FIRST READ: The Influence of Eastern Mysticism By Dave Hunt(Occult Invasion
http://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/_PDFArchives/new-age/NA2W0802.pdf.
WHAT IS THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT ABOUT?
http://www3.telus.net/thegoodnews/newage.htm
Exposing the Africa Yoga project : Yoga and Children in War Ravaged Northern Uganda
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2009/12/exposing-africa-yoga-project-yoga-and.html
NEW AGE HUMANISM INVADES AFRICA
http://www.yesumulungi.com/index.php/apostasy-watch/367-secular-humanism-invades-uganda-and-africa.html
New Age medicine Invades Africa: Be ware of Reflexology, Acupuncture and other so called Alternative medicine
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-age-in-health-care-enlarged.html
Happy Science religion amasses followers in Uganda
http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/your-faith/2012-07-13/happy-science-religion-amasses-followers-uganda
Happy Science New Age Occult Religion invades Uganda: Uganda Broadcasting Corporation gives it air space
Happy Science Uganda
http://www.happyscience-uganda.org/
Happy Science is a universal religion open to people of all religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. At the Uganda Temple, we provide our members a space to study the universal teachings of El Cantare.
Becoming A Member
Happy Science welcomes everyone, and becoming a member is very easy. To join there is an application form, and a short welcoming ceremony in which you will be asked, “Do you believe in the Lord?” All will receive the prayer book, “The Dharma of the Right Mind.”
Happy Science is an organization of people who aim to achieve true happiness by deepening and widening their love, and reaching a higher level of enlightenment, based on the teachings (the Truth) taught by Master Ryuho Okawa. By building a wonderful life, we spread our happiness to those around and to society, with the aim of creating an ideal world on earth.
What is Happy Science?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science
Happy Science (幸福の科学 Kōfuku-no-Kagaku?) is a new religious and spiritual movement founded in Japan in October 1986 by Ryuho Okawa. In February 2008, the official English name for the group was changed from the Romanized Japanese Kofuku-no-Kagaku, to the English rendering "Happy Science".
The basic teachings of Happy Science are "Exploration of the Right Mind" and "Principles of Happiness". The latter consists modern Fourfold Path (Love, Wisdom, Self-Reflection, and Progress). Leader Okawa claims to channeled the spirits of Muhammad, Christ, Buddha, and Confucius and claims to be the incarnation of a supreme spiritual being called 'El Cantare' from the 9th dimension of "the spirit world".
Although its teachings are based on the Buddhist foundations of reflection and keeping "Right Mind", it also incorporates modern day prosperity and development in order to improve oneself and society. The teachings, given by founder Ryuho Okawa are said to be "universal" and center on the pluralistic belief that all major religions originated from one source'.
According to Okawa, in order to obtain happiness one must practice the four principles of happiness (Love, Knowledge, Self Reflection and Progress.) Another way obtain enlightenment is through meditation of The Noble Eightfold Path. The only requirement to join Happy Science is that applicants must have "the aspiration and vision to seek the way and contribute to the realization of love, peace and happiness on earth".
HAPPY SCIENCE
http://www.happyscience-uganda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69
Happy Science was established in Tokyo Japan in 1986 and is one of the most influential movements in the 21st century. Our modern and universal teachings has a great and positive influence that reaches all areas of life and society .People from all backgrounds , cultures, professionals and faiths, whether Christian,Buddhist,Jewish,Muslim,Hindu or others , have been attracted to our open movement and unique teachings –Studying together in joy ,harmony and deep-found respect .HappyScience can resolve all the world conflicts and bring love,peace,happiness,and prosperity to the world.
HAPPY SCIENCE CHARITY
http://www.happyscience-uganda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69
Life is full of suffering and hardships.HappyScience is always seeking ways to alleviate these problems through the power of truth. For example we have been conducting and supporting Charity Activities in Uganda.
HappyScience has donated Mosquito nets to schools, Hospitals in Africa (Uganda) to help prevent people from Malaria
Happy Science has donated scholastic materials to school children in Uganda such as books and pens.
Happy science has donated improved seeds of beans and maize to farmers in Uganda districts of Kiboga, Masaka and Mpiji.Happy Science also is passionate about supporting the youth .There is The Golden Age Scholarship to help students financially, so that they can nurture their talents and contribute to a happier world.
The Influence of Eastern MysticisBy Dave Hunt (Occult Invasion, Harvest House, 1998)
http://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/_PDFArchives/new-age/NA2W0802.pdf
There is a growing missionary spirit in Hinduism.... A small army of yoga missionaries isready to go to the West. They may not call themselves Hindu, but Hindus know where yogacame from and where it goes. — (From an editorial in Hinduism Today titled “An OpenLetter to Evangelicals,” by its editor, Reverend Palaniswami, a Hindu monk 1)In 1974, Stanford Research Institute (now SRI), with funds from the Charles F. KetteringFoundation, undertook a study to determine how Western man could be deliberately turnedinto an Eastern mystic/psychic. Directed by Willis W. Harman (who later became presidentof Edgar Mitchell’s Institute of Noetic Sciences), the project was called Changing Images ofMan.
The scientists involved sincerely believed that a turn to Eastern mysticism was theonly hope for human survival. 2The task of persuading the public to accept this new direction fell to one of Dr. Harman’sfriends and admirers, Marilyn Ferguson. She fulfilled her assignment with the publication in1980 of her groundbreaking bestseller, The Aquarian Conspiracy. In it she said:A great, shuddering irrevocable shift is overtaking us... a new mind, a turnabout inconsciousness in critical numbers of individuals, a network powerful enough to bringabout radical change in our culture.
This network—the Aquarian Conspiracy—has already enlisted the minds, heartsand resources of some of our most advanced thinkers, including Nobel laureatescientists, philosophers, statesmen, celebrities... who are working to create adifferent kind of society....The [Eastern mystical] technologies for expanding and transforming personalconsciousness, once the secret of an elite, are now generating massive change inevery cultural institution—medicine, politics, business, education, religion, and thefamily. 3Eastern mysticism has penetrated every area of Western society.
Children’s comicbooks that once offered Charles Atlas courses in body building now advertise courses inmind power, which teach how to control the minds of others. Movies such as the Star Warsand Star Trek series, TV series such as “Kung Fu,” “Highway to Heaven,” and “Touched byan Angel,” and TV cartoons by the dozens (“Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Power Rangers, Mas-ters of the Universe,” etc.) have made Eastern mysticism the normal way of thinking.Across America, YMCAs offer classes in yoga, and churches of all denominations followthe trend.
According to Palaniswami, the editor of Hinduism Today, yoga and other forms ofEastern meditation “were too sophisticated for public consumption 30 years ago, but todaythey’re the hottest item on the shelf.” 4Universities now offer courses in Yoga Psychology; Metaphysics, Hatha Yoga, TheOrigins of Salem Witchcraft, Eckankar, Tarot Card Workshops, Psychic Development andTechniques, Astrology, Self-Awareness Through Self-Hypnosis, and similar subjects. AWashington Post article about a Maryland grammar school was titled “Meditation Comes tothe Classroom,” 5 while the Seattle Times reported that inmates at Walla Walla State Peni-tentiary were learning “stress management” through the regular practice of Hatha Yoga. 6 Anationally syndicated columnist wrote:
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2Instead of singing hymns, they’re sitting in the lotus position chanting “omm” atAmerica’s oldest school of theology [Harvard Divinity School].The Nave’s [school paper] calendar reminds students that March 20 is... “a specialtime to listen to the Buddha and meditate on the perfection of enlightenment....”There’s no mention of Palm Sunday or Passover, reflecting their insignificance at aninstitution where all is venerated, save Western religion....Harvard… is an elite institution, training the next generation of mainline churchleadership. Its degrees are passports to power in the Protestant establishment....Will the last graduating Christian please collect the Bibles and turn out the lights?7The Evangelists of Eastern MysticismHow did this transformation overtake a “Christian” America? The drug movement in the’60s and ’70s opened the West to the cosmic gospel of the invading Eastern gurus. MostWesterners find it difficult to think of these smiling and bowing yogis, swamis, and lamas asmissionaries determined to win us with their mystic gospel.
It comes as a great surprisethat the largest missionary organization in the world is not Christian but Hindu—India’sVishva Hindu Parishad (VHP).Yes, missionary organization. Twenty years ago, in January 1979, at the VHP-spon-sored second “World Congress on Hinduism” in Allahabad, India (attended by about 60,000delegates from around the world), a speaker declared, “Our mission in the West has beencrowned with fantastic success. Hinduism is becoming the dominant world religion and theend of Christianity has come near.” By law, no Christian missionary activity is allowedamong Hindus in India, but Hindus aggressively evangelize the West, and with great suc-cess.
Among the primary goals listed in VHP’s constitution are the following:To establish an order of missionaries, both lay and initiate, [for] the purpose ofpropagating dynamic Hinduism representing... various faiths and denominations,including Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Lingayats, etc. and to open, manage or assistseminaries or centers for spiritual principles and practices of Hinduism... in all partsof the world…. 8Interestingly, the 1979 World Hindu Conference was chaired by the Dalai Lama, whopublicly proclaims tolerance for all religions.
Hinduism and Buddhism infiltrate our society,government, and even public schools as science, while Christianity is banned as a religion.Of all the gurus who have come to the West, none has done more to establish the cred-ibility of Eastern mysticism than Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader in exile ofTibet’s Gelugpa, or Yellow sect, of Mahayana Buddhism. He claims to be the fourteenthreincarnation of the original Dalai Lama, a god on earth with the power to initiate others intotheir own godhood. Here we have again the persistent occult theme of human deificationechoing the serpent’s lie in the Garden of Eden.A Worldwide DeceitAs part of the most massive missionary effort in history—aimed directly against Chris-tianity—every guru who has come to the West (from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to BhagwanShri Rajneesh to Baba Muktananda) was sent here by his guru specifically to win convertsto the Hindu/Buddhist pantheistic faith. Yogananda, for example, founder of the Self-Real-ization Fellowship (SRF) and one of the forerunners of this massive evangelism campaign,
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3personally initiated more than 100,000 disciples into kriya yoga. Maharishi has initiatedmillions into his TM brand of yoga. Yet the missionaries from the East all protest that theyare teaching the science of yoga, health, and higher states of consciousness, not religion.We can register no legitimate complaint against those who seek to persuade others ofwhat they sincerely believe to be important truth. However, they should not lie about theirproduct or their purpose. And that is exactly what the gurus from the East have done.“Yoga” is a Sanskrit word meaning to “yoke,” and its aim is to yoke with the Hindu conceptof God through self-realization: to achieve the enlightenment of realizing that atman, theindividual soul, is identical with Brahman, the universal soul—i.e., that one’s true self isGod.
Yet yoga instructors solemnly swear that yoga has nothing to do with religion, when infact it is the very heart of Hinduism.The magnitude of the deceit is comparable to the Pope claiming that, instead of headinga church, he represents a group of nonreligious scientists. India has banned foreign mis-sionaries since shortly after it gained independence. All the while, India’s missionariestravel the world converting millions to Hinduism and Buddhism while protesting their toler-ance for all religions and denying the religious nature of their mission.There has been much criticism, some of it no doubt justified, of Western missionarieswho have gone to Africa, China, and India with the gospel of Jesus Christ and attempted towesternize other cultures. That goal cannot be justified.
Western culture is not Christianity.In fairness, however, we must ask why there has been little or no criticism of Buddhist,Hindu, and Muslim missionaries who have aggressively pushed their religion and way oflife upon an unsuspecting Western world?Notes:1. Cited in Christianity Today, April 8, 1991, p. 64.2. Copy of confidential report on file.3. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the1980s (J. P. Tarcher, 1980), inside jacket.4. Cited in Christianity Today, April 8, 1991, p. 64.5. Washington Post, May 10, 1990.6. Seattle Times, April 29, 1990.7. Don Feder, “’Omm’ echoes from Harvard,” in Washington Times, April 4, 1994.8. Johannes Aagaard, “Hinduism’s World Mission,” in Update, September 1992.2NAHunt0802
