Hey friends, this is Michael Bohm with Youth Apologetics Training. Today we're going to continue on with this series about yoga. Yesterday we ended up talking about chakras. Oh, man. these seven energy centers that supposedly line themselves up your spine starting at the base of your spine with the red chakra and working its way all the way to the top to the chakra that's basically at the crown of your head. So we're going to just pick up right exactly where we left off yesterday talking about yoga. Guys, Is this Christian? Is there any possible way that we can make this Christian? That we can slap a Christ label on it and say, hey, look, it's not what it means to me. All right? I know that it has Hindu roots, but that's not what it means to me. Guys, we're supposed to abstain from the very appearance of doing evil. And my friends, If you listen to my series about Hinduism, there's no doubt. I mean, this was created to reach enlightenment, to become one with Brahman, to yoke up, as it's, you know, yoga means yoke up, to yoke up with the divine. And friends, that's not God, the God of the Bible. Now, it's one thing if you're just stretching and breathing, but that's not what this is all about. When you go to these yoga classes, you're doing all these poses, these asansas that were come up with, they were dreamt up in Hinduism, giving honor to these Hindu gods, giving praise to these Hindu gods. I know it does. That's not what it means to you. But you know what? Do you really want to risk offending your father, the Holy God, the God of the heavens and the earth, the God that created everything created all life created you and then died in your place. Do you really want to risk offending him? Just on your own feelings saying, well, that's not what it means to me. There's a lot of other things out there you can do to increase your health, to increase your flexibility, to improve your body. There's a lot of things you can do. Why this? And why risk leading others astray? Why would you do that? And so anyway, there's my little rabbit trail there. Let's jump right in. Let's just pick right back up where we left off yesterday. Oh, yeah, you know, there is another thing too that I want to eventually want to do a series on this as well. And that would be quantum healing. In quantum healing. Again, it's kind of like Reiki. It's again, you're trying to use your hands and special touching techniques. You know, kind of like the Vulcan neck pinch only for but for good things, you know, like you just kind of touch somebody on the side and they get healed and You say skadoosh and half the town blows up. Anyway, just kidding. These little touches and you're transferring energy and different stuff like that. I want to do a series on that eventually sometime too because quantum healing is another one of those. Good grief. That's another one of those that you find sometimes in Christian circles. oftentimes in the hyper charismatic circles. But again, it has no foundation in the Bible. It has nothing to do with God and His Word. In fact, a lot of it is, again, psychosomatic. Of course, when you do stuff like this, and you start dabbling with the New Age and the occult, Satan will throw you a bone. Every once in a while, something will happen. Another one, some people claim that certain oils give off certain frequencies and vibes. Oh boy. They also help your chakras and help your system. Huh? Yeah, I don't know about that, guys. Oh, you can, according to these teachings, you can tune your chakras. Here's another way that you can. I mentioned this earlier in the teaching, where certain sounds can also help tune and align and fix your chakras when they're out of whack. Ah, you know, I just have to sigh because it's just so bizarre. It's such, I mean, it's such nonsense. Base of the spine, you say LAM, you vibrate it, you intone it, you say it, you draw it out, you know, LAM kind of thing, you know, kind of like when you're meditating and you say OM, same thing. Of course, all these end with OM, right? So there's LAM, The next one, the orange chakra that is at the reproductive area would be Vom. Your solar plexus would be Rom. Your heart would be Yam. Your throat would be Hum. Maybe it's Ham. Just kidding. Forehead would be Sham. And the crown would be Om. That's how you tune your chakras guys. If you've got any health problems, that's how you do it. So anyway, again, I just want to talk about that really quick. Because again, in yoga, through these poses, you're also trying to align your chakras, you're trying to balance them out to where they can best help you mentally, spiritually, and emotionally, right and physically. Also, I've mentioned many times the kundalini, and when that kundalini serpent force rises up through your spine, again, this is what they believe, it passes through each of these chakras, energizing them Right? And then, of course, the Kundalini, like what we just read at the beginning of this podcast, about how it bursts out of your crown and reunites with the male force. And there's kind of this sexual union thing that happens with the Kundalini serpent being more of a female and this male presence. And as the Kundalini force backs back down your spine, it energizes and leaves some of that life force, that life energy in these chakras. And so the more you do that, the more you meditate, the more you do yoga, and you cause that kundalini spirit to rise up, the more you fix and energize and empower those chakras. Okay, another thing about this kundalini force, this is kind of fascinating and terrifying all at the same time. There are those who believe that through yoga and transcendental meditation and some other New Age practices as well, you can, and of course, harnessing this power of the Kundalini serpent at the base of the spine, you can gain kind of magical, supernatural, paranormal powers called siddhis, okay? These powers would include things like being able to physically heal yourself, heal others around you, clairvoyance, levitation, magic, spiritual experiences, and power for the control of self and others. And also the power of controlling the forces of nature. I'm not joking. People who believe or are said to have harnessed these abilities, these siddhis, are referred to as sadhana, and I'm probably mispronouncing that. But in Hinduism, there are eight cities, right? So this is actually Hinduism concept. But again, you're going to find this throughout the New Age, you're going to find elements of this in the New Age movement, you're going to find it here in America, with people practicing yoga who are not part of Hinduism, you're going to find people to believe this. Again, yoga in the United States is so varied. And that's why I went through and talked about the different types of yoga. There's so many different types of yoga, that you might talk to one person, they're going to look at you cross eyed and be like, I don't know what you're talking about. Like that's nuts. And then others, you're going to bring up these cities and they're going to wax eloquent and start getting starry eyed and you know, kind of go hippie on you and start talking all kinds of crazy stuff. And they're going to be all into this. And so, in Hinduism, there are eight primary cities, okay? I'm not even going to try to pronounce them, but one of them allows you to reduce one's, sorry, reduce one's body even to the size of an atom. That happened to me last Tuesday. That's why I'm chuckling. Anyway, expanding one's body to an infinitely large size. Now, again, that happened to me last Tuesday, too. And then I did battle with Godzilla in the middle of Denver. But anyway, I was careful not to destroy too many buildings. Another one. Sorry, guys, I shouldn't be that. Okay. I apologize. Some of this stuff, it gets to me after a while. Anyway, another one becoming infinitely heavy. Now that one comes to me naturally, becoming almost weightless. That's only when I go on a diet, having unrestricted access to all places. I'm in the access control industry. I have unrestricted access to a lot of places. See, I've got a lot of these powers. Um, Another one, realizing whatever one desires. Well, that sounds kind of like the, name it and claim it, law of attraction. You know, the secret. Sounds a lot like that. Possessing absolute lordship. That's another one. The power to subjugate all. Huh, like every knee will bow? I think I know somebody who has that. So anyway, so in the Bhagavata Purana, there are five cities of yoga and meditation. And they would be again, I cannot pronounce these. So one of them is knowing the past, present and future. Again, these are all like weird abilities that you supposedly can attain through various forms of yoga, tolerance of heat and cold, and other dualities um another knowing the minds of others and so on another checking the influence of fire sun water poison and so on another one remaining remaining unconquered by others sorry about the cold guys it makes my words come out funny So, there's also 10 secondary cities, according to the Bhagavata Purana. Lord Krishna describes these. One of them is being understood by hunger, thirst, and other bodily appetites. Being undisturbed by hunger, thirst, and other bodily appetites. Another one, hearing things far away. seeing things far away, moving the body wherever thought goes, as in astral projection. That was one of the nonsensical things that I practiced when I was part of the New Age slash occult slash when I was practicing witchcraft. Nonsense. It's an abomination to God. Another one assuming any form desired. Okay, like shape shifting. Another one, entering the bodies of others. Yikes, sounds like demon possession. Dying when one desires. Huh. Another one, witnessing and participating in the pastimes of the gods. So you just kind of like your hyper charismatic church. They kind of just chill with God whenever they have a cup of coffee in the morning with God and just kind of hang out with him. Another one, perfect accomplishment of one's determination. And another one, orders or commands being unimpeded. somewhat overlaps with some of the others. So anyway, I want to end off today by just really quick talking about some of the things that happen to people when they apparently when they claim that they have awakened this Kundalini force, this serpent at the base of the spine, and it travels up the spine. And I've talked about this in my Todd Bentley series, also the Word of Faith series, You guys wonder why I keep bringing up the hyper charismatic church. Well, there's a lot of things that happen within those walls, within those movements, your new apostolic reformation, many of those types of churches, your Toronto revival, your Lakeland revival, your whatever revival, all right. When these people fall under what they claim is the power of the Holy Spirit, some pretty bizarre things happen. None of which are described in the Bible. None of which are described in the Bible. Okay, but you can see these types of things happen throughout the occult when demonic possession, demonic influence is involved. Now, this is straight from sources who are pro-Kundalini, right? from Hinduism. In fact, I found this same list on Wikipedia, which you can't trust all the time. But I found this list all over the place in different websites, different books, promoting Kundalini as a good thing. Okay, so this is not something that some Christian made up along the way. This is what they say happens when this Kundalini force overtakes you. involuntary jerks, tremors, shaking, itching, tingling and crawling sensations, especially in the arms and legs. huh that sounds familiar energy rushes or feelings of electricity circulating through the body that sounds very familiar too intense heat sweating or cold especially as energy is experienced passing through the chakras yep spontaneous pranayama asanas mudras and bandhas okay the pranayama of course your your your life energy okay Asanas, weird poses, okay so when you're doing these yoga poses and all of a sudden you start having spontaneous different yoga poses. Mudras, I talked about that a little tiny bit during my series on Buddhism. They're kind of like the gang signs. You know when you look at a lot of like Hinduism artwork, the different Hindu gods, they always seem to be holding their hands in a real awkward way, where you kind of feel like they're throwing a gang sign, like they're claiming something. That would be a mudra. And each one of those hand signs, they mean something. And then, so, does this happen in hyper-charismatic circles? I've seen it. I've seen it, personally. People, their bodies contorting and doing really weird, like, poses, their hands doing weird things. Yes, I've seen it. Visions or sounds at times associated with a particular chakra? Huh. Diminishing or conversely extreme sexual desires, sometimes leading to a state of constant or whole-body orgasm. I don't think I've seen that one yet. But emotional upheavals or surfacing or unwanted and repressed feelings or thoughts with certain repressed emotions becoming dominant in the conscious mind for short or long periods of time. Absolutely. I've seen that headache, migraine or pressure inside the skull. Yep. Increased blood pressure and irregular heartbeat. Well, I don't know about blood pressure, but heartbeat. Definitely. Emotional numbness. Yeah. Antisocial tendencies. Yep. Mood swings with periods of depression or mania. Absolutely seen that. Pains in different areas of the body, especially back and neck. Yep. Sensitivity to light, sound, and touch. I don't know about that yet. Trance-like and altered states of consciousness. Absolutely. Disrupted sleep patterns, periods of insomnia, or oversleeping. I don't know, loss of appetite or overeating. Yeah. Bliss, feelings of infinite love and universal connectivity, transcendent awareness. Absolutely. So yeah. All right. So that guys, that is kind of the stuff that happens when this kundalini spirit travels up the spine. Yes. I kind of did a little bit of a halfway rabbit trail talking about how that, uh, can parallel sometimes things that you see in a very wild supposedly holy spirit driven meeting at some of these hyper charismatic type word of faith type churches these different revival meetings but anyway you can see the parallels there really you know if you're just interested in knowing about yoga and kundalini and chakra as well you can take that as it is otherwise i thought i'd throw in as an added bonus some of those comparisons anyway i'll stop right there i've gone a little bit too long but that's okay Friends, if you like these types of podcasts, on my website there is a podcast archive, and in there, the website being YouthApologeticsTraining.com and also AnswerReadyMinistries.com, there's podcast archive. 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