New York Times Interview with the Dalai Lama - Part 1

The last place one expects to find His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, the exiled secular and religious leader of the Tibetan people, the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, the world's leading exponent of nonviolent political change, is at a glitzy Tucson, Ariz., golfing resort called the Sheraton El Conquistador. Yet there he was on a recent autumn morning, dressed in his traditional maroon robes, surrounded by Buddhist monks and non-Buddhist bodyguards, astonishing tourists as he rushed past the snack bar.

The Dalai Lama had come to this unlikely corner of the world to give a series of interpretive readings from "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" by Shantideva, an eighth-century Buddhist saint. For five full days, 1,500 attendees risked bad backs and cramped hands to sit for hours taking notes on the nature of patience. For them, participants in the expanding Buddhist movement in the Western world, this was a rare opportunity to study with the head of the faith -- the equivalent of taking Bible classes from the Pope.  Moreover, many of the aspirants were more secular types, veterans of the 1960's who'd come to regard the Dalai Lama as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Mahatma Gandhi of this political moment. It is a forum the Dalai Lama clearly enjoys, a needed break from routine as head of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India. "I am a simple Buddhist monk -- no more, no less," he often says of himself. At the teachings, he gets to be that.

Yet his life has been anything but simple. Born in 1935 to a peasant family in northeast Tibet, he was, at the age of 2, identified after the death of the 13th Dalai Lama as the 14th reincarnation of the Buddha of Compassion. That recognition brought a new name; Lhamo Thondup now became Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (Holy Lord, Gentle Glory, Eloquent, Compassionate, Learned Defender of the Faith, Ocean of Wisdom). Taken to Lhasa to be educated, he grew up in a 1,000-room palace, surrounded by doting monks who tutored him in subjects like philosophy, medicine and metaphysics and gave him a childhood of pure magic.

The magic ended in 1950 when the 15-year-old Dalai Lama was called upon to assume full powers as head of state. This, at the very moment the People's Liberation Army of China was invading Tibet. For the next nine years, the young ruler attempted to negotiate with Mao Zedong and Chou En-lai, who were intent on absorbing Tibet into China. Then, in 1959, after China brutally "quelled" a Tibetan civilian uprising against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama fled to India; some 100,000 Tibetans have since followed him across the Himalayas.

In India, he was permitted to set up a government-in-exile in a small village, Dharamsala, a long day's drive from New Delhi. "His Holiness reconstructed a viable Tibetan community in India, preserving the culture of Tibet," says his close friend Robert Thurman, professor of Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University. "He held the Tibetan people together in exile and gave them hope during the very severe, even genocidal oppression in their homeland.  He's also the first leader of Tibet to become a world leader, even without a political base -- just on his moral force."

In Tucson, a day after his teachings were completed, the Dalai Lama met in his suite with the interviewer. As would be expected from someone who has been worshiped as a demigod since age 2, he greets strangers with a mask of pleasant formality, which soon melts as he becomes engaged in ideas and conversation. An hour and a half becomes three; formality turns to laughter. One senses he's a little bored by the adulation that is his daily fare. The most striking thing about the Dalai Lama is his capacity for joy -- how widely he smiles, how amused he is by his own contradictions, his own human foibles. The journalist William Shirer once said of his interviews with Gandhi in the 1930's, "You felt you were the only person in the room, that he had all the time in the world for you." This is true of Tenzin Gyatso also.

   Q: Your Holiness, you seem such a happy person. Have there been moments in your life when your faith in human goodness was tested?

   The Dalai Lama: No.

   Q:You've never felt in danger of becoming cynical?

   A: No. Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. Certainly there have been sad moments for me.  The Chinese suppressions in Lhasa in 1987, 1988, now that was sad. A great many people were killed. I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

   Q: I understand that you were very angry during the 1990 gulf war, as angry as you've ever been.

   A: Angry? No. But one thing, when people started blaming Saddam Hussein, then my heart went out to him.

   Q: To Saddam Hussein?

   A: Yes. Because this blaming everything on him -- it's unfair. He may be a bad man, but without his army, he cannot act as aggressively as he does. And his army, without weapons, cannot do anything. And these weapons were not produced in Iraq itself. Who supplied them? Western nations! So one day something happened and they blamed everything on him -- without acknowledging their own contributions. That's wrong. The gulf crisis also clearly demonstrated the serious implications of the arms trade. War -- without an army, killing as few people as possible -- is acceptable. But the suffering of large numbers of people due to a military mission, that is sad.

   Q: Did you say that killing sometimes is acceptable?

   A: Comparatively. In human society, some people do get killed, for a variety of reasons. However, when you have an established army, and countries with those armies go to war, the casualties are immense. It's not one or two casualties, it's thousands. And with nuclear weapons, it's millions, really millions. For that reason, the arms trade is really irresponsible. Irresponsible! Global demilitarization is essential.

Read Part 2!

Interview by Claudia Dreifus, 11/28/93

HEADLINE Monday – April 16, 2012

By Kirby Robinson

  

In case you missed these paranormal headlines we want to give you a chance to catch up on them.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/04/family-flees-haunted-house-sues-landlord/

Wonder which para-reality show will get there first?

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/30895732/detail.html

This is such an old scam run by fake psychics. If you go see one and once you pay them walk right out the door if they ask for more money. And contact the police.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/04/psychics-accused-of-40m-fraud-claim-religious-rights/1?csp=34news#.T4wxYNmAPKR

Guess if you milk the public out of 40 million dollars you can afford to hire the best lawyers in town.

http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?expire=&title=Did+anti-Catholic+sentiment+of+Titanic+workforce+help+doom+the+unsinkable+ship?+|+Irish+News+|+IrishCentral&urlID=475780891&action=cpt&partnerID=460162&cid=147293105&fb=Y&url=http://ww

It seems odd how everything came together to sink a ship that could not be sunk:

http://www.news.com.au/national/ama-warning-after-christian-group-set-right-performs-exorcisms-on-two-year-old/story-e6frfkvr-1226318228036

Not only in America, but the rest of the world the whole exorcism thing is getting out of hand.

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DON’T LOOK AT ME -- I DIDN’T WRITE IT

By Kirby Robinson

It came to my attention last night that an eBook was published on Amazon and posted [at least parts of it] on a website. This book concerns subjects that in the past I have been very vocal about. But I didn't write the book.

Let me make some points on the matter:

1 I did talk to someone about the subject of the book.

2 I was sent a PDF file, but what I was shown was not the one published.

3 I never gave permission for the extensive excerpts taken from my published work nor for reprinting of blogs from eye on the Paranormal and Shedding Some Light.

4 The person the book is about is a done subject to me--at least when it comes to this blog.

5 I am done with this matter as I'm now focusing on the subjects of cults and lies of the new age and how both are impacting the paranormal field. And I'll focus on cults within the Christian community.

So whoever published that book--you should be willing to take the heat for it.

BLESSINGS,

Kirby

What Are Shadow Figures?

By Rev. Mark Hunnemann

What are shadow figures? I am going to make this short and to the point, because there is no need to go into details which, to me, are superfluous to the question raised...WHAT are they? My thesis is that all shadow figures are demons.

In the bible, there is a warfare between Light and darkness. This is not a black/white issue, but a dark vs light issue....big difference.Throughout the bible God is seen as perfect light...indeed He is Light--as Jesus proclaimed. His followers are to reflect the Lord's light.In oppossition to the God of Light (moral purity) is the Prince of darkness...Satan and his minions.Darkness is the image of moral impurity and evil, and flees from the light (John 3) Demons are walking darkness, so a shadow figure would be a perfect expression of perfect evil.

Second, God HAD to create the human soul, because an impersonal, physical universe could not give birth to an invisible soul; that would be like water rising above its source...impossible. So...why would God create our souls to appear in such a way that they would frighten everyone, because it appears as a shadow? Does it make any sense that.God would create souls to look like that? I don't think so.

Third, if there is one word that captures the essence of all forms of shadow figures is that they are "furtive".They dart around elusively, from shadow to shadow. The first act of furtive behavior as that of Adam and Eve immediately after they sinned. They slunk around the garden trying to hide from God's holy gaze.If we see our children walking around with a furtive look, we know they have been up to no good! Furtiveness is a universal behavior of creatures who feel morally naked before a holy God, or before fellow humans. Hence, the furtive behavior of shadow figures should give us pause.There is something "wrong" with them, because they have done wrong. They ARE wrong. Pure evil (demons) walks furtively through God's world.as shadow figures.

Fourth, a salient component of the human soul is invisibility. No surgeon has ever seen one; they don't weigh anything despite what some might think.It is assumed that the soul does not change when it leaves the body; it remains invisible.That being the case, then how do we explain their sudden ability to become visible? All these shadow figures are obviously now visible. How did that occur? Who changed a key trait of "soulness" (invisibility), so that the soul becomes visible in homes all across the world? Please don't say God, because it was Him would made the soul invisible in the first place. They are better explained as demons; it avoids this conundrum altogether.

Lastly, there is a maxim that is pretty well accepted as consensus in the paranormal community: as in life, so in death. That is, if a person was a jerk in life, then he will be a jerk ghost. Common sense dicates that there must be a continuity of basic character and personality from life to death. A kind but extroverted.living man should be a kind and extroverted ghost...a godly living woman who sings Jesus's praises all day long, will ostensibly be a ghost who is godly and sings Jesus's praises continually.The problem is that all shadow figures seem to be essentially the same. Is there one EVP that captures a shadow figure praising the person and work of Jesus? I don't think so. Like you, I have heard countless hours of EVP's, and once or twice Jesus was mentioned, but there is no element of rhaphsodic praise of His beauty.

If shadow figures are dead souls, then why is there not a corresponding variety amongst them? But this is precisely what we would expect if they were demons...all of which are pure evil. Ochams razor would indicate that the simplest answer is that shadow figures are demons...all of them.

The Paranormal Christian – Musings on Syncretism

Submitted by Pastor Michael Frisbee
Written by Reverend Mark Hunnemann

My apologies to everyone on the late submission, but I was wrestling between writing my own article, or sharing this excellent article below by my co-host, Reverend Mark Hunnemann.  We are tackling this subject on our show this Saturday, April 14th, at 7 PM EST.

(View promo video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2ERmpSdXNs )

You can watch our show at http://www.theparanormalchristian.com .

In the coming weeks, we will have author Thomas Smith, “Something Stirs” on April 21st, and author, pastor, motivational speaker, and chaplain for the Seattle Seahawks Dr. Karl I. Payne, “Spiritual Warfare: Christians, Demonization, and Deliverance” on April 28th.  In May, we will be covering a range of subjects and then in June, visiting book authors again.

I hope you will enjoy Reverend Mark’s article below.

MUSINGS ON SYNCRETISM by Reverend Mark Hunnemann

Recently on The Paranormal Christian Kristine McGuire was our featured guest, and she was fabulous! A former witch, Kristine attempted to blend witchcraft with Christianity; a process known as syncretism. So, the heart of syncretism is the blending of a non-biblical belief with Christianity..Obviously, witchcraft and Christianity don't and can't mix, but there are many others who mix some elements of witchcraft in their approach to the paranormal and demonology. In fact, syncretism in the paranormal community is at a all-time high. Numerous other beliefs have crept into people's thinking that have been added to the bible. In effect, it is the opposite of sola scriptura (the bible alone). Though we will be focusing on the paranormal community, syncretism can be found all over the place, including the church. In fact, I want to start there because it explains why so few pastors are even aware of the supernatural...in any meaningful way. One more initial point: we will categorize the different syncretism options into occult and non-occult beliefs.

If only my head were a pool of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears. I would weep day and night for all my people who have been slaughtered. (Jer.9:1) Unless you have the eyes to see (a biblical worldview), then the supernatural slaughter going on across America will be dimly, if at all, seen. My heart is breaking because of a call I got an hour ago...or is it the double case in a neighboring town I’m currently immersed in....or maybe the constant concern for Christians who are ill-equipped to deal with the supernatural darkness in their homes...or...and so on. This newsletter is NOT entertainment or cool ideas. I am a broken man in many ways, and I plead with you to think hard about the ideas we will be discussing.

Why is the church so dismissive of the recent explosion of interest in the supernatural? What is odd is that even denominations that historically have stressed the Holy Spirit and spiritual warfare in general, are asleep when it comes to the nuclear explosion of interest in the paranormal.. Let me state this loud and clear: not every pastor is asleep; there are some fine preachers who are quite attuned. But, sadly, they are the exception..

What has blinded the church, and is our first example of non-occultic syncretism, is physicalism. What is that? There is nothing wrong with the physical; that is part of God's creation.(Gen.1:31) But physicalism is the belief that the physical world is all there is. Now, no bible believing pastor is going to say that the physical or material word is all there is, but when they ignore or downplay the reality of the supernatural, then they have become practical physicalists. That is, they are acting as if the physical is all there is. Too few sermons speak clearly and unambiguously about our battle with a supernatural foe. I have a blog entitled The Bible and Ghosts; But how many sermons were preached in the last ten years in American churches on the topic of the bible and ghosts? Very, very few. Hence, the average Christian is abysmally ignorant of Satan's schemes and left non-discerning when it comes to supernatural evil. The syncretism of physical-ism and the church has been catastrophic. My heart breaks for those Christians who, at this very moment, are consciously co-existing with pure evil because they think it is "Aunt Agnes".

The second non-occultic syncretism belief is scientism. This is perhaps the most prevalent -ism plaguing Christians in the paranormal community. Again, science is wonderful, but when you add the ism it spells syncretism. It is foolish to think that the soul and the supernatural realm can be put under a microscope. Am I saying not to use science on investigations? A thousand times NO! (I have to be brief) The issue is: what is the intellectual starting point for paranormal research...is it science or the bible? If you are a Christian and you answer "science" then you have mixed a nefarious blend of scientism.

Third non-occultic syncretism belief is what I call phenomenal-ism. We study the phenomena, but when the primary means of identifying entities in the paranormal realm is based on their appearance, then we again become naive. Phenomenology is something seen discussed on paranormal seminars, but what it means is the study of things as they appear. Ask many folks how to determine if something is demonic, and they will give a litany of certain things that will appear in some fashion. The problem is that if a demon appears as an angel of light, then phenomenalism will miss it every time. I realize this may sound kind of technical and dry to some, but this where it is at folks. If you add appearance to the bible as the means of identifying supernatural reality, then you have created a cauldron of syncretism.

Fourth non-occultic syncretism is pragmatism. There is nothing wrong and everything right in being pragmatic; this is merely recognizing the need for things to work. The statement ""A” works because it is true" is consistent with the bible, but if you say ""A" is true because it works” then that is pragmatism; an un-biblical view of truth rampant in the paranormal community. If the primary means of determining if a paranormal theory is true is if it works, instead of if it is consistent with the bible, then the door to syncretistic darkness has opened. The difference between the above two statements may seem like playing with words, but it is anything but play...it is deadly serious. The bible works because it is true, and NOT vice versa (the bible is true because it works).When we place ourselves as the arbiters of truth based on what we think works, then God help us. Of course truth works...that is what real, objective truth does! It works...it correspond to reality. When we posit theories based primarily on the basis of our conviction that it works, then we have fallen prey to pragmatism. We, and what we think works, should not be the primary criterion for determining paranormal truth..That is placing our autonomous reason in judgment over the bible. and it creates another intoxicating syncretism brew.

One more ism which is a non-occultic syncretism is relativism and subjectivism. Maybe a decade ago, Dr Allen Bloom wrote The Closing of the American Mind. In it professor Bloom states that one thing he knows to be certainly true is that 95 percent of the incoming freshman will have fully embraced relativism and subjectivism. This is the belief that truth is not objective and it varies from person to person. Like all the other -isms above, these two are like invisible pollutants in the air that we breathe. More accurately would be the water a goldfish swims in unthinkingly.  Even bible believing Christians have been bitten by these two -ism bugs. Christians in the paranormal community must be aware of and resist these demonic distortions of the nature of truth. The bible is true truth, and it has trans-generational and trans-cultural inerrant authority. How else can we explain the wholesale ignoring of Deut. 18? I am convinced that this "soft" view of truth has hamstrung Christians from being salt and light in the paranormal community.

When it comes to occultic examples of syncretism they are legion (pun intended).We mentioned witchcraft at the outset, and it is frightful how common aspects of witchery have infiltrated the beliefs and methodologies in the paranormal community. Practices as common as smudging are rooted in the occult. As a Christian, what is your biblical text in support of the alleged efficacy of burning sage to dispel demonic spirits or to merely cleanse an area? Does this not diminish the sole sufficiency of the work of Christ...and does it not denigrate His singular honor and dignity? The increased use of Christian psychics and mediums is surely syncretism of the worst kind. Rituals and beliefs borrowed from magick are too numerous to mention, but Christians are embracing them in the demonology field. That must stop because it is detestable to God.(Deut. 18) (the reason I keep quoting from this text is because, according to principles of sound hermeneutics, it should be our primary text)

A professing Christian that I have tried to help, had an erotic relationship with Michael Jackson, or his alleged ghost as are many women. Sadly, he/it won't leave her alone now, all day at work, and then at home, she is constantly being massaged or touched somewhere on her body. She has become a bundle of frayed nerves, and to relax she has incorporated what even she calls New Age relaxation therapy. The key, she says, to becoming whole again is for her to change her vibrational frequency. Today it is all about energy vibration, isn't it? Once again, this woman told me she knows it is not biblical, but she does it because it works (pragmatism) for awhile.  Vibrations, meditation, visualization, energy transfer, quantum jumping, hypnosis, divine consciousness, EVP collection, paganism, neo-Gnosticism, goddess, obtaining Christ consciousness; all of these and many more may fall under the expansive umbrella of New Age occultic beliefs and practices. When you add any, or a combination of them to the bible then it is syncretism.

Syncretism is like being married and telling your spouse that you are also being intimate with another person. That is how the bible views syncretism; He considers it spiritual adultery. Our Lord is deeply grieved when we try to add anything to the finished work of Christ. Please note this...we are Christians first....husbands/wives. Paranormal investigator, US citizen (and so on) are a distant second or third. The gospel according to Jesus is one in which we count the cost of discipleship; we become ever vigilant against any syncretism knocking on the door of our hearts. Where and how have you succumbed to any form of syncretism?

What Does The Bible Say About Ghosts?

By Lisa Grace

I’m not to gung-ho on any Bible study that does it from English and ignores the original Greek and Hebrew translations of the Scriptures. I’m also not happy with scholars that haven’t bothered to study Jewish, Roman, or Greek social norms and mores of the times in which the scriptures were written. Way too much of the meaning is lost in translations that ignore the root of the society and time the words were coming from.

For example if I said, “It’s raining cats and dogs outside.” You would know I meant it’s raining very hard. You would not immediately assume I meant that cats and dogs were literally falling from the sky. But when you attempt to understand the Bible without understanding what Jesus and the disciples really meant, because you don’t know the language, idioms, geography, social norms, and mores you will misinterpret so much.

The scriptures were written without punctuation or verse markers. Adding it makes assumptions and twists the meaning. A commonly misunderstood passage is when Jesus was dying on the cross, he said, in Luke 24:43 And Jesus said unto him Verily I say unto thee today shalt thou be with me in paradise

When the punctuation is removed or a comma put after the word today, the phrase jives with the rest of the scriptures that say the dead "sleep". Deuteronomy 31:16 Shakab to lie down (in death) However, our first aware moment will be with Jesus in Paradise.

When we go with the meaning that the dead “sleep” and understand that the apostles understood this to be true, we can look at the words from the Greek and Hebrew that mean ghost or spirit.

Ghosts exist in Greek mythology as does communicating with the dead. The belief in ghosts was a part of their culture and did influence the cultural climate of the day.

When the apostles saw Jesus walking to them on the water, they could think of no other explanation.

However, when we look at the word studies for ghost or spirit we get:

Matthew 14:25-27 phantasma (Greek) spirit translated from (Hebrew) Av=Breath.

Genesis 25:8 Abraham gave up the ghost was the word Gava (Hebrew), which means to breathe out one’s life.

(These are just two of many examples)

In both we see it clearly does not refer to a “spirit“, but the act of dying, taking the last breath. Again, the early disciples knew death would be their estate until the judgment/rapture/second coming.

If an apparition is not that of a once living person, what is it? According to scripture, one third of the angels and supernatural creatures fell from heaven in the war (Revelations 12:7). Ghosts are simply different types of demonic/angelic/supernatural manifestations. I talk more about these types of creatures in my article: http://eyeontheparanormal.blogspot.com/2012/03/different-types-of-angels-and-demons.html

There are several types of apparitions from repetitive to poltergeist depending on what type of supernatural creature/demon/angel is manifesting. While most seem innocent, they are not. Their purpose is to lead you astray. Learn what the scriptures have to teach on dealing with the supernatural.

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Angel in the Shadows, Book 1

Angel in the Storm, Book 2

Coming Soon! Angel in the Ice, Book 3.

Psychics Talk for God – Parts I & 2

By Kirby Robinson

HEADLINE MONDAY

Starting next week we'll launch a new feature called HEADLINE MONDAY. These will be actual headlines concerning things paranormal or paranormal-related that, more than likely, others won't share with you. The news will sometimes be funny, sometimes sad, but always entertaining!

GOD vs. PSYCHICS

I was hoping to get started with the great lie that people in the New Age and psychics prefer to keep hush-hush. It's all found in the first book of the Bible throughout the book of Genesis, and up to the New Testament. [Yet a well known psychic stuck foot-in-mouth when informing a radio show host that there was no passage in the New Testament that dealt with psychics].

But my eyesight issues this week has made doing so a little too difficult. By next week those issues will be gone as I really want to lay that foundation as I have been busy brushing up on cult awareness. I want to start taking a look at cults and the paranormal.

So, for now, enjoy both parts 1 and 2 of Psychics Talk for God.

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The following blog is not meant to group everyone with spiritual gifts as fakes or frauds. There are good ones and bad ones out there, but we ask the public to use caution when dealing with anyone claiming to have spiritual gifts.

The disclaimer discussed in this blog did not come from any particular psychic but from several psychics' websites. We took the language of their disclaimer and merged it with others.

BREAKING NEWS ~ PSYCHICS TALK FOR GOD!

Yes folks, according to the many psychic supporters, you can forget prayer. You can get up off your knees, get out your credit card/s, and pay 'em because they can tell you better than anyone what God is saying!

Not long ago I noticed on my Facebook newsfeed a comment from one of my friends that they were going to treat themselves to a yearly visit to their local psychic. I posted a comment that why not save their money and just talk to God? He never charges and it won't be for entertainment purposes only. A few weeks later, she posted a response to my comment basically saying that psychics are great in interpreting what God was telling you. When I read things like that it really makes me go WTF?

When did the psychics insert themselves between us and God? When did God become dependent on psychics to tell us things? Yes, there were dream interpreters and prophets within the Bible but they didn't have business cards. They didn't do phone readings. They didn't post the disclaimer: FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. And if they weren't 100% accurate, they got stoned to death.

When you talk to God there is no charge!

He doesn't ask anything of us when we speak to him. God is there 24/7/365 – and that includes Leap Years! He'd like us to have a personal relationship with his Son, but that's not required. We have free will, you know.

When we talk to psychics there is always a charge.

This is an odd issue to me. Often psychics will compare themselves to prophets in the Bible and claim they have the same gift. Yet in no chapter or verse within the Bible do we ever find a prophet charging for their services. Psychics claim:  "This is how I earn a living." Again, the prophets of the Bible didn't charge any money but God took care of them. If psychics have faith in GOD and their gift is from God, He will take care of them.

Often the next fallback is for those psychics to mention that doctors have the gift of healing and they are paid. That's mixing apples with oranges. Doctors may have been guided into medicine by God. He might help oversee their decisions and care given to a patient, but the patient isn't healed by the doctor in the mysterious way God heals someone through prayer and the laying of hands.

When you talk to God he is 100% accurate 100% of the time.

When you talk to a psychic -- they can go from being 0% right on up.

When you talk to God …

There is no topic off the table. If you need healing it's there. If you need guidance on a job, a purchase, whether to get pregnant, etc., He will give you advice and help any way He can. And it's not for entertainment purposes only. God says what He means and stands behind it.

When you talk to a psychic …

There are all kinds of disclaimers and limitations. There's no guarantee whatsoever.

Let's take a look at the legal disclaimer that psychics post. Again, this is not from any particular psychic, but we took a look at many different psychics' websites.

For entertainment purposes only.

How odd that a claim is made that they have a gift, yet they have no faith in that gift. So with that statement they claim they are only an actor playing a role. You pay them to play a psychic. Which means their reading is nothing more than a sham. Why? Because it's only entertainment. What would happen if you went to a church that practiced the spiritual gifts of healing, prophecy, etc., and the pastor started his sermon by saying: "THIS IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY!" Would you stay there?

Psychics claim:

That no psychic [note they say no psychic] can predict, forecast or diagnose with absolute certainty.

That's always troubling to me. It's their escape clause. I just can't say I'll be right. Would you take a job if the boss said, "I'm not sure if you'll be paid." Would you go to a doctor who said, "My advice might be way off." Would you trust an instructor who informed you at the start of the class, "Sorry, the money you just paid for the class might be wasted! I'm not sure what I'm saying is right or not, my interpretation might be way off."

It's odd that psychics claim legitimacy via the Bible and the dream interpreters and prophets, yet they say they can't be as good as them. Yet the men mentioned in the Bible like Daniel and Ezekiel have hit things on the head 100% of the time.

Psychics will say…

They can't be held responsible for actions and decisions made by the client as a result of the reading.

What that means is that they can make things up and tell you what you want to hear. They won't be held liable for anything they tell you. So if they tell you that job will work out, that the business will succeed, that that boyfriend of yours is cheating on you, it doesn't matter if it's true. You act on it. The job sucks, the business fails, and the boyfriend isn't cheating. You take that advice depending on these psychics and boy do you pay the price.

But there is another problem. What if that man or woman was your Mr./Ms. Right and you backed away from them? What if that job or business was the career for you and you backed away from it? Who pays the price? You do. And your relationship with God does. [They say their gift is from God. If they're wrong, then God is wrong. So the trust in God is destroyed]. And the psychic doesn't care—they're just sipping margaritas on the beach.

Psychics say …

For medical or legal matters they won't talk about those topics as you need to see a medical or legal professional.

Again, they claim their gift is from God. [Next week we'll take a closer look at where that gift might be from]. Yet they have no faith in it. If they did, they could/would help people in any matter. Say what you want about Edgar Cayce, but did he ever turn someone away that came to him for medical advice?

See, I believe in the spiritual gifts. You won't find a person who believes in them more. And what I believe on top of that is that there are so many fakers, so many actors, and so many wannabes. The final and last difference between talking to God and talking to a psychic is this: He loves you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Most psychics' love lasts until your minutes are done or you card is maxed out. And they move on to their next victim…I mean client.

Psychics Talk for God - Part 2

Did you notice the lack of response by psychics to my previous blog? Why is that? The haters and fakers would say it was simply a lack of interest in my blog. Personally, I think it had more to do with the fact that they know I'm right and they fear where I'm about to go with this blog series.

I recall being part of the new age back in the 80's. I had to chance to meet some of the top psychics, mediums, channelers, and so-called teachers. I drank with them [and we're not talking coffee], I saw their excesses [even new age teachers have groupies and bed hopping was very common], and I took lessons from them [read a bunch of religions and occult practices, mix 'em together, keep your stories straight and soak the public]. This was their best advice then and it hasn't changed. One wonders how many of them are sociopaths, psychopaths and narcissists? How many of them have absolutely no conscience and how many have sold out to the dark side? And their escape clause is that it's all for entertainment purposes only.

One of our readers asked a very interesting question after reading last week's blog.

"Not trying to stir the pot, but ministers and preachers get paid and television evangelists make big bucks. Should they feel bad for charging, too? People have to make a living."

 Ministers are people who aren't just doing a job--they are responding to a calling from God. Their hours aren't from 9 to 5, but 24 hours a day. They are on call to their flock at any time. No matter if it's a natural disaster, death, illness, or crisis, they are expected to be there. They are expected to teach the word of God to their flock. They are expected to reach out to the poor, the hungry, the sick, and those who have not heard the word of God/those who are unsaved. It's not just a job to them. More often than not, unless it's a big church, they do this for little or no pay and have to work a side job to make ends meet. In many cases, they have a family to support.

Are there pastors that make a lot of money? Yes. There are new mega-churches that do pay well. Yet at the same time, it's a 24-hour a day situation. And in the mega-churches their responsibilities are even greater; not only to the flock but to the organization as well.

TV and radio evangelists: again there are two categories: the big ones and the small ones. They are responding to the call of God to carry His word to not only a flock but to the world. Again, more often than not, it's a 24-hour a day situation.

The big time organizations have the same issues, but magnified. [No, I'm not naive enough to think that all are legit: there are good ones and bad ones]. The bad ones need to be exposed -- like Bob Larson's.

So, in the case of people working for the glory of God, they certainly deserve to get paid.

Now let's look at psychics. Are they called by God to do this? Are they on call 24/7? Do they give advice and consul for free? Do they visit the sick and feed the hungry? Give water to the thirsty? Clothe the naked? No. It's simply a way to make money. Some say that only being a psychic is a small part of their lives when they are getting paid to give readings. Their life is their life. Do they teach for free? But most importantly, do they give the glory to the Lord?

Again, they say it's a gift. If so, give it to others for free. I've never heard a pastor say I will lay hands on you or pray for you for $29.95. I will share my visions/dreams I have had about you, or the gift of prophecy, for a fee. But the psychic does.

I read a book that was written by the former flavor of the month when it comes to psychics, who said their gift was uncertain. Whatever they saw was open to interpretation. Now is this a gift the public should trust? But remember: it's for entertainment purposes only, it has that escape clause.

Where in the Bible does it ever speak of God's gift[s] of spiritual insights, visions, dreams, prophecy, laying on of hands as uncertain? Would you follow a God that was kind of right sometimes? The Bible teaches us that the God of the Bible is the God of all Gods. He hears everything, He is always there and He is always right. Where does the Bible say the spiritual gifts are not certain? The prophets of old have never been off the mark. Where does it say what He says is uncertain? He stands behind His word and His gifts. And in no chapter or verse within the Bible will you find the phrase: for entertainment purposes only.

The lies these psychics tell and force themselves to follow won't help them when the end comes. Saint Peter at the gate is no respecter of personalities. The judge that sits on the most high throne doesn't buy into popular lies and tools of mass marketing and deceptions.

Next week: Where did these lies get started? Please read the book of Genesis because it goes that far back. [Hint: you'll find a connection to Paranormal State if you do a good job in reading and comprehension].

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