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Is satan in the eye of the beholder ... scary --- whattayahthink !

To: Aquinasfan

Catholics and the New Age: How Good People Are Being Drawn into Jungian Psychology, the Enneagram, and the Age of Aquarius, by Fr. Mitch Pacwa.

I'm kind of a natural skeptic of paranormal stuff and tend to err on the side of disbelief... but that may be because I tend to ignore it out of abject fear although it does fascinate me. I purchased "Beware the Night" by Ralph Sarchie a couple of years ago and started reading it one night when I got home from work. I got to about page 17 and put it away and could never touch it again. I can barely look at it - even the cover! I have Fr. Amorth's two books and I also have Malachi Martin's "Hostage to the Devil" - all of them untouched although I am dying to read them. I do have St. Benedict medals with me at all times.

A few times as a youth I went to tarot card readers... I never felt comfortable with them although I didn't at that time know that Catholics are not supposed to have truck with them. I have to admit that both times the reader (two separate ones) told me things that had happened and things did come to pass - and scared the hell out of me although I didn't know why at the time. I would never, ever go to a tarot card reader again and I tell people to stay away from them.

The closest I have come to seeing evil (I believe) is one time I went to this seminar at my parish with a priest and nun teaching about centering prayer and enneagrams. When I was leaving, the nun turned towards me and held out her hand and I looked into her eyes and the hairs on my body felt like they were standing on end... she had these eyes that you could fall into and get lost - they were eternity is the best way I can describe them... it was weird and very scary. I had to look away and I did not shake her hand. It was one of those moments that you just knew something and I was unnerved for the rest of the day. I can still see her eyes - kind of like the eyes that some cats have.

71 posted on 10/31/2003 7:45 AM PST by american colleen