Society & Culture

It is our conviction that not only the history of parapsychology and the occult, but biblical teaching as well, indicates that human nature is devoid of the supernatural capacities that many psychics and occultists claim. Nowhere in the Bible is man presented as having supernatural powers that originate from his own nature, and so any…

A very common occult practice involves the development of psychic abilities. Yet a great deal of confusion exists as to what psychic abilities are. Are they really latent human powers possessed by everyone? Most people who think so refer to the research of J. B. Rhine and modern parapsychology as having “proven” that psychic powers…

During his lifetime, Dr. Kurt Koch counseled over 11,000 people[1] who had encountered problems arising from their occult practices. He observes of those who carry on an active occult practice, “The family histories and the end of these occult workers are, in many cases known to me, so tragic that we can no longer speak…

Unfortunately, we cannot know when psychic experiences become dangerous. We can only say that they should not be sought. Brooks Alexander, senior researcher for Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley, California, made the following observation: “Many people seem to have so-called ‘psychic’ experiences without being emotionally or spiritually injured by them. At the same time it…

What is demonization? Dr. C. Fred Dickason, who has authored several books on demonology, provides the following discussion of the word’s origin and meaning: “The [Greek] verb daimonizomai means ‘to be possessed by a demon.’ The participle from the same root, daimonizomenos, is used twelve times in the Greek New Testament. It is used only…