New Age Health Care - Way of Life Literature

Misconceptions about Alternative
Health Care
I believe it will be helpful at this point to mention the
many misconceptions that people have about holistic or
alternative health practices.
It is merely a common sense, unified system of
health care
A popular misconception about alternative health care is
that it is merely a common sense, unified system of
health care.
In fact, the field of holistic health is far more than this, as
we will see. Michael Harner, who is a New Age
practitioner, unwittingly gives a loud warning to Bible
believers about the danger of these things:
“The burgeoning field of holistic medicine shows a
tremendous amount of experimentation involving the
reinvention of many techniques long practiced by
shamans such as visualization, altered state of
consciousness, aspects of psychoanalysis,
hypnotherapy, meditation, positive attitudes, stress
reduction, and mental and emotional expression of
personal will for help and healing. In a sense,
SHAMANISM IS BEING REINVENTED IN THE
WEST precisely because it’s needed” (A Guide to
Power and Healing: The Way of the Shaman, 1980,
p. xiii).
Harner thinks it is a wonderful thing that shamanism is
being revived within the medical field, but the Bible
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