[UPDATED! Excerpted from the upcoming wholly expanded Second Edition of “The Serpent & the Cross: Religious Corruption in an Evil Age” (publication hoped for in early October). 10-minute read-time]

AS SOON AS YOU DELIBERATELY OPEN YOURSELF UP to an ‘altered state of consciousness’ by seeking experiences that are well beyond your paygrade, you lay yourself wide open to being subject to interference from the powers of darkness. This is something which is not understood if one is not a genuine disciple of Christ. Outside of Old Testament Israel, all religious practices prior to the coming of Christ existed to make people think that getting ‘blissed-out’ and entering an ‘altered state of consciousness’, or inducing some kind of frenzy à-la-whirling-dervish style of ‘ecstatic’ dancing, is the high spiritual pathway, and that same fictitious notion has been passed down to all those engaging in trendy related ‘spiritual’ practices today, such as yoga, meditation, occult rituals, sorcery, ingesting psychotropic drugs (e.g. psychedelic mushrooms, LSD, Ayahuasca) and various New Age ‘therapies’. Thus, until Christ came to earth, the heathen religions were essentially Satan’s ‘babies’, and Old Testament Israel was created by God right in the midst of all that sorcerous paganism.

So, as soon as you start exploring psychic dimensions, entering an ‘altered state of consciousness’, you are opening Pandora’s Box to the demonic realm. All those so-called ‘spirit-guides’, the visits from alleged ‘extra-terrestrials’, those ‘channelled’ discarnate entities telling you they are from other galaxies or dimensions such as the Arcturians, the Anunnaki and the Pleiadeans, who are claimed to continually provide the ‘channellers’ with information about ‘shifts’, ‘portals’, ‘ascensions’, and other assorted aspects of New Age delusions — they are all demonic manifestations posing as ‘angels of light’ designed to ensnare you in the deep things of Satan. It is all devised to distract people from the truth and keep them languishing on a phoney ‘hopium’ featherbed of lies about love, peace and unity, the ‘coming shift’, ‘Golden Age’, or whatever other rainbow-coloured delusion is the flavour of the day in the realm of New-Age-chic.

For the fallen archangel and his cohorts do not come to humans with horns. That is just a sideshow for those who like to engage in dim-witted darkness. The vast majority of the traps and snares of the satanic realm are beautiful on the outside but unclean on the inside. Those who fall into those snares will either be deluded into believing that they are experiencing “love and light” (all the while giving themselves over to the influence of satanic lies and illusions) or they will find themselves spiralling downward into a state of hopelessness and despair, which can even lead to actual suicide (a number of cases of which I am very much aware of).

You may ask, at this point, “Why should it only be demons that are encountered in an ‘altered state of consciousness’?” Good question. It is because you are entering their territory. They exist on a plane that is outside normal human consciousness and they want you in there! They are highly predatory and if they catch you entering their territory, you are giving them free access to your mind, heart, and soul. Even on this earthly plane, the human world is a dangerous place. But when you enter an ‘altered state of consciousness’ or practice ‘channelling’, you are moving into doubly-dangerous territory because that is the plane on which demons have unfettered access to the human mind. Their territory is “the air” and Satan is “the ruler of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2). The “air” there surely refers to the ‘etheric’ envelope in another dimension which is parallel to the atmosphere surrounding the earth. They are spirit and exist on a spiritual plane. The moment you step outside the material plane by entering an ‘altered state of consciousness’, you have surrendered yourself into their hands on their territory, for to enter it would only be done by those who are disobedient toward the ways of God. This is also why Satan is referred to in that exact same verse from the Letter to the Ephesians above as “the spirit now energising those who are disobedient”.

You may find that to be an ‘unnecessarily negative’ view of altered states of consciousness, but the Scriptures make it very clear that Satan and his demonic hordes, after they lost the spiritual battle with the archangel Michael and the unfallen angels in the wake of Christ’s ascension, were “hurled down to the earth” (Revelation 12:9). That cannot possibly mean the material plane (for demons are spirit) but the invisible spiritual plane of this planet, as I said above, what the Apostle Paul referred to as “the air”.

This is why so many world religions and occult sciences want you to enter an ‘altered state of consciousness’ by convincing you that it is for your spiritual benefit. But it is not at all for your benefit but to your detriment, in order to ensnare you in the demonic realm while imagining that you are progressing spiritually — the ultimate neo-Gnostic delusion.

When you enter their territory, those demons do not come at you with horns and goats’ hooves, breathing fire like dragons. They sidle up to you disguised as your helpful ‘spirit guides’, or benign beings from other dimensions or galaxies with seductive words about light and oneness and beautiful things, the subject matter of so much so-called “channelling”, which they love you to do so they can entrap you in their false light, which is like the Anglerfish which uses its light organ to attract its prey. They are the ultimate in a level of deception which none can resist if they have placed themselves at those demons’ disposal and do not exist under the protection of the true Light of the Christ.

Now you may go on to say, “Why wouldn’t I encounter good angels in an ‘altered state of consciousness’?” To which I reply: If you are not bonded with Christ the good angels have no part in your life, for they are His angels (cf. Matthew 26:53). It is as simple as that. Therefore the only entities which someone who is not a disciple of Christ can possibly encounter in an ‘altered state of consciousness’ are demons, which are the fallen angels. The good unfallen angels have only been tasked to minister to those who are Christ’s disciples. As the Sacred Text says, the good unfallen angels are “ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation” (Hebrews 1:14). So I can assure you that if you are not bonded with the true Christ, then any entities which you encounter in an ‘altered state of consciousness’ will be from the realms of darkness.

Added to this, you have no protection if you are not bonded with Christ, because it is not His disciples’ place to attempt to communicate with angels, period. To do so is disobedience. It is not one’s place — whether a disciple of Christ or not — to intrude into the occult dimensions. After all, “the secret things belong to the lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever” (Deuteronomy 29:29). We are living in the midst of a spiritual battle of immense proportions. Such naivety about evil disguising itself as light is not a quality which anyone should possess. This is what has to be considered when talking about ‘altered states’, which is where demons roam waiting for willing prey to intrude into their space. We need to be aware that “the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8).

Then you may say, “So if I become a disciple of Christ can I enter an ‘altered state of consciousness’ and hang out with the good angels?” Most certainly not. You do not need to go to them, for they will come to you, if needed. That is their role: Not to receive you onto their territory but to assist you on yours, if you are Christ’s disciple. The good, unfallen angels will minister to you in whatever way is necessary in your life on behalf of your Master, the Lord Jesus Christ, without you having to do anything. It is not our place to seek out discarnate entities or to try to contact angels. Only those who are ruled by darkness and who are dedicated to the occult would feel the need to do that — to intrude into the forbidden ‘ether’, because they are always on a desperate search for unattainable goals, such as the phoney ‘enlightenment’ promised by their gurus and, because of their extreme ignorance, they are ever-willing to explore forbidden territory in a vain bid to attain them.

When you are Christ’s, your calling is simply to lead a devout life, to do good to all (and especially to those who are your fellow disciples of Christ), to ‘deny yourself’ and live for others, to be diligent, to declare the truth unequivocally in a messed-up world of depravity and evil, to live in a state of constant prayerfulness, to proclaim Christ whatever the cost to yourself, to expose darkness, to familiarize yourself with God’s word in the Scriptures, and to live each day with all the enthusiasm possible as if it is your last. In the midst of all that, you will grow spiritually and become closer to God each day. There is no need whatsoever to enter an ‘altered state of consciousness’ in order to seek out discarnate entities (as the neo-Gnostics do) or to achieve some phoney ‘higher’ level of spirituality (as the mystics and Charismatics do). The desire to enter such states is rooted in misplaced spiritual pride, leading to spiritual suicide and eventual spiritual shipwreck.

If one does not metaphorically cling onto Christ’s robe in humility during the raucous ride of this life — living out the words which are in bold in the previous paragraph — but instead strives to live in a consciousness-altered fog of hypnotic suggestion with a wholly dodgy subjective experience as one’s only yardstick, one leaves oneself wide open to demonic deception and gullibility of immense proportions. This is where we are at in both the visible church and in the world today: Discernment is dying the death while deception unashamedly boasts of its discoveries.

Here ends the Excursus on the dark consequences of deliberately entering ‘altered states of consciousness’. Now to return to the main text.

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[Excerpted from the upcoming wholly expanded Second Edition of “The Serpent & the Cross: Religious Corruption in an Evil Age” (publication hoped for in early October). 10-minute read-time]

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