Hi Manning,
For forty plus years, I spent my free time researching and writing reports on the founders, their teachings, histories, and the beliefs of major religions, prominent non-Christian, pseudo-Christian cults, and the Occult then managed a non-profit online Christian Bible based Cult Awareness Center website for another decade +, including writing reports and uploading after inserting the HTML code and Graphics.
It was never my professional career, but was an example of God fulfilling His promises. (Psalm 37:4)
I can not now unlearn what I know.
Whenever anyone would stifle free speech by forbidding "theology," - which is defined as the study of the nature of God and religious truth, and rational inquiry into religious questions, and both Jesus Christ and the God of the Bible are tossed into the trash bin, it is easily identified as an exercise in self-exaltation, and a conscious denial of God's truth, - lest God's truth impede their sacred search for their own personal truth, which cannot possibly stand up to what God has already written.
The following website I pulled up on the internet reads very similarly to the occult thinking some on this proposed site are promoting.
https://metaphysics.com/what-is-metaphysics/"Universal Intelligence, being the Creator of all things, thus lives and exists in all things, which can be thought of as the existence of an Ultimate Unity. Unity symbolizes love, and love is the spirit of Universal Intelligence, or God."
"The nature of reality - speculative philosophy - most interested Dr. Masters, the university's founder, who believes: This comprises the basic premise of Mind and Universe leading to such foundational questions as, who am I?; what am I?; where am I?; and where am I going? What he studied caused him to seek more knowledge about the mystical as well as any form of psychology that had an appreciation of the mystical."
"He was diligent in his search until finding a nontraditional school where he could learn more about mystical teachings, as well as spiritual psychology, and in 1953 he enrolled in that college. He graduated with a doctorate in 1959 and went on to create his own metaphysical research and teaching organization: the Institute of Parapsychology, located in Beverly Hills, California.
"Eager to further his knowledge, he enrolled in another metaphysical college in 1960 called the New Thought Science Institute of Los Angeles, California, this time focusing on New Thought teachings. He graduated with a second doctorate three years later. Originating around the 1830s, New Thought schools, centers, and institutes began emerging quickly during the 1950s and 1960s, especially in California. Most operate today under the auspices of the International New Thought Alliance. The integration of spiritual, metaphysical, and philosophical teachings within the New Thought movement was widely received and continues its expansion to this day."
The New Thought movement (also Higher Thought) is a spiritual movement which coalesced in the United States in the early 19th century. New Thought was preceded by "ancient thought", accumulated wisdom and philosophy from a variety of origins, such as Ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Chinese, Taoist, Vedic, Hindu, and Buddhist cultures and their related belief systems, but never the God of the Bible, or His "Holy Word."
"Dr. Paul Leon Masters' coalesced around all these occult practices, spending over 40 years faithfully devoted to his own meditation practices and "higher consciousness" research. Dr. Masters describes how a daily practice gives one insight to a greater reality
other than one’s everyday 5-sense perception, creating a higher level of awareness that carries over into daily life."
He promotes mystical meditation benefits attributing to it "inner peace, connection to the still, small voice within, and awakening one’s consciousness to a deeper understanding"...
It could more properly be called the "Luciferian initiation."
Their goal is to reduce the students' mind to the consistency of jello - or mush.That's a first installment of what is involved in the "transformation," of the mind.
In the final analysis, each individual is to come away with the realization that he/she has an interconnectivity with the universe (Pantheism), and all things within it (Animism) because if "All is One and "One is All," everyone is divine, i.e., part of God, and no one requires a Savior, or anyone to forgive their "sins," which don't actually exist.
Such a mindset has nothing but contempt for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I would never be subjected to "signing in" to a subsection devoted to the Occult, without the freedom of speech to respond and refute using God's Word to do so.
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