New Age Movement in public schools and colleges

Apparently this is happening now in many schools. To read the entire article click on the link.

http://www.turningpointonline.org/cd...20Age%20Ed.pdf

New age education

The New Spirituality
Dr. David Jeremiah


OVERVIEW

I could do an entire study guide on the subject we are about to
cover in just one lesson—the influence of the New Age movement
in education. The influence of the New Age movement is far
more extensive in education than in any other area we have
discussed. And it is far more frightening to me because it deals
with the lives of future generations.

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Three statements about public schools came to my attention
within a span of three days that summarize what is going on:
Allan Bloom, professor at the University of Chicago and
author of The Closing of the American Mind, said schools are raising
our children in a morally neutral environment; they are going
beyond the ideas of good and evil to a new language of morality.
Leo Buscaglia, a widely read author, describes the average college
graduate today totally lost, confused, and uneducated—“and just
like the teachers who made him.” Tal Brooke, a magazine publisher,
says of high school graduates that they are semi-literate, hedonistic,
without goals, and no knowledge of what is good and noble.

“They have been assured by educators of their own self-worth
and freedom to self-actualize as long as it feels good.”
While there is not space to reproduce the entire lengthy quotes
from these three men, just the summaries I provided should scare
you into realizing—as they did me—that there is something
drastically wrong in our schools. It began with the move toward
self-esteem in our public schools. There has been significant
documentation by educators on the problems resulting from the
self-esteem movement in schools.

Because the goal was to make every student feel good regardless of his performance, standards were lowered and de-emphasized. Ironically, as students began to do poorly in school, their self-esteem dropped further. It was a vicious cycle resulting from taking the emphasis off education and putting it on feelings.

The New Age movement entered the schools through the
self-esteem movement. Children began to be taught how to
meditate, how to do yoga, how to read their teacher’s mind through
ESP (extra sensory perception), and how to use their minds to create
new realities, such as better behavior. An expert on the New Age
movement, Johanna Michaelsen, whose books I highly recommend,
has said, “

In growing numbers, in schools around the country,
our children are being taught how to contact their spirit guides,
euphemistically called their higher self or their inner wisdom,
to help them solve problems. They are being taught yoga and
meditation and techniques of guided imagery, visualization, long
used by shamans, mediums and other occultists in their practice
of religion.”

A woman in our church who had been involved in the New Age
movement for 10 years prior to becoming a Christian, brought me
a stack of New Age-influenced material from her daughter’s gifted
student program in grammar school. Perhaps most disturbing was
a spelling game for third graders that had eight levels of proficiency.
Level one (the lowest) was “humans.

From there a student advanced to swordsmen, warriors, elders, enchanters (with witchcraft powers), sorcerers (can cast spells and talk to animals), magician (skilled in magic), and the highest level,
wizards. Nine year-olds have been taught the vocabulary of the
New Age movement in warm and fuzzy language, and introduced
to pagan religious concepts all in the name of spelling.

An educator named Deborah Rozman trains elementary
teachers to teach their children to meditate. She makes reference
to the universal mother of compassion, Paramahansa Yogananda;
she teaches visualization (imagine you are floating out of your
spiritual eye and into the leaf of the planet. Feel the oneness of the
source of all life everywhere); she teaches them to chant (Om)
while becoming one with everyone else’s light, intelligence, and
love. In other words, raw Hinduism in a book training teachers
how to deal with children and create a better learning environment.

All these techniques come under the heading of confluent or
holistic education (whenever you see the phrase confluent
education, you are dealing with New Age educational philosophy).
The architect of the New Age invasion of public education is
Beverly Galyean, who has said, Once we begin to see that we are
all God, that we all have the attributes of God, then I think the
whole purpose of human life is to re-own the Godlikeness within
us . . . and when we do that, we get back to that old essential
oneness, which is consciousness. Galyean teaches teachers to use
non-inflammatory terms (so as not to upset Christian parents) when
leading children through meditation and visualization and making
contact with spirit guidescalling them imaginary guides or
wise persons.

These kinds of things are happening not only in grammar
schools but in high schools and colleges as well all funded by
your and my tax dollars.

New Age Education Is Deliberate
The focus is on starting with children at the youngest ages
possible; growing a new worldview from the bottom up. There is a
deliberate effort on the part of New Age practitioners to inaugurate
a new world order or system, a New Age system, by indoctrinating
the minds of children.

The titles of many New Age books reflect the
growing emphasis on reaching children first: Magical Child, Gift of
Unknown Things, Children of the New Age, Celebration of the Child,
Nurturing the Child of the Future, and The Conscious Child.
One of the most chilling statements I read in my research on
this topic was written by John Dunphy, an ardent New Ager who
confesses a consuming interest in folklore, history and religion.

He wrote for the Humanist Magazine an essay entitled A Religion
for the New Age, where he said, I am convinced that the battle for
humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school
classrooms by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the
proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes
and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every
human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless
dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers. The classroom
must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and
the new, the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its
adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith . . . resplendent in
its promise.

The classroom, in other words, is the battleground where
the New Age religion will replace Christianity in the minds of the
young as the dominant worldview.

New Age Education Is Deceptive

Some form of New Age educational influence is probably
present in your children’s public schools without you being aware
of it. While Christianity is banned from public schools on the basis of
the separation of church and state, New Age religious practices
are brought in under the guise of being psychological practices.

New Age activist Dick Sutphen has written, “One of the biggest
advantages we have as New Agers is once the occult, metaphysical
and New Age terminology is removed, we have concepts and
techniques that are very acceptable to the general public. So we
can change the names and demonstrate the power, and in doing
so, we can open the door to millions who normally would not
be receptive.

Marilyn Ferguson approvingly wrote, Even a tiny minority
of committed teachers, counselors and administrators can set off
seismic shocks with programs that work when people don’t know
what you’re up to. Because young children are so trusting, many
don’t question the practices they are being taught. Often they are
subtly encouraged not to share what they’re learning with their
parents. Teachers are taught how to identify parents who are
“resisters, and how to sneak in humanistic and New Age concepts
without being caught.

New Age Education Is Dangerous

I would not be overstepping my bounds to say it is beyond
dangerous it can be deadly. New Age education is simply
Satanism in respectable garb. Stories abound that verify such a
stern perspective. A fourteen year-old girl was invited to a party
by friends whereupon she was attacked by a number of the girls
and beat up because of her refusal to become a Satanist.

An adult chaperone stood by watching the attack, even encouraging
the girls in their viciousness. The mother of a teenage boy who
committed suicide was going through his papers and found
notes from a high school psychology class dealing with psychic
experiences, ESP, psychokinesis, and astro-projection. Asking her
daughter to bring a copy of the class textbook home, she found it
to be a manual to the occult world explaining the use of Ouija
boards, how to meditate, and how to do yoga.

God bless
whitestar

Children began to be taught how to
meditate, how to do yoga, how to read their teacher’s mind through
ESP (extra sensory perception), and how to use their minds to create
new realities, such as better behavior. An expert on the New Age
movement, Johanna Michaelsen, whose books I highly recommend,
has said, “

In growing numbers, in schools around the country,
our children are being taught how to contact their spirit guides,
euphemistically called their higher self or their inner wisdom,
to help them solve problems. They are being taught yoga and
meditation and techniques of guided imagery, visualization, long
used by shamans, mediums and other occultists in their practice
of religion.”

In what schools. I would like some specific details and locations. (Maybe I'll send my kid there when i have one) but in the meantime, I've never seen any of this sort of thing in any school around here.

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Not all those who wander are lost. -- JRR Tolkien

ya, this is new to me, my school is prettymuch neutral when it comes to religion.

IF a student is taught to respect themselves and explore their potential, Fundies scream "your teaching religion!!!". If a student is taught not to steal or lie nobody screams "10 commandments!!!".

Just because schools teach a good idea that happens to be shared by some religions does not mean the schools are proseltysing Satanic Religions.

Talk about a desperate need to be persecuted...

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Havoc

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James


When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?" -- Quentin Crisp

I'd have been thrilled if my school offered Yoga or anything like that... really, but I've never encountered it in any school or any student I know in my area... maybe it's only in more metropoltian areas (although I'm in the Chicago suburbs and that's about as metro as you can get more or less)

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Not all those who wander are lost. -- JRR Tolkien

Education probably would've been much better if my old schools were like that.

and yet they cant pull out a bible without getting suspended.

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Amp is Short For Amphibious.
The unborn have souls!

It's a good thing that Dr. Jeremiah has been wearing that tinfoil hat - he can avoid the new-age-rays that have been brainwashing the rest of us and then bring us the truth!

"and yet they cant pull out a bible without getting suspended."

correction: Ampmonster has also been assiduously wearing his mindray-blocker. bravo to the both of them!

Well, Ampmonster, I suppose I can return the favor and tell you that, if all of your posts are of that caliber, I can safely ignore everything else you write. good show!

So far I have heard this is happening in some parts of Calf and in Wisconic(?). Sorry you guys don't see the danger here. They tell the children to NOT tell their parents what is going on and tell the children the bible is a lie and God and Jesus are nothing. I was also not sure if this was true, but having posted it eslewhere I am hearing from parents who have actually experienced with and have read textbooks pushing not only these things but also leaving out alot of important facts in history, just to name a few things.

Of couse seeing is believing...when/if it comes to your area and I guess you can see first hand how it affects your children. Too bad you are willing for them to be gienue pigs in this mind game...

God bless
whitestar

Oh yea...I don't see this as reglion of any sorts actually...I don't consider new age a reglion...maybe it is...I don't know.

If you all don't believe this then why don't you do a search and see...I think I will...of course no one will believe that either.