Dear Sara:

I applaud your instincts to be compassionate towards other people and to attempt to help them. But, I'm sorry, Sara, I have not misunderstood. I've taken your words, your phrases, your points and responded to them appropriately in my previous post, as I will in this post.

To be quite honest, this post as well as the myriad of posts that you have been submitting after this one, which you are not to do anymore, are so filled with error and misunderstanding and ignorance, that I'm not sure that I have the health, the stamina, the energy, or the wherewithal to answer them all. Instead, I'm going to focus on the previous post and this one, as they form a summary of the trouble that you're getting yourself into.

You are correct that it is the duty of Christians to help others, especially those who are trapped in whatever nightmares that they are in. But, Sara, in order for us to help somebody we must be qualified to help them according to whatever their problems are.

For example, if you come up to a car accident and someone is in medical distress you cannot pretend to be a doctor when you are not. Thus, you cannot help them at a level of which a physician could help them, no matter how much compassion you have for their pain and suffering.

If you know first aid, then that is the level of help that you can give them and nothing more. If you do not know first aid then the only help that you can give them is whatever you might guess at, such as putting pressure on bleeding wound perhaps, and calling 911.

None of us can pretend to be doctors when were not doctors. And if we try to help somebody as if we are doctors we will do more harm than good. We might even kill the person because we do not know what were doing.

Sara, you do not know what you're doing and thus you are not qualified to help this person directly. You can pray for him in the privacy of your prayer closet but that is it. You have zero qualifications to help this person, or especially anyone outside of Christianity.

In order to help someone from another religion, in order to evangelize a person from another religion, one must first be standing firm on the rock of the Christian faith. That is not you. 

You are not standing firm on the rock of your Catholic faith. How do I know this? Well, you're into yoga. Now I understand that many Catholics are confused about yoga. But in addition to this you asked me about whether or not it was okay to continue to do "telepathic evangelization." No one can pretend to know their Catholic faith and even think of the possibility of the telepathic evangelization. The very fact that you think of this shows an utter ignorance of the Catholic faith. It also shows a tremendous vulnerability to be contaminated by Eastern thought, which your narratives show such contamination.

There is a reason why the Church published a "forbidden books" list. The books put on that list are books that would confuse the faithful if the person was not standing on the sure rock of the Catholic faith. Other books were placed on the list because they contain theological nuances in which the average person would not be able to discern and thus become confused. The Church is a good parent. She seeks to protect her children from influences that would lead them astray.

In similar manner, because you are not knowledgeable about your faith concerning these sorts of issues, it is dangerous for you to be involved in inter-religious studies. You simply do not know your faith well enough.

As an absolute proof of your disqualification to participate in this particular type of evangelization are the two thoughts that you have:

First, "Buddhism appears to be a religion of goodness, this of course is not the Truth that does not mean those souls aren't deservant of evangelization or salvation."  Did your priest or did I suggest that these people are not deserving of evangelization? No. We are suggesting that you personally are not qualified to evangelize this man.

Of course all people are deserving to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus himself said that we are to evangelize the entire world. But, that does not mean you in particular.

The Church does not send out just anyone to do evangelization around the world. They have to be properly vetted. They need to be free from mental illness and personality disorders, they need to be properly disposed towards the types of hardships and conditions to be found on the mission field, they need to be trained in the language of the country to which they will be assigned, they need to be trained in the culture of that society, and so on. Most importantly they must be called by God, as determined by the Church, before sent out. Jesus himself trained his Apostles before sending them out.

What I believe your pastor is saying, and what I'm saying, is not that this man or other people like him do not need help or do not need to hear the Gospel. What we are saying is that you are not qualified for the job. Let me count the ways:

• Your participation not only an yoga, but the misjudgment to go on a yoga retreat.
• Your naïveté to think that because this man is a good person, which is not the point, and especially saying that he is "spiritually enlightened." No he is not. He is in spiritual darkness.
• You're thinking of this man "sucked my energy". This is entirely a New Age and/or an Eastern gobbledygook idea. The fact that you seemingly thought this was possible, and that you did not run from this guy immediately, indicates a serious problem.
• You state, "I knew that he was able to read minds and he can also make people do things." Nobody can read somebody's mind, not even Angels and Demons. Only God can read somebody's mind. If you knew your faith, you would have known that. 
• That you think God sent you this retreat. I'm sorry but, no. God would not have sent you do this retreat without preparing you, qualifying you, and you are not qualified.
• Your misplaced compassion because you think he's a good person, and maybe he is, and that he's trying to help people. A witch tries to help people too. These attributes do not mean anything by themselves, and can be used by Satan to trick you, which is obviously what has happened.
• The fact that you think that this man is doing good things, yet you say he's leading souls astray. There is nothing worse than leading souls astray.
• Your statement about what I said about paraphernalia as nonsense. This shows your utter ignorance about spiritual warfare. Demons can attach themselves to that paraphernalia. Since you are not firmly standing on the rock of the Catholic faith, are ignorant of your faith, and have been contaminated by non-Catholics thinking, you are very vulnerable. Becasue of that vulnerability you need to get rid of all that paraphernalia because the devil will use it as an excuse to stay in your life. The fact that you do not know this shows an utter ignorance of spiritual warfare.
• The fact that you think that we are preaching judgment and guilt also shows a complete and total ignorance of the Catholic faith and of spiritual warfare. Sara, you know absolutely nothing about these subjects. 

Your priest and I are trying to protect you. To tell the truth about the errors of Eastern practices, to tell the truth about the dangers of which you are submitting yourself to, is not judgmentalism. If that were the case then Jesus was a very judgmental person.

You need to read the document, the Three Secret Strategies of Satan. In this document you'll learn that the motto, "never judge anyone," is a demonic lie. We are to make judgments. The Bible tells us to make judgments. Jesus tells us to make judgments. The only type of judgments we are not to make is to judge someone to hell, to judge someone's heart, or to judge with double standard or hypocrisy. Neither your priest, nor I, am making those inappropriate judgments. But, we are to judge ideas, philosophies, practices, and behavior.

Second, and the Coup de Grâce of proof of your unstable position as a Catholic is the fact that when your priest, and apparently myself, told you that which you did not want to hear your response was a temptation to leave the Catholic Church. I am glad that you did not leave, but the fact that you are even tempted to leave proves that you are not firmly standing on the rock of your faith and thus you have zero qualifications to be involved with this man in any fashion, or in any evangelization.

Sara, you need to stop this activity, you need to stop studying other religions, and instead you need to spend the next few years learning your own faith. You need to learn the Bible, need to learn the Catechism, before you can even think of doing apologetics or evangelization.

I suggest that you begin with taking the online Bible studies from Scott Hahn. Study the Catechism. Do not interpret the Bible according your own understanding and interpretation, which you have sorely misinterpreted the Bible in your posts. Take these online Bible studies to help you. Focus on learning the Catechism. In doing so you need to do this with a Spiritual Director because, according to the narratives in your posts, you do not seem to have the ability to properly interpret what you read.

In addition, I think I read in one of your many post something about a priest or someone else suggesting that you see a psychologist. I second that recommendation. The many posts that you have submitted, plus the nature of what you say of those posts, suggests a psychological problem. Again, you are not qualified for inter-religious evangelization, study, or offering help if you have any kind of psychological or personality problems. Those must be taken care of, and you must learn your faith, before you can even begin to think of the idea of evangelizing anyone.

In addition, you seem to want to lead with your feelings. That will get you in trouble every time. The Church teaches that emotions must always be guided by reason, and you are not doing that. The first measure of reason is to judge everything according to the teachings of the Catholic Church. To those things that the Church does not specifically offer a document upon we must then understand the principles by which the Church teaches. We must also understand the Catholic worldview. You don't know any of these things.

As for the Charismatic Renewal, it can be a great asset to the Church, but only if they evaluate things according to reason and not to their subjective feelings and emotions, which is what they tend to do. I would suggest that you read the document, Charism Gifts Building Up the Church. That document will give you quotes from popes and bishops, discuss the pros and cons of the Renewal, and list the dangers that the Renewal brings upon itself in what is called Pentecostalisms.

I hope you take the advice of your priest at the heart, as well as the advice I have given you. Be advised that the advice I have given you is based upon more than thirty years experience in spiritual warfare, and also what I have learned from the experiences of many other deliverance counselors and exorcists. You have to understand that we know what were talking about, you do not as proven by your narrative.

If you do not stop these inter-religious activities, no matter how laudable your compassion, and instead do what you need to do, which is to focus entirely upon learning your own faith, you may find yourself in very serious spiritual and psychological trouble.

We will pray for you that you will heed this advice.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary