New Age face for an Old Religion

http://www.christiananswersforthenewage.org/

Discern It--Crisis in the church

Contemplative Spirituality – A belief system that uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness (the silence), and is rooted in mysticism and the occult, but often is wrapped in Christian terminology. The premise of Contemplative Spirituality is Pantheistic (God is All) and Panentheistic (God is in All).  – Lighthouse Trails Research

http://kimolsen.wordpress.com/2007/07/04/crisis-in-the-church-part-3-the-new-age-contemplative-spirituality/

 

Pomp and Ceremony of Listening Prayer/Contemplative Prayer rituals

A religion of externals is attractive to the unrenewed heart. The pomp and ceremony of the Catholic worship has a seductive, bewitching power, by which many are deceived; and they come to look upon the Roman Church as the very gate of heaven. None but those who have planted their feet firmly upon the foundation of truth, and whose hearts are renewed by the Spirit of God, are proof against her influence. Thousands who have not an experimental knowledge of Christ will be led to accept the forms of godliness without the power. Such a religion is just what the multitudes desire. {GC 567.2}

Ellen White mentions....

Evil angels are around us trying to invent a new way to destroy us. The Lord would lift up a standard against him (the devil). We must take the shield of faith.   Washington, N. H., September, 1852. {SpM 4.2}

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listening_Prayer

 

Last paragraph

Listening Prayer helps avoid Witchcraft Prayer where prayer is used to control God or others. Jesus gave us the "Our Father" where it is said "Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." Luke 11:2.

 

 

"Listening Prayer is dangerous" -news.google.com/newspapers

May 6, 1999 - The final kind of prayer I would mention here is a "listening" prayer. This is very dangerous. In the prayers where we are doing the talking, we are in control. Listening prayers are the times when we ask God to speak to us. Of course, we don't have to pay attention to what God might ...
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Found this on Yahoo Answers. Is Listening Prayer biblical?

Well is it?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjTVd3UVEDEFZet5AaLWwTcjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20090920015025AAjD8oU

 

Be ALERT !

Thomas Keating

Breath Prayers

Glossary of terms of Listening Prayer

contemplative prayer(aka listening prayer)
centering prayer (aka listening prayer)
my soul waits in silence
breath prayer
quiet prayer
scripture/Mantra
lectio divina
be still
creative visualization
breathing exercises
listen for that still small voice
guided imagery
inhale scripture
exhale scripture

THIS IS A GROWNING LIST AS WE CONTINUE TO RESEARCH AND LEARN

Stop talking to God, shut up and listen........

.....he said, if I could only come up with a way to get those followers of Christ to stop talking to Him long enough for them to hear me.    Satan

Redefining Prayer

Listening Prayer is not praying.
Listening Prayer is listening, listening for what, is open to discussion.
Listening Prayer is a new name for Centering Prayer.
Centering Prayer is not praying.
Centering Prayer is a new not so new name for Contemplative Prayer.
Contemplative prayer will lead you to the Cloud of Unknowing.
Contemplative Prayer is a not so new name for Zen Meditation.
Zen Meditations roots dig deep in the history of Buddism.

Zen Meditation is not prayer, it is the way to enlightenment.
Listening Prayer will lead you to the way of enlightment.