Lawyer In Schiavo Case Is Fooling With New Age And With That Comes The Devil

What was really behind the Schiavo case? How could it have been so controlled --
in such a horrendous way?
Lost in all the secular discussion of the Schiavo case is the fact that above al
l, this case was driven by a spiritual component. Unfortunately, that component
was what we generally refer to as esoteric syncretism, a melding of various beli
efs, especially Eastern meditative ones with good old-fashioned paganism -- and
while it offers certain bright views of mankind and death and the afterlife, whi
le it can sound awfully glowing on paper, or to the media (which gulps it down),
those views have been twisted in such a way as to present us with the horrendou
s situation we all saw played out.
Put another way, on March 31, 2005, Theresa Marie Schiavo became the most famous
victim of the New Age.
From what we can discern there was a dark, controlling spirit in this situation,
and the clearest manifestation appeared to be in George Felos -- the "right-to-
die" attorney who made no secret of his use of formidable legal skills for spiri
tual ends and even wrote a book called precisely that: Litigation as Spiritual P
ractice.
Let's make clear from the outset that we harbor no ill will toward Felos, who re
presented Michael Schiavo, or anyone. We are called to love everyone, and to try
to see things from their perspectives. But the best we can say about the attorn
ey is that he has been badly deceived.
There is no doubt that occultism in the way of the New Age propelled Mr. Felos,
who, it appears, may have been the key figure in the entire tragedy. In his book
the lawyer openly acknowledges a belief in reincarnation -- a central tenet of
New Agers -- and saw Terri's situation in that context: no problem, she would li
ve again. No problem, she was simply going through a "spiritual awakening" (stru
ggling there in that hospice, thirsting to death, gasping in her final moments).
No problem: Felos knows the minds of people like Terri because he can "soul-spe
ak" with them.
He is a man who hears voices.
We're certainly not against the mystical here (the Bible is full of voices), but
the question has always been a discernment of who or what is doing the speaking
-- and in this case, in our discernment, it is the evil spirit: by their fruits
you will know them and no death in recent memory has left such a scar on the co
llective conscience of the United States as the execution in full public view of
Terri Schiavo.
Reincarnation? "Here, the truth of why the past event occurred and how its suppr
ession had shaped my personality (sometimes over numerous lifetimes) was reveale
d to me," he writes at one point in his book.
Voices? "In the next moment, as this cry of pain and torment continued, I realiz
ed it was Mrs. Browning," the lawyer writes, recalling a right-to-die case invol
ving a woman named Estelle Browning who could not communicate. " I felt the mid-
section of my body open and noticed a strange quality to the light in the room.
I sensed her soul in agony. As she screamed I heard her say, in confusion, Why am
I still here why am I here? My soul touched hers and in some way I communicated
that she was still locked in her body. I promised I would do everything in my po
wer to gain the release her soul cried for. With that the screaming immediately
stopped. I felt like I was back in my head again, the room resumed its normal ap
pearance, and Mrs. Browning, as she had throughout this experience, lay silent.
More voices? When he nearly "causes" a plane crash by just thinking about death,
a voice tells George, "You are more powerful than you realize."
Universal consciousness (another New Age tenet)? "If we are infinitely large, if
the Divine is within us, which is us, contains all of creation, what can be tak
en from us and who is there to take it? We are the creators of our own reality."
It was not in a dark coven nor at the headquarters for Scientology (there in Pin
ellas) that Felos gained his inspiration, it seems, at least as far as we know;
it was at the more "benevolent" places like the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Heal
th.
Yoga. Hinduism. Native American paganism. Buddhism. Christianity. Felos pulled i
t all together and succeeded against the odds in pulling off an extraordinary de
ath.
At one point, this lawyer spent two months at a yoga center.
We're open to other religions, and respect those who respect God, but let us poi
nt out that in some cases other religions worship pagan deities, including the d
emon-gods of death.
In our opinion that is what killed Terri Schiavo and that is the force that cont
rolled and brought everything together, whether the lawyer will every realize th
at or not (we pray for him).
One book that Felos quoted described the "enormous potential for spiritual awake
ning, both for the patient and the caregiver, which sometimes is realized during
the death process."
Indeed, death is not to be feared; indeed, it is a new awakening.
But poor George Felos has been drawn into a morbid -- and deadly -- obsession wi
th the process itself. In watching Terri die (as we recall from press accounts,
he stayed there the whole night before, and led a prayer circle, some say perhap
s even a "cleansing ceremony," a few minutes after her expiration), he thought h
e was witnessing the ultimate meditation, and no doubt he knew -- despite her st
ruggling for life, despite her horrid expressions, despite her reported attempt
even to say "I want to live" -- that Terri Schiavo wanted to die, and that he ha
d freed her from further "defilement."
It is this lawyer's contention that meditation and spiritual practice themselves
are a process of dying.
If we're talking about dying to self, well, fine; but it seems like we're just p
reoccupied with dying -- and finding some kind of twisted metanoia in it.
There he was, in front of all the cameras, telling the world how "beautiful" and
peaceful Terri's process of dying was (he is intently interested in the process
of dying) while a Catholic priest who visited Terri moments before she expire
d described it as "horrifying." "Her face had an expression of dread and sorrow,
" said the priest, Father Frank Pavone. "In my 16 years as a priest, I never saw
anything like it before."
Who is telling the truth? How can we reconcile both descriptions?
And what spirituality could have led to it?
Isn't the New Age just eccentric and harmless?
The New Age, in exalting humans as divine, and making the Divine more of just a
universal "force," is a refined form of other practices that negate the Godhead,
including witchcraft and in its ultimate manifestation the sacrifice of innocen
ts.
One must watch for that; one must watch that one is not unknowingly headed in th
at direction. Our society is filled with New Age tendencies, which have even inf
iltrated the Church.
We do not despise or hate anyone, and that includes George Felos. We wouldn't ju
dge anyone, just what may be around someone. Moreover, there are other players i
n this who drama exhibit their own different forms of darkness. But at the very
least, the best that can be stated, is that Felos has tapped into forces he does
n't understand.
Infestation? "As these unprocessed experiences entered my throat, I often felt a
bsolute, unimaginable terror -- like I was being murdered, hacked to bits. One t
ime I could actually feel a long blade plunge into my chest; another time I coul
d smell the dank, putrid odor of an attacker."
Possession? "I had not 'adopted' some new philosophy nor decided to 'operate' un
der some new belief system. I was part of a process so compelling that my partic
ipation wasn't optional."
When there is no free will, it is not of God, and so George Felos does not know
or does not care about the force into which he has tapped, the force that may we
ll have controlled this awful situation, right up to the Supreme Court.
But he will know one day; he will know unless he seeks deliverance; he will know
because he has tapped into a dark force and unless he comes to Christ (pray for
him) one day he will be called to pay that dark force back.
04/14/05