America, the Sorcerer's New Apprentice: The Rise of New Age Shamanism [Paperback]

Dave Hunt (Author), Thomas A. McMahon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1988

Reincarnation, Eastern mysticism, channeling, psychic phenomena. Is America at the threshold of a glorious new age of enlightenment? Or have we, in our search for higher levels of human potential, opened a spiritual Pandora's Box? Who is right? The authors' conclusions are nothing less than staggering.

Product Details

• Paperback: 284 pages
• Publisher: Harvest House Pub (May 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890816514
• ISBN-13: 978-0890816516
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,086,948 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TWO FAMED EVANGELICAL "CULT" RESEARCHERS LOOK AT THE "NEW AGE", June 17, 2011

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Steven H. Propp (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: America, the Sorcerer's New Apprentice: The Rise of New Age Shamanism (Paperback)

Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon operate an "anti-cult"/apologetics ministry called The Berean Call; they (particularly Hunt) have written many other books, such as Understanding the New Age Movement (Harvest Pocket Books), The New Spirituality, Peace, Prosperity, and the Coming Holocaust: The New Age Movement in Prophecy (Dave Hunt Classics), The Seduction of Christianity: Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days, Occult Invasion: The Subtle Seduction of the World and Church, Beyond Seduction: A Return to Biblical Christianity, Yoga and the Body of Christ: What Position Should Christians Hold?, etc.

They write in the first chapter of this 1988 book, "The tale of the sorcerer's apprentice makes a sobering and instructive point: We too can lose control in a naive attempt to manipulate magical powers. In their desire to sell their techniques to a generation disillusioned with materialism and hungering for spiritual reality, thousands of self-proclaimed experts have with entrepreneurial zeal made available a worldwide mystical supermarket of staggering proportions. It is this fascinating world of exotic and potentially lethal products that we will explore."

Here are some additional quotations from the book:

"Sales of occult books are expanding so rapidly (there was a 95 percent increase in sales for B. Dalton stores in the week that Shirley MacLaine's miniseries aired in January 1987) that American Bookseller magazine recently ran a feature article titled 'A New Age for Metaphysical Books.'" (Pg. 37)
"At the 1987 Awards Ceremony, a Grammy was presented for the first time for 'New Age Music,' a new category which was already generating over 100 million dollars in annual sales. United Airlines was quick to devote an entire channel to 'New Age Music' for its passengers, and ... auto manufacturers (jumped) on this skyrocketing bandwagon with the use of New Age music for promoting their products." (Pg. 38)
"Referring to the growing acceptance of mysticism, which is now influencing every area of society, a promotional mailer explains that the New Age Journal 'was launched' in 1973 because there was no publication that looked at this outpouring of consciousness as ONE trend---an awakening of all peoples on earth." (Pg. 66)
"America is in the process of a radical transformation... the determined undermining of Christianity is well on its way, and the establishment of an ecumenical New Age shamanism as the world religion has made astonishing progress everywhere except in Islamic countries... Many of America's largest and most powerful corporations... have now joined this unprecedented worldwide missionary effort." (Pg. 293)

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my first review for this was harsh, thankfully no one saw it!, February 5, 2011

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Jared Jennings - See all my reviews
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This review is from: America, the Sorcerer's New Apprentice: The Rise of New Age Shamanism (Paperback)

Or this one for that matter! lol. I made a scathing review, and 3 starred it. So I've come back, true to form, gave it 2 more stars, after my first review I thought "there is no way I'll feel differently about this book", daring myself really. Well as I went on, I'm about 70 pages shy of finishing this interesting read, and lo and behold, I understand where they're coming from. In a funny way it was like a personal exorcism of my "spiritual" beliefs, and once this book makes you agree with them due to sound logic, it's hard not to re-evaluate what all that new age crap means. I've seen red flags in docs on youtube. I've even heard/seen writings on the whole "lucifer is good, GOD is bad" thing, which I've read is a masonic thing as well. I kept thinking in anger "why all the evil everywhere?" where's the good, the GOD, and the love as that 70's song asks? My personal theory is that this plane of existence is like a testing ground, and it's owned by the darker forces of the universe/dimensions, call them what you will. They run the show here and once we pass on, we are able to get back in touch with lighter angelic forces (yes GOD, and all that). To me that would explain the "question of evil", which is so unbalanced on earth that it is easy to question the whereabouts of a benevolent force, which I have and do often when I see the horrible stuff that goes on everywhere. Back to the point, this is an interesting book. In my opinion, it's a much better read if you've read your share of new age/occult/spiritual literature, you will know where they're coming from much more. Too bad no one will read this review, but atleast I wrote it, lol.