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To Lighthouse Trails:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope you can help me. I am battling a number of health issues and find myself having to choose relief or compromise my beliefs. I’d rather be sick than join the mystic forces. I want to know if you have a book on the pitfalls of mysticism in health care.<\/strong>\u00a0 I went in for a cranial-sacral massage and got a full dose of yoga breathing and the repeated admonition to “turn off my monkey brain.”<\/em>\u00a0 I always ask the massage therapist if she is trained in Reiki, but I never thought
\nto ask if they use Kundalini energy. Forewarned is forearmed. \u00a0I hope you can point me in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Thanks so much for all you do for the remnant of Christ,<\/p>\n

Kathy <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Woman
Woman receiving Reiki treatment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hi Kathy,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for your email. We don\u2019t have a book just devoted to that, but in Ray Yungen\u2019s book, For Many Shall Come in My Name<\/em>, he has a chapter on the New Age in medicine where he discusses various energy healing techniques. He also talks about Kundalini in that book. You can also read his booklet on energy healing<\/a> online. You\u2019re doing the right thing, asking questions before allowing a practitioner to touch you. It\u2019s very difficult today because even many “Christian” therapists are using Reiki and other energy healing methods. If they knew the occultic nature behind these practices, they would be shocked that they have done this to their patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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