Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Reiki & Rick Warren & the "Daniel Plan"

Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren held a gathering with a reiki practioner and new age guru Deepak Chopra. Warren calls his new health plan the "Daniel Plan". Do you think Daniel & his 3 friends would have approved? The reiki practioner was Mehmet Oz (Dr. Oz). He is a follower of the mystic Swedenborg, who claimed to be able to pass between the present life and supposed futeure life. Not only does he espouse reiki, his wife is a master practioner. Dr. Mark Hyman (editor of Alternative Theories in Health & Medicine) said "The key to the success of the "Daniel Plan" is "group living"..."individuals" will not succeed, our only hope lies in "community." - Here is a definition of Reiki from ReikiFAQ- "Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy."
According to the SkepticsDictionary - "Reiki is popular among New Age spiritualists who are fond of "attunements," "harmonies," and "balances."
http://reiki.org/
http://danielplan.com/

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:8

One question for Pastor Warren: Why is it that you always seem to end up working with people who dabble in either emergent church/and or new age all the time? It seems that pastor Warren means well, but why not just stay to the pure side of the tracks?