New Age Health Care - Way of Life Literature

“bodywork” (e.g., acupuncture, chiropractic, polarity
therapy, reflexology, reiki, rolfing, therapeutic touch,
touch for health).
“Bodywork therapies assume the existence of a
universal life force that affects health, which can be
stimulated by the therapy. ... Bodywork therapy
involves a high level of intuitive awareness on the
part of the therapist; PSYCHIC ABILITIES
SOMETIMES DEVELOP over the course of time.
Patients sometimes report experiences such as
past-life recall and clairvoyance.”
The wise Bible believer does not need any further
warning. If these practices sometimes result in “past-life
recall and clairvoyance,” they are obviously demonic and
should be avoided like the plague.
The Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs offers the
following warning:
“We believe that any system which claims to
regulate or manipulate ‘invisible energies’ is, at least
potentially, an introduction to occult energies and
should be avoided.
Humors
Another example of an occultic practice that has invaded
the field of medicine is the idea of humors. It is based on
the ancient Greek cosmology that there are four
elements--fire, air, water, and earth--and these have four
corresponding humors in the body: choler (yellow bile),
blood, phlegm, and melancholy (black bile). An
imbalance of the humors supposedly results in sickness,
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