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Yang Tsin Su. Founded
by Lonnian Lee, who received a PhD in Asian Studies from
Auckland University in 2002 for his thesis A Feasibility Study of
the Combination of Western Medicine & Traditional Chinese Medicine. He
has taken that work and his own experience with martial arts to form
a mash of eastern mysticism and western science with self defence and
fitness thrown in. Yang Tsin Su translates as "art of self-cultivation".
Yoga. A
set of excercises marketed as being for relaxation, posture or breathing,
but according to leading yoga instructors all yoga is designed
to release the serpent "Kundalini" force
coiled at the base of the spine. The word yoga is a Sanskrit word meaning "union",
"yoke" or "yoking with the God consciousness". The
spiritual side of yoga cannot be separated from the physical side, and
so it is something Christians should stay well clear of. For more information
see the Watchman Expositor Yoga
Profile or their articles Yoga:
An Overview and Yoga:
Exercise or Religion (long article). Also Yoga:
Are Theory and Practice separable? at Apologetics Index. Yoga can also be very harmful physically – see How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body on the NY Times (an article which caused quite a furory amongst yoga practitioners).
Yogi,
Maharishi Mahesh.
Founder of Transcendental Meditation (TM). Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi was born in 1911. He studied physics at Allahabad University, graduating
in 1940 or 1942. In the early 40s he came into contact with a man known as Guru
Dev, from whose teachings Maharishi distilled TM. In 1959 he introduced TM to
the United States. In 1967 Maharishi spoke in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel
in London, where he was heard by three of the Beetles, the association with
whom played a major part in popularising New Age thinking. Popularity waned,
and Maharishi withdrew around 1970, stating "I know that I have failed. My mission
is over." However, showing great marketing ingenuity, he started "selling" TM
as "The Science of Creative Intelligence" and started pushing positive physical
and physiological benefits.
Young, William Paul. William Paul Young (aka WM Paul Young) is the author of The Shack, which promotes universalism and other bad doctrine, and of other equally bad books. He has visited New Zealand, including being a speaker at the 2013 Parachute Festival. Born in Canada, the son of a pastor/missionary, and is a graduate of Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon. Professor James De Young of New Testament Language and Literature at Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon, USA, had this to say about William Paul Young's teachings just three years before The Shack was published:
I have known the author of The Shack, Paul Young, for more than a dozen years. In 2004, Paul Young wrote a lengthy document in which he rejected his evangelical faith and embraced universalism. I expose these in my book [Burning Down 'The Shack' – review]. He said then: that evangelical faith and its teaching about judgment makes God “grossly unjust”; that “Jesus is a million times more vicious and vindictive than Pharaoh, Nero, or Hitler put together”; that Jesus Christ is “not the Savior from sins”; that Jesus died “a failure and in vain and never saved anyone”; thus Jesus “is not even a good man but a liar, a rogue, and a deceiving rascal”; that “Calvary is a farce, a travesty, and a sham.”
Youth for Human Rights (International). Front
group for the dangerous Scientology cult.
Active in New Zealand.
Youth Section. See YouthSection (one
word).
Youth With a Mission (YWAM). A
Christian organisation for evangelism. Although YWAM is acknowledged
to have done a lot of good evangelism over the years, there are also strong
concerns about what they are now up to (indeed, some of the things
they have been up to for a number of years) and also with the way they
go about many of their activities. For example, YWAM leaders have appeared
on the Benny Hinn TV show and endorsed Benny
Hinn's ministry. In general these concerns appear to be not as strong
in New Zealand as in other countries, although we apparently do have
a few local
incidents. YWAM is said by some to have become part of the New
Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and promotes books and other materials
by NAR leaders such as C Peter Wagner.
YouthSection. Cult.
A young adult part of School of
Spiritual Science aka Anthroposophical
Society.
Yule. Pagan holiday celebrated on the shortest
day of the year, the winter solstice (December 21). Because of its close
proximity to Christmas, the term Yule has often been used as a designation
for Christmas. For more information see the Yule listing
on the Occult Closeup History page.
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