Many are being seduced into mystical techniques to conjure up “God’s Presence”
Conjure: To summon (a devil or spirit) by magical or supernatural power.
Definition from Answers.com
These techniques masquerade as “prayer” and “meditation“.
But it’s not Biblical prayer and it’s not Biblical meditation.
Biblical meditation has nothing to do with entering an altered state of consciousness.
“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.” Matthew 6:7
Does the below graphic represent Contemplative Spirituality?
This is Rosicrucian!
Are the similarities just superficial?
Link between Contemplative and
New Thought Movements – Brother Lawrence
Kai Zen and Spiritual Management
New Age Endorser & Emergent-Contemplative Author, Leonard Sweet
Skip Heitzig, Calvary Chapels, Greg Laurie
Worship Leader Magazine
On the Lighthouse Trails site 3/26/10
Manhattan Declaration: “Perhaps Millions” Being Led Toward the New Age/New Spirituality
From Lighthouse Trails 12/4/09