Did you know that a group of evangelical Christians is secretly plotting to take over America? They have been working quietly so far, but they are gaining enough strength that their leaders are coming out into the open. If not opposed, these conspirators could soon be guiding much of the U.S. government and influencing its [...]

A Summary Critique: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 1993) Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 1992) Today’s most influential and esteemed spokesperson for the $30 billion-a-year business of alternative/New Age medicine is Deepak Chopra, M.D., president of the American Society of Ayurvedic [...]

This Present Darkness is a novel about how a few Christians fight for the soul of a small town named Ashton that is being taken over by a conspiratorial form of the New Age movement. Author Frank Peretti expands the reader’s perspective of the fight beyond just the human level to the spiritual — where [...]

The problem of New Agers at­tempting to proselytize or influ­ence children has become so rampant that it is no longer sufficient for authors to devote sections or chapters of books to it — entire books are needed on this sub­ject alone. The first respectable book to appear on this comes from Berit Kjos, a Nor­wegian-American [...]

This short book, currently riding near the top of the bestseller lists, skillfully presents nondualistic Hinduism (pantheistic monism) in the perennially popular genre of American self-help literature. Whereas 20 or 30 years ago the self-help genre was dominated by the liberal Protestantism of the Norman Vincent Peale variety, books on personal success today typically frame [...]

The title to Vice President Al Gore’s book — Earth in the Balance — is based on an illustration used by the White House for a 1990 conference on the environment. The illustration depicts a balance with the earth on one side and six gold bars on the other. Gore interprets the illustration to mean [...]

The first good Christian book on the New Age movement is still at the top of my list. Unmasking the New Age is an amazing work in that in 194 pages it covers virtually every relevant submovement and trend within this far-flung movement, and addresses every major question it raises for Christians. After providing a [...]

Sadly, the author of this important book — a former New Age leader — is no longer with us. He was killed on May 5 in an automobile accident, just days before the book was ready to be released to the public. (According to Huntington House, an official investigation is in progress concerning several suspicious [...]

As their first and only book on the NAM, The New Age Rage distills the col­lective research and insights of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project (SCP). SCP is a forefront “discern­ment” ministry in Berkeley, California, that has been observ­ing and critiquing virtually every aspect of the NAM since 1974. The whole gamut of New Age thought [...]

Channel Kevin Ryer­son to Embark on Major Seminar Tour. Kevin Ryerson, trance channel (medium) who attained notoriety as a result of Shirley MacLaine’s TV minis­eries Out on a Limb (in which he played himself), is embarking on a “major seminar tour around the coun­try, according to a recent interview in Body Mind Spirit magazine. He [...]