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Pokemon Revision 5 Just another fad? Read on! A Christian perspective
By Brett Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How close can we get to the occult and still call it 'good social interaction &
imagination stretching fun for kids? Pokemon is a
role-playing game like Dungeons and Dragons, MAGIC (another card game like Pokemon),
and many other 'games' and
cartoons that have occultic overtones. Proverbs 22:6 6 Train up a child in the way he
should go: and when he is old, he will not
depart from it.
Pokemon is a copyright of Nintendo Japan. It was first created in Japan and is highly
influenced by Japanese mysticism. It is
very popular there now, and has been since 1996. In 1997 685 people went into
epiliptic seizures while watching the Pokemon
cartoon. Pokemon is short for Pocket Monsters. By 300 AD, the sun-worshipping Yamato
kingdom had loosely unified the
nation through conquest and alliance. Buddhism was introduced from China in the
mid-6th century and soon became the state
religion. Rivalry between Buddhism and Shinto, the traditional religion of Japan, was
diffused by presenting Shinto deities as
manifestations of Buddha. They seem to embrace all mystical religions and warrior
religions.
We finally have a researched answer to the influences behind Pokemon and the
religions and philosophies that are taught
within the game. Pokemon is the result of influences that are completely mystical.
These are just to name a few:
Buddhist Mysticism, Hinduism, meditation rituals, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Book of
Tao, the Analects of Confucius, the
Gita, the I Ching, The Tibetan Book of the Dead: All These Philosophies influenced
Pokemon!
C.G. Jung summarizes all these philosophies in his theory of collective
unconsciousness, & he assures his followers of the
congeniality with occultic energy sciences and the evolutionary sciences with the
occultic practices and tapping into the water
energy, fire energy, leaf energy, and wind energy you can achieve spiritual
enlightenment and success all of which are
incorporated in Pokemon.
Jung draws upon Oriental conceptions of consciousness to broaden the concept of
"projection": Not only the "wrathful"
demons/monster (pocket monsters) but also the "peaceful" deities/spirits (pika-chus)
are conceived as animal projections of
the human psyche the fundamental religious teaching and game play in Pokemon!
The Bible says:
EPH 5:8-17 "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as
children of light (for the fruit of the light
consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord.
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds
of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the
disobedient do in secret. But everything
exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible.
This is why it is said: "Wake up, O sleeper, rise
from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." Be very careful, then, how you live--not
as unwise but as wise, making the most of
every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but
understand what the Lord's will is."
Color energy Cards:
In the Tibetan tradition life is a sort of game, and they state that each of the
levels of game-existence is associated with a
particular color and also certain geographical symbols. Note the energy cards in
Pokemon have colors and elements that also
refer powers and positions.
In Tibetan teaching, each person (trainer of projections) has to learn to decode his
own internal road map. The Tibetan
indicators may be used as a starting point. The purpose is clear: one should follow
the signs of the three higher types and shun
those of the three lower. One should follow light and pleasant visions and shun dark
and dreary ones. Look at the Pokemon
cards both are represented and role-played by our children.
Recently I observed a group of children who were role-playing Pokemon. They were
making evil faces and chanting their
Pokemon character names over and over! One three year old was chasing another boy
almost trance like in expression saying
in a deep raspy voice, bulbasore attack, bulbasore, bulbasore. They are meditating
and projecting their spirits just like
practitioners of the occult!
Pokemon monsters in the game and the cartoon can only say their name, so when they
talk they are really chanting their name
the children, I have observed, do the same thing while they are playing. They are
actually opening their selves up to personality
modification an occult practice!
This is what is taught in Tibetan practice: "Use your foresight to choose a good
post-session robot. Do not be attracted to your
old ego. Whether you choose to pursue power, or status, or wisdom, or learning, or
servitude, or whatever, choose impartially,
without being attracted or repelled. Enter into game existence with good grace,
voluntarily and freely. Have faith in the
protection of the deities and choose." (Revised Tibetan Book of the Dead)
Why would Satan influence a game like Pokemon? It opens up players to the demonic
realm, channeling (a power some of the
pokemon characters have), and possession.
Luke 11:24-26 "24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry
places, seeking rest; and finding none,
he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. 25 And when he cometh, he
findeth it swept and garnished. 26 Then
goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they
enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of
that man is worse than the first."
In Japan, Shinto is one of the oldest belief systems and was developed out of
worshiping the earth, such as sun, water, rocks,
trees and even sounds (jiggly puff, a cute Pokemon sings a song and the sounds puts
all who hear her into a trance this is a
common type of teaching in Shinto and is very evident in Pokemon)!
Shinto teaches that all such natural features were felt to have a god behind their
power. Many Shinto beliefs were incorporated
into Japanese Buddhist practices after its introduction in the 6th century. Just as
they believe in evolution and re-incarnation,
these ideas are manifest in Pokemon.
These pictures are typical examples of the dark side of Pokemon. Haunter, an evolved
spirit can hypnotize and has dream
eater power (powered by the purple Pokemon energy cards which is the psychic energy).
This power lets him drain the energy
from his opponents.
Some eastern and New age philosophies teach this principal and call spirits that can
do this energy vampires. This is just the
tip of the iceberg! The Pokemon game contains many typologies manifest in the cards
that reflect the philosophies of Shinto
with mystic Buddhism, in addition to many other beliefs. Kadabra, above on the right,
evolved from Abra. Both have demonic
powers.
Evolving dying and being reborn as an evolved Pokemon
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
In Pokemon, the monsters actually die to their old self and evolve into the new, more
powerful Pokemon. This is the teaching of
eastern mystery religions and is spelled out in the Egyptian book of the Dead and
other occult religions.
In one Pokemon episode, Bulbasore (a frog) did not want to evolve some feel this
means to just grow up but the idea is
to go through a substantial change and it is even suggested that the Pokemon looses
its former self or in a way dies to his
current psyche a typical example of Pokemon and its occultic influence. Children
are subtly being indoctrinated in the theory
of evolution and mysticism in the Pokemon game.
What other influences are evident in Pokemon? It gets more unbelievable and shocking
as you read on!
Wicca, Witchcraft, Paganism, Satanism, New Age, and other occultic influences in
Pokemon
Lets look at what these religions teach and a short history. Remember Pokemons
energy is derived from earth, water, fire,
lightening, etc. and the pocket monsters are part of a universal whole.
First do you really believe there is power in the occultic? Lets see what the Bible
says about all this:
2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of
the son of Hinnom: also he observed
times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit,
and with wizards: he wrought much evil in
the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. AV
These are real powers that have one intention to keep you from knowing God and
experiencing His plan and will for your life!
Any game, cartoon, etc. that even hints at occultic practice is dangerous!
Wicca, or Witchcraft is a popular and fast growing religious practice all over the
world today. Most Witches/Warlocks
consider their practice something that is learned by experience not by books. They
go through many incredible rituals to
become powerful in the craft. Pokemon trainers must go through a lot of training and
ritual type actions to become Master
Trainers, with the ability to controle the Pokemon and their powers.
Pagans use earthly powers and demonic spirits, shamans use animal spirits their
minds are set on the flesh the Bible says the
mind set on the flesh is death!
The Bible says: Galatians 5:16-23 "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall
not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh
lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary
the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the
things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now
the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife,
seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, evellings, and such like: of the
which I tell you before, as I have also told
you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
" AV
Through the true power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus gives us these according to that same
passage: v. 23 "But the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law."
1 Cor. 10:19-22 "Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or
that an idol is anything? No, but the sacrifices
of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants
with demons. You cannot drink the cup
of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table
and the table of demons." Are we trying
to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
In Pokemon, trainers summon one of their Pokemon to battle other monsters and they use
them as guardians. In Wicca,
guardians, known as Watchtowers, are called. These spirits (and sometimes animals) are
called by them to protect them from
evil spirits while they open themselves up to these spirits during rituals the
circle, the pentegram, etc. all provide a safe area
to practice. (In Pokemon the monsters are held in a Pokeball until the trainer summons
them). In witchcraft these spirits are
summoned and called to stay in the circle until needed to fight off bad spirits. These
Guardians in Pagan practice are often the
spirits with whom a person feels comfortable with and has developed some form of a
relationship with (in Pokemon the trainers
befriend their pocket monsters and develop trusting and advice seeking relationships
with them). Possible guardians might be
one of the Ancestors, a "spirit guide," or other spiritual entity (including animal
spirits and even real animal like the typical
witches black cat) with which the person is familiar with. This is what occurs in
Pokemon play the pocket monsters are
captured, trained, and summoned as needed.
Elements & Powers, geography, and demonic realms of power in Pokemon and astrology,
New age cults, & Witchcraft. Most
Pagan and earth based religions and philosophies find power in the Four Elements
Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind. These are
the energy cards in the Pokemon game!
Look at this verse in the Bible:
1Tim 4:1 "The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and
follow deceiving spirits and things taught by
demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been
seared as with a hot iron."
What are we allowing to come into our homes! The elements in Pokemon are foundational
to many earth religions and mystic
rituals. We draw our power from God, not the earth!
The Bible tells us:
Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of
the world:
Galatians 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how
turn ye again to the weak and
beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Most all covens and eastern philosophies, and Pagan belief systems hold the elements
as sources of power, as the Pokemon
game does.
Again the Bible says:
1 Timothy 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister
questions, rather than godly edifying which is
in faith: so do.
1 Timothy 4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather
unto godliness.
2 Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned
unto fables.
This is what all religions are nothing but mans attempt to reach God. Listen
finite man can not reach an infinite God! He had
to reach down to us, and He did in Jesus Christ!
One last example of occultic practices and Pokemon.
What are our children really playing with - imagination and simple 'pocket monsters'?
In Paganism and the Occult there are sprit guides, messengers, and elementals or
artificial elementals. They can be summoned
to do things for the trainer or practitioner. They can 1. Watch and tell the
trainer what it sees, 2. Guard the trainer, 3. Fight
with other spirits or elementals, 4. Carry out assignments given by the trainers.
Pagans can capture free elementals (much like Pokemon trainers capture pocket
monsters) and build relationships with them for
use (just like Pokemon trainers). Witches, Shamans, etc, recommend ony master
practitioners do this because you are not
masters of the elementals, just like Pokemon trainers are not masters of the Pocket
monster and they warn that they can be
hard to get rid of and may require an exorcism to become free of a bad one.
artificial elementals the name of the actual pocket monsters our children are
playing with!
Matt. 17:14-21 " 6 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a
certain man, kneeling down to him, and
saying, Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes
he falleth into the fire, and oft into the
water. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. Then Jesus
answered and said, O faithless and perverse
generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him
hither to me. And Jesus rebuked the devil; and
he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. Then came the
disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why
could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for
verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a
grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place;
and it shall remove; and nothing shall be
impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. "
Please pray and do what the Lord instructs you to do it is time to take a stand for
God and protect our children from the
influences of our enemy! My son is six and we had a whole book of Pokemon cards
after praying about it he made the
decision to get rid of his cards, because he could see they were evil!
Listen Christians we are in a battle! The enemy is subtle and is trying to influence
our childrens minds. Pokemon teaches all
the basics of many false religion and occultic practices! Pokemon also indoctrinates
children in evolutionary thought and pagan
beliefs!
It is not Pokemon that we fight - the Bible says:
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
These 'powers' are the very real demonic spirits behind all-false religion and
self-serving pursuits.
Again, Pokemon is not the enemy - it is Lucifer and all that exalts itself against
Jesus Christ and the true path to enlightenment.
Pokemon is a tool the enemy can use to build a false foundation and plant seeds of
futility in my child - and this I will not allow,
and I will, by the blood of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit come against all
falsehood and doctrines of demons that try to
indoctrinate my child with eastern mysticism and occultic practices.
I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ by and through the power of the Holy Spirit will
protect you and your children from the
schemes of the enemy.
Grace, peace, and courage to take a stand for righteousness be yours!
Pastor Brett Peterson
Coastland Ministries
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Special thanks to Pastor Brett Peterson from Worthy News for this article.
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