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Hello, I'm Chuck Smith, and I'm Carol Matricciana,
welcome to another edition of The Pagan Invasion. Today an obvious shift in the
religious inclination of Western culture is seen in the fashionable embrace of
popular paganism and Eastern mysticism. Until recently the foundational
establishment of North America and Europe was proud to further such biblical
concepts as faith in a divine supernatural being, his intervention in
creation, and his standards of truth as seen in divine laws of morality. Today
these principles have been replaced with belief in mythology of pagan gods and
goddesses, evolution and shifting values. Prestigious traditional establishments
like the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts, YWCA's and the YMCAs have
included a potpourri of New Age paganism into their programs. Instead of pursuing
their original Christian goals, they now endorsed Buddhist and Hindu rituals such
as Tai Chi and yoga. The promise of power is at the core of paganism, shamanism,
witchcraft, the New Age, and Eastern mysticism. It has been seductively
packaged as human potential and mind science across the nation from
classrooms to corporate businesses. Motivational gurus are being hired by
America's corporate giants to stimulate self-realization and teach their
employees Eastern occultic meditation techniques. While virtually no evidence
verifies increase in productivity or performance, companies such as TRW, Ford
Motor Company, Procter & Gamble, Polaroid, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, IBM, Coca-Cola, to
name but a few, continue to require their employees to participate in occult mental
alchemy and Eastern religious transformation. Pacific Bell, California's
largest utility company, requires its 65,000 employees to learn mind-altering
meditations as part of their employee training program. Most prominent
bookstores now carry rapidly growing and financially lucrative New Age sections.
These books introduce their oftentimes naive readers to occultism, shamanism, and
other pagan practices. Mental health professionals have found it necessary to
organize spiritual emergency support groups to help those overwhelmed by
dangerous occultic encounters. They warn that parapsychological techniques such
as hypnosis, visualization, contact with inner guides, and regression into past
lives can have bizarre and dangerous results. The Psychosynthesis Institute
states that the use of the imagination is one of the most rapidly spreading new
trends in psychology and education. Surprisingly, this powerful form of
primitive occultism has even infiltrated today's mainline churches. Promoted under
the guise of Christian psychology, creative visualization is often
practiced and falsely presented as a biblically acceptable technique. Is there
an organization behind the promotion of this new awakening of the divine
consciousness? Many experts believe that the Hindu Vishva Parishad, an Indian
missionary organization made up of celebrated Hindu religious leaders, is
one of the main motivational thrusts behind today's aggressive pagan
evangelism to the West. We begin our report in India, the headquarters of
Hindu Vishva Parishad. Once a religion for Indians alone, Hinduism has become
radically evangelistic through adopting the principles of Christian missionaries
who introduced cultural and social reforms in India. In 1966, at an
international Hindu conference, leading Hindus planned a strategy to convert
the world.
The gurus were chosen as the first crusaders, and there are tens of millions
of converts are now the first Western Hindus. At the World Congress of Hinduism
in 1979, a spokesman declared that our mission in the West has been crowned
with fantastic success. Hinduism is becoming the dominant world religion, and
the end of Christianity has come near. At the 1981 TM conference in India, a
spokesman stated that the entire mission of TM is to counter the ever-spreading
demon of Christianity. Behind today's aggressive campaign for world Hindu
domination is a secretive organization called the Vishva Hindu Parishad. It is
the world missionary organization of Hinduism. Paragraph four of its
constitution says that its aim is to establish an order of missionaries both
lay and initiate, the purpose of propagating dynamic Hinduism.