New Age Holistic Health: Implications for Seventh-day Adventist Faith and Practice
January 1, 1996 Manuel A. Vásquez
New Age holistic health therapies are rooted in Eastern mystical religious philosophies—Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism—as well as the occult, and are therefore spiritually and sometimes physically dangerous for Seventh-day Adventist Christians. The research examined primary and secondary New Age sources, the Bible, writings of Ellen G. White, and other Christian authors, and interviewed Chinese acupuncturists and New Age practitioners. It found that pioneers of New Age holistic health were often associated with occult parapsychology and psychic phenomena. The conclusion is that Christians cannot separate these practices from their nonbiblical worldview philosophies without compromising loyalty to God.