Witchcraft in the Pulpit

So.

It really is so. "Word of Faith"/"Prosperity Gospel" is witchcraft. That...is painful.

So many thoughts, on that count. So, so many. But I'll attempt to remain calm enough to let through what need be, rather than all the mass.

Given I'd practiced for as long as I did, I don't know whether I should be surprised, dismayed, ashamed, or outright confounded that it wasn't immediately apparent. Perhaps there was just the assumption that all religion should be alike, in approach, that all things should be a matter of learning so to assert one's will. As to manifest desired circumstances.

Current Deviations

1 John 4: 1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, 

for many false prophets have gone out.

Still attempting to comprehend what's going on in churches, today.

One thing which has caught attention for the past few months has been "Kundalini," which apparently is (as best my very limited understanding presently extends, and perhaps yet mistaken) a form of mystical, Hindi yoga which does often entail spiritual manifestations. Such manifestations as convulsing, twitching, writhing on the floor, falling to the ground in a state of semi-conscious euphoria (unable to get back up, for varied spans of time), uncontrollable laughter or weeping, acting as and making noises of animals, shaking uncontrollably, and...well, seemingly everything that characterizes modern charismatic "revivals."

And it's "transmitted"/ brought about by either a) being in the presence of someone who has had that "awakening experience" within themselves and who practices the form of it regularly or b) the laying on of hands, by a person who has had such an "awakening experience."