[grey_whiskers]

Let me try again --

As a character in a G.K. Chesterton story remarked, "Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In a forest."

How *do* you tell true manifestations from the Holy Spirit from emotionalism? (...and do people in the neighborhood of such things want to participate, see Simon Peter and Simon Magus in the book of Acts)

...and speaking of 'wizards', then, how do you differentiate the work of the Holy Spirit from festivals such as the Hindi event referred to earlier in the thread?

Point being, yes, shutting all such things out will keep you safe from being taken in; but you might yourself get left out.

Note that I am *not* saying one should lay oneself open for just anything because someone describes it with the word spiritual.

Cheers!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Point being, yes, shutting all such things out will keep you safe from being taken in; but you might yourself get left out.****

Pentecostalism smacks too much of Montanism, a heresy in the second century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montanism

Some people have drawn parallels between Montanism and modern Pentecostalism (which some call Neo-Montanism).

[Quix]

Point being, yes, shutting all such things out will keep you safe from being taken in; but you might yourself get left out.

Note that I am *not* saying one should lay oneself open for just anything because someone describes it with the word spiritual.

Cheers!

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INDEED.

[Cronos]

As a character in a G.K. Chesterton story remarked, "Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In a forest."

that's from a Fr. Brown story, right? The one about the mailman?

[Cronos]

such as the Hindi

common mistake -- it's HindU. The religion is HindUism which is a meta-religion

One of the two national languages of India is HindI (the other national language is English and of course there are 22 other national-"level" languages like Tamil, Marathi, Andhra, Konkani, Mizo, Odissi etc)