Lectio Divina is a mystical meditative practice that hijacked the repetitive mantras and mindset of the far east, replacing the words with Scripture, but accomplishing the same thing. It is not Christian meditation which means to think and study and pray (with your mind rather than emptying the mind).
This is an empty, unsubstantiated claim besides being, from the onset, a false and greatly exaggerated understanding of a form of prayer that is quite simple and straightforward.
In a word, lectio divina is “meditating on the word of the Lord day and night”.
It’s lamentable that it has to be presented as anything else.
It’s regrettable that there are websites out there that have twisted lectio divina into something other than what it truthfully is.
Lectio divina is one person sitting with Sacred Scriptures in his hands, reading passages from it, letting the Holy Spirit give him understanding and counsel from God’s word and letting it enter into his heart and mind, that he may better live in the Presence of God.
What a pity that it should be called “repetitive mantra” and “replacing the words of Scripture”.
What a pity that there is lack of discernment to distinguish the true act of Scripture reading and the false use of something that is essentially right and good.
So then what is, by nature, a good thing is called bad.
“An enemy has done this”.
There are indeed times when opinions become nonsense, and worse yet, present falsehoods.