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PEER PERSPECTIVES AND SYNTHESIS DIALOGUES

The Program for Extraordinary Research (PEER) and the Synthesis Dialogues -- connecting the dots.

Yesterday I posted a link to Synthesis Dialogues 1, where Brian Muldoon of the Dearborn Institute, Barbara Fields, executive director of the Association for Global New Thought, and Catholic Bro. Wayne Teasdale are listed as the co-directors of the project. According to the website, the objective of the Synthesis Dialogues was to "create a living laboratory in which participants could examine for themselves the process by which human awareness is expanded."

What does it mean to "expand human awareness"?

Perhaps Brian Muldoon's other interests can shed some light on that.

At PEER Perspectives 3 - the Newsletter of the Program for Extraordinary Research - Center for Psychology and Social Change Board of Directors and PEER Advisory Board are presented. Notice two names on the list -- John E. Mack, M.D. and Brian Muldoon, Dearborn Institute.

A quick read of the entry "From the Executive Director" indicates PEER is "not merely a euphemism for 'alien encounter experiences.'

PEER is a UFO encounter group, and one of the founders of the Synthesis Dialogues I was a member of the Advisory Board. That, it would appear, is the meaning of "expand human awareness" in the Synthesis Dialogues.

Remember that the Synthesis Dialogues included the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and that yesterday I linked a Brown University website that described what Tibetan Buddhists believe. It included "the fundamental concept of Tantra" and that Tibetan Buddhism is associated with Shamanism. Mantras are central to Tibetan Buddhism, as they are to any Buddhism.

Fr. Seraphim Rose wrote some interesting things in ORTHODOXY AND THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE.

Tantric yoga has been little heard of and almost never practiced in the West up to now. All authorities agree that it is an extremely dangerous exercise, practiced always by male and female together, that evokes a very powerful psychic energy, requiring close supervision and control. Supposedly, there is only one master of tantric yoga living on the earth at any one time; the exercises at "Solstice" in New Mexico were led by the "Great Tantric" of our days, Yogi Bhajan. ...

The chanting of mantras begins, with special chants invoking a departed guru who is Yogi Bhajan's "special protector"....the tantric exercises, which are a key in this preparation [a "new beautiful creative nation of America"], transform people from their usual "individual consciousness" to "group consciousness" and finally to "universal consciousness." (page 60)

Speaking of a "New Christianity", Fr. Seraphim writes:

but the specifically "new" ingredient in this "Christianity" is nothing original or "advanced," but merely a modern form of the devil's age-old religion of shamanistic paganism. (page 173)

And lastly, in describing UFOs, Fr. Seraphim writes:

In a recent bibliography of the UFO phenomena prepared by the Library of Congress for the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the introduction states that "Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena which have long been known to theologians and parapsychologists. Most UFO researchers are now turning to the occult realm and to demonology for insight into the phenomena they are studying....mediumistic spiritism itself, when it is genunie, undeniably produces real "para-normal" phenomena under the action of demons. UFO phenomena, having the same source, are no less real. (page 102)

One more dot...

The John E. Mack Institute. At that website you can read the history of the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER).

Now...bear with me...

Brian Muldoon, one of the three founders of the Synthesis Dialogues, and associated with the Dearborn Institute, is also on the Advisory Board of PEER.

Another Synthesis Dialogues founder, Barbara Fields Bernstein, is listed as the "assistant director of the Dearborn Institute in a blurb about her lecture at California State University Fullerton. She is also the co-founder of the United Communities of Spirit Grassroots Network. From the website:

"Dialogue and Cooperation Among the World's Religions in the 21st Century," is the first in a series of lectures funded by a University Planning Intiative. The series was created to link faculty, staff, students and the campus's external communities monthly. Barbara Fields Bernstein, assistant director of the Dearborn Institute, a not-for-profit organization focused on networking, training, conflict resolution and collaborative decision-making in the religious, cultural and ethnic communities will conduct the first lecture. She co-founded the United Communities of Spirit Grassroots Network.

So now we know that kind of dialogue Focolare hosted at Castel Gandolfo. We know what lies behind the peace efforts of Focolare, at least in this instance. And we know that Focolare had John Paul IIs blessing.

Does it have Benedict's blessing as well? Because if it does, and if it continues to work with this new religion, Benedict, by approval of Focolare, is working for the other side.

That's a lot of "ifs", and I don't have any verification, but the stakes are high. Our very Catholic faith hangs in the balance.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!