Yoga is the work of the devil, says Vatican's chief exorcist (and he doesn't like Harry Potter much either)

• And you'll never guess what his favourite film is...

By NICK PISA
UPDATED: 12:50 EST, 25 November 2011

Father Gabriel Amorth has carried out more than 70,000 exorcisms in his capacity as Chief Exorcist at the
Vatican.
The 85-year-old can boast 25 years in the post after being appointed by the late Pope John Paul II.
At a conference today, he surprised the delegates by revealing some of his greatest dislikes - yoga and Harry Potter.
Father Amorth, a colourful and often outspoken personality, said:'Practising yoga brings evil as does reading Harry Potter. They may both seem innocuous but they both deal with magic and that leads to evil.'
He added:'Yoga is the Devil's work. You thing you are doing it for stretching your mind and body but it leads to Hinduism. All these oriental religions are based on the false belief of reincarnation.'
Father Amorth, speaking on the subject of People And Religion at a fringe event at the Umbria Film Festival in Terni, spoke of his distaste for JK Rowling's young wizard.
He said:'People think it is an innocuous book for children but it's about magic and that leads to evil. In Harry Potter the Devil is at work in a cunning and crafty way, he is using his extraordinary powers of magic and evil.

 




















Satan is always hidden and the thing he desires more than anything is for people to believe he does not exist. He studies each and everyone of us and our tendencies towards good and evil and then he tempts us.

'My advice to young people would be to watch out for nightclubs because the path is always the same: alcohol, sex, drugs and Satanic sects.'

It is not the first time that Father Amorth has raised eyebrows with his forthright views - last year he said that the ongoing child sex scandals rocking the Catholic Church were evidence that 'the Devil was at work in the Vatican.'

While in 2006, Father Amorth, who was ordained a priest in 1954, gave an interview to Vatican Radio in which he said that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Russian dictator Josef Stalin were both possessed by the Devil.
According to secret Vatican documents recently released the then wartime Pope Pius XII attempted a 'long distance exorcism' of Hitler but it failed to have any effect.

It is also not the first time that Father Amorth, who is president of the International Association of Exorcists, has spoken out against Harry Potter saying in the past that it opens children's minds to dabbling with the occult and black magic

Today Vanda Vanni, of the Italian Yoga Association, said:'A Satanic practice? Pardon the pun but that is an accusation that is neither in Heaven or on earth. Father Amorth's accusation is completely without foundation.

'It is an outrageous thing to say - yoga is not a religion but a spiritual discipline. It is about freedom and a search to find one's inner self. It does not touch religion and has nothing to do with Satanic sects nor does it encourage people to join them.

Giorgio Furlan, who runs the Yoga Academy in Rome, said`:'There are some paths of yoga which do lead towards Hinduism but other paths are more philosophical but their is no direct link with religion and certainly no link with Satanism.

'To say such things shows you have no idea of what you are talking about - yoga controls violent impulses of the nervous system and subconscious - to be honest with me it had the effect of bringing me closer to Christianity and in particular the Catholic Church which I had abandoned as a youngster.

Horrific: Satan at work in the 1973 film starring Linda Blair which is perhaps unsurprisingly Father Amorth's favourite film

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A Game Of Long Time Past. Surreal Proves To Be Real!! How Scary

The temptation of the lies,

I watched and then I cried,

as the ripped away at my sides,

I stood and didn't die!

How easily a narcissist creates,

what they need and never gave.

Lessons in a cover-up,

no truth was taught, umbrella bought,

as lights shone in their Home.

Publicly they trend,

to UN-do your mend.

Speaking half-truths so this may end,

just to attack me once again.

Hidden Men, lurking women!

a driven madness from the begin.

Confessions made from a Member then,

"I followed you for them!"

Scary thoughts, of this I knew,

when I caught the first glimpse of you.

Difference lies in Truth he Told,

made me know I wasn't old.

I was a Teen

It is Something to wonder WHEN!!

It is Something to SEE back THEN!!
But the reality of such a claim,
makes you know;
It was all so Insane.

Should I have asked the question back in the day,

I would have been beaten for what you say.

~

Thank you for telling Me what You did.
It is appreciated and a very long time coming!

7/13/2011

Ambient Abuse

Ambient abuse is the stealth, subtle, underground currents of maltreatment that sometimes go unnoticed even by the victims themselves, until it is too late. Ambient abuse penetrates and permeates everything - but is difficult to pinpoint and identify. It is ambiguous, atmospheric, diffuse. Hence its insidious and pernicious effects. It is by far the most dangerous kind of abuse there is. 

It is the outcome of fear - fear of violence, fear of the unknown, fear of the unpredictable, the capricious, and the arbitrary. It is perpetrated by dropping subtle hints, by disorienting, by constant - and unnecessary - lying, by persistent doubting and demeaning, and by inspiring an air of unmitigated gloom and doom ("gaslighting"). 

Ambient abuse, therefore, is the fostering, propagation, and enhancement of an atmosphere of fear, intimidation, instability, unpredictability and irritation. There are no acts of traceable explicit abuse, nor any manipulative settings of control. Yet, the irksome feeling remains, a disagreeable foreboding, a premonition, a bad omen. 

In the long term, such an environment erodes the victim's sense of self-worth and self-esteem. Self-confidence is shaken badly. Often, the victim adopts a paranoid or schizoid stance and thus renders himself or herself exposed even more to criticism and judgment. The roles are thus reversed: the victim is considered mentally deranged and the abuser - the suffering soul. 

There are five categories of ambient abuse and they are often combined in the conduct of a single abuser: 

Inducing Disorientation 

The abuser causes the victim to lose faith in her ability to manage and to cope with the world and its demands. She no longer trusts her senses, her skills, her strengths, her friends, her family, and the predictability and benevolence of her environment. 

The abuser subverts the target's focus by disagreeing with her way of perceiving the world, her judgment, the facts of her existence, by criticizing her incessantly - and by offering plausible but specious alternatives. By constantly lying, he blurs the line between reality and nightmare. 

By recurrently disapproving of her choices and actions - the abuser shreds the victim's self-confidence and shatters her self-esteem. By reacting disproportionately to the slightest "mistake" - he intimidates her to the point of paralysis.

Incapacitating

The abuser gradually and surreptitiously takes over functions and chores previously adequately and skillfully performed by the victim. The prey finds itself isolated from the outer world, a hostage to the goodwill - or, more often, ill-will - of her captor. She is crippled by his encroachment and by the inexorable dissolution of her boundaries and ends up totally dependent on her tormentor's whims and desires, plans and stratagems. 

Moreover, the abuser engineers impossible, dangerous, unpredictable, unprecedented, or highly specific situations in which he is sorely needed. The abuser makes sure that his knowledge, his skills, his connections, or his traits are the only ones applicable and the most useful in the situations that he, himself, wrought. The abuser generates his own indispensability.

Shared Psychosis

The abuser creates a fantasy world, inhabited by the victim and himself, and besieged by imaginary enemies. He allocates to the abused the role of defending this invented and unreal Universe. She must swear to secrecy, stand by her abuser no matter what, lie, fight, pretend, obfuscate and do whatever else it takes to preserve this oasis of inanity. 

Her membership in the abuser's "kingdom" is cast as a privilege and a prize. But it is not to be taken for granted. She has to work hard to earn her continued affiliation. She is constantly being tested and evaluated. Inevitably, this interminable stress reduces the victim's resistance and her ability to "see straight". 

Abuse of Information 

From the first moments of an encounter with another person, the abuser is on the prowl. He collects information. The more he knows about his potential victim - the better able he is to coerce, manipulate, charm, extort or convert it "to the cause". The abuser does not hesitate to misuse the information he gleans, regardless of its intimate nature or the circumstances in which he obtained it. This is a powerful tool in his armory. 

Control by Proxy 

If all else fails, the abuser recruits friends, colleagues, mates, family members, the authorities, institutions, neighbours, the media, teachers - in short, third parties - to do his bidding. He uses them to cajole, coerce, threaten, stalk, offer, retreat, tempt, convince, harass, communicate and otherwise manipulate his target. He controls these unaware instruments exactly as he plans to control his ultimate prey. He employs the same mechanisms and devices. And he dumps his props unceremoniously when the job is done. 

Another form of control by proxy is to engineer situations in which abuse is inflicted upon another person. Such carefully crafted scenarios of embarrassment and humiliation provoke social sanctions (condemnation, opprobrium, or even physical punishment) against the victim. Society, or a social group become the instruments of the abuser. 

 Cliques of Bullies 

Of course, ambient or stealth abuse and manipulation can exist in the context of any kind of relationship and intimacy whatsoever. However, sly abuse of power and underhanded manipulation, with bizarre paranoid malicious gossip and all manner of Sadistic instigators and their eager and foolish proxy pawns, are only all the easier given distance, even shunning and social isolation as experienced by targets of relational bullying and harassment, scapegoats, dissidents and whistleblowers. 

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_ambient_or_stealth_abuse

A Breeze To Be Me

In the furthest most reach of this galaxy,

a universal breeze blows ever so gently.

To breath in the air of the calmness of such beauty,

I rest.

The explosion of a Star,

bursts into a fiery spread of suns in the distance.

The developing moons are ancient in construction.

I move to know my fear,

so I may know myself.

Bursting at the seams of these Mortal Boundaries,

I yearn for more of the abundance that Nature gives so freely.

Without hesitance, I accept,
 that I build a Life,
One day at a time.

The Anger Within Reveals, I've been.

An Atrocity?!!?

I passed away.

As not to succumb or be,

 in the way of Country,

 whom tossed and blew Human Beings onto.....,

I speak.

Intimidation can be strong.

It often pushes back.

Do you want to be whom stood?

Or be whom saw and balked?

Regardless of your sight-full wound,

it is the ones we cannot see.

Those Injuries that bleed us dry,

that requires such surgery.

There is no drug,

no doctor's knife,

to cut this Wound from Us.

But for Reasons;

I believe,

it may bring....

 "Unique" 

to Trust.

However hard.

Whatever scene!

In that Movie that is played,

the one that rounds your mind.

It seems to play,

 in equal time,

to rate the Play in You!!

To be Afraid?

Or just to Fear....

the Sight of Disbelief.

A Natural State Affair!!!

This is not "Bust"

nor a fix.

It could just be,

 "What is"

P.T.S.D.

is not for ME!!

I'm sure I Volunteered. 

"To SURVIVE?"

Regardless,

"Hi!"

I'm here to remember..... 

"All of Thee?"

Belittle this or make this less,

than what......

 ! THIS REALLY IS !

You will find,

nightmares get worse,

 and cures elude your Mind.

The interest in,

or,

the research of,

Post Traumatic Stress

Inferred.

Survival of our Minds!

Our Souls!!

Let alone,

our Bodies hold.

Not a Primary Goal.

So, as it grows,

Suicide that is...

no-one seems to...

 !! "NO" !!

! WAKE-UP OLD-Soul !

Wake Your-Self!?! 

just to know....

...,  your value is untold !!

!! But !!

Take your life? 

You'll cause us strife.

!! Confusion not yet told !!

I've see what is.

For snuffed I was...

stuck staring at myself.

Just a Girl.

Not three-feet in length...

I worry myself....still.

To understand the acts of man,

I wonder why I am.

Jumped back in,

my coldest-Self,

took off that bag of fear.

For what I saw,

and why I jumped,

I'm selfish, not "A Dear."

This "Thing,"

it streamed behind my neck,

   !!! I'd missed my ride from here !!!

So...

I did jump back in Myself,

gasped for breath to be.

Now stuck with YOU!!

but gone straight through.

"This RAGED in ME for YEARS" 

A Child I was,

so close to be....out of this Mess....

 .... of Humanity!

How can I not,

look back at "Tot,"

and wish for any other lot?

"Throw the Bones"

....than to Escape,

and become,

any other thing,

that's been.

But, I am,
 what has been.

And, I was born to be,
 "A Sage" and "A Seer"

I have the ability
"To Know."

A Natural Knowledge,
"To Answer."

It is,
The Why,
which eludes me.

James Blunt - I Don't Believe It

I Don't Believe (It)

I don't believe in what they say,
I don´t believe in the morals the set
cause I believe I don´t have to regret,
Whatever happens when we have met,

And can't you see that you are stuck,
in this poor world where life is luck,
and no one really gives a damn,
what you want or who I am.

And, oh I think I've had enough,
Your attitude is really rough.
stop getting high on all this shit,
you can't hide in the corner to escape,
from it

Oh, I can't see whay I should,
carry on not understood.
By moralistic people who,
don't believe in what I do.

You seem to think that you are free,
living in democracy,
but the other people all around,
will talk about you, and put you down.

And, oh I think I've had enough,
their attitude is oh so rough.
Let's quit this moralistic crap,
leave me alone and get off my back.

Well, the image conscious who reject me,
have their rep but they're not free.
Setting standards for a show,
but do they live life,
oh no.

They talk about being cool,
stick like sheep, and play the rules.
You've heard their morals and you agree,
stuck with them and not with me.

I don't believe in what you said.
I don't believe in promises
But I can believe you let me down.
lovin' life over now.

Over now, over now, over now.

I don't believe in what they say,
I don't believe in the morals they set.
Cause I believe I don't have to regret,
Whatever happens when we have met.

And can't you see that you are stuck,
I this poor world where life is luck.
And, no one really gives a damn,
what you want or who I am.

And, oh I think I've had enough,
your attitude is really rough.
Stop getting high on all this shit,
you can't hide in the corner to escape,
from it
from it.

A Progressive Thought, is an Atheist Thought?

Releasing the bind of our relations upon this Earth to envelope that which may have come before our existence here....... may allow us to interest ourselves in what has been lost and/or destroyed for the sake of modern day religion and the success thereof.  

Much of what seems to remain unknown to us due to the lack of our ability to translate old text, may have contained answers for today's lack of Innocent Faith.

In order to maintain structure in any civilization or society, there must be a Main Vein of driven mentality for the sake of growth and prosperity.

Who will process the Laws that dictate the Belief at Hand?

Is religion what sustains this type of understanding?  If so, is a Pagan or is Paganism accepted in it's whole or rejected as being not worthy, or, of the quality to be a Self-sustaining belief, recognized as such and in turn considered for measurement against the standards put forth today and in the most recent past?  

It has been such in my life, that even the entertainment of such a concept as a Spiritual Belief, has been rejected out-of-hand, threatening the balance of popular belief, i.e. Christianity.

A Quote from a person in my past.

"Progressive Thought is an Atheist Thought."

I do not believe that this is true.  How about YOU??

For The Wisdom Of Sake

In the Worth of your Mind;

A suggestion.

Be kind to Yourself.

Be Wise and Prudent in such an act.

Avoid a miserable demise,

in a life full of lies.

To practice Candor with One's Self,

is a Peaceful Approach.

A desire to Think with Independence,

to Structure your Mind,

creates a Foundation of Strength.

 Jurisprudence

Blindness to the Progression of Thought,

will deliver only Bought.

Develop a Broader View.

Know your Measure!

Seed your Understanding,

 with a Balance of Acceptance.

Thoughts of Difference,

create a Singular Mind, 

of "Matters."

To cause a rift in the tides of the rivers that flow with no philosophical mind,

is to fight the pen delivering this ink to write with.

Where are the lessons of life recorded?

Are there only Commands to be followed?

Is it only in the study of Old that you can even find the Theory of Philosophy in Thought?

Is it only in the rule of religious law that such messages are taught of Historical plight?

Let alone sought. As it seems past history of such things has all but disappeared.

Do you not fear, a life so near, that speaks with no breath to announce our end?

A silent passing to a place that today's mindless faith has no question as to how.

~ or ~

What to do if?  

Believe? or even think? should the next move come in less than a blink.

To never consider the action,

or the act to bring to Conscious Thought and Practice Of,

 the reality that death will bring to you the finality of your existence in this place,

is simply ignorance of the next.

For in this very idea or lack-thereof,

neither must be and yet, both are a reality to me.

The stubborn persist of a stoic mind.

A Philosophical Thought Of Natural Ability

Where do you believe that All of the Knowledge rests when the wisdom to seek-out or define an existence of no traditional explanation has come to be naturally?

A Natural Capability to define Knowledge Itself as the ability to know, without reason.  Sounds like a peaceful design of a thought with structure, not being taught.

To cast-aside the Gift to Know, with an Answer to Question, "The Why," completes itself only in the Mindful Acceptance of what seems to be given Naturally without thinking.

An explanation of a Strange Delivery in the Streaming of Conscious Mind in a Pensive Thought, brings to an end a need to Obtain, only learning would remain. 

Does this "Natural Knowledge" or "Ability to Know without Knowing" deliver a message from Mother Nature on how to explain where I've been, without the damage from then, destroying you yet again.

To Explain to Ones Self, your History of "Not so Nice!" One must delve-into or be patient enough "to know," it will work itself to an end, delivering a proper or a moral appeal for help.

To Come to Be Naturally, would be the result of Grave Deprivation or the Threat to One's actual Life of "Breath in Death."

A Master's Voice

The length of leather in coat,

announces a Master's place of choice,

not Yoke.

No dare for Sir's of Dungeons or Lairs,

just respect of what was there.

A Mastery of the Oldest Art,

is what I remember from the start.

Proclaiming sound in Voice of Oral Writ,

I tend to follow no particular script.

Attune to only what I've seen,

my childhood is more than what it seems.

Men of Wares, Men of Means,

gave to me, simply everything.

Taught me right, showed me wrong,

an Education for the strong.

I was a Girl in a fight,

to survive each and every night,

Very few can delight,

in a life of such a plight.

Gratitude fills me still,

for the Men who gave from then,

a defense, a way to mend,

from the Nightmares of my begin.

Does Ignorance Direct To Deceive?

To be without the Gift of Sight.

I wonder why.

To even imagine that you are unable to look beyond yourselves,

causes sadness inside of Me.  

Deplored!!

How plain Life would be.

To not Imagine or Ponder Upon,

the View of sights so far gone or ago,

being restricted to a Singular Plane or Breath,

causes the pain that I have experienced,

to be no-more

Than A Bump In The Road.

To be Inhibited,

to be Unaware to explore the beyond,

Understand the Past or Be in a Multiple Series of Today to See Tomorrow

~

would cause such dismay.

How could you or one decide anything?

I cannot imagine not being able to See.

The very thought would cause Blindness in me to this World of Need.

I would rather detach myself from Humanity to stay intact,

than to imagine that the Gift of Sight,

is not common-fare. 

Fright!!

Without an Inner-Eye to decide,

your Words would have no Leverage.

How CAN you stand to Direct,

if you don't have the Internal Intellect to know.

Dishonesty at such a Declare,

would be the Fallacy of Man Itself.

Why would you take the Lead,

if you could not See to Be?

I question all I see so naturally.

The Impact of Change,

is the destination of,

 Forever in Timeless Scene Of Amaze Me.

To Question with Answer,

is to Answer without Question.

The Epitome of My Life.

To Allow What Was, to be, Is The Wisdom To See A Greater Purpose Than Me

To come to this place with a Message intact,

is not unlike saying,

"I know that."

I close my eyes to See the Skies that delivered me into the arms of stay.

Pressure mounted each and every day.

Years have rolled on in my life,

regardless of the strife.

I have had to see and do,

before I could be Wise enough to act.

The crisis of the division in what has been, 

and what is, and, why:

Fascinates!

Then I cry.

Rarely do I speak-out on,

the subject of 

"A Life With Purpose."

I am met with friction,

Mindless Doubt, Criticism and Filth.

To Presume,

is a learned behavior.

To Be,

is a practiced one.

In this World of Now,

belief in "A Sage" exists.

"A Seer," 

is older than all of this.

I claim only what I know,

I speak with Words Of Old though.

Rarely do we obtain a view 

of such a sorted action as all of You.

Performance in Life?

Why?

To be what you are naturally, is not a Test,

or, is it?