Please take one or two minutes to read our extended statement at the bottom of this page.
We consider all of the subjects listed below to be Potentially Harmful and Dangerous Spiritual Practices. They all have the potential to be spiritually harmful – and a large number of them are extremely dangerous. SRN issues a warning about the following topics because they are either one, two, three, or all four of the following:
- Mystical and supernaturalistic health related methods
- Founded on occult (hidden/secret) principles
- Dangerous forms of occult and mystical practices
- Based on the writings and beliefs associated with either paganism, spiritism, occultism or mysticism.
If you have been involved in any of these practices or beliefs we recommend that you read our statement at the bottom of this page.
A
A Course in Miracles (also referred to as ACIM or “the Course”)
Aamon
Aaronic Order (Order of Aaron – occult)
Abacomancy (amathomancy)
Abaddon
Abanathabla
Ablathanabla
Abaris
Abatwa
Abduscius
Abigor
Abjad
Abnuaaya
Aboukra
Abraxas (Also known as Abracax, Abrasax, Abanathabla and Ablathanabla)
Absent healing (absentee healing, distance healing, distant healing, remote healing,
teleotherapeutics)
ACCESS (Access Energy Transformation)
Active imagery Actualism (Actualism Lightwork, agni yoga, Fire Yoga, lightwork)
Actualism bodywork
Acu-meridian energy transmission bodywork (Er Mei Qi Gong Therapy External
Energy Diagnosis and Treatment system)
Acupressure energy channeling
Acupressure (G-jo ) [GEE-joh], Acu-ball pressure treatment; Do-in (dao-in, Taoist yoga); G-Jo acupressure)
Acupressure massage
Acupressure touch
Acupuncture (acupuncture therapy, Zhenjiu)
Acupuncture imaging
Acuscope therapy (Electro-Acuscope therapy)
Acutherapy
Acutomancy (divination)
Acutomanzia
Acu-yoga
Adept (occult: A person who is ‘skilled’. Initiate who has mastered occult sciences and powers)
Adjuration
Adomaster
Adramelech (Also known as Adrammelech and Adramelechk)
Advanced dowsing
Advanced Energy Healing (Robert Jaffe Advanced Energy Healing)
Advanced Kum Nyethrough stimulation a
Advanced pranic healing
Adytum (occult)
Aeluromancy
Aerimancy
Aeromancy
Aetites (Aquilaeus, Gagites, “The Pregnant Stone” and “Eagle Stone”
Agaliarept (Also known as Agalieraps and Agalierept)
Agalmatomancy
Agares (Also known as Aguares and Agreas)
Agathodemon (Also known as Agathadaimon, Agathadaemon, Agathodiamon, Agathadeamon, Agathos Diamon)
Age of Aquarius
Agni dhatu (agni dhatu therapy, samadhi Yoga)
Agares (Aguares and Agreas)
Ailuromancy
Aikido
Akasha (Akasa and Akash)
Alastor
Alberich (Also known as Aelferic, Alferich, Alpris, Andavari and Elberich)
Alchemy
Alchemia
Alchemia Breathwork
Alchemia® heart breath
Alchemical Hypnotherapy (Alchemical work)
Alchemical Synergy®
Alchemical weight management
Alectromancy (Also knowns as Alectormancy, Alectryomancy)
Aleuromancy
Alien (apparitions, alien contact, channeling, mediums, etc.)
Alien abduction
Alien implants
Alliance method (“traditional” Reiki, Usui System of Natural Healing; called “Hayashi” in
Japan)
Alocen (Also known as Allocer, Alloces, Alocas, Allocen and Alloien)
Alomancy (Also Halomancy)
Alpha Calm Therapy
Alphitomancy
Altered States of Consciousness (ASC)
Alternative medicine (fringe medicine, natural medicine, unconventional medicine, holistic medicine, complementary medicine, integrative medicine, nernacular medicine)
Ama Deus
Amma (anma, General Massage, Pu Tong An Mo)Amdukias (Amduscias, Amdusias, Amukias)
Amma therapy ®
Amathomancy (abacomancy)
Amdukias (Amduscias, Amdusias, Amukias)
Amen (occult: Aman, Ammon, Amon, Amon-Ra, Amon-Re, Amum, Atum, Am, Amen-Ra, Amen-Ur, Amun-Re, Hammon, Niu, Zeus-Ammon and Jupitr-Ammon)
Ammit (Amit, Aman, Amamet, Ammut, Amunet and Ammemet)
Amniomancy
Amplified Energy Therapy
Amulet (and talisman)
Amy (Avnas)
Anamelech (Anammelech)
Anarazel (Anazarel)
Ancient Christian magic (not Biblical by any means)
Ancient Mystic Order of the Rosae Crucis (Rosicrucians; AMORC)
Andra-inanyas (Andras and Andrainanyas)
Andrealphus (Androalphus)
Anemoscopy (Anemosomancy)
Angel Chiropractic Care
Angel (fallen angels that masquerade as aliens, the higher-Self, inner child, personalities, etc)
Angel contact
Angel Magic (ritual practices, conjuration, communication, control of angels, demons, devas, etc)
Angelical Stone
Angelic attunement
Angelic healing
Anemosomancy (Anemoscopy)
Animal messages
Anima Mundi
Animal magnetism
Animal mutilations
Animal PSI (AnPSI)
ANPSI (animal PSI)
Animal worship
Animism
Ankh (anhk)
Annette Martin training
Anthroposophy
Anpu (Anubis)
Anthromancy (anthropomancy, splachomancy, antinopomancy)
Anthropophagy (cannibalism)
Anthroposophy (Christianized Theosophy; founder Rudolf Steiner)
Apitherapy (bee sting therapy, bee venom therapy)
Apparitions
Arhatic YogaSM (Arhatic Yoga System)
Arica(R)
Asian medicine
Astanga yoga (ashtanga yoga, raja yoga)
Aston-patterning®
Astara’s healing science
Astral projection
Astrological counseling
Astrological diagnosis
Astrologic medicine medicinal astrology)
Astrology (star-gazing) (this is not “astronomy”)
Astrotherapy (psychological astrology)
Athame
Atlantean Healing Ray Training”Healing at a Distance”), provided
Attitudinal healing (encompasses Buddhist psychology, Christian Science, A Course in Miracles, transpersonal psychology, and yogic meditation)
Attitudinal Therapy
Attunement
Auditing (Scientology’s psychotherapeutic form of pastoral counseling, processing)
Aura analysis (aura reading, auric diagnosis)
Aura and vibrational diagnosis
Aura balancing (aura cleansing, aura clearing, aura healing, auric healing)
Aura Imaging Photography (Aura Imaging)
Aura-Soma (aurasomatherapy, Aura-Soma therapy)
Auric massage technique
Automata (for purposes of magic, voodoo, witchcraft, etc)
Avatar® (Avatar Course)
“Awakened Life, The” (The Awakened Life program)
Awareness Release Technique® (A.R.T.)
Ayurveda (ancient Indian medicine)
Ayurveda Medicine
Ayurvedic Healing
Ayurvedic Healthcare
Ayurvedic Medicine
Ayurvedism (classical Indian medicine, Indian medicine, Science of Longevity, traditional Ayurveda, traditional Indian medicine, Vedic medicine)
Ayurvedic Reflexology-Acupressure
Ayurveda System of Medicine
B
Bach Cures
Bach flower essence method
Bach flower essence system
Bach flower remedies
Bach flowers
Bach flower therapy
Backward blessing
Baguazhang (pa kua chang, circle walking)
Balance Therapy
Balanced Health
Balinese Massage
Balneology, Balneotherapy
Baphomet
Baptism for the dead (a practice done in Mormonism)
Barbara Brennan Healing Science
Barefoot shiatsu massage
Behavioral Kinesiology (BK)
Belavi
Belly Bean Diet
Beyond Dieting
BEYOND MEDICINE
Beyond Therapy
Beyond Therapysm
Bhramari
Bhuta shuddhi
Beelzebub (Beelzebuth, Belzebeth, Baalzebub, Beelzeboul, Baalsebul, Belzaboul, Belzebud, Beezelbub, Beezlebub, Baalzebubg, Beelzebus and Ba’al-zebub
Bhramari
Bindegewebsmassage (bindegewebsmassage system)
Bindi
Biochromatic (Bio-chromatic) chakra alignment
Biochromatic (Bio-chromatic) chakra massage
Biodynamic (Bio-dynamic) Massage
Biodynamic (Bio-dynamic) psychology
Bioelectromagnetics (Bio-electromagnetics)
Biomagnetics (Bio-magnetic medicine)
Biomagnetic (Bio-magnetic) therapy
Bioelectronic (Bio-electronic) diagnosis
Bioenergy (Bio-energy healing)
Bioenergetics (Bio-energetics)
Bioenergetic (Bio-energetic) analysis
Bioenergetic (Bio-energetic) healing
Bioenergetic (Bio-energetic) movement work
Bioenergetics (Bio-energetics) therapy
Bioenergy (Bio-energy)
Bioessence (Bio-essence) bodywork
Bioessence (Bio-essence) therapy
Biofeedback (Bio-feedback)
Biofeedback (Bio-feedback) Without Machines,
Biofield (Biofield)
Biofield (Biofield) Therapeutics,
Biogenic (Bio-genic) Support,
Biogeometry (Bio-geometry)
Biogram (Biogram) Therapy,
Bioiridology (Bio-iridology)
Biokinesiology (Bio-kinesiology)
Biological Immunity Analysis ™ (BIA, biological immunity system ™)
Biolifting (Bio-lifting)
Biological Archeology
Biological Immunity Analysis
Bio-Magnetic Healing
Bio-magnetic therapy
Bio-magnetic Touch Healing
Bio-magnetic Touch Healing
Bio-magnetics, Bio-mechanics
Bio-Optic Holography
Bioplasmic healing
Biorhythm
BioSonics
BioSonic Mantric Dream Repatterning
Biosonic Repatterning, BioSonic Repatterning
BioSonic Repatterning ™
BioSonic Sound and Light Repatterning
Biosync
Birthing Services
Black Hah Feng Shui
Black Hat Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui
Black arts
Black magic
Black magic spells
Black magick
Black magick spells
Black mass
Bleeding manipulation
Blood Cell Demonstration
Blood crystallization
Blood crystallization (diagnostic blood crystallization)
Bloodletting
Bocor (conjuring of)
Blue Water technique
Body Acupuncture
Body Alignment
Body Centered Therapy
Body Harmony
Body Imaging Enhancement
Body Integration, Body Logic, Body Mapping Technique, Body Mind Breathwork
Body Mind Breathwork
Body Mind Counseling
Body Mind Counseling Hypnotherapy
Body Mind Dynamics
Body Mind Massage
Body Mind Shiatsu
Body Mind Therapy
Body Mind centering
Body Oriented Emotional Release Psychotherapy
Body Polish
Body Reflexology
Body Rolling
Body Wisdom
Body Work
Body Work Plus
Body-Centered psychotherapy
Bodymind Centering
Bodymind (Body-Mind) Centering
Body-Oriented Psychotherapy
Body Talk
BODYTONICS
BodyWisdom
Bodywork Plus
Bodywork Tantra
Bodywork Tantra Co-centering
Bodywork Tantra Tantsu
Bodywork Tantra Watsu
Bon shamanic practices
Bone Marrow Nei Kung
Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy
Bonsano, Botanical Medicine
Book of spells
Book of Shadows
Bowan Therapeutic Touch
Bowen Technique
Bowen Therapy
Brain Gym
Breath Awareness
Breath Regenesis
Breath Therapy
Breath Word (Breathwork)
Breatharianism
Breathing Exercises (mystical, energy, occult, chi, Ki, yoga, etc.)
Breath Prayers (mystical, energy, occult, chi, Ki, yoga, etc.)
Breathing Therapy (occult)
Breema
Breema Bodywork
BRETH (“Breath Releasing Energy for Transformation and Healing”)
BRETH (“Breath Releasing Energy for Transformation and Happiness”)
Broadcasting
Brothers of the Shadow
Bubble of light technique
Bubble of light meditation
Buddhist Medicine
Buddhist psychology
Budzek Medical Massage Therapy
Bu-hang
Business Qigong
C
Cambion
Candomble’ (Spiritism, Macumba, Umbanda)
Cannibalism (anthropophagy)
Celtic wisdom sticks
Chakra meditation
Charm (magical formula)
Channeling (spirits, Ascended Masters, ‘the dead’, etc)
Chimaera
Circle (Wiccans, ceremonial magicians, seances, etc)
Clairvoyance
Cocytus (kokytus)
Color Therapist
Communication with the spirit world
Conjuration (practice of raising or evoking spirits, demons and storms through rituals)
Conjure
Conjurer
Conjuretors
Conjuring (spells and spirits)
Craft (the Craft, Wicca, Witchcraft,
Crystal balls
Crystal healer
Crystal Work
Curse (occult prayer or incantation, written or spoken, for harm to come upon one)
Contemplative Spirituality / Spiritual Formation (Please read note below)
- “Ancient Prayer” Practices
- Awareness of Being
- Being in the Present Moment
- Beyond Words
- Breath Prayers
- Contemplative
- Centering
- Centering prayer
- Dark night of the soul
- Divine Center
- Divine Mystery
- Enneagrams
- Ignation Contemplation
- Inner light
- Jesus Candles
- Labyrinths • Lectio Divina
- Mantras • Mantra prayers
- “Palms Up, Palms Down”
- Practicing the Presence
- Prayer of the Heart
- Prayer Stations
- Sacred Space
- Slow Prayer
- Spiritual Direction
- Spiritual Disciplines
- Spiritual Formation
- Taize
- The Jesus Prayer
- Thin Place
- The Silence
- Yoga (All forms)
Special note about Contemplative Practices:
The contemplative spirituality catch phrases and practices referred to above are used by Eastern occultists, religious mystics, and many “well-intentioned” Christians.
Almost the entire list of these practices has been gleaned from Eastern mysticism and the occult – and they have been brought into Christian settings. Due to the massive explosion of experience driven Christianity and the endorsements of many well known personalities, these practices are now thought by many to actually be “Christian.”
It must be clearly noted however that many Christian mystics gleaned these practices from Eastern religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism. See, The Desert Fathers, Fr. Bede Griffiths, Fr. Thomas Keating, Thomas Merton, etc. As such, they are “Christianized” forms of non-Christian practices. Even biblical prayer has been convoluted and redefined as centering prayer, the Jesus prayer, slow prayer, mantra prayer, meditation (unbiblical forms), and more.
We make special note of this here because oftentimes the “results” that people experience from these Eastern practices are contrary to biblical theology and balanced Christian practice. With this in view it is no wonder that a number of so-called Christian leaders in our age have adopted a pantheistic, occult worldview in place of a biblical Christian worldview. The proof of this can be found in their books and sermons.
The tragic end result of this is that many undiscerning churchgoers (and many true Christians) are now being subjected to and influenced by an unbiblical Christianity. This new Christianized form of Eastern spirituality is an amalgamation of Eastern occult practices mixed with corrupted theology and redefined biblical terminology. It is rife with major problems in theory, and in practice it can very quickly lead to spiritual delusion.
Another very serious problem that can arise through the use of a number of these practices is direct, overt contact with the spirit world – apart from God. The technique or practice of centering prayer as contemplatives call it, has a very strong potential to introduce well-intentioned people to occult practices, including Clairvoyance, Clairaudience and Clairsentience.
The Bible in no uncertain terms condemns every form of occult practice under the sun. God Himself gave a blanket condemnation of varying categories of occultism in Deuteronomy 18.
Click here to view many biblical references condemning occult practices.
It is very simple to do the research and find out just where these practices originate from and how they have crept into the church. Sadly, many refuse to look at the facts!
D
Death prayer (on behalf of the dead)
Death prayer (in order to harm the living)
Demon possession
Demons (obssession with and, or, contact with)
Demonology (for magic and occult practices)
Devil
Devil’s mark
Devourer of Amenti
Divination (all forms)
Divination practices and occult “Games”
Divining rods
Dowsing rods
Dream cue cards
Druids
Dweller in Amenta
Dynamic Trance States
E
Eagle stone
Eastern Gurus
Eblis (Iblees, Iblees and Haris – a fallen angel of Islam)
Eckankar
Elves
Energy Massage Therapy
Energy Work
Energy Therapies
Enlightenment (occult)
Enochian magic
ESP (Extra Sensory Perception)
EST, The Forum and related New Age Seminars
Evil (the opposite of good)
Evil eye (witchcraft and black magic)
Extra Sensory Perception (ESP)
Eye of Horus
F
Fascination (any and all fascination with the world of the occult is dangerous)
Faeries
False prophet
Fates (demons who alter destiny)
Familiars (spiritis who assist witches)
Feng Shui
Fetish
Freemason (one who practices Freemasonry and believes the teachings of the Craft)
Freemasonry (Masonic Lodge)
Freemasons square
G
Gamalei (astrological, hermetic or magical)
Galdrabok (the)
Ghosts
Grand Grimoire
Grimoire of Honorius
Grimories (Grand Grimoire; the Heptameron; the Enchiridium; Grimorium Verum; Grimoire of Honorius; the Galdrabok; the Key of Solomon)
Grimorium Verum
H
Halomancy (Also alomancy)
Healing for Self Mastery
Healing Touch Energy Work
Heart Centered Rebalancing (http://heartcenteredrebalancing.com/)
Huna magic (Ancient Polynesian and Hawaiian)
Hypnosis
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotic Regression
Hypnotic trance dancing
Hypnotic trances
I
I Ching (cards, divination)
Iatromathematics (Astrological medicine or Astromedicine)
Ibis (In the occult, believed to be the incarnation of Thoth)
Iblees (Eblis, Iblees and Haris – a fallen angel of Islam)
Iblis
Icarus (Greek mythological character)
Ichor
Idolmancy (a form of metal or stone divination)
Illuminati
Incantations
Incubi and Succubi
Iridology
J
Jettatua (Italian for “evil eye”)
Jung, Carl (Writings and “Philemon”, his so-called “spirit guide”)
K
Kabbala (Kabalah, Kabala, Cabala, Cabbala, Cabalah, Cabbalah, Qabala, Qabbala, Qabalah and Qabbalah)
Kahuna (Hawaiian witch doctor)
Karma
Karma cards
Key of Solomon
Krishna Consciousness
Kundalini (all sources, forms, variations, experiences, and manifestations)
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kundalini altered states
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kundalini awakening
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kundalini bliss
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kundalini burning sensations
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kundalini central nadi (called sushumna)
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kundalini cervical
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kundalini chakra
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kundalini chanting
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kundalini coccygeal plexus
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kundalini coiled female serpent
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kundalini coiled one
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kundalini consciousness
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kundalini crown chakra
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kundalini crying
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kundalini cults
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kundalini electric current
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kundalini emergency
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kundalini energy
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kundalini energy rushes
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kundalini enlightenment
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kundalini euphoria
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kundalini experience
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kundalini feelings
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kundalini fire
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kundalini force
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kundalini higher dorsal
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kundalini insomnia
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kundalini involuntary movements
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kundalini jerking
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kundalini joy
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kundalini kriya
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kundalini kriyas
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kundalini levels of awakening
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kundalini liquid light
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kundalini lotus
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kundalini lumbar
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kundalini mantra
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kundalini mantras
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kundalini meditation
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kundalini medullary plexuses
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kundalini muladhara
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kundalini muladhara chakra
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kundalini mystical experience
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kundalini Ojas
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kundalini orgasm
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kundalini pains
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kundalini possession
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kundalini possession states
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kundalini pranayama breathing
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kundalini presence
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kundalini psychic centers
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kundalini psychosis
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kundalini sacral
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kundalini sahasrara
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kundalini sensitivity
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kundalini serpent goddess
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kundalini sex
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kundalini shaking
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kundalini Shakti-pat
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kundalini Shaktipat
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kundalini snake
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kundalini spinal tingling
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kundalini spiritual eye
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kundalini spiritual emergency
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kundalini symptoms
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kundalini suicidal tendencies
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kundalini tantra
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kundalini Tantrasadbhava Tantra
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kundalini the coiled power
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kundalini trances
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kundalini transformation
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kundalini universal oneness
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kundalini upheavals
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kundalini visions and sounds
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kundalini yoga
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kundalini Yoga Upanishads
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kundalini yogi
L
Labyrinth
Levitation
Lillith
M
Macumba (Spiritism, Candomble’ and Umbanda)
Magical dolls (Poppet, ritual effigies, voodoo dolls, Kolossos and Kolossoi)
Magic spells
Magic square
Magick
Magick spells
Mandalas
Mantras
Martial Arts
Martial Arts – “‘Shoumen ni rei!’: Bow to the front of the room (this signifies bowing to the institution of karate and to the line of instructors who brought it to your instructor.”
Meditation Classes
Mediumship
Merliin
Moon Awareness
Mormonism
Muscle Testing
Mysticism
N
Natural Majick
Necromancy
Nehamah
New Age Inner Work
New Age intuition
New Age Medicine
New Age Physics
Numerology
O
Occult
Occultism
Occult jewelry
Occult literature
Odin
Oenomancy (Oinomancy, a form of augury)
Oinomancy (Oenomancy, a form of augury)
Oinoscopia (Oinoscopy and Ornithomancy)
Olympian contact (contacting mythological Greek gods)
Omen (occult influence)
Omphalomancy (omphilomancy)
Oracle (occult)
Ouija Board (spirit board)
Oracles
P
Palmistry
Past Life Readings
Pendulums
Pokemon (pocket demons card game)
Poltergeists (ghosts)
Poppet (magical doll, ritual effigies, voodoo dolls, Kolossos and Kolossoi)
Possession
Possession trance states
Precognition (occult)
Precious Gem Formulas
Psychic (s)
Psychic circle
Psychic Medium
Psychokinesis
Q
Qabbala (Kabbala, Kabalah, Kabala, Cabala, Cabbala, Cabalah, Cabbalah, Qabala, Qabbala, Qabalah and Qabbalah)
Quaker Spirituality (Society of Friends)
Quantum-Touch
Quetzalcoatl (Aztec deity whose name means ‘feathered serpent’)
Quietism (form of religious mysticism; Molinists)
Quintessence (Occult, the luminous fifth element)
Quintile (A term astrologers use to designate ‘energy’ between planets or points involved)
Quiradelli, Corneille (16th century Franciscan astrologer)
Quirinus (Quirus; an occult “juggling stone, found in the nest of the hoopoo”)
R
Readings (any occult or mystical)
Reading of the palms, tea leaves, mind, etc.
Reiki Master
Reiki Therapy
Rosicrucianism (Ancient Mystic Order of the Rosae Crucis; AMORC)
Runes
S
Sacred geometry and oracles
Santeria (in Cuba and other places)
Satan
Satanism
Satanic rituals
Scientology
Scrying
Scrying bowls
Scrying mirrors
Séance
Shaman
Shamanism
Shapeshifting
Shiatsu Massage
Silva Mind Control
Sorcery
Soothsayer
Spell boards
Spell cards
Spells
Spirit board (any and all forms)
Spiritism
Spiritism (Macumba, Candomble’ and Umbanda)
Spiritualism
Spiritualist
Spiritualist Society
Stoichomancy
Succubi and Incubi
Swallower of the Dead
Sympathetic Magic
T
Talisman (and amulet)
Tantra
Tantrism
Taoism
Talking board (Ouija board, etc.)
Tarot cards
Tarot decks
Tarot readings
Telekinetic enhancer
Telepathy
The Cayce Approach to Health and Healing (Edgar Cayce)
Theosophy
Theosophical Society
TM–Transcendental Meditation
Trance
Trance channeling
Trance possession
Trance states
Transformational Mind Dynamics (Mind science/self actualization) http://transformyourdynamics.com
U
Umbanda (Spiritism, Macumba, Candomble’ )
Unergi© Method (Unergi holistic therapy)
Unctions (any type utilized in occult, pagan, and mystical practices)
UN SystemSM
V
Vacuflex
Vampirism (human vampirism)
Vedic Astrology (jyotish, jyotisha)
VEGAtest method
vibrational medicine
Violent Flame Initiation
Visualization
Visualization Therapy
Visualizing “Jesus”
Vita Flex
Vitality Fasting and Rejunevation
Viviano Method
Voodoo charms
Vodou (Haitian Vodou, vodoun, vodun, voodoo, voodooism, Voudoun)
W
Waitankung
Warriorobics
Warlock
Watsu
Weight No More (developed by Edgar cayce)
White magick
White Tantra
Wicca
Wisdom Chi Kung
Wise woman healing
Witch
Witchcraft
Witch doctor
Witch of Endor
Witching stones
Wizard
WooJangJu Power Meditation
Wortcunning
X
Xavier, Francisco, Candido (Famous Brazilian psychic known as ‘Chico’)
Xenoglossy (Xenoglossia – occult form of speaking in ‘tongues’)
Xenomancy
Xylomancy
Y
Yagya
Yin and Yang
Yoda’s worldview (pantheism)
Yoga
Yoga, Agni Yoga
Yoga, Anahata Yoga
Yoga, Anusara Yoga
Yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
Yoga, Bhakti yoga
Yoga, Bikram Yoga
Yoga for Busy People (YBP, Yoga for Busy People method)
Yoga For Surfers
Yoga, Hatha yoga
Yoga, Integral yoga
Yoga, Iyengar Yoga
Yoga, Jnana Yoga
Yoga, Karma Yoga
Yoga, Kriya yoga
Yoga, Kundalini yoga
Yoga, Natya Yoga
Yoga Nutrition
Yoga, Yoga Neuromuscalar Therapy
Yoga, Raja Yoga
Yoga, Sahaja Yoga
Yoga, Satyananda Yoga
Yoga, Sivananda Yoga
Yoga, Six yogas of Naropa (Tummo)
Yoga, Surat Shabd Yoga
Yoga therapy
Yoga, Viniyoga
Yoga, Yantra Yoga
Yoga, Yoga Nidra
Yogic Flying
Z
Zarlen Therapy (Zarlen direct channelling, Zarlen Therapy technique)
Zazen
Zen Alexander Technique
Zen Shiatsu
Zen Shiatsu Acupressure
Zen Tantra
Zen-Touch
Zero Balancing (ZB, Core Zero Balancing)
Zhan Zhuang Chi Kung (Zhan Zhuang)
Zhineng Chigong
Zombie (reanimated through occult power)
Zoolatry (animal worship)
Zulu Sangoma bones
Source Notes:
Many of the topics listed above were found in alternative medicine, new age, and occult sources. Further helpful documentation and topics were found in The Expanded Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare, Unnaturalistic Methods: A-Z, 2000 Jack Raso, M.S., R.D.
Subjects listed on this page also come from many other sources such as various Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, Spiritual Dictionaries, New Age Vocabulary Guides, Alternative Health Books, Alternative Medicine Books, Alternative Health Care Journals, Natural Health and Healing magazines, Natural and Occult Medicine Literature, Alternative Remedy Booklets, Alternative Health and Medicine Pamphlets, Alternate Healing Method Books, Holistic Health Dictionary and Therapy Literature, Alternative Treatment Practices, Complementary Medicine Journals, Alternative Health Dictionaries, Alternative Health, Alternative Medicine Dictionaries, Alternative Health Glossary’s, Alternative Medicine Glossary’s, Alternative Health Terms, Alternative Medicine Terms, Alternative Healing Guides, Alternative Medicine Guides, Natural Healing Dictionaries, and a vast array of occult literature.
Note about photo at top of page
Durham Castle is where this original medieval folklore/occult type door knocker (image below) is located – on Durham Castle’s cathedral sanctuary door. Durham Castle is also where Harry Potter was filmed. Wikipedia states:
“The Sanctuary Knocker or hagoday is an ornamental knocker on the door of a cathedral. Under medieval English common law, these instruments supposedly afforded the right of asylum to anybody who touched them. Examples of Sanctuary Knockers can be found on
Durham Cathedral, the St. Nicholas church in Gloucester and the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon. By 1623, the laws permitting church sanctuary had been overturned by parliament.” (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_Knocker)
Image: Durham Castle Cathedral – Sanctuary Door knocker (Hagoday)
Just because people during the medieval period were invited to Churches or cathedrals where this door knocker could provide asylum, it does not necessarily mean that they always received asylum and protection. Yes churches are supposed to provide safety, but like this image, what many churches provide is simply terrifying.
This “church sanctuary” door knocker (hagoday) is very similar to much imagery found in occult religions, such as the Sri Lanken Devil bird, Indonesian black magic masks, Occult Owl symbology, terrifying Hindu deities, much imagery that represents forms of divination that entail observing the flight of birds’ songs, cries and behavior (Ornithomancy, Oinoscopy, Orniscoly, Oinoscopia).
It should be noted that many people in our day assume that if something is spiritual and “it works” than “it must be of God.” In many cases nothing could be further from the truth. Many of the practices listed in this article are being utilized by well meaning churches, movements and individuals, but they are clearly not given by God, nor endorsed by Him.
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