Many Christians are using Jung’s active imagination as a method of
prayer. Psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover, M.D., thinks this is dangerous ”
because this fantasy life has no moral underpinnings, because it helps
to reinforce an experience of autonomous inner “beings” accessible via
imagination, and because it is a defense against redemptive suffering,
it easily allies with and quickly becomes a Gnostic form of spiritually
with powerfully occult overtones”:
- As Dr. Chuck Lowe said of the
fringe groups in the Charismatic spiritual mapping movement,
”Post-modernity supplants modernity, objectivity gives way to
emotionalism, scientism to spiritism, mechanism to shamanism.” So,
unfortunately, with the widespread acceptance of Jungian spirituality,
mainstream Christianity seems to be moving to post-modern shamanism
(occultism).
- "Spiritual Mapping" is a U.S. Evangelical and Neo-Pentecostal movement
(1989-2005), which developed its own religious technique to wage a
'spiritual' war against unseen non-human beings. These 'spirits' were
identified along the lines of geographical territories and put on a map,
whence "'Spiritual Mapping'," Its intended function was to boost the
numerical growth of Christianity. This book offers a comprehensive
historical-descriptive approach of both the movement and the concept,
with special attention for theological and anthropological concepts. Its
historical roots, relation with Argentina, self-understanding and
critics are being described. The reader is presented with a unique
insight into "Spiritual Mapping" as an expression of Americanism, as
well as the socio-political concept of Manifest Destiny and U.S.
religious marketing. [https://books.google.com/books/about/Spiritual_Mapping_in_the_United_States_a.html?id=ZnIWSLhkZtgC]
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