My comments about sharons videos above that i sent to alex and mr s on whatsapp:
I watched some of that video speech by sharon lee giganti. She was obviously preaching to the catholic choir. She has some good points about the dangers of new age teachings and the law of attraction that i agree with. However she is coming from a catholic point of view. And the thing is, most people who use ouija boards or divination do not get harmed by it. So its fairly safe. Hollywood exaggerates. U dont get demon possessed from it.
Listen to what rosemary ellen guiley says. Shes the top expert on entities.
Sure new age teachings can be dangerous if u take them too literally. But that goes for Christianity and Catholicism and atheism too. All of those beliefs have many flaws and problems if taken literally. None of them explain everything. So u gotta go beyond them all - Christianity/religion, atheism and new age. All of them are very flawed.
Btw the chief flaw of sharon is that she assumes that just because new age teachings can be dangerous and contain some flaws, that it automatically means that Catholicism or Christianity must be the right way and must be correct and perfect and explain everything. That's a huge fallacy and certainly not true. Christianity contains dangerous teachings too and bad ideas, especially if you take the Bible literally. Some examples.
1. Jesus says at the end of marks gospel that believers can drink poison and not be harmed. If you take that literally and tried to drink poison it could kill you obviously.
2. Jesus says that if your body parts cause you to sin then to cut them off because its better to be maimed than for your whole body to go to hell. No one would do that or take it literally of course.
3. Jesus said to someone to give away everything he has an become a bum and beggar in order to be right with God. Obviously no Christian wants to give away all his money and property and become a bum. Christians need shelter and cars and money to live too. So they cant take that verse literally.
Etc. Etc.
You get the point. Taking the bible literally results in hundreds of problems that cannot be resolved.
Many great authors amd thinkers have pointed this out long ago. Read "Why I'm not a Christian" by bertrand russell. Or "age of reason" by thomas paine. Or "letters from the earth" by mark twain. Or the works of robert ingersoll. Or the thousands of articles on secularweb.org. Or modern atheists like Christopher hitchens. Or "divinity of doubt" by vince bugliosi, which tears Christian teachings to shreds. Or "reality check" and "i universe" by philosopher daryl sloan, which also tears Christian theology to shreds. Or "Debunking Christian circular arguments" by Winston Wu (me lol). Etc.
They all point out a massive ton of problems and flaws with the Bible and Christianity when taken literally, as well as organized religion. Many of which Christians cannot explain away or answer.
So both new age teachings and Christianity, as well as other religions and atheism have tons of problems and contain bad teachings and dangerous ideas. None are perfect or consistent or problem free or contain absolute literal truth.
That's why its best to take religion as a metaphor and allegory. Not literal truth, as joseph campbell and tom harpur and many other great authors said. Religions and myths are meant to be guideposts, not literal or absolute truth.
Thats what sharon doesnt get. Same with steven bancarez and other "New Age to Christian" converts. They make the same fallacy that atheists make, when they assume that just because Christianity has problems and flaws and dangerous teachings and ideas, that atheism must be the correct way and ultimate truth. But the truth is all these belief systems have tons of problems, not just new age or Christianity, but atheism and scientism do too. Even buddhism has bad teachings if you take it too seriously in the extreme like some rigid monks do.
The truth is, no religion is 100 percent good or bad, or 100 percent true or false. New age has good teachings too and good concepts. So does Christianity. But they have bad teachings and dangerous ideas too. They got a mix of both.
Thats what sharon fails to understand. That's her primary flaw. Her speech video does not allow comments so i will try to send this to her via her website at
www.newagedeception.com. ill also make a video about this sometime to put on YouTube too, to correct these fallacious people like sharon and steven bancarez, who falsely and fallaciously assume that one way or one religion (theirs) has all the answers and is the "correct way" or perfect system without flaws or contradictions, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Do you get my drift?
The thing is, any belief if taken to an extreme becomes dangerous. For example students in japan and korea have committed suicide because of getting bad grades. So their belief that "good grades bring honor" is taken to an extreme that puts academic success over life itself, which is insane and dangerous.
If you believe everything government says you can lose your life in a pointless war like vietnam and die for nothing. Or if u believe everything alex jones says to an extreme, you can die in a shootout with cops like william cooper did.
Even romantic love can be dangerous if taken to an extreme. Like what happened at the end of "Romeo and Juliet".
So anything taken to an extreme becomes a dangerous teaching.
The LOA may have some truth to it. But taken to an extreme can become dangerous like sharon said. But that applies to anything, not just LOA. It applies to Christianity and the Bible too.
The new age movement is irresponsible for taking stuff like the law of attraction to an extreme and doing nothing about it. Bruce Lipton and Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra and other new age authors like them should warn people about that and revise the LOA to be more realistic. Otherwise some people may take dangerous reckless risks and think that if they believe they are invincible then they are, because thoughts create reality. Literally. And end up getting killed or seriously injured.
But these new age gurus dont because they like to preach that there are no limits and that the LOA is all powerful because that sounds better and thats what sells. So they are irresponsible and unwise and foolish too. Not spiritual at all. Caring more about what sells than whats true, is not the mark of a truly spiritual person or truth seeker. I should send the above to bruce lipton and try to knock him off of his delusional high horse. People like him should be ashamed of himself and not so proud and arrogant.