Playing God, The Lust for Power – Part 2

By: Dave Hunt; ©2003

If, as many occultists claim we are gods who have simply forgotten our identity, what good will it do us to remember? Aren’t we likely to just forget again? Further, exactly what does “god” have to go through to remember that he is “god”?

Playing God, The Lust for Power—Part 2

Finding the “God Power” Within

One of the leaders of the occult invasion in the West was Alice A. Bailey. Before her death some 40 years ago, she was the chief channel for Djwhal Khul, the Tibetan Master, who dictated through her about 20 books and whose teachings are followed by Robert Muller and many other leaders. Amazingly, Khul’s dictations through Bailey present a pre­cise blueprint of the occult invasion exactly as it has been proceeding. Bailey’s writings were originally published by the Lucifer Publishing Company, now known as Lucis Trust, which works closely with the United Nations. Its World Goodwill Newsletter declared: “Avante-garde psychology is affirming amazing human potentials which, when cultivated, lead to states of consciousness which have always been called divine.”^[1]

Could these states of consciousness make it possible for demonic entities to take over and deceive those involved? Ignoring that possibility, psychic research seeks to establish scientific verification of a godlike power of the human mind which can clairvoyantly diag­nose and heal diseases, shut down electronics, “see” what is happening at remote, secret, and hidden locations, and even move physical objects at a distance. Beginning at Duke University in the 1930s with J.B. Rhine, the father of American parapsychology, numerous laboratory experiments (which have been repeated around the world) verified that mind is separate from the physical brain and is apparently able to influence physical forces and objects in a manner that defies physical laws.

Though skeptics call spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller a fraud, SRI and other scientists expended much time and effort testing his powers and decided that some inexplicable force was involved. “Under scientists’ scrutiny, he erased video tapes [with his mind], in­creased the mass of gram weights, and called eight of 10 dice throws.” Shamans and mediums would say that such powers come from spirits, but differ as to the identity of these entities. Like most psychics, Uri Geller believes these are normal powers of the human mind and that “we once had full power over our minds, but… we have forgotten many of the abilities we once had.”^[2]

John Randolph Price founded the Quartus Foundation for Spiritual Research “on the divinity of man.” Price unabashedly declares the Foundation’s goal to be:

To continually document the truth that man is a spiritual being possessing all the powers of the spiritual realm… God individualized, and that as man realizes his true identity, he becomes a Master Mind with dominion over the material world.^[3]

Becoming “God” Once Again

Scientology, like Hinduism, teaches that we are gods who have forgotten who we are and need to rediscover the magic powers we possess. So it is with yoga: Its goal is “self­realization”—to reach that state of consciousness where we realize that we are gods who have simply forgotten our identity. Of course, if we are gods who have forgotten who we are, what good would it do to “remember” our true identity? Wouldn’t we likely forget it again?

At her seminars to packed audiences, when she was at the height of her New Age popu­larity, Shirley MacLaine would tell her gullible followers, “Just remember that you are God, and act accordingly.” Common sense immediately protests: There is no way mere humans can act like God—something which Shirley herself has been unable to do. If we’re God, why aren’t we already acting the part? And why does God have to pay to attend a seminar to find out who He is? Wouldn’t He know it without being told? The lie is so preposterous!

The magnitude of this incredible delusion is matched only by the Himalayan pride that promotes and wants to believe it. Psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, claims to have become a Christian, and is popular among, and endorsed by, evangelical leaders who ought to know better. In his Playboy, Newsweek, and New Age Journal magazine interviews and his appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show. Peck has made statements that certainly contra­dict any alleged Christian faith. Moreover, Peck also promotes the serpent’s lie:

To put it plainly, our unconscious is God. God within us…. Since the unconscious is God… we may further define the goal of spiritual growth to be the attainment of Godhood by the conscious self… to become totally, wholly God… a new life form of God….

God wants us to become Himself (or Herself or itself). We are growing toward godhood. God is… the source of the evolutionary force and… the destination.^[4]

Similarly, Norman Vincent Peale declared that in prayer we commune not with the God who created us but with “the great factor within [one] self, the deep subconscious mind.^[5] Psychologist Carl Rogers called self “the god within” and advocated worshiping at its altar. Spirit guides have been pushing this fantasy ever since Satan introduced it to Eve, and it is the heart of Eastern meditation and mysticism. Alan Watts, Episcopal-priest-turned-Zen­Buddhist Master, declared: “The appeal of Zen, as of other Eastern philosophy, is that it unveils… a vast region… where at last the self is indistinguishable from God.”^[6]

Ramtha declares: “We created the universe. We made the stars… [but] after thou­sands… of incarnations, we, the great gods of light, have forgotten who we are! We no longer remember that we created the universe…. We must stop worrying about right and wrong… and love God by loving ourselves…. We have the power to reverse aging and live forever in our present body… to heal any disease, even to grow a new limb if one is cut off. What prevents us from doing these things? It is our ‘altered ego,’ the ‘Antichrist’ within us who keeps telling us we are not God.”^[7] Behold the Bible turned inside out!

The “God” who dictated the bestseller Conversation with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, tells Neale Donald Walsch that we are all “Gods and Goddesses at birth…. What I am, you are….”^[8] The stupidity and blatant blasphemy of this Dialogue is exceeded only by the egos willing to embrace such lunacy. Walsch, the “God” who doesn’t know he is “God,” is told by “God” that, oddly enough, it is going to take a lot of effort to realize who he really is:

Let’s be clear that… [you must dedicate] your whole mind, your whole body, your whole soul to the process of creating Self in the image and likeness of God. This is the process of self realization about which Eastern mystics have written.^[9]

Rama, one of Hollywood’s favorite gurus in the 1980s, charmed his followers with this absurdity: “Whenever you make a mistake, remember that you are God. God doesn’t make mistakes. God only has experiences.”^[10] J.Z. Knight declares, “God is inside each indi­vidual… everyone is divine. This outrageous realization creates a human being who… [lives] according to what feels right.”^[11]

That professing evangelical Christians have also embraced this lie is astonishing, but such is the case. And that gullible acceptance is rampant in the “faith” movements.

Notes

1. ↑ World Goodwill Newsletter, July/August/September 1982, p. 5.
2. ↑ E’Louise Ondash, “Mindpower: The world’s most famous spoon-bender says it’s a positive, take-charge attitude that puts him on a higher plane…” in North County Times (San Diego, CA), November 10, 1996, pp. E-1, E-5.
3. ↑ John Randolph Price, The Planetary Commission (Quartus Books, 1980), Foreword, p. 173.
4. ↑ M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled (Simon & Schuster, 1978), pp. 28-29, 269-70, 282-83.
5. ↑ Plus, April 1986, p. 3.
6. ↑ Alan Watts, This Is It (Random House, 1972), p. 90.
7. ↑ Utne Reader, July/Aug. 1988, pp. 80-81.
8. ↑ Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1996), pp. 85-86.
9. ↑ Ibid., p. 113.
10. ↑ Self Discovery newspaper, Fall 1983, front cover.
11. ↑ J. Z. Knight, “First Word,” in Omni, March 1988, p. 8.

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