[Collective Evolution]: Most people who have dabbled in New Age circles will recognize the name Doreen Virtue. She was a well-known channeller of what she considered Angelic entities, and was an author of many books and oracle/divination cards.
Virtue had an experience of Jesus in an Episcopal church in early 2017, and says she has given up the angels, divination cards and has turned away from the New Age movement itself. She is no longer promoting or selling her earlier books via her website, and has had her name removed from products like angel cards as much as possible. These cards are still being sold by online outlets such as her former publisher Hay House.
Virtue’s newly reconfigured website now espouses Christianity as the true path, Jesus as the only true savior, and the Bible as the incontestable authority of truth itself in the spiritual realm. In a post on her website from earlier this year entitled ‘An A-Z List of New Age Practices to Avoid, and Why,’ Virtue takes it upon herself to explain the hidden dangers of practices that she attributes to the New Age and why we should stop practicing them.
It takes humility and wisdom to recognize that there are many paths to the One, which support the kind of personal growth and evolution that we are looking for. Different individuals will benefit from different paths, Christianity certainly being one of them. But believing one’s own practice is the only true path to salvation is dangerous; indeed, this belief is the foundation of most of the world’s major conflicts.
One would think that this experience would demonstrate to Doreen Virtue that a naive certainty about her beliefs founded on her spiritual experience should be tempered with discernment. However, all she has changed is the belief itself. She remains certain that she is in touch with the truth about the spiritual world, now through Jesus and Christianity. Her certainty is founded on a spiritual experience she had of Jesus. Her certainty about angels was also founded on spiritual experiences she had. So why is she not questioning her newfound certainty on the basis of how wrong she says her past perception turned out to be?
It is a question of personal responsibility. Doreen Virtue does not seem to acknowledge that she is responsible for what she has created in her life. She does not seem to connect the level of vibration of the entities she was contacting with her own level of vibration. She is not looking within herself to see why things have not worked out the way she wanted, preferring to say that ‘The New Age left me broke and broken, and I don’t want anyone to repeat these mistakes that come from the devil’s deceptions!’
In the above quote she is pointing the finger claiming that the New Age is responsible for her ending up ‘broke and broken,’ not her own creations, choices, or lack of discernment. In essence, she does not take personal responsibility for her life being as it is, preferring to blame her fate on the demons she was fooled by. And now, she continues to reach outside herself for personal salvation, believing that the only path to salvation is an adherence to the Bible....read more>>>...
