The Past: My journey as a New Age person started off with sweet smelling book stores.
Day 7: In the past, I was a New Age person. I loved going to New Age book stores. They smelled good. The space felt warm, safe and inviting. I loved tarot cards!
I often added to my collection of books about channeling, astral projection, remote viewing, tarot and psychic readings. Not only that, but in the early 90s, I took a 12-week course to learn how to read the Aleister Crowley deck. I didn’t know how DEMONIC he was until recently (like last year).
All I can say is that we didn’t have the internet back then. If you google his name today, you will not like what you see. I was willingly deceived. If I had known about his history (or seen his wicked face), I wouldn’t have gone down that path. Ignorance is bliss…until it isn’t.
At no time did I think that I was doing witchcraft. It all felt very clean and light. I was soothed by my New Age friends during a time when my emotions were badly damaged. It was fun!
Witchcraft is in my family line on my mother’s side, for sure. My Welsh Auntie giggles and laughs when she tells stories about curses she put on people that came to pass within very short periods of time. So creepy! Not to mention the generational penalties that come with collaborating with the dark side. Revenge has a price.
So, in the past, I was good at doing psychic readings. And I loved playing with tarot cards, answering questions from my friends.
But over time, my curiosity and experimentation took a dark turn.
But something was dreadfully wrong. Sometimes, Holy Spirit spoke to me. But not when I was delving into witchcraft activities like astral projection, remote viewing, etc. Those activities took place in the company of other witches and demons.
The voices from the dark side grew loud and demanding in my head.
Over time, Holy Spirit challenged me to determine whose influence I would follow and which voice I would listen to, Christ or anti-Christ. I repeatedly got it wrong. Ouch!
There were many years of practice where I learned to sift through the muck and mire of demonic influence and trap setting.
"These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world."
1 Peter 1:7 NIV
Consequently, I gave up some friendships. We didn’t fit together anymore. I stopped dating because I kept attracting the same sort of useless relationship. I liked a certain type of man, but the end result was the same. Too much heartache. I decided my ability to choose well was at fault.
When I moved away from Boston after living there for 30 years, Holy Spirit told me to get rid of my multiple boxes of tarot cards. I sold them in a garage sale. That was just 8 years ago.
None of these steps were easy for me. But something had to be done to bring me into alignment with God’s plan for my life. Even though I was messing up, Holy Spirit still clung to me.
The Holy Spirit stepped in to redirect me towards what he needed me to learn.
Apparently, martial arts were an important part of the plan.
Over the course of the summer of 2008, six friends encouraged me to add a different kind of martial art to my boxing training. I didn’t want to. There’s a theme here. When Holy Spirit wants me to do something, he presents the idea MULTIPLE times because I resist.
Nobody’s perfect. We’re all making progress.
Anyway, I found my martial arts school and a new family of, mostly men, who treated me with respect. That was a wonderful gift from the Holy Spirit.
Since that time, I don’t identify with New Age anymore. However, I’m glad I went down that path because now I know some secrets that I wouldn’t know if I hadn’t studied, researched and done some of those weird things.
Today, I picked up my copy of ACIM and noticed that I started reading the Text for A Course in Miracles on the 17th of November 2008. I noted the date at the front of the book. Funny to think that I started taking Jiu-jitsu classes in September of that same year.
With me, Holy Spirit is always efficient and effective. He chooses the best way for me to learn the lessons he needs me to learn to complete my Kingdom assignment.
So, my New Age ears perked up when I heard Teacher Coreen Walson mention the word “reincarnation” as she spoke on her ACIM video for Lesson 3. Furrowing my brow (with judgment), I hit replay. Did I miss something? How did this Eastern idea slip into the conversation?
Reincarnation? Hey, Holy Spirit! What in the world have you gotten me into?
After doing some research (on ChatGPT), I actually found a section in the book called The Manual for Teachers, entitled, “Section 24. Is Reincarnation So?”
Suddenly fascinated, I read through the two pages on the subject. First sentence, “In the ultimate sense, reincarnation is impossible.”
Well, that’s exactly what I thought. However, because the Holy Spirit is involved, there’s always more to the story.
- Even if it were true, now is the time to escape the traps you are in. Who cares what you were before? No reincarnation believer ever says they were a scullery maid in someone’s no-name house. Beware of prideful imagination.
- However, it’s not my place to tell you what to believe. The ACIM Course is designed to teach us how to get out of the split mind zone and into the Unified Mind zone. When you get there, you can ask him about reincarnation yourself.
- And one more thing, there are other topics and issues that might raise eyebrows. Again, it’s not my place to decide whether me and my ego think that something is right or wrong. That’s split mind territory. I will mind my own business and stay in my own lane. Because the conversations are different in the Unified Mind zone.
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 7 (video)
I see only the past. ACIM Lesson 7
Coreen Walson: “This idea is particularly difficult to believe at first. Yet it is the rationale for all of the preceding ones.
It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything. You have given everything you see, all the meaning that it has for you. You do not understand anything you see. Your thoughts do not mean anything and are like the things you see. You are never upset for the reason you think. You are upset because you see something that is not there.
Old ideas about time are very hard to change because everything you believe is rooted in time.” ACIM Lesson 7 video
A Course In Miracles: Lesson 7 (read the lesson here).
Disclaimer for quotes: I use an AI tool to capture quotes. It corrects grammar as people are speaking. Why? It’s very annoying. But it is quick. The relevance of the quote isn’t changed. So, are these robots a help or a hindrance? Only time will tell.
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