Christianity And Hinduism Merge Into One Religion In The New Age
By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
Running concurrent with the charismatic movement is the occult New Age movement, including the arising of spiritualism, the introduction of Eastern religions, yoga and transcendental meditation. This occult movement is rising alongside the “Christian” charismatic movement. The same modern-day charismatic “sign gifts” that manifest at “Christian” charismatic gatherings are also being manifested at kundalini Hindu gatherings, which can be observed by watching YouTube videos of charismatic “Christian" gatherings and kundalini Hindu gatherings.
Many fundamentalist protestant Christians believe that the charismatic sign gifts, including speaking in tongues and prophesying, etc., ceased when the Apostolic age came to an end. These Christians are called cessationists. The Christians who believe that the charismatic sign gifts are still being manifested today are called continuationists. The most renowned cessationists teach and preach that the modern-day “charismatic sign gifts” are not coming from the Holy Spirit, but rather from the kundalini Hindu “spirit.”
Dr. John MacArthur is the most world-renowned cessationist. He is the author of two best-selling books on this theology. His books are titled “Charismatic Chaos” and “Strange Fire.” MacArthur and some other famous cessationists produced a live stream conference that was broadcast in 127 nations around the world.
In a YouTube video titled "Charismatic Chaos Part 7" MacArthur states: Charismatic ecumenism is steadily eroding the identity of Biblical Christianity. In Asia, shocking new charismatic cults are springing up, blending Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and other teachings with Western charismaticism. In the charismatic movement unity is a question of shared religious experience, not doctrine. If doctrine does not matter, then why not embrace Buddhist charismatics and that is exactly what is happening.
In another YouTube video, titled "Charismatic Chaos Part 6," MacArthur states: Charismatics have unwittingly succeeded in becoming a world wide ecumenical force that many liberals believed the Catholic Church would become. They have become the ecumenical movement of the world. In another video, titled "(233) Justin Peters: Dangerous Doctrines," Mr. Peters, another world renowned cessationist, says: "The face of Christianity around the world today is either the Word of Faith [a stream of charismaticism] or Roman Catholicism, neither of which are Christian, and oftentimes the blending of these two." (For decades I was of this blending.)
In yet another YouTube video, titled "An Appeal to Charismatic Friends," MacArthur states, when talking about his church: It is of historical Evangelicalism, but you have to understand that this other stream of Evangelicalism goes back to 1966 when the hippies came out of San Francisco, showed up in Orange County in southern California, joined Calvary Chapel [a charismatic chapel] in Costa Mesa and then launched an informal, bare footed, beach, drug induced kind of movement whose members told the church how it should act. For the first time in the history of the church the conduct of the church was conformed to a subculture. A subculture which was born of LSD and marijuana in San Francisco, California.”
According to MacArthur, this subculture's influence on the charismatic movement led to the modern-day “excesses” of the movement. In another video MacArthur refers to these San Francisco hippies as “communal living hippies.”
There was an exodus out of San Francisco and surrounding Bay Area, hippie communal movement. I was a part of that movement. One leader of that movement, Richard Carter, along with his wife (Lois) and I, traveled to Wahkon, Minnesota where we were with some members of my extended maternal kinship family, the Mr. & Mrs. I. C. Rainbow family. At the time, I believed Wahkon was where we would establish our commune and that the Rainbow family was being called by Divine Providence to be the kinship tribal part of it. I still believe this will happen. I have been continuously prophesying this to my Rainbow family relatives since the early 1970s.
In October 2019, the Amazon Synod occurred. This Synod and follow-up papal documents promote the kinship tribal peoples' approach to existence. One Amazon Synodal document, Querida Amazonia, reads: Indigenous “good living” expresses true quality of life (nos 8, 26 & 71), and fulfills the utopia of personal, family, communal and cosmic harmony, expressed, in turn, by the communitarian approach to existence and an austere and simple lifestyle (n° 71): Everything is shared ... There is no room for the notion of an individual detached from the community or from the land” (No. 20). The indigenous people have much to teach us (n°71), and citizens should allow themselves to be “re-educated” by them since it is through them that God wants us to embrace his mysterious wisdom (n° 72).
During the 1983 Mr. & Mrs. I. C. Rainbow family reunion my uncle Don Rainbow, after (1.) talking with me about my meeting with one of the world’s foremost renowned theologians, Father Matthew Fox, at the 1982 annual Tekakwitha Conference, a Roman Catholic conference of kinship tribal indigenous peoples of many different tribes, and also after (2.) I prophesying to Don that our Rainbow family would be coming together in kinship tribalism to fulfill a most glorious global mission, Don then addressed our family and said “a Rainbow is a sign of God’s salvation plan and I believe that we will be used to glorify God more than any other family in the world.”
In 1982, a renowned missionary priest, abbot and leader of the Tekakwitha Conference from its origins, Father Stan Maudkin, addressed a large audience during a 1982 Tekakwitha Conference lecture by Father Fox and said: “There is a whole world view behind the word wahkon.” Several years later Father Maudlin gave his support for my mission to restore the sacred Dakota-Lakota-Nakota Indigenous name Wahkon to Minnesota’s badly named “Rum River.” Today, Rev. Fox (now an Episcopal priest) supports and helps me promote my - whole worldview around the Indigenous word wahkon (holy), Rainbow family mission. At the time of my meeting with Father Fox I was of the charismatic movement.
The most famous world-renowned leaders of the charismatic movement are featuredin a YouTube video titled "The Top 10 Famous PREACHERS Who Claim to be GODS". The video shows these preachers preaching to multitudes of Christians around the world the message that we have all been “created in the image of God” and are, therefore, the “I AM” (God), as was Jesus Christ when He lived on earth." This belief that we are God (which I concur with) is also the central belief and teaching of the New Age and Hinduism. In a video by a Hindu lady titled "Science and God 7 – Quantum Physics and Brahman" she explains how quantum physics proves we are Brahman (God).
And in another video, titled "Nobel Prize 2022 - Universe is not real | Where quantum physics meets Vedanta," she acknowledges that quantum physics reveals that “You Are That Brahman.”
In a YouTube video titled "The Devilish Puppet Master of the Word-Faith Movement" the following statements by famous charismatic movement leaders are presented: “The real me is just like God” (28:16) - Creflo Dollar. “You are just as much an incarnation of God as Jesus of Nazareth was,” (50:23) - Kenneth Hagen. “When I read in the Bible where He (Jesus) says, ‘I AM’ I just smile and say, ‘yes, I AM too!’ - Kenneth Copland. “Jesus is not the only begotten Son of God, I am a Son of God and you are also a Son of God” (52: 32) - Paula White. “ I am God Almighty” (53:00). Steven Furtick.
This teaching that “we are God” is what I believe the I. C. Rainbow family will be teaching and preaching when it comes together in kinship tribalism in Wahkon, Minnesota. I periodically send update letters on my mission to my Rainbow family relatives. After I sent my last update letter a rainbow appeared over Wahkon as a sign. A sign that I captured on my camcorder and presented in a public YouTube video.
One famous Orthodox monk and author, the late Father Seraphim Rose (1934-1982) helped spread the Eastern Orthodox Religion throughout the West. He authored a popular book titled ORTHODOXY AND THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE, which includes a chapter on the charismatic movement.
In the chapter on the charismatic movement Fr. Rose presented all the similarities between the spirituality of occult medium services and the spirituality of Pentecostal/charismatic services. He also equates the [spirit] causing these paranormal phenomena in both the occult New Age and charismatic “Christian” services as the same mediumistic occult spirit. He specifically equates the “passive attitude” of charismatics at services as not Christian, but rather “the attitude of Zen Buddhism, Eastern mysticism, hypnosis and spiritism."
An anonymous editor’s forward (presented on Amazon) to Fr. Rose’s popular book includes the following three statements:
(1.) “What is the ancient Christian understanding of today's UFO sightings? What is behind the Charismatic Movement? What phenomena are assaulting Christianity in our modern world? How can Christians avoid being caught up in the Apostasy?
(2.) “The religious phenomena of today are symptoms of a ‘new religious consciousness’ that is preparing the world religion of the future. Phenomena such as Yoga, Zen, Tantra, Transcendental Meditation, Maharaj-ji [made popular by the 1960s hippies], Hare Krishna, UFOs, the Charismatic Movement and Jonestown are presented in contrast to the Orthodox Patristic standard of spiritual life, without the understanding of which, in the coming time of antichrist, it will scarcely be possible for Christians to be saved.”
(3.) “As the ‘New Age’ is becoming a household concept and is moving into wider acceptance by mainstream society, the ‘new religious consciousness’ can be seen progressing precisely along the lines described by the late Fr. Seraphim.”
In the video titled Kenneth Hagin and The Spirit of The Serpent. (Word of Faith Movement) Joseph Chambers, the producer of the video, shows the late Reverend Kenneth Hagin (1917-2003), the Father of the Word of Faith Movement, in a video saying: "In the soul God will manifest this new anointing and new word." When Hagin was still living Chambers said in the video that this "new anointing" is coming from the metaphysical and paranormal realm in the soul of Hagin and the souls of others like him. At the time, Cambers said: Hagin has been a sorcerer for a long time.
Champers says Hagin said in his videos that man is a spiritual creature, rather than a physical creature, and that (1.) man is therefore a metaphysical or paranormal creature, and that (2.) because he is above the natural man he can somehow be above the natural realm and be in the paranormal realm. Chambers says we are humans, we are physical creatures. Hagin said and others like him say "man is a spirit being," who is "in the same [divine] class as God [Spirit] Himself."
Other charismatic leaders who are of the Manifest Sons of God doctrine are saying that Christians do not have to wait for the Second Coming to become perfect, receive bodily immortality and experience themselves as God or Spirit.
Hagin said something very close to Manifest Sons of God theology, such as, perfected Christians will conquer and dominate the world preceding the return of Christ. Hagin said: Rejoice! "This is the Day of Domination...over everything of the Devil that once ruled over us." Other Word-Faith Pentecostal leaders are saying that Christians can now establish the fullness of the Kingdom of God on earth.
In 1991 Word-Faith Pentecostal leader Morris Cerullo produced a program and an audiotape entitled “The End Time Manifestation of the Sons of God. An excerpt reads: “You’re not looking at Morris Cerullo--you’re looking at God. You’re looking at Jesus. ... Today I am a Son of the all powerful almighty God of the Universe. His life flows through me. ... Jesus didn't come to teach you how to defend yourself... He taught us how to march out, go into his territory ... We DECLARE WAR. ... ‘I and the Father are ONE.’"
In a Daily Meditation Facebook post titled Eckhart, Suzuki, Merton on Truth,
Formlessness & Original Mind Reverend Matthew Fox quotes the very renowned excommunicated Roman Catholic mystic Meister Eckhart (1260-1328). Eckhart wrote and Fox quoted him: I am unborn, and following the way of my unborn being I can never die. Following the way of my unborn being I have always been, I am now, and shall remain eternally...In this breakthrough I discover that I and God are one.
Hindus and New Age people also believe that we can experience ourselves as God or Spirit. I was once of the Manifest Sons of God theology, but converted to the Hindu and New Age belief that there will be no resurrection of the dead, nor bodily immortality, and that the creation cannot be "restored to the purity of its origin," a Manifest Sons of God and Roman Catholic belief, because, as scientific discoveries have proven, it has never been pure or "very good." - (Genesis 1. 31) I am praying and believing that the "new anointing" charismatics and the Catholic Church will convert to the New Age beliefs.
Veteran Vatican journalist Sandro Magister recently reported that the late Cardinal George Pell (1941-2023), who had criticized Pope Francis toward the end of his life in a letter for his promotion of synodality, an "outpouring of New Age good will ... hostile in significant ways to the apostolic tradition," was the author of a 2022 memo sent to cardinals (and made public by Catholic news outlets) that severely criticizes the unorthodox doctrinal changes he promotes. Such as, “confusion about the importance of a strict monotheism” and criticizing a move towards “not quite pantheism” but “a Hindu panentheism variant.”
Panentheism: The belief or doctrine that God is greater than the universe and includes and interpenetrates it.
Paramahansa Yogananda, considered by many to be the Yogi (Hindu) of the West, wrote in his world classic book Autobiography Of A Yogi: "The word 'God' means the manifested, transcendental Being beyond creation, but existing in relation to creation. Spirit existed before God. God is the Creator of the Universe, but Spirit is the Creator of God." The Hindu name for 'God' is Brahma. "This Sanskrit word derives from the verbal root b?h' to expand, grow, fructify', because 'Brahma expands' and becomes the Universe woven out of his own substance." - Theosophy Wiki
Spirit (the Supreme God) emanated a part of Its Infinite Self to create Brahma. This Emanation expanded to become the Universe, which is, according to Yogananda, an “essentially undifferentiated mass of light.” Because the physical universe is an illusion (confirmed by modern-day scientific discoveries) Brahma’s manifestation as the physical universe is therefore not real. It’s an illusion.
Therefore, Divine Brahma is not pantheistic. Spirit (the Infinite Supreme God) and Its Divine Emanation (Brahma) are the totality of God in all of His Divine glory. This is a variant of Hindu pan[en]theism. This is the variant of pan[en]theism that I believe Christianity is moving toward adopting, as it merges with Hinduism (and Buddhism) into one religion in the New Age.
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