Global Spirituality Event and Ken Wilber (The Author Rob Bell Loves!)

If I recommended that you stop everything and take three months to read a new book written by a tin foil-clad cultist who believes he was born on the planet Venus, 10,000 years ago, would it be safe to say that I was enamored with his teachings? If I wrote on my blog recommending the work of a white supremacist and told readers to set everything else aside and take three months to study the material, would it be accurate to think that I like what the swastika-wielding author had to say? I speak the obvious. So why is it, then, that celebrity emergent pastor, Rob Bell, gets a free pass for recommending that people take three months to read a book by occult New Ager, Ken Wilber? I posted about this a while back on Slice.

Mr. Wilber is busy promoting his new global spirituality. Today I received a promotion for his Integral Spiritual Experience event where a new, globally integrated religion is being promoted. You can see that Contemplative Spirituality is a big part of this. (See the photo of Brother David Steindl-Rast as one of the speakers.) Rob Bell, in his book, Velvet Elvis, heartily recommends that readers take three months to read Wilber’s book, A Theory of Everything. (Velvet Elvis, Page 192, Endnote 143) Well, here is what Rob Bell’s author is teaching:

Hundreds of thousands of people around the globe have been touched and inspired by the vision of Integral Spirituality, a spiritual path that can integrate the wisdom and practices of every major spiritual tradition, east and west, with the best of science, philosophy, and psychology, bringing them together in a sophisticated world spiritual philosophy.

Occurring each year over the New Year’s holiday, Integral Spiritual Experience kicks off December 30, 2009 – January 3, 2010 with “The Personal Spiritual Journey – Your Unique Self,” which will guide you through a personal exploration of your unique life and purpose at this particular time in history. As the foundation of the 5-year journey, Year 1 will explore the Unique Self through an integrated prism of perspectives including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, New Spirituality, Integral Psychology and others. We will then help you identify the practices you need to uncover your deepest and truest Self.

So how does a supposed Christian minister of the Gospel end up promoting someone teaching doctrines of demons? (All spiritual paths lead to your highest god-self.) How is it that Bell is the darling of evangelical Christians when he loves the work of Ken Wilber? Something is rotten in the house of God and the stench is getting stronger hourly.



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5 Responses to “Global Spirituality Event and Ken Wilber (The Author Rob Bell Loves!)”

1. glennchristopherson says:

   October 8, 2009 at 3:34 pm

   Perhaps Rob Bell should take 3 months off and read his Bible

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2. truthinator says:

   October 9, 2009 at 6:44 am

   Great idea, Glenn! I think all of the Bhagwans (McLaren, Jones, Bell, Warren, Schuler) should spend some time alone with their Bible and no newage filter to read it through…

   To me, I can clearly see that these guys are seriously off base. They read the Bible at least a little. They filter it through a newage, man-centered, holistic, pantheistic screen however which perverts everything scripture teaches. For a church today to have a Mission Statement or Belief Statement that says they believe the Bible is meaningless. You have to dig into their teaching the see what the really believe.

   You know, it reminds me of Monty Python. They have a skit where they operate a cheese shop but when a customer goes in, there is no cheese to be found…

   These 'modern' guys talk about something called a Bible but they deny the truth taught in the real Bible. For example, I heard Relevant Rick say that sin is what keeps a person from being fulfilled once in a 'sermon'. He was answering a question someone had asked him earlier. He left it at that and went on to another topic. Sin is MUCH more than something that causes you to be unfulfilled. It is this casual treatment and half-truth-telling that will serve to mislead an already perverse and totally self-engulfed generation into the false belief that all is well. I call it 'BroadRoad Bliss'.

   I am glad for Crosstalk and others who expose charlatans. Carry on.

   http://www.truthinator.wordpress.com

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3. chipbayer says:

   October 9, 2009 at 7:46 am

   I have long warned my Christian brethren about the false teachings of Bell. I have been disappointed at the remarkable lack of discernment many have regarding his teaching and amazed at the vicious lengths they will go to in order to defend “their man.”

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4. "reformed" says:

   October 10, 2009 at 8:05 am

   The young, thirty something, puffed-up, Georgia raised, “reformed” pastor of the Southern Baptist church I attended in Delaware recomended on his self-centered blog that Mark Driscoll's books, including “Vintage Jesus” be read. Not one person in this growth oriented mega-church, dominated by Freemasons challenged this. What does this tell you?

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5. "reformed" says:

   October 10, 2009 at 2:05 pm

   The young, thirty something, puffed-up, Georgia raised, “reformed” pastor of the Southern Baptist church I attended in Delaware recomended on his self-centered blog that Mark Driscoll's books, including “Vintage Jesus” be read. Not one person in this growth oriented mega-church, dominated by Freemasons challenged this. What does this tell you?

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