TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION!
DO 1852
10/84
--Is It Beneficial?
--A Charitable Approach!
1. (A DISCUSSION AFTER READING IN THE ASIAN PAPERS about how "Transcendental Meditation" under its new names of "Age of Enlightenment Foundation" & "Technology of the Unified Field" has entered Asia & particularly the Philippines in full force recently:)
2. IN A SENSE, THIS TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IS REALLY PRAYER, IT'S GETTING IN TUNE WITH THE SPIRITUAL--or as they call it, the Unified Field of the Forces of the Universe--& of course that should mean God.--Or it can also mean other gods, & that's where the trouble comes, where they start bringing in the Hindu deities! But it just stands to reason & follows logically that if you obey God's certain physical or even psychological laws, you will receive certain benefits from them. It's just like the law of gravity: God has certain universal laws which just work, it seems, no matter who practices them.
3. TO GET QUIET & BE STILL--THERE ARE A LOT OF SCRIPTURES ABOUT BEING QUIET: "Study to be quiet", "Be still & know that I am God", & "In quietness & confidence shall your strength be." (1Thes.4:11; Psa.46:10; Isa.30:15)--And for this modern generation to get quiet is quite a trick, because they're usually living in the midst of confusion & noise! So they're just bound to benefit if they follow certain of God's natural laws, & one of them is that if you just be still & get quiet & sort of try to tune in to His natural forces of the spiritual, you will gain some strength from it & a certain amount of peace.
4. THERE'S ALL KINDS OF EVIDENCE THAT PEOPLE RECEIVE CERTAIN BENEFITS FROM MEDITATION, but of course at the same time it's dangerous in that they can tune-in to the wrong forces while in that spiritual state! Years ago when I was studying yoga I received certain benefits from the physical exercises & just getting quiet & meditating, sort of thinking away from the hubbub of the World, it did have a soothing effect. But as I got deeper into the book & the advanced exercises, I began to realise which direction it was going, that it was down & not up. It was leading to tuning in to spiritual forces, that's true, but the wrong ones!
5. SO A LOT OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE SINCERE SEEKERS, IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THE LORD HAS KEPT THEM.--Just like the hippies that had those drug trips & tuned into the Spirit World through psychedelic drugs & had spiritual experiences & saw God & angels & the Spirit World etc., or were warned with horror trips through Hell! It's possible that the Lord has used this to get through to some young people that there is such a World. Those with the proper attitude of sincerely seeking peace & harmony & really wanting the right thing, I think it's possible that some of those young people have perhaps been led in the right direction toward the spiritual & toward unity with the natural forces of God, in harmony with His creation.
6. LET'S FACE IT, IN THE SPIRIT, GETTING IN TUNE WITH THE SPIRITUAL, GETTING INTO A SPIRITUAL STATE YOU CAN GO EITHER DIRECTION, UP OR DOWN!--Not meaning in the Spirit with a capital "S", God's Spirit, but just in the spirit, your spirit, in the spiritual. And of course the danger of that whole TM thing is that it is definitely controlled & led by Hindu mystics such as the Maharishi who follow the Hindu scriptures, & sooner or later they're going to lead them into actual Hinduism & the worship of other gods, & that's the damnation of it, of course.
7. "THERE IS A WAY WHICH SEEMETH RIGHT UNTO A MAN, BUT THE END THEREOF ARE THE WAYS OF DEATH!" (Pro.14:12) In other words, it may start out good, & they find by obeying God's certain universal laws of creation, in a sense by getting quiet & in tune with the harmony of the Universe, that they actually do receive certain benefits. But then the Devil & his leadership leads them on from there into the wrong direction with his lies sugar-coated with truths!
8. IT'S JUST EXACTLY LIKE THE DEVIL ALWAYS WORKS--HE USES THE GOOD OF GOD TO DECEIVE PEOPLE TO START OUT WITH, & TELLS THEM THE TRUTH ABOUT SOME THINGS, because he knows they will get certain benefits & reactions simply by obeying some of the Universal Laws of the Lord that are effective in His creation. To tune-in to the World of the spirit, in a sense, that's a step in the right direction.
9. BUT FROM THERE ON, ONCE YOU'RE IN THAT STATE, YOU ARE THEN PRESENTED WITH A CHOICE OF WHICH DIRECTION DO YOU WANT TO GO? God always gives man a choice. Are you going to follow the Spirit of God & the good influences of the Spirit World & His Angels?--Or are you going to follow the evil spirits of Satan? And see, that's where they finally get'm & lead'm into worship of those Hindu deities!
10. THEY TRY TO MAKE IT SOUND ALL VERY SCIENTIFIC & NON-RELIGIOUS, BUT AS SOME OF THEIR CRITICS POINT OUT, THEY CANNOT DENY THAT THEY REALLY ARE BASICALLY A RELIGION! They try to deny it & flat-out say they are not a religion, but they can't completely hide the fact that it is basically a religious practice.
11. TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IS A RELIGION & A RELIGIOUS PRACTICE & A SYSTEM OF RELIGIOUS FAITH IN HINDUISM, HINDU PRACTICES & HINDU CEREMONIES, WHICH LEADS TO THE WORSHIP OF HINDU GODS. Those are the facts however much they may try to deny it & make it sound scientific & like a science. They're trying to hide the religious aspects & the religious flavour in order to present it as a science to appeal to youth who have been disillusioned with religion & are sick of religious things & churches etc. And by presenting them with a system or technique of behaviour, being quiet & just getting away from the noise & hubbub of the World & interest in materialism etc., in that respect they're obeying one of God's natural laws, which does bestow its benefits of greater tranquility.
12. IF YOU JUST OBEY GOD'S NATURAL LAWS OF HEALTH & FOODS OR HIS LAWS OF GIVING ETC., YOU'LL GET THE BENEFITS, WHETHER YOU'RE A BELIEVER IN GOD OR NOT, OR WHETHER YOU'RE RELIGIOUS OR NOT! Yes, or this law of getting quiet & thinking good thoughts. This is another one of God's natural laws, the power of positive thinking! You think on good things, as St. Paul taught, & you're going to receive good benefits from it. (Phil.4:8) If you sit in quietness & in confidence & try to get rid of bad thoughts & negative thoughts & you just try to think on good things & quiet things & non-Worldly things, you're bound to get the natural benefits of it, because you're moving in harmony with God's natural laws of His creation, the laws, as they call it, of the Universal Unified Field.
13. PEACE & QUIET IS JUST ONE OF GOD'S RECOMMENDED STATES THAT HAS ITS NATURAL BENEFITS. So just to get peaceful & quiet & think good things is bound to have certain natural creative benefits, because it's just simply following certain of God's natural spiritual laws. Now that may sound like a contradiction, because some people make a distinction between the natural & the spiritual, but to us, spiritual things come natural, if you understand what I mean. In other words, the so-called supernatural things are natural to God, such as miracles etc., & those come to pass through simply obeying God's spiritual laws, so that in the World of the spirit, you might say, they're natural.
14. "TRANSCENDENTAL" SIMPLY MEANS SHIFTING, IN A SENSE, FROM ONE WORLD TO THE OTHER, FROM THE MATERIAL WORLD INTO THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. And through meditation they get their minds off the material things & the material World & the worries of the World, the noise & confusion of the World, & they try to get in peace & harmony with the natural forces of God's creation, & even the spiritual forces. Therefore Transcendental Meditation is bound to have some good effects, especially initially before the Devil tricks them into going the wrong direction.
15. SO WHAT THE DEVIL IS DOING THROUGH THIS TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION BUSINESS IS TELLING A HALF-TRUTH. Half of what he's teaching is true, they do receive certain natural spiritual & physical benefits, both health of body, mind & spirit, through getting quiet & trying to tune-in to God's natural physical forces of His creation in harmony with the Universe, harmony with good spiritual things.
16. THEN, OF COURSE, THE PROBLEM IS THAT ONCE HE GETS THEM INTO THIS SPIRITUAL STATE & into a deep meditative yielding to the spirits, if they don't know the Lord & if they're not protected by the Lord & not going the right direction, once they get into the spirit the Devil can lead them in the wrong direction into becoming possessed by his evil spirits, & through this he can gain control!
17. THERE ARE MANY OF SATAN'S EVIL SPIRITS WHO ARE NOT NECESSARILY VIOLENT & THROW FITS & ARE HORRIFIC IN SOME WAY! We tend to believe that everything demonic is always violent & horrible & monstrous & that sort of thing, whereas when the Devil wants to put on his best face & be on his good behaviour & watch his P's & Q's to deceive people & to lead'm astray by thinking that what he's doing & what they're doing is good, he can!
18. (MARIA: FROM THEIR PICTURES, MANY OF THE TOP LEADERS THAT ARE DEEPLY INTO THE MAHARISHI MOVEMENT LOOK LIKE VERY NICE, FINE PEOPLE.) Oh Honey, the Devil himself can wear a happy face, believe it or not! Many times his greatest deception is his charm! (2Cor.11:14-15)
19. IF THE DEVIL CAN'T SCARE YOU INTO HELL, HE'LL TRY TO CHARM YOU INTO HELL!--And I think that's the manifestation of the Transcendental Meditation Maharishi people, they're very sweet & charming & they just exude all that sort of thing! But it's the false face of the Enemy because it's charming people the wrong direction & misleading them with half-truths & certain good practices which have certain natural spiritual benefits. He gets'm hooked on that & then once they're hooked with, you might say, some truths, that's just the bait on his hook! Then he drives the hook home that brings their capture & their destruction!--From Hinduism to demon possession!
20. BAIT IS ALWAYS GOOD FOOD THAT FISH LOVE & WANT & DESIRE & NORMALLY HAS GOOD EFFECTS, IT SATISFIES! But if it's just bait which is used to deceive & hide the hook & lure the victim into the trap, no matter how good the bait is, the trap is deadly! The cheese that you put on a mousetrap is good food that mice love & is good for them & has natural benefits & they desire it, so they come & nibble on it &, bang!--They spring the trap & you got'm!
21. AS I HAVE OFTEN SAID, THERE ARE CERTAIN GOOD THINGS ABOUT ALMOST EVERY RELIGION. If there were not certain good things & truths about them, the Devil could never possibly lure people into his traps & onto his hooks & onto his horns! He's got to have some Truth & something good about it in order to deceive people into his trap! He's got to offer them some Truth in something good & some genuine benefits. But those are simply the short-term effects. The long-term result is that they are trapped into a false system & hooked on false doctrine into the worship of the wrong spirits & the wrong gods, which leads to destruction!
22. (MARIA: SO IN A COUNTRY LIKE THE PHILIPPINES FOR EXAMPLE, they've had a system of Christianity, but it doesn't seem that the practical results have been very good in the lives of the populace as a whole, manifested in the extreme political & economic instability of the country. So some people could say, "Look, Hinduism or Buddhism would be just as good for you & maybe bring about better results!")--And this is true if so-called "Christians" do not have genuine Christian faith & it's just a false front & a profession of just a mere practice or tradition & not genuine born-again faith in Jesus!
23. UNLESS THE CHRISTIANS ARE GENUINELY BORN-AGAIN & FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD, CHRISTIANITY BECOMES JUST A RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF A LOT OF GOOD & TRUTH WHICH IS BEING USED BY THE DEVIL TO LEAD PEOPLE ASTRAY & TRAP THEM ONCE AGAIN INTO A FALSE SYSTEM! (Maria:--Which can have worse results than Buddhism or Hinduism!) It's deceitful! Look at the United States: The most supposedly Christian nation on the face of the Earth has now become the most dangerous, the most vicious, the most violent & is becoming one of the most demonic criminal nations on the face of the Earth! They have "a form of godliness without the power thereof!" (2Tim.3:5) They had a system of religion, in this case a system of Christian religion in which they were supposedly Christian, but most of them didn't really have Christ! They were professors but not possessors! So it became even more deceptive & their very religion became their trap that the Devil used! He used the good things about Christianity & Christian faith & practice & a system of religion to bait them into the trap of a system which has become his very own!
24. NOTHING IS PROBABLY MORE DEAR TO THE DEVIL'S OWN HEART THAN THE CHURCH-BUILDING SYSTEM OF CHRISTIANITY, BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE WORST DECEITS THAT EVER HIT THIS WORLD!--Christians seem to think that their religion consists of building church buildings & attending them!--Which was never ever advocated by the Lord or anything in the Bible except the Old Testament's Temple, that's all! In fact, He even spoke against the Temple in the New Testament & against building temples & worshipping in temples etc. (Acts 7:48; 17:24)
25. NOW LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE PHILIPPINES: THERE'S ANOTHER CHRISTIAN NATION THAT HAS A FORM OF CHRISTIAN FAITH, CATHOLICISM, & A LOT OF EVANGELICALISM AS WELL, BUT IT HAS GONE THE WAY OF ALL OTHER CHRISTIANITY INTO THE FALSE CULT OF CHURCH-BUILDING & CHURCH-ATTENDANCE! I would definitely call church-building & church-attendance a false cult!--Literally!--Because it's not true Christianity, it's not genuine Christian faith & religion or practice! The Lord never ever said to build a church building. He never ever said you would be a Christian by going to church on Sundays, ever! He said, "Go ye into all the World & preach the Gospel to every creature!" (Mark 16:15) That's obeying His commandment, not building church buildings & attending them every Sunday! (Jn.4:20-24)
26. THE BIGGEST DECEIT THE DEVIL EVER BROUGHT UPON CHRISTIANITY WAS THAT THEIR FAITH COULD BE UPHELD BY BUILDING BUILDINGS & ATTENDING THEM! THIS IS CHURCH-WORSHIP!--NOT WORSHIPPING GOD, BUT WORSHIPPING THOSE BUILDINGS! Literally, that's what the Christians worship! You don't have to prove it, really, they prove it by the way they live & the way they sacrifice & give immense amounts of money to build those buildings! Who are they serving when they're spending billions of dollars on church buildings? Who are they serving? They think they're serving God, but they're actually serving those buildings!--And in so doing, in serving the material, they're serving the god of the material World, & that's the Devil! By encouraging attendance at the buildings as being service to God--even calling it a service & services--they are literally encouraging worship of those buildings, & thereby the worship of the Devil!
27. THE MAHARISHI IS NO DOUBT DEMON-POSSESSED, I'M SURE HE MUST HAVE CERTAIN SUPERNATURAL MANIFESTATIONS. They claim he can levitate & all that sort of thing, well, that's what all the yogis do. My Grandfather saw it in India when he was on his World tours, yogis throwing a rope 50 feet into the air & it standing there in midair while the yogi's little helper, the little boy, climbed the rope with nothing holding it up! Well, there was no doubt some big demon up there hanging onto it holding it up!
28. THE DEVIL CAN DO MIRACLES, HE CAN PERFORM WONDERS, HE CAN DECEIVE, & that Maharishi apparently has certain powers that have deceived those people into believing in his divinity & "His Holiness" & his supernatural powers. The people have been convinced that he must be something very marvellous & wonderful, & that it wouldn't be miraculous unless it was good. Too many people are convinced by the supernatural or miracles into believing in somebody or something, that it must be of God if they can do miracles. Well, the Devil can do miracles too! They're tricked into believing in a system of religion or something because it has something supernatural in it. Well, the Devil is supernatural & can do supernatural things!
29. BUT THESE POOR MODERN YOUNG PEOPLE OF TODAY HAVE SEEN NOTHING IN THE CHURCH THAT WAS AT ALL SUPERNATURAL OR MIRACULOUS OR DIVINE OR A MANIFESTATION OF THE SPIRITUAL AT ALL, NEARLY NOTHING!--Just a lot of pious, pusillanimous platitudes of pulpit preachers! They're dead, & they know it! So they're searching around for something that's got life to it, punch to it, action to it, something that's really got something spiritual to it, that's a manifestation of the spirit & the spiritual World & the supernatural & the miraculous! They want something that's got power!--And the Devil can sure show it to them! He can really manifest his power & his miracles & his supernatural manifestations! Therefore they think, "Well, this must be it, this is real religion! This has really got something, this is really getting into the spirit & the supernatural & the miraculous! Here's spiritual power!"--And he lures them with this bait into his trap or onto his hook!
30. THE POINT I'M TRYING TO BRING OUT IS THAT THE DEVIL USES GOOD & TRUTH AS BAIT, things which are true, like the benefits of Transcendental Meditation, & which can have good effects.--Like getting quiet & meditating on good things definitely has good effects, obeying God's natural laws, but which Satan is only using as a bait to lure them & charm them into his trap of a false religion, a false cult!--Whether Hinduism or Churchianity!
31. MY LORD, LOOK AT THE CHURCH TODAY, IS IT REJECTING THE TRUTH? They have rejected us & rejected the Truth, rejected the Bible, rejected God's Message, rejected God's job, rejected His commandments in every way! Church-building & churchianity is of the Devil! It's a false cult & a false religion! It is not true Christian faith & practice & genuine Christianity, it is the false cult of Churchianity, & therefore they have rejected the Truth! Therefore as their punishment, God sends them strong delusion that they might believe a lie that they might be damned, in other words, punished! So that's the end result. They reject the Truth of God's Word. Look how they reject what we have to say when it's absolutely God's Word straight out of the Bible! But no, they even hate us for preaching it! They're like the Scribes & Pharisees of Jesus' day, it's exposing them, so they really hate us & want to kill us for it! They fight us, even organise groups against us to fight us!
32. ANYBODY WHO ISN'T FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD & EMPOWERED BY THE SPIRIT TO THE POINT OF WITNESSING & WINNING SOULS & GOING INTO ALL THE WORLD TO PREACH THE GOSPEL AS A MISSIONARY IF THEY POSSIBLY CAN, IS DISOBEYING THE LORD & REJECTING GOD'S TRUTH! Therefore they're apt to be sent strong delusion by the Lord Himself to believe some kind of a lie, like this false religion that we've now heard is trying to take over the Philippines! They're just going from one false religion to the other! If they've rejected the Truth, they're already believing a lie, so what's the difference whether it's one lie or another? Which is the bad lie? Is the church supposed to be the good lie & Maharishi Transcendental Meditation the bad lie? There's no such thing as a good lie! It's all lies, it's all bad, it's all rejection of the Truth!
33. IF THEY HAVE REJECTED SOME OF GOD'S OTHER TRUTHS, even though they have accepted Jesus & been saved, God will allow them then to believe these lies & these strong delusions that they might be damned--that they might be punished is the literal meaning here, or exactly, judged. In other words, they're going to be punished for it in some way, probably here & now in this life in suffering that's going to be brought on them by having disobeyed the Lord, as well as suffering eternal shame & contempt in Heaven for having failed God & disobeyed & believed lies instead of doing the Lord's will!
34. SO IT BRINGS ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION, EVEN IF THEY'RE SAVED, EVEN IF THEY GO TO HEAVEN! They're going to suffer here, & in a sense, suffer Hereafter the shame & the contempt of the Lord & the Christians who were faithful & did obey! Even in Heaven they'll always be notorious & known as having failed God!--No crown, no shining, no glorious aura of light as having been real soul-winners & wise, but failures! All they did was save themselves, they didn't save others! See? How selfish can you get?--That's Churchianity!
35. SO NOT ONLY AMERICA IS GOING TO SUFFER FOR IT & IS SUFFERING FOR IT, BUT THE PHILIPPINES TOO & THE WHOLE WORLD FOR REJECTING THE TRUTH--WHICH SO MANY HAVE HAD! Virtually all the "Christian" World has had some Truth & they know about Jesus & the Bible & they know that Christians are supposed to be witnesses & missionaries, but they look at the churches & they see they're not. So even the World knows that the church is disobeying God & that Christians are not what they ought to be, so they're a damned poor testimony! They're more of a stumblingblock than a steppingstone!
36. SO THAT'S THE END RESULT OF THE DEVIL'S TRAP!: Even if the bait is good & true, if it's placed in a false trap created by Satan, it's going to bring damnation! And that's what I think of Transcendental Meditation!--The transcendental meditation itself is about the only good thing about it!
37. THAT'S THE TROUBLE WITH THE CHURCH, THAT'S THE TROUBLE WITH CHRISTIANS, TO THEM IT'S EITHER ALL BAD OR ALL GOOD! They reject all other cults & sects & faiths as having nothing good about them, whereas the Devil couldn't even lure people into those things unless there was something good about them, something true! (Maria: So the Christians don't have a credible argument against it.) No, because they don't confess that there's something good about it, there's something true about it & that they're right about some things. See, you've got to go along with them a certain distance & confess, "Yes, there is something good in it & some truth in it, but look what it leads to!" That's the way they need to attack'm! (Maria: But they never do.) No, because they won't confess that there's any good! To them it's either black or white, there's no grey, nothing in between. And certainly they don't confess that there's any good in any of these false cults, religions etc. as they call'm. (Maria: So they lose the arguments, because any person with a bit of sense can see that there is some good in it.)--Yes! And the people who are already trapped in it know that it has done them some good!
38. SO IF THEIR OPPONENTS ARE NOT HONEST & DON'T ACCEPT THAT WHICH IS RIGHT & GOOD & TRUE ABOUT IT, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET TO FIRST BASE even with the members & the proponents of that faith, because immediately the members of that false cult or sect or the Maharishis or whoever they are, are going to reject the witness & testimony of their enemies because those enemies don't even begin to accept what is true & what is right & what is good about it, therefore they reject their whole opposition as being false! They won't even listen to'm if they won't even confess that there's something good about it!
39. SO THE PHILIPPINES IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A COUNTRY THAT HAS HAD THE LIGHT & THE TRUTH & THE GOSPEL BUT HAS REJECTED IT FOR CHURCHIANITY!--Like the United States has & like Europe has & the rest of the Western so-called "Christian" World! They have literally rejected true faith in Christ for the false cult of Churchianity (Ed: Let's rub it in! Ha!) instead of true Christianity, & therefore the Lord is going to send them strong delusion that they might believe a lie & be damned!--In fact, He's been doing that for quite awhile! So, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death!"--And the reason it seems right is because there is some good & some truth & some right in it--the bait that lures them into the trap!
40. WHEN I SAW THOSE PICTURES OF THE LEADERS OF THEIR CULT, THERE WAS A CERTAIN MEASURE OF PEACE, A CERTAIN MEASURE OF CONTENTMENT IN THEIR FACES. They seem to be peaceful & smiling, certainly better than the mixed-up, confused, upset, gone-crazy World! So it has brought them some good, you can see it on their faces. You can see that they have a certain measure of peace.--But at the same time you can see that they're, in a sense, deluded & in a certain amount of confusion because they don't have the real right peace & the right Salvation! They don't have it all! They may have some of the natural benefits of obeying the natural laws, but they have no Salvation, no genuine, lasting peace, & "the end thereof is the way of death!"--Destruction & damnation, sad to say! It's just another one of the Devil's traps!
41. THE MAHARISHI'S TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION RELIGION IS JUST ANOTHER OF THE DEVIL'S OWN TRAPS, BAITED WITH SOME TRUTH & SOME GOOD, & most of the truth & good is in the actual technique, you might say, of the transcendental meditation, just getting quiet & thinking positively. That's bound to do them some good. But the Devil's just using that as a bait to lead them into the trap of Hinduism & the worship of Hindu gods & demon-possession, worst of all! But it's one of the strong delusions the Lord is apparently sending the World today because they have rejected the Truth so that they could believe a lie & are therefore going to get their just deserts by being judged & punished & damned!
42. SO LORD DELIVER THEM FROM THE DEVIL'S LIES & DELUSIONS!--AND THE ONLY WAY HE CAN DELIVER THEM IS BY OUR BRINGING THEM THE LIGHT OF THE TRUTH--JESUS! He's the Way, the Truth & the Life! He said, "No man cometh unto the Father but by Me!" (John 14:6) So there's no other Way but the Lord! TYJ!--Amen? GBAKY from Satan's traps!--In Jesus' name, amen!
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