How does the Church treat psychics? Orthodoxy and psychics.

Today, even church people are surprised to learn that Christmas fortune-telling is nothing more than a sinful pagan superstition, and appeal to psychics, grandmothers, healers, “healers” and magicians entails dire spiritual consequences.

This happens mainly out of ignorance and lack of faith. A believer who has the fear of God will never turn to those who are servants of fallen spirits. Just as a spiritually healthy person will not visit nightclubs and casinos.

For those who nevertheless stumbled and fell into the sin of communicating with demonic power through magicians or psychics, there is only one way - to a spiritual hospital, to the temple of God, to an appointment with the One Doctor and Healer, to the One Who is able to restore the integrity of the damaged souls, to correct the line of fate of any person (because fate is also the judgment of God) - to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Russian people by nature are very trusting, and this is the basis commercial craft servants of fallen spirits. “Business” leading to the destruction of the souls of those who, in their simplicity, trusted their servants the devil, which from the beginning the father of lies and murderer(cf. John 8:44). Church people know this well. That is why everyone who it prevents from destroying, fooling, and robbing our gullible people rebels against the Church. That is why the holy and wisest Russian men called and call the Church Ark of Salvation And spiritual healer.

How to protect yourself and save yourself and your loved ones from the effects of this terrible spiritual infection?

First of all, a vital “spiritual inoculation” against this deadly spiritual disease is needed. This vaccination is carried out in the Sacrament of Baptism.

In this sacrament, a person is born for his spiritual salvation, and receives, as it were, an entrance ticket to a train that can take him to the Kingdom of Heaven. More precisely, his immortal soul, which he must take care of using the grace-filled power of church sacraments. This can also be compared to how to get a pass to the best clinic on earth, which brings together the best doctors in the world and concentrates all the achievements of medical science and technology. This is what the Orthodox Church means for the soul and for the well-being of a person.

But if a person does not yet feel the gracious power of the Church, how can he still understand why he should go to the Church and avoid sorcerers and psychics? Everything is simple here. For one case of “help” from psychics, you will find dozens of cases of harmful effects and tragic consequences from communicating with them. This is the first one. Second: if the majority of magicians and psychics do not deny the beneficial effect of church sacraments and prayers - and who would believe if you call day night and white - black - then in our entire history you will not find a single example of a positive attitude towards sorcerers. In Rus', for example, they believed that the earth did not accept those who communicated with evil spirits, and when a sorcerer died, an aspen stake was driven into the coffin so that he would not wander as a shadow among the living. Undoubtedly, this is a pagan superstition, but the negative attitude of the people towards sorcerers is obvious and true in it.

Having become a Christian, having received the remission of all previously committed sins in the Sacrament of Baptism, a person can independently use the healing means of the Church in his life and protect his life and the lives of his neighbors from the forces of evil, which hypocritically hide their demonic origin under the crafty sign of magicians, psychics, and astrologers .

What are these remedies?

Visit the temple of God as often as possible, for it is the house of God, participate in the grace-filled church sacraments.

Especially try to partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ more often, for worthy communion brings you, like no other action, closer to our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Take communion, even if you do not yet feel the beneficial effect of this sacrament on your soul. It has become coarsened, and to break through the deadened thickness of the heart to its pure middle requires patience and time. Be patient, the time will come and you will truly feel the joy of meeting Christ.

Use other powerful weapons that protect us and drive out spiritual evil from our lives. This is prayer and fasting. If it is still difficult to read the morning and evening rules from the prayer book, start reading the short rule of St. Seraphim of Sarov, individual prayers: “Our Father,” given to us by the Lord Himself, the publican’s prayer, the Jesus prayer, the prayer to the Holy Cross, “Rejoice to the Virgin Mary,” 90 --th psalm and others.

To be less distracted by everything that interferes with our salvation and peace of mind, Protect yourself in every possible way from the fallen world with sacred objects: the Crucifixion of Christ and icons of the Mother of God and saints, a pectoral cross. Eat holy Epiphany water and prosphora on an empty stomach every day.

We also have a heavenly patron, given to us in the Sacrament of Baptism - the holy Guardian Angel, we pray to him in the morning, afternoon, evening - so that he will protect us from all evil and not give us to the evil demon (magicians, psychics, astrologers, sorcerers) to possess us “with the violence of this mortal body” - i.e. using our weaknesses, habits, passions and lack of faith. Remember, if you turn to magicians and psychics for help, you are asking for help to the devil himself. Therefore, ask yourself in advance the question with whom you want to be: with God or with His adversary - Satan.

Using the listed means of spiritual salvation, remember the warnings too, which accompany in any spiritual activity. Prayer and fasting in themselves will be fruitless if you do not try to live according to the commandments of God, according to the spirit of the Gospel, and if you do not cleanse your soul of sins in the Sacrament of Confession.

Even if you attend all services, you will read prayers every day, observe fasts, but at the same time:

you will judge your neighbors;

you will hold grudges against them and not forgive them their sins;

you will not fight with personal sins and vicious passions of your own soul: with pride, with envy, with hostility towards neighbors, with hatred of personal enemies, with irritability, with lustful thoughts, with the love of money and voluptuousness - and such sins are like sand in each of us sea -

then your prayer efforts will be in vain.

In everything that is most important in our lives, let us rely on the help of God, the help of the Queen of Heaven and the saints. And we will not be afraid of any enemy force, nor damage, nor love spells, nor the evil eye, nor any other influence of psychics and magicians, for neither the devil himself nor his countless associates and servants are able to do anything to us against the will of God. And if God is for us, then who can be against us? Let us watch ourselves and yawn less as we walk through life following our Savior.

Archpriest Peter Vlaschenko

The Christian egregor is one of the largest in the world. Millions of believers are connected to it. Thousands of magicians use its powerful energy, practicing Christian magic and cathedral witchcraft.

It is impossible to create an energy information structure alone. Like any other, the Christian egregor was created by a group of people. As the egregor develops, it shapes the environment for itself, influencing its creators. The more donors an egregor has, the stronger it becomes. The egregor's opponents, by their fight against him, feed him just as much as his faithful followers.

Religion unites millions of people around the world and evokes strong emotions

The Christian egregor includes Orthodox, Catholic and egregors of branches of Christianity. Religious egregors have always been the most powerful among all other nations, states and peoples.

Structure elements

Three main elements of the egregor of Christianity:

Bible. The Holy Scriptures are seen as a large book with gold embossed letters on a black cover.
Cross with crucified Jesus Christ. In the egregor's vision, the cross is huge. Rays emanate from it, from which the pyramidal structure of the egregor is fueled.
Pyramid-shaped structures. Sometimes the pyramid is seen as many diamonds folded into a regular pyramid. They all communicate with the cross and with each other. From their bases, rays are directed downwards, falling on the churches.

Churches

The energy of the egregor descends on churches from above, enveloping the buildings and absorbing the vibrations of worship. The energy of Catholicism is dark and heavy. The Orthodox egregor is light, its vibrations sound at a high frequency. Once under its influence, you can feel a sweet taste. The energies of the Christian sacraments are soft, full of warmth and kindness, sometimes sounding with tenderness and care.

Psychics drew attention to the fact that sometimes the rays falling on churches do not pass further than the dome. And sometimes one beam reaches out to several buildings, filling their interior space with itself. This is explained by the fact that not all churches have sincere clergymen serving. It happens that their heads are full of thoughts about the commercial benefits of services, instead of thoughts about faith and the power of religion. Involuntarily, parishioners who find themselves at services where prayers are read mechanically do not feel religious energy. Such churches are energetically empty.

A church that is full of energy attracts new parishioners

A different picture is observed in churches, where the hearts of clergy and parishioners are open to God. Their hearts exude energy, which flows into the energy cauldron of the church.

The strength with which the rays penetrate the church varies. Usually the largest dome absorbs the power of the egregor. According to tradition, there is an altar in this place and everyone who is in it comes under the strong influence of the egregor. This part of the altar is not accessible to everyone.

There are many places of power scattered across the surface of the planet, from where a strong stream of earthly energy shoots into the sky. The flow intensifies in the mountains and rocks. In ancient times, temples and temples were built in such places, and then Christian churches began to be built. If the church is built on a place of power, then the energy coming out of the earth meets the energy of the egregor and strengthens it. When a parishioner enters such a church with an open heart, then, being under the influence of two energies, he is quickly cleansed of information debris in the subtle body.

Relics

Do the relics of saints exude energy? Parapsychologists have differing opinions on this matter. It was previously believed that the remains themselves were devoid of energy. The energy that feeds them is the energy of religion and a place of power, if the temple is built on such a place.

Christians do not worship relics, but the Spirit who dwells in them

But the experience of studying the relics of Seraphim of Sarov showed amazing results. When the psychics tuned in to the saint, it turned out that the spirit of the saint was present next to the relics. Everyone who came to worship the shrine found themselves under its beneficial influence. Psychics who saw this conducted research in other temples and churches, sometimes encountering the spirits of saints chained to incorruptible remains.

Monasticism

People's acceptance of monasticism changes their subtle body. After tonsure, the flow of sexual energy among adherents is limited by a mental block. Those who are able to see the subtle body of a person will be able to notice that with such a block, the person’s pelvis darkens.

When trying to heal the pelvis, the egregor blocks on the backs of the clergy became indignant. It turned out that pelvic blocking is included in the program of these blocks. This is not an individual choice of each believer who wants to move away from worldly life, but part of the egregor, which communicates with a person in the back of the head. Along with the message, the egregor transmits:

blocks on the back;
a collar tuned to vibrations of the heart and back;
programs for the neck and back.

When trying to break the program code, the egregor resists. The human consciousness wants to resume the normal flow of energy, but, following the egregor’s program, it itself blocks access to it, closing the lower chakras.

Elements and connections

When a believer prays, the chakra at the crown of his head begins to glow, letting in the light of the soul. Prayer for a parishioner is a way to merge with the energy of the egregor. The rest of the time she is blocked by a personal bible hanging above her head.

The Bible controls the duration of connection to energy and the degree of opening of ajna. Christianity gives the instruction to block the third eye. Within religion, the third eye can have a devastating effect on a person's faith. The installation is designed to strengthen and strengthen faith, because through the third eye a person is able to communicate with demonic forces.

In addition to the head, fusion can occur at the level of the kidneys. Connection in this part of the body initiates a program of sacrifice, which is a generally accepted way of developing the Christian faith. The program can cause the appearance of kidney stones or tumors.

Egregor not only consumes energy, but also feeds it to believers. Distribution and consumption occurs unevenly and sometimes aggressively, because each person has a different power potential. One is able to give as much as the other is unable to accept. The cauldron of the egregor, where all the energy flows, is huge.

Tradition

The Orthodox tradition is based on virtue and mortal sins. This foundation can lead to results and achievements on the spiritual path. Sins darken the subtle body, making it heavy and dense, and virtue brightens and lightens the sinful heaviness.

The texts of sacred books are sometimes interpreted differently. Every believer is free to choose the interpretation he likes and follow it, gaining religious experience. Sometimes there are pitfalls along the way that provide invaluable experience to those who overcome them and follow the path of faith within the framework of tradition.

Curators

The Christian egregor has many curators. No force can compare with him in their number and variety. The main tasks of curators:

attract new followers and new energy;
protect egregor;
attack those who are trying to lead followers away.

If a believer has become disillusioned with his faith on his own and decided to leave, then he will not be attacked. But the connection with the egregor may remain due to agreements concluded in past incarnations.

Parapsychologists were able to observe at different times the following curators of the Christian egregor:

Reptilians. They created an illusory vision of high-ranking servants of the faith. Their thin bodies looked like priests dressed in robes.
Demons. Horned, large goats that protect the egregor and attack its opponents. They can be observed on the shoulders of those who need protection. For this purpose, demons have belts and collars in their arsenal. They attack those who negatively influence the will of believers.
Dragons and snakes. Consist of many crystalline vertebrae. Often each vertebra is larger than a person; the length of such creatures exceeds thousands of meters. They have high frequencies, not every psychic is able to see them. They are aggressive, their aggression is restrained only by the will of their superiors. They can attack any person. They require a lot of energy to live; they live only among large egregors.

Jesus

Christ is eternal. He is always present among the densities of the Earth. Any heart that sincerely calls upon him will open a channel through which the soft and loving energy of Jesus Christ will flow. This is what the teaching says.

Christ is a teacher who is in the process of moving into 4th density. His life is a symbol of the fact that purity of aspirations and faith will help to demolish all obstacles on the path of a believer, revealing the inner Divinity in a person.

Pros of work

Not only believers, but also magicians can use the energy of the Christian egregor. There are conspiracies that do not require connection to an egregor. Their texts do not refer to God, angels or saints. The magician uses personal power when using such spells.

Other texts contain appeals to higher spiritual powers. By reading them, the magician connects to the egregor and draws endless energy from it. Witchcraft of conspiracies with the names of saints will not work if the magician does not connect to the energy of Christianity.

The Church has a negative attitude towards magic and witchcraft, but the use of conspiracies addressed to higher church powers falls under the definition of prayer. Therefore, the egregor does not block the energy incoming to the magician.

In addition to the fact that the Christian egregor fills the believing magician with energy for witchcraft, it protects him. At baptism, each person receives a protector - a guardian angel. And the stronger the will of the believer, the more he is protected and saturated with the energy of the church.

The Christian egregor is very powerful. It contains colossal energy. It constantly renews itself, feeding believers and being saturated with their energy. Rituals performed with its help can be unusually powerful.

Who do they report to?

It is believed that a religious egregor obeys the one to whom the faith of his followers is directed: God, angels, saints. Contrary to this opinion, the highest religious entities do not belong to the egregor, because it was created by people. Each egregor had creators, donors who shaped it. Even such large and ancient ones as confessional egregors had creators who fed it with energy at first.

The Christian egregor, like other energy-informational formations, is subordinate to the egregor of the planet, which, in turn, is part of other higher formations. Together they constitute the Universal Mind. This is the order and it will exist as long as the people who feed the egregors with energy are alive.

How to work with it

In order to be connected to an egregor, you need to follow the rules of behavior accepted among its followers. It is necessary to believe in God, to recognize the power of his angels and saints. Without faith, not a single conspiracy or prayer will work.

Christian paraphernalia will help you connect to the energy of the church during prayer

In addition, every believer should from time to time:

attend church;
participate in services;
observe the rituals of the Christian tradition (fasting);
read religious literature (the Bible, lives of saints);
pray.

The faith and emotions that a person experiences while in church is payment to the egregor for his energy.

In addition to emotions, it is recommended to give alms and donate money to the temple. Giving money means making an energy exchange. Magicians who work with Christianity give a certain part of their income to the church every month. Thanks to such cooperation they acquire a constant flow of Christian energy.

Do not forget about the protection that applies to all believers. Baptism and the consecration of the house can give it. The energy and money that will be spent on these church sacraments will more than pay off in the form of protection from malware, damage and the evil eye.

Minuses

When working with the church energy information field, do not forget about the disadvantages. They are as significant as the advantages:

It is impossible for a magician connected to a Christian egregor to accumulate personal power. Whatever he tries to save beyond what he has will be given to the church.
The confessional egregor does not like independent individuals. They could harm him. Christianity does not recognize white and black magic, and any magician is a strong and independent person. According to the rules adopted among believers, they try to get rid of such people and exclude their participation.
The religious egregor greatly influences the conscious and subconscious. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish your thoughts from the thoughts sent to them. Dogmas and strict rules make the thinking of believers uniform.

How to get rid of it

Without people, any energy-information formation will cease to exist. Therefore, connecting to an egregor is easier than leaving it. If a person begins to resist the energy, to fight it, he will only waste forces that will go into education, nourishing it.

In order to disconnect from the energy of the church, you need to change your train of thought and realize that the dogmas of religion no longer have power over a person. If a magician who has practiced Christian magic has decided to switch to white or black magic, then the connection with the Christian egregor will only hinder him and may even harm him.

To turn it off, you need to remove icons, crosses and holy books from your eyes. Next, the magician needs to imagine the energy-information field from which he will disconnect and the thread connecting them. This thread is mentally cut, firmly and decisively. All images of God, angels and saints that arise in the mind should be forgotten. Not receiving reciprocal energy, the egregor will interrupt the weakened connection.

The egregor can defend itself, not wanting to give up the connected person. Anxious thoughts may appear and your health may worsen. The images that appear in your head also need to be cleaned. It is important to pay attention to dreams during the period of liberation. In them, the purified subconscious will be able to suggest the answer to tormenting questions and avoid the pitfalls of disconnection. You should not give in to negative emotions, they will strengthen the connection.

Before the cleansing begins, it is important to ask the question, which egregor to connect to after the Christian one? Which tradition to develop and which path to follow? This is important in order not to rush around in search, wasting energy and exhausting yourself during new outages. After all, a person, barely born, already has a predisposition to certain energy-information fields, and, perhaps, even an agreement inherited from a past life. Happy people are those who have found their path and follow it.

Secrets of esotericism on the site

There are people who are ardent skeptics. Or those who believe in God. There is a person who doesn’t care, he doesn’t argue, he doesn’t prove. He has no time - he works, improves himself. What is esotericism? Religion? Faith in God? In people? To the supermind? Or maybe into yourself? Many people don’t think about such things, and when they think about it, they don’t find answers to their questions.

Esotericism is secret knowledge that is not accessible to people ignorant of magic, mysticism, and the occult. At least that's what they used to be. Knowledge and skills that not everyone could have. Only the chosen ones.

After reading various feeds on the Internet, you can only get scattered data and a weak idea of what esotericism is. Only by deciding to change yourself and your life for the better, by gathering your strength and taking a course of video seminars designed by specialists so that everything falls into place, can you achieve success.

The concept of esotericism and why you shouldn’t be afraid of it

Esotericism is a huge section of human life, helping to find oneself through knowledge of the world. Studying it is not for everyone. After all, this is not just religion or science. This is the same thread that connects all the nuances and aspects of the ordinary world and the areas of unknown magic that surrounds us.

The very first such secret society was the Pythagorean school. It was divided into ordinary and esoteric. Her secret part took a lifelong oath of non-disclosure of what members of the society were taught. And what knowledge they received there is still unknown to humanity. Now esotericism is not hidden from everyone. There is accessible information presented in video seminars or master classes. Why are people afraid or unwilling to touch the unknown and explore unexplored areas of their own lives?

Let's consider the main criteria of human reluctance:

Many people do not want to learn a new religion. In fact, esotericism is not only religion, although it is closely related to it. It helps you discover yourself and your own hidden inner potential. Yes, there is religion here - faith in yourself and the world around you.
Lack of belief in the ability to change your life. Thought is always material. And wishes are always fulfilled. Everything is possible - you just have to believe and go through this difficult path to knowledge.
Reluctance to gain new knowledge, since there is already success in your personal life. Esotericism makes it possible to gain success not only in one area of human activity. It allows you to balance all the criteria that are extremely important. Achieve what you want and your deepest secrets in every possible way.
Fearful attitude towards the concept of magic. It is worth noting that the unknown is not only magical. It's just unfamiliar. After completing the seminar, it becomes clear that what seems incredible and impossible is often considered magical.
Lack of free time. Naturally, it takes time and a lot of time to complete the training. But in the end, the hours spent pay off handsomely. Life balances out, everything falls into place and everything happens in its own moment.

An already established branch, science, like psychology, has long taken into account esoteric opinion. He resorts to her methods. Favors the practice of secret knowledge.

What does esoteric knowledge give?

Why is it believed that esoteric knowledge is not given to everyone? Only a select few? Because not everyone is ready to say goodbye to the old world, three-dimensional space, or the feeling of the precarious stability of their life. Each person is the architect of his own happiness. Those who understand this strive for the best.

What is esotericism - answers to the site

To transform yourself. From the inside. Starting with thoughts. And thoughts are what happens to us. Esoteric practices give people not only knowledge. They help you feel the surrounding space. Start thinking differently than before. Wake up one day and realize what is happening. What you need to do to succeed in your desired industries. Understand that the world is not three-dimensional. It is completely limitless. Consciousness is omnipotent.

Why does a person come to esotericism?

Different roads can lead to one or another knowledge. Events, people, chance? In any case, esotericism appears in a person’s life when it is needed. The reasons may be different:

Search for new, unprecedented sensations. When it becomes boring, the world loses its attractiveness, those around you do not bring the same joy. Esotericism will help you look at everything in a different light, see something new and believe in a miracle.
Search for a treatment method. When traditional medicine is powerless. When the pills didn't help. And we are talking not only about habitual illnesses, but also about constant depression, about the disease of life itself, when, no matter how hard a person tries, he cannot achieve his goals. The man turns in desperation. And esotericism, magic, rituals help to heal.

Esotericism and magic are ancient sciences. This is knowledge accumulated over many years and centuries. This is great wisdom that anyone who really wants it can comprehend. And help yourself overcome difficulties. Free yourself from heaviness and become free. Achieve results and be happy.

It’s easier to say what esotericism is as follows. This is an attempt to explain the complex structure of the visible and invisible world and the processes that take place in these worlds and influence a person, his actions and even fate. Almost everyone has heard about the extraordinary experience of modified consciousness. Most modern commercial practices for achieving financial success, practices for fulfilling human desires or shaping events are built on this principle.

Esoteric practices are aimed at achieving a sustainable expansion of human consciousness, which would allow one to obtain a more perfect worldview. In a narrower, applied sense, all esoteric teachings are aimed at studying the inner world of man, his hidden capabilities and developing specific techniques for self-realization and spiritual development. There are esoteric movements in all world religions, although there are many independent esoteric systems.

There are theoretical worldview systems that consider only the spiritual development of the individual through the accumulation of special knowledge and meditative practices. There are movements aimed at achieving the final result with the help of ceremonies, rituals and other things. These include the occult, which involves the use of magic, appealing to the unrecognized powers of spirits, natural forces and inhabitants of parallel worlds. Representatives of religious systems have an interesting attitude to the question of what esotericism is. For example, there is an opinion that any esoteric practices are prohibited by Christianity, and turning to such knowledge or practices is regarded as a grave sin, for which severe punishments are provided.

But this attitude of the church does not stop those who see esotericism as a means to solve their life problems. This state of affairs, in our opinion, is also due to the fact that the official church imposes a strict ban without explaining the real possibilities of esoteric practices. At the same time, there are a huge number of specific rituals related to the so-called church magic, which are available for review and are widely used. It is useful for a modern person to know the answer to the question: “Esotericism - what is it?”, since this is an opportunity to learn more about one’s internal structure, nature and the world around us. Knowing about esoteric methods of cognition, a person will not be afraid to make mistakes, and problems will not seem to him an insurmountable obstacle to happiness.

I would like to touch on a topic that today continues to be relevant and at the same time very problematic, and to understand the spiritual phenomenon that burst into the life of our society in the nineties of the last, twentieth century, and continues to confuse many.

These are all kinds of methods of pseudo-non-traditional healing, extrasensory perception, various methods of fortune telling, removing or inducing damage, correcting karma and opening chakras, “hereditary healers”, “saviors”, “seers” and “foretellers”, sorcerers and magicians - everything that can be attributed to the area of non-church and extra-church mysticism.

At the end of the last century, when the established and seemingly unshakable system of state, interpersonal and spiritual relationships was destroyed, when society was throwing “fire into the fire” from one crisis to another, when state propaganda of official atheism had completely outlived its usefulness, people became distrusted, impoverished and unhappy with great energy they rushed to all kinds of folk healers and seers, who promised in an instant to deliver from all imaginable and unimaginable troubles, problems and misfortunes, to give health, to return a loved one, to give wealth and good luck. And deprived of a genuine, grace-filled and, most importantly, mystical life in the Church proven by two thousand years of experience, brought up in unbelief and lack of spirituality and yearning for faith, people living on one sixth of the land rushed into the arms of pseudo-spirituality and pseudo-mysticism. This is how the concept of “psychic” burst into our lives.

From the TV screen, from the pages of periodicals, from huge city billboards, workers of the invisible front, Stakhanovites of magical services, are calling us and offering their services. Probably, on every book layout you can find manuals on fortune telling or love spells, and every self-respecting city or even village has its own local psychic. What is the essence of this extra-church and non-church mysticism?

In order to understand this, we must understand what magic is and from what source it draws its powers. Practicing magicians and psychics can talk for a long time about the fact that there are different types of magic - black, white, green, that they take the strength for their miracles from the inexhaustible sources of the cosmos, from the ancient forces of the earth. But it is important to remember that all non-church mysticism has one source and the origin of all this mystical power is clearly not Divine. It is not God, the loving Creator and Provider of everything that exists, who acts through all kinds of healers and psychics. Their source is the ancient serpent and murderer from time immemorial, the devil. Why? Because in order for God to enter a person’s life, for his soul to be illuminated by Divine light, a feat is needed on the part of each of us. It is necessary to cleanse the soul from the dirt of sin, the feat of co-crucifixion with Christ is required, forgiveness is needed, the desire to become better - these are the keys that open the doors of the human heart for the Divine Guest - Christ, Who alone can bring peace, joy in the Holy Spirit, forgiveness of sins and most importantly - true happiness.

But psychics and magicians offer a different path, the path of spiritual irresponsibility and determinism, the path of passivity. Only one thing is required from a person - to come and trust, that is, to voluntarily put himself at the disposal of those forces that communicate with the psychic, that is, into the hands of the devil. One seemingly harmless visit to a magician - and your soul is wide open to the influence of an evil, all-destructive will, to demonic influence. But, apologists for healers may object, because there are many psychics and so-called grandmothers who immediately send their patients to the temple, inviting them to do this or that action - light nine candles, kiss five icons, confess and take communion, and only then begin to perform certain rituals. But let's think about for whom and to whom such a person comes to the temple - at the call of his heart, obeying the call of God, or at the command of his grandmother, in the hope of whom he warms candles in front of the images - for God or for grandmother Maria or Shura. Thus, it turns out that this person, even coming to the temple, commits a sin - blasphemy, laughing at God and giving the glory and hope due to Him alone to the wicked servants of Satan. And through this blasphemy, this sin, evil forces gain even greater power over the human soul.

But again objections may be heard: what does it matter from what source magicians and sorcerers receive their power if they help people, if we see the real result of their actions. But the result is different. Every person who, in search of spirituality, wanders into the jungle of pseudo-spirituality, ultimately seeks happiness. But it is precisely happiness that the evil forces of hell cannot give a person, because outside of God and without God, one who is created in the image and likeness of God cannot find happiness. Satan is able to give only a temporary illusion of happiness, but the price of this illusion is not at all illusory - it is the eternal salvation of the human soul, it is a renunciation of life in divine love, ultimately, it is a renunciation of God and the opportunity to truly love, and there is no happiness without love and it cannot be. Malice, hatred and deceit are not capable of giving happiness. And therefore, the one who tries to find salvation from troubles in search of the next magician, sorcerer, psychic is deceived and deluded, because the end and logical result of his path is in the dark depths of the underworld abyss.

Probably every confessor who accepts confession can tell dozens of cases where the result of a seemingly harmless trip to a psychic is crippled health and the mutilated destinies of entire generations.

But the All-Merciful Lord, who loves each of us, gives us the opportunity to correct our own mistakes, committed, perhaps, out of ignorance or stupidity. To do this, you need very little - ask God, Whom we offend and sadden with our appeals to magicians and Satan, for forgiveness, and repent in the Sacrament of Confession. By this action, by our repentance, by our appeal to God, we will express our desire and give God the opportunity to enter our lives, to shine upon us with His love, His grace, in the light of which all the vile deeds of the minions of fallen spirits disappear. God alone is able to grant us forgiveness and free us from the burden of past mistakes, and He will certainly hear everyone and help! We only need to take a step towards the Lord, Who is waiting for us with open arms.

The phrase “Orthodox healer”, “Orthodox psychic” can be found today in almost any media that places advertisements for the services of people who allegedly have psychic abilities. And among psychics themselves, statements are increasingly appearing that extrasensory perception does not contradict Christianity in any way and in general is almost an integral part of the functioning of the Orthodox Church. However, the Church itself holds a completely different opinion on this matter.

Why do psychics need the Church?

In modern Russia, the attitude towards the Orthodox Church on the part of psychics can be divided into two stages. The first stage began around the mid-eighties of the last century and continued until the end of the nineties. This was a time when serious ideological, political and economic changes began in the country and almost everything that was prohibited by the Soviet government was allowed. In the spiritual sphere, this meant that a kind of vacuum had formed: the regime had been imposing its ideology for decades and in every possible way suppressed all alternative ones, and now no one needed its own ideology. This vacuum was immediately filled by all sorts of religious organizations, sects and psychics: healers, magicians, fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and so on. At that stage, the Church, which was only restoring its position, was considered by psychics as a competitor, and therefore the attitude towards it was, at best, ignoring, at worst, openly negative. In fact, when Kashpirovsky, Chumak and the like gathered huge television audiences and entire stadiums for their sessions, they did not need any Church.

By the beginning of the 21st century the situation had changed. Sad spiritual experience has shown the majority of the population that many “healers” and religious sects ultimately do much more harm than good. In addition, the Orthodox Church grew stronger and gained influence. Of course, most of those who currently position themselves as Orthodox are believers only nominally, following tradition or even fashion. However, in this situation, it is simply unprofitable for psychics to declare that they are against the Church from a commercial point of view - then most potential “clients” will turn away from them. That is why such a phenomenon as “Orthodox psychics” arose: these are psychics whose workplace is literally hung with icons and crosses, they use in their work spells that are very similar in form to Christian prayers, and also persistently recommend that their clients go to church, put so many candles at such and such an icon and read a certain prayer a certain number of times. Even those of them who do not resort to Christian surroundings avoid direct negative statements about Christianity. The maximum that they allow themselves is a negative attitude towards the “spoiled” priests and the “bureaucratic” Church, who perverted the original teachings of Christ.

Extrasensory perception is a reality...

Regarding the attitude of the Orthodox Church to extrasensory perception and psychics, the situation is as follows. The Church does not, like academic science, consider the very possibility of people having supernatural abilities to be absurd, and all psychics to be charlatans (although most of them are absolute swindlers). On the contrary: Orthodoxy has no doubt that people can heal physical or neurological diseases, look into the past, read hidden thoughts and desires, and the like. The Church even defines three sources of such abilities: firstly, it can be an innate heightened sensitivity in the spiritual sphere; secondly, it may be a power acquired from demonic forces; thirdly, it may be God-sent grace and insight. The third option immediately has nothing to do with psychics: according to church tradition, Divine grace is sent only to deeply religious people who are in the bosom of the Church, either as a sign of their acquisition of holiness, or as a means of glorifying the mercy and love of God for people. By the way, the numerous cases of miracles performed by Christ and his apostles described in the Gospel are interpreted precisely as the glorification of God.

...But psychics cause harm

Regarding cases where people possess and use psychic abilities , but are outside the Church, this is considered destructive for them and for their “clients” and opposed to God in nature. Even if a person has certain abilities from birth, does not charge a fee for their use, and sincerely believes that he is doing good, such a psychic is still a harmful element for the Church. First of all, sorcery (that is, witchcraft , fortune telling, drawing up horoscopes and other components of practical extrasensory perception) in the Bible is clearly condemned and classified as ungodly. But even when it comes to treating the sick, the Church’s attitude is still wary. The fact is that, from a Christian point of view, illnesses and illnesses are sent to people for their spiritual correction, so that they think about the causes of their suffering, see their sins and take the path of repentance and the fight against sins. If the healer is not a church person, but a psychic, then when he heals people, he does them a disservice - this means that he saved them from the symptoms, but did not touch the cause, that is, a sinful lifestyle, that is, he removed the salvation of the soul from them and the Kingdom of Heaven.

Cases where psychic abilities have become, in the interpretation of the Church, the result of a person’s contact with the demonic spiritual world (during special rituals, unreliable spiritual practices, suspicious meditations, and so on), are perceived by Orthodoxy as openly hostile. Recommendations from such psychics to their “clients” to go to church to fulfill their desires, receive Baptism and participate in the Sacraments are interpreted as direct desecration of shrines and harm to naive people. Because the same Communion has a beneficial effect on a person only when he approaches it with a pure soul and faith - otherwise it will only harm his soul.

Alexander Babitsky

A person receives relief, but it is temporary and he will have to “pay” for it somehow.

The Orthodox Church does not bless turning to healers, healers, fortune tellers, and psychics. These people have nothing to do with the Church, although they often hide behind its name.
Why does the Church believe that clairvoyants who preserve the “ancient traditions of Orthodox healing”, who heal with “Orthodox prayers” with the help of holy water, incense, candles, and icons from an Orthodox church, create lawlessness and violate the law of God?
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Does the end justify the means?

When a person has a toothache, he goes to the dentist, when his heart hurts, he goes to a cardiologist... It would never even occur to a patient to seek medical help from a random person. For example, entrusting heart surgery to a technological engineer, even if he is a genius...
What happens to elementary logic when medicine suddenly turns out to be powerless, and in life, “for no reason at all,” everything goes “awry”: failures follow, relationships with loved ones deteriorate? To whom does a person turn his gaze? Unfortunately, very often he seeks relief from troubles not from God, but from... healers who promise 100% results “for a moderate amount.” A desperate person becomes as trusting as a child. Often the main argument for choosing a “doctor” is someone’s random recommendation: someone said that a grandmother-healer will help solve any difficulties with the help of “miracle prayers.” Confidence in the healer is strengthened when she, having established the “fact of damage” or the “evil eye”, recommends going not to a Satanist sect (surely this would stop many), but to the nearest temple to purchase everything necessary for “treatment” there: candles, incense, holy water. All these church items, according to her, will be needed for a “course of treatment” that will be carried out to “correct fate” and “find lost happiness.” Thus, a person convinces himself that the healer heals with God's help.
A striking example: you read in the newspaper about “clairvoyant Lyudmila” and see her in a photograph sitting at a table with a fan of playing cards. Next to her is a burning three-candlestick and a Crucifix. These church objects convince you of its “Orthodoxy.” Moreover, at the very first session she asks you to bring church candles, incense and holy water for “treatment”. But here’s the problem: a person working in a candle shop in an Orthodox church, having learned that you are taking candles and incense for an “Orthodox healing session,” for some reason unknown to you, refuses to sell you all this...
The reason is simple: the Orthodox Church does not bless turning to healers, healers, fortune-tellers, and psychics. These people have nothing to do with the Church, although they often hide behind its name.
When they knock on the door of your house, you always ask: “Who’s there?” and wait for an answer that would convince you that you can let guests in without danger to yourself and your loved ones. Why does the sense of self-defense become dulled when it comes to the intervention in your life of a person who appears to be an Orthodox healer? You take him at his word, without thinking at all about the possible consequences of this unreasonable gullibility.
What does it mean to “heal with prayers”?

Why does the Church believe that clairvoyants who preserve the “ancient traditions of Orthodox healing”, who heal with “Orthodox prayers” with the help of holy water, incense, candles, and icons from an Orthodox church, create lawlessness and violate the law of God? It turns out that the healer’s possession of church items is not at all evidence that the person serves God and is related to the Orthodox Church. On the contrary, the Church has been struggling with such practices throughout the history of its existence.
What is prayer in the Orthodox understanding? Prayer is communication with God. Every Orthodox person devotes at least a few minutes a day to reading the morning and evening prayer rules. In these prayers, we thank God for showing mercy to us, taking care of us, and forgiving our sins if we sincerely repent of them. In prayer, a person receives strength from God to carry out and accomplish every good deed. But the words of prayer are not some kind of miraculous formula. The most “correct” prayer is meaningless if the person reading it does not believe God and does not live according to His commandments, does not correct his life and does not participate in church sacraments.
In addition, the “prayers” with which “healers” treat are usually not at all the same or not exactly the ones that we can find in the Orthodox prayer book. Let us quote a fragment from the book of the famous Orthodox doctor Hieromonk Anatoly (Berestov), who heads the rehabilitation center for victims of sectarianism and occultism in Moscow:
“People who have suffered from such influence come to the Spiritual and Medical Rehabilitation Center for people who have suffered from totalitarian sects and the occult, in the Krutitsky Compound in Moscow, and when they often say that they visited an Orthodox healer, we have to clarify what it is is that? In response you hear something incomprehensible:
- But he had icons, he read prayers, lit a candle...
– What prayers did he read?
- We don’t know...
– Maybe “Our Father”?
- Yes, it seems, “Our Father”...
– Do you know “Our Father”?
- No..".
Taking advantage of this ignorance, healers carry out their own methods of influencing the human body. And people who, out of naivety and ignorance, decided to “get rid of the damage” from the “Orthodox healer” find themselves in slavery to the same forces that they wanted to get rid of.
The fact is that sorcerers do not read Orthodox prayers as they should. They turn prayer into a conspiracy, into some kind of magical formula. Such “prayer practice” can bring nothing but harm.
Without active love for God, it is impossible to receive any benefit from prayer (the same can be said about wearing the “Save and Preserve” ring, the “Alive in Help” belt, etc.). If prayer is perceived as a magical formula, this can turn into a tragedy for a person who did not want to seek advice from an Orthodox priest, but decided to seek help “on the side” - from “Orthodox healers.”
Holy Scripture about sorcerers, sorcerers and occult “healers”

In the books of Holy Scripture (the Bible) we find numerous indications that turning to sorcerers, fortune-tellers and healers is a direct violation of the commandments of God.
“When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn from other nations to do the abominations that they do: do not sacrifice your sons or daughters on the fire of your altar, do not try to find out about the future by asking a soothsayer , and do not go to a wizard, witch or sorcerer. Do not allow anyone to cast a spell on another, do not allow any of your people to conjure up spirits or become magicians... The Lord your God hates those who do such things... Be faithful to the Lord your God" (Deuteronomy 18:9-14 ).
“Do not turn to those who summon the dead, and do not go to wizards, and do not bring yourself to the point of being desecrated by them. I, the Lord, am your God" (Leviticus 19:31).
“The works of the flesh are known; they are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery... and the like; I warn you beforehand, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:20-21)
After the sermon of the Apostle Paul in the city of Ephesus, many who practiced witchcraft and sorcery believed in Jesus Christ and abandoned this sin: “And of those who practiced witchcraft, quite a few brought their books into a heap and burned them in front of everyone...” (Acts 19:19).
Church rules (canons) about healers, wizards, sorcerers and fortune tellers

Rule 61 of the VI Ecumenical Council:
Those who give themselves over to wizards... or others like them, in order to learn from them what they want to reveal to them, in accordance with the previous paternal decrees about them, must be subject to the rule of six years of penance [church punishment]. The same penance should be applied to those who... utter fortune-telling about happiness, about fate, about genealogy, and many other similar rumors: the so-called cloud casters, charmers, makers of protective talismans and sorcerers. Those who are stubborn in this and do not turn away and do not run away from such destructive and pagan inventions, we determine to completely throw out of the Church... For what kind of fellowship is there between light and darkness, as the apostle says, or what kind of fellowship does the Church of God have with idols, or what is the portion of the faithful with the infidel? What agreement does Christ have with Belial [Satan]? (see 2 Cor. 6:15).
Rule 24 of the Council of Ancyra
Those who practice sorcery and follow pagan customs, or introduce them into their homes, for the sake of seeking magic, or for the sake of purification, are subject to the rule of five years of repentance.
65th rule of St. Basil the Great
He who has repented of sorcery or poisoning, may spend the time allotted for a murderer in repentance.

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The above applies to all who call themselves “Orthodox healers.”
Some “healers” deceive themselves and others by saying that they heal with the power of God, just as the Orthodox saints did. However, it should be remembered that the saints receive the gift of healing after many years of great feats of struggle against sin. In addition, healings that are accomplished by the power of God are never an end in themselves. Such miracles are evidence of God’s love for man; they soften our hearts, help us reconsider our lives, our attitude towards people, and make us closer to God.
If a person’s sense of superiority over his neighbors and contempt for the Church intensifies, then we are dealing with a false miracle, which, according to the teachings of the Bible, occurs “by the work of the devil” (2 Thess. 2:9).
Almost every priest has to deal with the terrible consequences of “healing treatment”: mental illness, family breakdown, serious (sometimes fatal) illnesses. This is the price to pay for temporary relief or success received from “Orthodox” healers.
Where can I find salvation and help?

A person who longs for “Orthodox healing” must understand that there is no non-church Orthodoxy, and accordingly, there cannot be healing from God with the help of Orthodox attributes used by an impostor healer.
Joining the church life is the only possible path to spiritual health and the inheritance of eternal life with God. Every act and action performed by a Christian must be strengthened by faith in God and love for one’s neighbor.
The root of every illness and disorder in personal life is sins. Every sin is a falling away from a Loving Creator, an unwillingness to live in accordance with the will of God. The fight against sin, repentance is the path that the Church blesses. Having taken the “easier” path of acquiring happiness and health through magical actions, a person inevitably deprives himself of God’s help.
Before going to an “Orthodox healer,” ask yourself: why didn’t I myself turn to God in prayer for help, why didn’t I go up to the priest and ask for a blessing or talk to him about my difficulties? Perhaps it is his advice and help, together with prayer to God, who “does not desire the death of the sinner, but that he should turn and live” (Ezek. 33:11), will be the beginning of good changes in our lives?
One of the great confessors of our time, Archimandrite John (Krestyankin), in a letter to a woman who was engaged in healing, wrote:
“I can’t call you a servant of God! After all, you are doing things to the enemy. Do not destroy yourself and those people who, out of ignorance of the truth, turn to you. Refuse once and for all, and no matter what temptations the enemy throws at you, stand firm and do not attempt healing. Your soul will perish. ...Life on earth is short, but think about what we will come out of it with and where we will end up!”
Let us take advantage of the elder’s advice and think about the brevity of our life and the fact that it was given to us by God to prepare for eternity. How we spend this life and what we take out of it depends on each of us.

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