Well Patricia King thinks it’s just great and sells a video about it (here):
“In this video, Caleb and Patricia King share on “Ekstasis,” and how you can go beyond regular worship and enter into a place of body, soul and spirit where you feel freedom to dance and celebrate your love for Jesus Christ with an all new abandoned level of expression and experience.”
Hmmm...really? I watched a youtube showing Caleb and Patricia doing the Ekstasis Worship thing, here. To me, it looks like a glorified rave, complete with strobe lights, dancing, etc. Here is what one discernment ministry has to say about this:
“One of the more recent and blatant examples of neo-paganism in the church...is Patricia King's endorsement and embrace of trance-dancing as a Christian form of worship that she and Caleb Brundidge, one of her itinerant ministers, call "Ekstasis Worship." Brundidge is a traveling "prophetic" D.J. that calls his show "Club Mysterio." (Repetitive "rave" or "trance" music has been so-called because nightclubs around the world use it to enable patrons to enter a euphoric altered state of consciousness--with or without the assistance of drugs such as "ecstasy"--through extended freestyle and sensual motion set to repetitive music tracks.
It doesn't take an anthropologist to recognize parallels between modern trance dancing and ancient forms of ritual dance that is still used in many cultures to produce identical altered states and "spirit travel." But what many may not know is the increasing popularity of "yoga trance dance," which could well become the new "jazzercize" that turns this form of Hindu worship into an aerobic activity for "everyday" gym members.
Space does not permit a full analysis with comparison to Scripture, but as the quotes below reveal, patrons of Brundidge's "Club Mysterio" may indeed feel "ecstasy"--but rather than realizing the true joy of the Lord, they might experience either a "head rush" from spinning in circles (a practice of the "whirling dervishes" of Islamic mysticism) or they could meet instead an angel of light--one of the same "divine" deceivers as encountered by yogic dancers seeking all-night tantric pleasure with Hindu deities.
Which brings us to an ancient-future spiritual law: "apostasies attract." With "Christian yoga" and mystical methods for "meeting God" on the rise--and "Christian trance-dancing" now in vogue, what other "Christianized" demonic practices lie ahead?”
--Mark Dinsmore, "APOSTOLIC" APOSTASIES ATTRACT -
Extreme Charismatics Increasingly Adopt "Emerging" Pagan Practices
http://www.thebereancall.org
By the way, here is a glimpse into DJ Caleb’s Club Mysterio where he says you go ‘outside of your mind and go into the ecsatasy of God’…the “light club, not the night club.”
There is also more on this thing here:
Extreme and Dangerous Teachings
pjmiller.wordpress.com
Paganism: Ekstasis Worship
pjmiller.wordpress.com
Just more pagan silliness from the Extreme Prophetic camp…funny how it makes me think of another camp scene…as the children of Israel were waiting for Moses to come down from the mountain…
UPDATE:
Since I first wrote this post, more people have been exposing things like this, thanks to Todd Bentley's recent fame and fortune at the Lakeland money outpouring. Here are a few more links (with good comments) to check out about Ekstasis:
Patricia King - Dances Ekstasis Worship that New Agers Practice
discerningtheworld.wordpress.com
Radio interviews - exposing Todd Bentley and Patricia King
sheepyweepy.wordpress.com
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