She is constantly accusing me of proselytizing about our Catholic Faith. Anything I say that is wholesome is up for suspicion. I said I don't practice 'religion' (a curse word to her) but 'relationship' with Jesus. She plans on setting up her own business in Psycho Kinetic Energy. I did a search on your site, and had no results. What now?"
First of all, don't give up on her. Jesus can rescue anyone, including your sister. When and how He does it is something He'll reveal to you if necessary, but one thing I can guarantee - He hears your prayers and wants to answer them even more than you want Him to!
I was very concerned when you revealed that your sister was involved in Siddha yoga because this is known to be very cult-like with leaders who have had numerous charges made against them for sexually abusing members. This NY Times article dating back to 1994 describes in detail what kind of problems are associated with this branch of yoga and the power struggles of its leaders. The truth of these reports is borne out by the many victims whose personal testimonies can be found here.
The yoga culture definitely has a seedy underbelly, and Siddha is among its darkest seeds.
Your post does not indicate what kind of psycho kinetic energy (PKE) business she's planning to operate so I can only assume she's into some kind of parapsychology.
Psychokinesis, sometimes called telekinesis, refers to a belief that the mind has the power to move objects. In spite of the fame of people such as Uri Geller, the famous "spoon bending" psychic, no one has been able to perform these feats under scientifically controlled conditions. In fact, the very existence of PKE has never been convincingly demonstrated.
Although you may be too close to the situation to see this, when I read this e-mail the first thing that jumped into my mind was that your sister is searching. She's obviously looking for something to believe in, something upon which she can stake her life. For whatever reason, she appears to have abandoned Jesus, but He has not abandoned her. And it is this truth upon which you must stake all your hope.
Many years ago, I was also searching for answers, for meaning, and I wandered all over the New Age world - from psychics to astrologers to hypnotists. Nothing stuck, and I would just go from one thing to the next. One night, while reading a book based on the New Age notion of the prosperity gospel, it purported that Jesus told us that whatever we asked for in His name, His Father would grant us. How clearly I remember wondering if Jesus really said that or if the author wasn't just putting her own spin on His words. I put the book down and went over to my bookshelves to see if I had a copy of the Bible (that's how far away from Christ I was!). I found one and thumbed through it until I found the place where He said exactly that. Of course, I was happy to find it, but another question somehow sped through my mind and settled deep within my heart.
"I wonder what else He said."
Although I didn't know it at the time, that was the end of my search. I had found what I was looking for. Ever so slowly, I began to flip through that old bible and no matter how many times I opened it, I always read something that struck me in one way or another. Before long, I was reading it every night and beginning to actually like this God that I was discovering anew. (I document this profound and sometimes hilarious journey in my book, We Need to Talk: God Speaks to a Modern Girl.)
I guess you can say the rest is history. I eventually came back to Jesus, to Christianity, and to my native Roman Catholicism.
The moral of this story is that only the lost can be found.
