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Christian ‘Revival’ or Eastern Religious Phenomena

Kundalini and the So Called Revivals Compared
Kundalini, conceptualized as a coiled up serpent,  is a concentrated form of prana or life force, lying dormant in our bodies. The ‘awakening’ of the Kundalini brings about an expanded states of consciousness and can be achieved through three main practices, the most effective of which are meditation and yogic postures such as those taught in Hatha Yoga or a guru or spiritual teacher conferring the spiritual "power" or awakening, often by means of a touch to the forehead. If that isn’t disturbing enough, it is worse to compare the experiences and behaviour of the people at Toronto, Brownsville and Lakeland with disciples of Hindu gurus who have had this spiritual "power" or Kundalini awakening conferred on them. The requirements for receiving are the same, The methods of transmissions are the same and the physical manifestations are the same. How then can these ’revivals’ be Christians. [Also See Video Below]

The Emperor Has No Clothes
We too often, like Chicken Little, draw false conclusions from inadequate, inappropriate, or even no evidence. Often the consequences are slight, but occasionally they can be of major impact on our lives, even changing our beliefs and way of life. Pastors and worship leaders who are totally sincere and devout are producing the same, or very similar, results that hypnotists, frauds, and gurus produce. The phenomena in Eastern religious settings is no different from what has been reported in Christian settings with the evidence being misinterpreted in line with the presuppositions, beliefs, hopes, and desires of the participants. The setting in which one has the experience is a major factors in determining one's interpretation of a mystical experience are... If a church, it will be understood in Christian terms. If an ashram, in Hindu/Buddhist terms. If a hotel ballroom, in secular terms. In addition.. the suggestions made by the authority figure(s) before and during the experience are crucial to the interpretation process.
[Also See Video Below]

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Todd Bentley and Lakewood

Todd Bentley’s Circus Side Show From Hell
Endorsed by John Arnott, pastor of Toronto Airport Vineyard, Paul Cain and Bob Jones of the “Brownville Revival”, and others associated with various alleged outpourings of the Holy Spirit manifested by bizarre conduct, Bentley has, at times, lost control of himself on stage, laughing hysterically, falling on all fours, and engaging in myriad gymnastics to get the people’s attention

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Toronto and Brownsville

Counterfeit Revival
A Five Part Essay from Hank Hanegraaff's book, Counterfeit Revival. Sadly, leaders of the Counterfeit Revival have continued to employ socio-psychological manipulation tactics to trap new subjects into their dangerous web of subjectivism. No one is immune to the contagion of mass suggestion, which makes black appear white, obscures reality, enshrines absurdities and causes people to look for God in all the wrong places.

The Toronto Blessing
The origins, progress and underlying erroneous doctrines of the phenomenon. A masterful expose of the deception

The Toronto Phenomenon
Although you constantly hear "Praise the Lord," or "Praise Jesus," or some similar-sounding phrase, it is merely a formula, much like those who recite a mantra in eastern religions. There is nothing concrete there. Just verbalizing the name of Jesus over and over again does not, by itself, prove anything. In fact, it fits Isaiah 29:13b quite well: "and with their mouth and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me" .

 Holy Laughter
Uncontrollable laughter and animal noises may be new to the church world but the occult has known such phenomena for a long time

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Also See

 Slain In The Spirit I
Holy Canon is void of any accounts, testimonies, experiences or doctrines like ‘Slain In The Spirit’

 Slain In The Spirit II
It is interesting to note that in the Biblical accounts when people have fallen, it is the sinners who fall backwards

 How To Stop From Getting Spiritually Weird
You've got to know doctrine. Sorry, there's no other way. That's the only way to be protected. If you want to build your faith...  Build your knowledge, because knowledge under girds faith. You can't know what's theologically weird and avoid it unless you know what's theologically normal.

Comparison of False Revivals: These videos compares the spiritual manifestations of other religions and the new false revivals taking place inside the church

The Following video is by a “Neo Shaman”, who after a “a profound spiritual experience that ultimately changed his life forever” took a “a 20 year shamanic journey”, during which he “learned from Bonath a Yogi from the Himalaya, Ascunscion a wizard of the Amazon, Augustin a curandero of the Andes, Melvin a Papago medicine man, Ramon a sorcerer from Mexico and Jade, an Arizona shaman from a Mongolian lineage”

“As a neo shaman, he incorporates traditional shamanism (rattle, drum, fasting, trance, power places, ceremonies, etc.) with modern "new age' technics and methods.”

Rise Up or Fall Down

“While the Toronto Blessing experiences put a person on the floor, cause physical contortions, and epileptic type symptoms, Biblical examples of encounters with the real God and His Spirit show quite a different scenario.

In Ezekiel 2:1 Ezekiel was given a prophetical vision by God. In vs. 26-28 he sees what he describes as,

"...the likeness of the Glory of the Lord". He said when he saw this, he fell on his face [out of fear]. But what happened next is most revealing as we consider and compare the Toronto Blessing.

"Then He said to me, 'Son of man stand on your feet that I may speak with you'. And as He spoke to me the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet." Ezekiel 2:1-2

What? Notice that when the Spirit entered Ezekiel, it set him on his feet, and did not put him to the floor. It lifted him, strengthened. This Biblical example is contrary to the "anointing" of Holy Laughter or the Toronto Blessing in which people are put to the floor and weakened with some sort of sensual experience for hours. But it's not the only one.

Elijah's encounter with an angel is also revealing. In Kings 19:5-7 we see Elijah in despair and giving up. But an angel of the Lord said to him, "Arise and eat". This happened twice. The angel lifted him. His presence did not keep Elijah on the ground or weaken him or cause strange manifestations.

Daniel had a similar encounters. In Daniel 8:15-18 Daniel falls on his face from fear at the sight of a vision. But we see in verse 18, Daniel said of this being, "but he touched me and made me stand upright". The same thing happened in Daniel 10:9-18. Encounters with the spiritual realm of God lift the person up but did not put them on the ground.

The New Testament gives us similar examples. Consider the work of Jesus. In Matthew 9:27 Jesus tells a paralyzed man, "Rise, take up your bed and go home". And what about those who touched the garment of God incarnate? They were healed, not put to the ground, not filled with shaking, twitching, laughing.

Aside from the lack of Biblical evidence and the scripture contradiction of these manifestations, another thing that bothers me about the Toronto type "anointing".

There are many people who manifest many of these same symptoms that wish they would wouldn't. These are the people with neurological problems that they have through diseases, injuries, the result of using drugs, or just being born with a problem. They would like to stop shaking and trembling. They would like to come out of their curled up positions. They would rejoice if they could stop taking insulin so they would not stagger and manifest signs of intoxication as a result of insulin shock. The epileptic would desire not to fall in a public place, lose control, and have people watch as their eyes roll back or twitch under their eyelids.

Are these experiences we seek? Would an encounter with God cause symptoms of disease, brain injury, mental illness or even possession? Or, like we see in scripture, would an encounter with God stop these things? [Greg DesVoignes. A Toronto Blessing... Or Kundalini Curse?]

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