East Meets (And Defeats) West

 Western civilization is being taken over by Eastern paganism. It's so pervasive, many people don't even realize it. The inroads made by Eastern paganism began with Vatican II. The heretical document Gaudium et Spes falsely attributes to pagan sects, like Hinduism and Buddhism, that they believe in God as the Creator of the universe. Paragraph #36 states: "...[All] believers of whatever religion have always heard His revealing voice in the discourse of creatures." The Eastern pagans completely ignore the idea of a God who created from nothing and who reveals Himself in His creatures. This is because these Eastern religions are convinced that reality proceeds through the emanation of an impersonal, cosmic, eternal force which is identically replicated in all things; from which force all comes, and to which all returns, becoming a part of it, and dissolving into it.

The basic worldview of the East is pantheism, the belief that in some sense all of reality is ultimately One and Divine. In bringing their false religions to the West, many people adopt another (yet similar) worldview known as panentheism (the belief that God is "in" all things). Panentheism recognizes God and the world as distinct concepts, but then holds that God is the spirit or "divine energy" or "mind" that fills and pervades and expresses itself in the world. On this view God and the world are interdependent, needing each other to form a complete reality. Thus the standard analogy for panentheism is the idea that a human being is both a spirit (or mind) and a body, with neither doing anything without the other. God is not a personal Creator of the world, but the divine potential of the world and of each one of us. Most people in Western culture could not clearly distinguish pantheism from panentheism, and in most contexts the difference is of little practical significance. This is why the apostate Catholic priest, Matthew Fox, can be an advocate of Eastern thinking while technically holding to panentheism rather than pantheism.

Fox, ordained a Dominican priest in 1967, was dismissed for "disobedience" in 1993 by the Order and upbraided by "Cardinal" Ratzinger, but not for heresy. This was in spite of the fact that he:

• referred to God the Mother (not Father)
• rejected Original Sin
• accepted Native American "spirituality"
• refused to condemn homosexuality
• worked with Miriam Simos, a feminist neo-pagan witch who calls herself "Starhawk" 

In this post the errors of the Eastern pagan worldview will be examined, as well as how it has permeated our Western culture since Vatican II.

The Errors of Pantheism

 There is much wrong with thinking God and the universe are one (or God is in all things). The Vatican Council (1870), infallibly condemned the idea:

"3. If anyone shall say that the substance and essence of God and of all things is one and the same; let him be anathema.

4. If anyone shall say that finite things, both corporeal and spiritual, or at least spiritual, have emanated from the Divine substance; or that the Divine essence, by the manifestation and evolution of itself, becomes all things; or, lastly, that God is a universal or indefinite being, which by determining itself constitutes the universality of things, distinct according to genera, species and individuals; let him be anathema.

5. If anyone does not confess that the world, and all things that are contained in it, both spiritual and material, have been, in their whole substance, produced by God out of nothing; or shall say that God created, not by His will, free from all necessity, but by a necessity equal to the necessity whereby He loves Himself; or shall deny that the world was made for the glory of God; let him be anathema."

In addition, there are four good reasons for the average person to believe pantheism/panentheism to be wrong:

1) The universal amnesia regarding our "divinity" cannot be satisfactorily explained.
If humanity is really "part of the divine," how is it that we are unaware of it? Wouldn't "god" know he is divine? Why does it take some guru, or yoga, or meditation for "god" to realize who he is? How do we account for this "cosmic amnesia"?

2. How does the pantheist know that HE is not the one mis-perceiving reality?
The Eastern pagans claim that Christians who believe in a world external to their senses are caught in the grip of an illusion, because "all is one." How does the pagan know it is we who are deceived by our common sense experience and not himself for thinking that "all is one;" contrary to what reason and sense experience tells us?

3. If pantheism is true, we can never distinguish between fantasy and reality. 
The burden of proof is clearly on the Eastern pagan to tell us why we should abandon our common ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy. We should believe what our experience tells us is true unless or until we have good reason to think otherwise. The pagans reverse this and would have us believe what is counter-intuitive is true despite the lack of evidence. This is absurd.

4. The Eastern pagans reject logic.
D.T. Suzuki wrote in his Introduction to Zen Buddhism  that we "comprehend life only when we abandon logic." In other words, he's trying to convince you with arguments (using logic) that you need to abandon logic--a self-refuting position. It is (for the pagan) logical to be illogical (if your head is spinning--good for you, it's mumbo-jumbo).

Eastern Pagan Worldview Infects The West

1. Education. Many public (and Vatican II sect) schools offer yoga in Physical Education classes. Many programs are used to enhance self-esteem, tell students they have the answers to life "inside them," and they must discover their "inner powers." Even the very popular drug prevention program D.A.R.E. ("Drug Abuse Resistance Education) contains Eastern pagan overtones. In many social studies classes, large amounts of time are spent studying pagan religion, and assignments include "visiting a Hindu or Buddhist temple, and writing about your spiritual experience."

2. Business. The quest for a competitive edge in many businesses is thought by some CEOs and upper management to be connected to increasing employees' "human potential." This potential is often connected to Eastern pagan ideas. Employees must take mandatory workshops. Among such workshops include those conducted by Tony Robbins, the $480 million dollar charlatan/ guru, whose "finding your god-like potential" training contains such claims as improving "your health, your finances, your relationships, your career, your emotions, and your time." His tagline is "unleash the power within." (See tonyrobbins.com)

3. Medicine. Eastern religious ideas wrapped up under the guise of "staying healthy" include Reiki (Bergoglio uses this paganism! See http://introiboadaltaredei2.blogspot.com/2017/12/francis-and-dark-side-of-force.html). Also included are Transcendental Meditation (TM), "aroma therapy," and hypnotism.

4. Media. The Star Wars franchise pushes pantheism. The oft quoted "May the Force be with you," is a blasphemous attempt to replace the True God ("The Lord be with you") with an impersonal energy that binds the universe together. The so-called force may be used to perform seeming miracles such as levitation, moving objects, detecting the presence of various persons, being guided without using your senses, and healing. The force can be used for good or evil ("the dark side of the force"). Although the Force is never called God, those who believe in it and seek to use it are said to be followers of a “religion,” and the teacher of “the ways of the Force” is a 900-year-old “Jedi Master” called Yoda who functions much as a Zen Buddhist master. In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Yoda explains:
"For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter! You must feel the Force around you — here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere — yes, even between the land and the ship."

5. "New Atheists." While Dr. Richard Dawkins hates "supernatural religion," he does not mind "the god of Einstein." When asked if he believed in immortality, Einstein said, "No. And one life is enough for me." In response to a Rabbi’s 1929 telegram, asking specifically, "Do you believe in God?," Einstein replied, "I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." (See Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, (New York: Simon & Schuster, [2007], pgs. 386-390). So while claiming to be an atheist, even Dawkins is open to pagan pantheism!

Conclusion

Eastern paganism is responsible for a totally monist and pantheistic conception of the divinity and the world, because by conceiving of God as a cosmic, impersonal force, it does not admit the idea of creation, and, as a result of Vatican II, these pagan ideas have infected all aspects of Western Civilization. Millions are being deceived. In the document  De Deposito Fidel Pure Custodiendo, Vatican II was originally set to condemn reincarnation and other pagan, Eastern ideas. Roncalli scrapped all the orthodox documents drawn up by the great theologians, and allowed the Modernists to re-write every document for the Robber Council. De Deposito had to be destroyed because it wasn't "ecumenical." It was replaced by the heretical Nostra Aetate. 

That heretical document tells us in paragraph #2, "The Catholic Church (sic) rejects nothing that is true and holy (vera et sancta) in these [pagan] religions. She looks with sincere respect upon those ways of conduct and of life, those rules and teachings which, though differing in many particulars from what she holds and sets forth, nevertheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men." This is the false ecclesiology of Vatican II whereby all religions are more or less good because they "contain some truth." We now have millions of souls heading for Hell as they follow these false sects to their eternal perdition.

The One True Church has always taught, in unison with Sacred Scripture, "No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons." (1 Corinthians 10:20).