Hi

I am a bit concerned about the ad for "Soul Essence" on page 9 of our latest "in Touch" newsletter (September 2010).

The ad states that they use the practice of "The Journey" by Brandon Bay which is (based on some research off the net) a new age healer.

Quote: (http://energygrid.com/spirit/2005/03ap-b...bays.html)
"After Bays fully recovered, she branded her version of time line therapy as The Journey™ and began marketing herself as a New Age guru (even giving satsangs) with an NLP technique to sell to the world so powerful that it can melt tumours in a matter of weeks. (Of course, she does not claim this directly, but it is certainly implied by her own story.)"

Note the above is a critique from another New Age movement.

Why are we allowing advertising of this nature in our newsletters?

(12-09-2010 09:09 PM)Supernut Wrote:  Hi

I am a bit concerned about the ad for "Soul Essence" on page 9 of our latest "in Touch" newsletter (September 2010).

The ad states that they use the practice of "The Journey" by Brandon Bay which is (based on some research off the net) a new age healer.

Quote: (http://energygrid.com/spirit/2005/03ap-b...bays.html)
"After Bays fully recovered, she branded her version of time line therapy as The Journey™ and began marketing herself as a New Age guru (even giving satsangs) with an NLP technique to sell to the world so powerful that it can melt tumours in a matter of weeks. (Of course, she does not claim this directly, but it is certainly implied by her own story.)"

Note the above is a critique from another New Age movement.

Why are we allowing advertising of this nature in our newsletters?

Hey Supernut -thanks for raising this. The creep of New Age is insiduous. (the tired cliche of boiling a frog is still apt.) My view is that in general, if people fall for these silly therapies, let the suckers pay and good luck to the snake-oil salesmen. But I totally agree - it is completely inappropriate for a parish newsletter. Obviously they think the ability of Christ to heal is limited or inadequate to say nothing of their contempt for the sacrament of Anointing.