Energy Healing and etherial spirituality vs Spirituality (04/3/2014)

A friend just showed me a preview to a film called E-motion. It is similar to the film of a few years ago called The Secret.

There is a lot of energy healing, enlightenment, etc. being offered in the world. So much of it seems to offer profound spiritual enlightenment and awareness. But, as someone pointed out to my niece, they offer spiritual enlightenment with taking Christ out of the equation. I do know that people in those pathways becomes very aware of the spiritual nature of humanity, and have great levels of peace and serenity. From my perspective of having experienced both approaches, I can tell that there are profound elements missing when Christ is removed.

Perhaps part of the way I can explain what I feel is by looking at being grounded vs being connected to spiritual things.

When we are concerned with only the physical and tangible aspects of our existence here on earth, we are connected to the earth and are 'gounded'. When we are aware of the spiritual nature of our being and are in tune with that, we are more ethereal.

Modern medicine and psychology offer the grounded aspect of our existence - regardless of which parts of their paradigms are correct and how much of it is wrong.

The energy healing and new age approach is very ethereal and offers a great connection to the spiritual aspect of our being - regardless of which parts of their paradigms are correct and how much of it is wrong.

Only in a connection with Jesus Christ and a proper understanding of our life before earth and the potential after earth, and by making and keeping covenants with Christ do we have the opportunity to join the two extremes in the appropriate and balanced blend. We are, after all, both physical and spiritual in nature. Our connection to ourselves should encompass and incorporate both.

Also, only through a deep understanding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ do we also understand that even if we don't have the opportunity or ability to partake of the great spiritual enlightenment in the freeing fashion of the new age offerings, or of the down-to-earth fix-the-problem promises of the 20th and 21st centuries medical and psychological ideologies, we still have the option of 100% participation and reception of freedom, salvation, healing, and progression that is offered by Christ through making covenants with him. And it doesn't matter if we get the healing results in this lifetime or not. All we have to do is make and keep our covenants with him to the best of our ability - which ability varies dramatically according to the situation and experience we have in this life. And he knows those confines, limits and potentials put upon us by our situation. So determining if we succeeded will be absolutely fair. We won't be condemned for not doing something that was truly beyond our ability, and we won't be rewarded for only achieving partial of what was appropriately expected of us.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we make with him afford us the perfect options and opportunities both physically and spiritually, as well as the perfect evaluation and consequences of how we operated within those covenents.

God is just. God is merciful.