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| Arthur Conan Doyle, famous spiritualist, thanks to wiki |
The founder was involved in spiritualism, one of the most serious of mortal sins. Coming from a Protestant background, he became involved in the movement which believed that spirits of the dead could and should be contacted for advice and comfort.
This is the heinous sin of necromancy. Sadly, in the States and in England, Anglican and other Protestants, including Quakers, became interested in this occult tool. The founder of the pseudo-science was one of these men who experimented with contacting the dead. He attended regular meetings of the local spiritualist society.
He also wrote a book stating that he received his method of healing from a dead person. Here is his statement.
"The knowledge and philosophy given me by Dr. Jim Atkinson, an intelligent spiritual being, together with explanations of phenomena, principles resolved from causes, effects, powers, laws and utility, appealed to my reason. The method by which I obtained an explanation of certain physical phenomena, from an intelligence in the spiritual world, is known in biblical language as inspiration. In a great measure The Chiropractor's Adjuster was written under such spiritual promptings." (p. 5)"
In a May 4th 1911 letter, D. D. wrote this:
"... we must have a religious head, one who is the founder, as did Christ, Mohamed, Jo. Smith, Mrs. Eddy, Martin Luther and other who have founded religions. I am the fountain head. I am the founder of chiropractic in its science, in its art, in its philosophy and in its religious phase."[8]
In his 1914 book, the first chapter expanded on his religious views of chiropractic: "The Moral and Religious Duty of a Chiropractor".[11] In it he dealt with religious liberty and stated:
- "... nor interfere with the religious duty of chiropractors, a privilege already conferred upon them. It now becomes us as chiropractors to assert our religious rights." (p. 1)
- "The practice of chiropractic involves a moral obligation and a religious duty." (p. 2)
- wiki references and footnotes to original texts...........
- He also believed in the false idea of "innate intelligence" in the body, and that this was connected to an impersonal God of innate intelligence in the universe. One can see how far D. D. moved away from Christianity.
- http://www.letusreason.org/NAM33.htm
Now you know of whom I speak, D.D. Palmer, the founder of chiropractic methods. His son, B.J. Palmer was also heavily involved in the occult, which I found out as a very young child. From early on, I refused to go to one, and would try to talk others out of this method. Roots run deep and Catholics have deceived themselves as to the evil of this method.
When I was very young, the college had an
exhibit and a garden of items collected by B. J. These items included statues
of Buddha, bodishattvas, which are Buddhist "saints" but really
incarnated images of demons, talismans from every possible Eastern religion, and the worst thing, a Shinto Gateway. This gateway is a door to the spirit world which I sensed at the age of nine. My dad asked us all one day
if we wanted to go into the gardens at the college, as we were out visiting
something in the area. I said no, I did not want to go there, as even across
the street, I knew something was wrong with the gateway.
My father honored my concerns and we did not go into the gardens, which are now gone. It was called a Little Bit O'Heaven and here is a description of it, and the ideals behind it which should make one's skin crawl..
For many years A Little Bit O' Heaven was the most popular tourist attraction in Davenport. A guidebook produced by the Palmer School claims that the garden directly inspired numerous home hobbyist to take up the trowel and build their own rock gardens, but one wonders if part of its popularity was also the esoteric drama of its world-spanning exotica. With B.J. scouring the globe for the ripest fruits of wisdom and artistic endeavor, the visitor could understand how chiropractic medicine tapped into deeper beliefs than the simplistic notions of mechanistic modern medicine. Was a man simply a pile of disconnected bones and tissue? Or was he an outpouring of innate and inborn emotion and desires from some central core? Here at A Little Bit O' Heaven the visitor could contemplate the strange and perhaps a bit frightening from around the world while in an informal and stimulating garden setting. Here live alligators, grimacing idols and taboo icons of fertility cults relaxed among the foliage with classical statuary and uplifting inspirational aphorisms painted on the walls. In this small recreation of Heaven on Earth, the Dionysian and Apollonian were united in a vision of health and happiness for all pilgrims to see in practice.
The Shinto Gateway is not merely a gateway to a shrine, but a door to the spirit world. One of my university professors years ago explained that on one side of the gate were the living and on the other side, the dead.
Of course, the Palmers would be interested in such a gate, and even as a child, baptized and in sanctifying grace, I could sense the demon spirits on the other side. That this type of thing was treated so cavalierly by too many Catholics has puzzled me over the years. And idolatry was practiced on the spot for years.
Though it is impossible to see from outside the gate, the ancient Wishing Buddha is still there today. Inside the shelter is a 1100-yr old Japanese bronze buddha, at 10 feet high and 3-tons one of the largest buddhas in the U.S. One story about its purchase says that when B.J. purchased the statue in 1927 the Japanese government attempted to block its removal. B.J. persuaded the officials by assuring them that the statue would be given proper respect, and indeed for many years incense was burned 24 hours a day in its honor, perhaps up until the garden was dismantled. http://www.mnmuseumofthems.org/Grotto/Heaven3.html
I cannot show you the torii gate but it is seen on this link, on this copyrighted site, for skeptics.
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I write this just a few miles from the college which has trained thousands of so-called doctors, whose own method is based on occultist beliefs which have no bearing to real science. I write this as I have known this for 56 years, and have been waiting for any Catholic to write against this cult. None have. None will. There is too much money and corruption in the system. Pray for those who cannot see that the roots of something indicate that the philosophy of the entire scheme is spiritually flawed. Some things just cannot be "baptized."
Sadly, some people see spiritualism as a hoax, which is can be. But, it can and is mostly one of the deadliest mortal sins of all. Check this site out for someone who does not understand the real evil but a person who discovered more on D.D. real involvement with the occult..
http://spinalcolumnradio.com/2013/01/25/chiro-pickers-fresh-pick-the-story-of-the-vanishing-spirit-book-and-the-appearance-of-another/
Here is the CCC on divination:
Divination and magic
2115 God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future, and giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it. Improvidence, however, can constitute a lack of responsibility.
2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future.48 Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.
2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity.
Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -
by the Divine Power of God -
cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits,
who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
