Chapter (2.)
Catholic And Countercultural
By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
This booklet presents both excerpts from David Hunt's best-selling book Beyond Seduction as
well as commentaries about these excerpts. The excepts are about a Hindu/Buddhist expression of the
(hippie) counter-culture's ecumenical movement of the world's religions. The commentaries are
about both the Hindu/Buddhist expression as well as a Christian
and Catholic expression. I also express my opinion about where I believe these different
expressions of the counterculture's ecumenical movement of the world's religions are headed,
including what role they are playing in the "end-times", a span of time when the Second Coming of
Jesus Christ is imminent.
By David Hunt:
"We have been in the mist of a cult/occult explosion for the last 25 years. (Note: It has now
been 35 years.) An explosion that began with the drug movement and turned into a mystical
trip mainly oriented to Hindu/Buddhist practices. The (hippie) counterculture that began as a
largely political movement protesting the Vietnam War and the evils of a materialistic society
became a spiritual movement through the influence of drugs and Eastern mysticism."
"The church needs to recognize that cults are only part of a much larger and more seductive
deception known as the New Age movement. This is a broad coalition of networking groups
(including Hindu/Buddhist hippies) all working for world unity based upon religious
experiences and beliefs that have their roots in Eastern mysticism."
"The human body is supposed to be the temple of God. God intends that we should open our hearts
to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and be indwelt by his Spirit. Paul wrote to the
Christians at Corinth: ‘You are a temple of God...the spirit of God dwells in you'
(1 Corinthians 3:16). The spirit of the Antichrist causes humans to look within themselves
in that temple of the heart where the spirit of God ought to dwell, and to declare their own
deity."
"The goal of Yoga (or New Age Hindu/Buddhist hippies) is ‘self-realization'...to look deeply
within what ought to be the temple of the one true God and there to discover the alleged ‘true
Self' and declare self to be God. This is the religion of the Antichrist; and for the first
time in history it is being widely practiced throughout the Western world as Transcendental
Meditation and other forms of Yoga that are now taught in nearly every YWCA or YMCA, in
public and private schools from kindergarten to graduate level, and in many
churches."
"The many gurus who have invaded the West are actively converting millions to this satanic
religion of the Antichrist with a missionary zeal and success that is a new phenomenon for
Eastern religions."
"Whenever we use the term ‘New Age' we are referring to the 'great delusion' that the Bible
warns will sweep the world in the ‘last days'.
"We are also warned in the Scripture that many people who call themselves Christians will succumb
to this deception and that a great apostasy will occur prior to the return of Jesus Christ; the
delusion will sweep through the professing church as well as secular society. So it should be no
surprise to find increasing controversy within the church concerning the New Age
movement."
Commentary:
I believe in Yoga meditation but not the alleged "true Self". However,
I do believe in the true self
, a subordinate to God level of divinity that can be attained by doing Yoga
Meditation.
And I believe that the mentioned above "great apostasy" is occurring at this present time and that it
is a sign that the "great tribulation" of the "end time" is imminent; and that by the end of
this coming "great tribulation" all nations will not only have been converted to Christianity
and the Catholic Church but that they will have also given up their sovereignty in order to enter
into a one-world Catholic monarchial system of government; and that when this has occurred, Jesus
Christ will come to take possession of His domain, a domain that has been made completely ready
for him.
When the late Pope John II was a Cardinal he wrote: "We are now standing in the face of the
greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles
of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are
now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel
versus the anti-Gospel."
Cardinal Jean Danielou wrote the following statement in his book The Salvation of the
Nations. "Theology will be complete the day evangelization comes to an end, the day all nations
know Christ, the day the entire world has heard the Gospel, the day Christ can come to take
possession of a domain that will have been made completely ready for Him, and when all nations
will each in turn have borne testimony to Him."
Commentary:
I disagree with David Hunt's above statement: "The counterculture became a spiritual movement
through the influence of drugs and Eastern mysticism". I believe that the counterculture became
a spiritual movement not only "through the influence of drugs and Eastern mysticism" but through
the influence of Western mysticism as well. Some of the 1960s countercultural revolutionaries
started out in Eastern mysticism and then later converted to Western mysticism.
In the mid 1960s, I started out in Eastern mysticism (or hippie Hindu/Buddhist New Age mysticism)
and in the late 1960s, I converted to Western mysticism, or to Christian mysticism. And to this
day I am still practicing the Christian and Catholic faith within the hippie counterculture's
ecumenical movement of the world's religions.
Van Morrison, an internationally known 1960s countercultural Rock 'n' Roll Star, sang the
lyrics: "unanimously we will flow into the mystic" and "check it out across the table, make
sure we leave nothing out". Some 1960s countercultural revolutionaries "checked out"
Eastern mysticism and came to the conclusion that Eastern mysticism leaves something out. Or,
in other words, we discovered that the full truth about religious reality could not be found in
Eastern religions. So we "checked out" Western mysticism, and in doing so we found, after incorporating the truth that we found in the Eastern religions into our expression of Christianity, the full truth.
And when we found the truth in the Western religion we then incorporated our expression of the
counterculture's ecumenical movement of the world's religions into our Catholic Church's ever
increasing array of ecumenical movement of the world's religions sects. And in doing so became
countercultural Catholics with a vision and mission to unite humanity, not only within a single
religion, the Catholic religion, but within a single united global culture as well.
I believe that my prophetic credentials reveal that I am on the cutting-edge of the
counterculture's world-unifying globalization revolution, and that Jesus Christ will
use me and other members of my extended maternal family (the Rainbow family) to usher
in a new age of Church history; and that myself and the brothers and sisters in Christ
who will be joining me within the prophetic-forefront ministry of this revolution will
attain onto a sinless realm of holiness, put on bodily immortality, and then remain in a
divinely restored youthful state of existence throughout the coming "great tribulation";
and that after the "great tribulation" Jesus Christ will appear to all of humankind; and
at that time all the Christians who had not previously been restored to a youthful state
of existence will be restored to a youthful state of existence and the dead in Christ
will then rise from their graves, with their bodies in a youthful and flawless state of
existence, and then we (all Christians) will be "further clothed with our bodies from
Heaven".
Those of us who believe in this end-time theology, believe that our Lord and king Jesus Christ
will soon appear in an apparition to those of us who will have reach perfection in these end
times; and that when we reach perfection Jesus will begin to rule and reign on earth; and that
He will rule and reign through those of us who will have reached perfection.
David Hunt and I believe that the present-day "great apostasy", or the New Age Movement, is
a sign that Jesus Christ's Second coming is at hand.
I believe that at the time when a group of Christians reach perfection, a time that will
occur a short while before the "Second Coming", Jesus will appear to those of us who will
have reached perfection, and not to all of mankind. So both David Hunt and I
believe that a "great apostasy" is occurring at this present time; and that it is a sign
that Jesus Christ's Second coming is imminent.
But David Hunt believes that the end-time anti-Christ (a person) will take over the world
before Jesus Christ returns and I believe that the end-time anti-Christ (a corporate person,
or the New Age movement participants) will be defeated in the "great tribulation"; and that
the Church's prophets in the forefront of ushering in, a soon to be established, one-world
Catholic monarchial system of government will take over the world before Jesus Christ
returns.
As soon as the fullness of Jesus' Spirit begins to operate - in and through those of us who
are being called to take part in the glorious end-times movement to perfection - a perpetual
apparition of Jesus ruling and reigning over the earth will become manifest to those of us
who will have "put on he full armor of God" in preparation for the coming "great
tribulation".
In Rev. 12:9 it says that there will come a time when Satan is "cast down to the earth". And the
word of God also says in Rev. 12:12: "Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has
gone down to you in great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time." And because Satan's
"great wrath" is imminent we are therefore being told in Eph. 6:11 to "put on the full armor
of God, that we may withstand in the evil day". Hence God is now giving us the
grace to put on the full armor. Or, in other words, He is giving us the grace to be filled
with the full measure of the Holy Spirit. When we have put on the full armor of God and
consequently received the full measure of the Holy Spirit we will be without sin and the
death principle will no longer operate in us. Hence we will be restored to a youthful state
of existence.
As soon as we reach perfection we will begin to reign and rule with Jesus Christ. And when we
begin to reign and rule with Jesus Christ, Satan will find himself dethroned and cast down to
the earth, and he will then know that his time is short.
He will then cause the great end-time tribulation to become manifest. And by the time the
"great tribulation" comes to an end all nations will not only have been converted to
Christianity and the Catholic Church but they will have also given up their sovereignty
in order to enter into a one-world Catholic monarchial form of government; and then Jesus
will appear to everyone on earth. And at that time the general resurrection will occur;
and then everyone found worthy of everlasting life will live happily ever after with Jesus Christ.
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