Ex New Ager, Spiritualist and Professional Astrologer, participated in past life regression, astral travel, spirit contact, tarot cards and had spirit guides: Marcia Montenegro is a woman who I highly admire and have loved her resources for years!!!
Marcia Montenegro wrote the following article.
H/T Ron Huggins for info (Dr. Ronald V. Huggins, former professor at Midwestern Baptist Seminary)
So a Christian book’s authors are thanking New Agers and a heretic? The list of names includes thanks to the following:
At least 3 people who had nothing to do with the Enneagram: Evagrius Ponticus from the 4th century and Ramon Llull from the 13th century (see CANA article on No Christian Origins for the Enenagram at end) and Ignatius. The Enenagram as a supposed personality assessment did not even exist until the 1960s.
Occultist Oscar Ichazo (one person whose mother is a former follower and who grew up at Arica where Ichazo had his school called his work the “black arts”)
New Age psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo
Heretic Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr’s student and mentoree, Suzanne Stabile
Several New Agers such as:
Don Riso & Russ Hudson (co-founders of the Enneagram Institute)
Helen Palmer, noted New Age author
+Dr. David Daniels (worked with New Ager Helen Palmer)
Beatrice Chestnut (student of New Agers Helen Palmer and Dr. David Daniels)
Marcia Montenegro of CANA: So a Christian book is admitting the Enneagram is spiritual. But the issue is that it’s not Christian spirituality and cannot be because there is nothing Christian about the Enneagram. The spirituality of the Enneagram has always been occultic and New Age spirituality long before it got into the church. You cannot just slap on a Christian label to make it Christian. Moreover, it has no validity anyway as a personality tool It is a New Age design and like anything New Age that claims to dissect you, has no value, especially for a Christian.
*Sandra Maitri was a member of the first group of students to whom the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo presented the enneagram system in the U.S (Info from Amazon)
**Roxanne Howe-Murphy runs The Deep Living Institute: “I’ve been drawn to the preciousness of this human experiment, to experiencing the Sacred in all that exists, and to exploring the great Mysteries of life. After a substantial period of ‘forgetting who I am,’ I was blessed to reconnect with my deeper guidance and discover both the profound power and practicality of presence.” – Except from her website at http://bit.ly/2yGO5yI
+ Dr. David Daniels: “Essence is that which underlies all external manifestations” — from website at http://bit.ly/2MEY1kv
++ Ginger Lapid-Bogda: “I’m more universal in approach, without an affinity to a particular religious practice. Maybe the closest would be Hindu, and though I’ve been to India and spent time at an Ashram. My spirituality is more like a universal consciousness.” From interview at http://bit.ly/2ZtijkQ
Get the Facts!
The Enneagram Video (9 minutes)
The Enneagram: Gnostic Path to Self
The Enneagram Has No Christian Origins
The Enneagram Authors: What You Should Know and Why
Maybe God is Testing the Church
Stabile and Cron’s podcast with Bolz-Weber
The Enneagram and True Self
Not Just Roots but Rags: The Real Enneagram
The Enneagram Global Summit (A New Age summit where Suzanne Stabile and Chris Heuertz spoke)
Excellent article on the Enneagram by Jill Cristao
Excellent Bob DeWaay expose of the Enneagram books for what they are – not Christian
COMMENTS UNDER MARCIA’S FACEBOOK POST:
Marcia Montenegro: Sandra Maitri was one of Naranjo’s first students — see list in OP. I looked up most of the names and already knew some.
Don Veinot Joy has a copy of Father Mitch Pacwa’s 1992 book, Catholics and the New Age which has a subtitle, “How Good People are Being Drawn into Jungian Psychology, the Enneagram, and the Age of Aquarius” In chapter 4 he talks about it and the claim at the time was that Sufi’s had invented it but kept it a secret until they revealed it to the Western world through Ochazo. It seems as he went through the course at that time part of the process was Yoga and working to empty one’s mind of all thought. “We lay on the floor and imagined that we were burning logs turning into ashes. The goal was to let go of thought and identity and attain, ‘no-mind'” (pg. 98)
Don Veinot In his 1992 book he is trying to warn Catholics about the dangers and occultism in that and other New Age things which were in the Catholic church at that time. Not sure at what point he intersected with Rohr.
Ron Huggins Pacwa writes:
“Bob Ochs, after that course, came and taught it at our theologate, to people like Pat O’Leary from Cleveland, Colly Moloney in Canada, and later on, Gerry Hare who taught Richard Rohr. And I, who’d also taught Richard Rohr the Enneagram (before Gerry Hare taught him)—we began to teach the Enneagram course, and it has spread from these people in that course at the Jesuit School of Theology.”
(Mitch Pacwa SJ. “The Enneagram: Spirituality It Is Not.” (www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=2622).
Marcia Montenegro was a guest on my radio show The Supernatural with Laura Maxwell and her articles have featured on my blog. I HIGHLY recommend you check out her blog and Facebook page below.
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