We recently received an email from a reader whose friend, a practicing Catholic, was becoming involved with Rebecca Campbell’s Mystery School. Is this okay for Catholics?
No, it is not.
Rebecca Campbell, a best-selling writer, refers to herself as a channeler, mystic, medicine person, and spiritual teacher who is very much involved in the occult. Unfortunately, her mystery school teaches others how to do the same while pursuing an esoteric goal of developing “a deep and direct relationship with spirit and the wisdom teachings of this planet.”
On her website, she claims to have been guided to see the sacred in nature by working with the spirit guides of nature who showed her how to connect with ancient wisdom teachings.
Through her books and the Inner Temple Mystery School, she promises to help students activate their spiritual gifts and learn how to channel. They will also be taught how to use divination tools such as channeling, scrying, kything (the act of spiritually communicating with an object) and saining (similar to smudging). Students will discover the world of plant and water consciousness, the use of altar work and other rituals, as well as activations and soul journeying. Campbell claims these methods can help students receive “deep cellular healing and heal your ancestral lines.”
I could go on and on, but does any of this sound Christian to you?
I thought so.
Channeling spirits is one of the most dangerous items on Campbell’s list. Channeling occurs when a medium contacts an alleged deceased person or angelic being and allows that spirit to communicate through her to others.
As described in the document, Jesus Christ the Bearer of the Water of Life, channeling is one of the most common elements in New Age spirituality. “People recognized as ‘mediums’ claim that their personality is taken over by another entity during trances in a New Age phenomenon known as ‘channeling,’ during which the medium may lose control over his or her body and faculties. Some people who have witnessed these events would willingly acknowledge that the manifestations are indeed spiritual, but are not from God, despite the language of love and light which is almost always used. . .”
As the document goes on to state, channelers such as Campbell refer to these unnamed spirits as “guides, entities, energies, and beings” which supposedly exist “in every octave of the universe…” from which the channelers “pick and choose.”
Guess who’s masquerading behind these fanciful labels?
In Campbell’s case, she claims to have channeled four books and six oracle decks (cards used for divination purposes). The creation of her Inner Temple Mystery School Accreditation Training courses, a nine-month training program costing $2500 US, was received in a vision and was perfected after spending several years working with her spirit guides and ancestors.
As the Catechism teaches that all forms of divination are to be rejected, including “horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums. . .” (2116)
All of these practices “conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.”
Christians should have nothing to do with Rebecca Campbell’s teachings.
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