-meditation","category-the-role-of-meditation","category-churches-in-crisis","category-health-2","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-occult","tag-new-age","tag-mystical-practices","tag-reiki","tag-health","tag-united-kingdom","tag-tai-chi","tag-qigong","wpcat-239-id","wpcat-90-id","wpcat-114-id","wpcat-606-id","wpcat-475-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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